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By Hen Cooper
Mr. Cooper, professor of Aemology, will make hia o sivictly sctentifte
deporiment on the art of keeping poniiry Vo other poultry rurnal evey
approcched anything like this If you are poing to keep hens he orvgingl
Showt it This (2 nothing but origimalty
Coppright, 1915, by the Btar Cempany. Gireat Reitain Rights Reserved
ADVICE TO BEGINNIRS,
HERE arc, of course, many ways to keep hens. bt thers ls only
l one way to keep them fresh, and that is alive
If you live in & oity apartment you may keep hens in the refrig
erator. But they should be dressed, as it is coMd in there.
If you have a yard you should succeed very nieely with your hens
It your neighbors have yards you will be even more succoess’ul
“Foed your hens a! least wwite a day. No one has ag yet succeeded In
makise any prefit Reeping hens without feeding them.
SELECTING THE BREEDS,
A oold storage hen laye no eggs
A Nve hen is far more lkely to do this. Bt remember that & setting
Den provides no breakfast food.
Some prefer Plymouth Rocks These ought to be HARDy. Others
prefer Wyandottes. If you are wise you will select the following breeds:
*Laywell, “Ever-Busy,” Willing Workers,” “Layerinos” and the like. The
pareggselance for a hen is one egx per diem. There are some hens that
hyt-ootumqnndty, but so far as sotual proof goes, they never
‘ay them anywhere except In newspapers.
Allmuduhmmu.wtmmm
All hens and no roosters makes a dull henyard.
For layers get pullets. When a hen hecomes real old and henny she
fs too busy cackling about past performances to help increase the ogg
eennus
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THE HEN HOUSE,
A henhouse, or, to be more refined about it, & hen's residence, Is guite
tmportant. Never buy a lot of hens until you are able to surround them
with a well-lighted, well-ventilated, well-guarded henhouse
The p 'per henhouse is full of little nooks and cozxy corners and
turne and alcoves and other hiding places. These are important, as they
enable the hens to lay for you
Some people make a big mistake in furnishing & henhouss. Do not
provide beds for them. Even twin beds are no help In the matter of
double-yolked eggs.
A hen, like a policeman, messenger boy and walter, goes to sleep
standing up.
Remember that & hen works sitting down and rests standing up
There should be enough nests in the henhouse so that each hen has one
The hen's bedroom, which is a long, smooth pole about three feet from the
ground, horisontally, should be about three feet from the longest arm’s
reach through the henhouse windows.
THE CARE OF MENS,
If the weather is extremely cold, provide ear muffs for them. This
4! keep you very busy for a long while, as a hen has no visible ears.
But they will appreciate your good intentions.
Even in the dampest weather never equip your hens with rubber
boots, else they will think they can break their eggs In the nest and walk
around without getting their feet wet.
Always provide a big box of sand. Hens need sand. It certainly
takes sand to keep on laying an egg every day and having someone hover
ing nearby to grabd it with an exultant yell and dash out and exchange it
for an automoblle or something.
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HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY.
This is important. In fact one of the noblest--and rarest-—-of a hen's
deeds is to craw] off into & lonesome nest and provide the erowning glory
of a slice of toast.
Wire your henhouse for electricity. Put In the strongest lights pos
sible. Just outside the windows put some lights with pink bulbs. The
modus operand!, and also the way it works, I 8 as simple as a censored
war dispatch. About la. m. each morning get up and switch on the
pink lights. The roosters will see these and, thinking it 18 dawn, begin to
crow. A rooster always crows about the work the hens do. Then switch
on the bright lights in the henhouse. Pretty soon, thinking it is day, the
hens will elimb into their nests and lay eggs. Then slowly switch out
light after light. The hens will think night s coming ugain and they’ll
olimb back on their roosts and go to sleep. In this manner you double
your profits, or losses, as the case mey be.
A less expensive way to make heuns lay, and one that was never known
to fail, is to tie their legs together.
They've simply got to lay, then.
Of course, the longest and steadlest and coolest layers are cold stor
age hens. .
FEEDING THE HENS.
Klsewhere | have made brief mention that hens must be fed. Please
take this seriously. It is no joke.
It is no joke either way. If you do not feed them it is no joke for the
hens. If you do feed them it is no joke when the grain bills come in.
At the present price of wheat and other grain, it would seem that it
would be cheaper to buy breakfast foods put up in boxes. This is not
true. You will never succeed with your hens by trying to feed them
breakfast foods, because all hens need a little nourishment.
By taking a six-cent loaf of bread and mixing it with twelve cents
worth of milk and feeding it to a hen you can induce her, évery dav or
80, to lay an egg that, during the first few weeks bf its existence, will be
worth anywhere from four to elght cents. Always keep a pad of paper
“and a pencil in the henhouse in order to figure out your profit.
Be sure and keep it in the henhouse, as your own home is no place to
make the remarks that will involuntarily follow this example in profit
; and loss. (The word “profit” {s silent, as in matrimony.)
Hens need grit. You can buy it all prepared, or you can grind up
hu pink and blue vase you got for a wedding present, and use that
A hen will eat elmost anything. That's the great trouble—a her; has
_acarcely any more brains when dining tnan a human has at a banquet
‘flho tenths of the things a hen will eat are not good for her. The tenth'
_tenth s very expensive. i
, Hens are very fond of liver, girloin steak, fresh fish, pate de foie gras
_caviar, fruit cake, fresh oysters, lobster salad, hothouse lettuce, et ;
~ If any of your folks keep hens and begin to feed them on that diet,
g 0 out and board with the hens.
~ The subject of poultry-keeping has been touched very lightly thus far
although it is a most touching subject. This little chat fs designed P
interest you in the poultry business. Next week we will go into details
_about malking a henyard, building a henhouse, and learning the psychol-
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 28 1013
€ s 3 7 An Interesting Scene from the Great War Play
lflSlde the Llnes’ by Earl Derr Biggers
ENERAL -Yes, Jatmihr, what 1s It*
G JAIMINR A young man who wishes to see
you, General Sabib. He will give no name,
but there was, he sars, & promise by the telephons,
GENERAL Ab, yes, sworw the young man up,
(Jotwihr exits. Gemeral stte—fuases ith
hMnge on desk. A Sight powse and Jaimihr re
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JAIMIHR - The young man, General
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’ nevvous as he approaches the Gemeral Jotwide
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. OAPPER - How do you de, Geseral Awfully geod
Id FOU 10 see me.
GENERAL-Not at afl. 8t down. 1| haven't fop
gotten that you did me & service in Indis
CAFPER -Oh, yes, of course. Bul that was my
job. 1 got poid for thet, .
GENERAL You'rp not with the Brossels Secrst
Service people any longer?
CAFPPER —No- -er—¢hey let me gO,
GENERAL-So | heard
CAPPER-—1 supposs you heard a lot of other things
about me—<hat | was a rotter—that 1 drank-——
OBRNERAL~—What | beard was not altogether—
compimentary. | trust it was untrue.
CAPPER—Well—l—er—l 411 go to pleces a bit for
a thme But they led about me—l know who #id it,
too. I'll get even some day. I"ve been phlaying in
pretty hard luck for the past two years. But they
can't keep me down much longer. I'm going to show
them.
GENERAL-I hope so, 'm sure. What was it you
wished to see me about?
CAPPER —General—l'm an Englishman. You know
that. | may be down and out, and my friends may
not know me when we meet—but I'm Engiish. And
I'm layn!,
GENERAL—Yes—yes. I'm sure I don't guestion
that.
CAPPER-—| just want vou to keep & én mind, Gen
oral, while I talk. [ want you to remember that I'm
English, and as loyal as any man.
GENERAL-Yes, of course
OAPPER — General—remember Cook-—that chap in
Burmah*
GENERAIL~—Cook-—Cook, no-—
CAPPER -Haven't forgotten him, Genera!? Haven't
forgot how he lived in Burmah two years, mingling
with the English—until suddenly somebody found out
that bis name was Koch, and he was a mighty un
healthy chap to have wbout. Surely, General-—
GENERAL~Oh, ves—l remember him now,
CAPPER- There was Hollister, too, You played
billiards in your clud with Holllster, [ fancy. Thought
him all right, too—until a couple of secret service
men walked into the club one day and clapped the
‘bhandonffs on him.
. GENBERAL-Yes, but 1 don't—
OAPPER-T'm just refreshing your memory. Gen
oral. I'm just reminding you that there isn't such a
Jot of difference between those people and us, after all.
If one of these chaps wants to play the Englishman
and knows his book-—he ean fool the lot of us.
GBENERAI~Yes—! Imagine he can. But I don’t
poe —
CAPPER—I'm just in from Alexandria, General
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Brass noises blare with loud acclalm—
George Washington's the person’s name.
A bralded cue, sphinx-iike phiz,
His chief olalm to distinction ls,
At least so say the passers-by,
He never even told a lle!”
|"A Lle! A Lie!” quoth Mario;
“What Is a Lie? I'd like to know,
’“lt't matter or is't quality?
| Of tone morose or jollity?
} Is't aught to frighten or ailure,
iOr ia’t some form of lit'rature?
| All we know Is, from where we view it,
| It seems a virtue not to do it.”
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f youth,
‘(I read of some Earth thing called
! Truth,
IThe Lie | also read about;
E’Twal fact, | blieve, turned inside f
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IHn quite some strong appeal, |
I own!
He'll not regret, whoe'ar the guy is, A
| if he can show me what a lie is.”
| Nor did the King have long to walit. : S
| Next day before the Palace gate 8 ;"3
| A beggarman they there did “nd, ‘5 »l ;b“ -
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Oame night before last on the Priocess Mary, There
was another “Engilshman” on board, for this port
Captatn Woodhouse, of your Signal Oorps,
GENERAL~WeII, what of that? .
CAPPER—Have you ween Captain Woodbouse,
General®
GENERAL-—Yes e paid his duty call on me this
merning
CAPPER-—seemed all right to youl?
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GENERAL-Of course.. Why not?
CAPPBER-—Remember Hollister, General. Remem
ber Cook.
GENERAL—What the devil do you mean?
CAPPER-—-What do | mean? | mean that this chap
who calls himself Woodhouse isn't Woodhouse at all.
He's an enemy—and a spy.
GENERAL~Why was it Brusseis let you go?
CAI'PER—I'm not drunk, General. I've been broke
for & week. I'm as sober as you are—and I'm talk
fng for the good of the service. No other reason,
GENERAL-—You're romancing.
CAPPER—BO help me, General, I'm telling the
truth. 1 got it straight in Alexandria—l can't tell
you who told me—but I know the ropes underground.
I ean’t prove a word I say—but it's straight. T swear
it 18! The wildest dreams of the Wilhelmstrasse
have come true—they've got a man in our service on
Gibraltar. In your signal tower, General, In your
signal tower.
GENERAL —Suppose they have. Suppose they
learn every nook and corner of the Rock. They
couldn't capture it in a thousand years.
As was his wont, unto the old
Man tossed the King a purse of gold,
Which from sheer joy the blind man there
Right up and caught It in the air.
“By Jinks! a marvel here | find,
Now,"” said the King, “for one who's blind!
What, ho! My Head Physician here!”
The Doctor locked. “His sight is clear.”
“Oh, joy!” the King sald, “now have |
Found some one who knows how to lie.
“Take this purse, too—'tis .paltry pay
For what you've shown us all this day;
For now | see beyond a doubt
Just what a fact Is inside out.
What endless joys yet unexplored
This art, once learned, will then afford.
Qur souls unfettered can pursue
What ways they will in regions new.
I'll find instructors for the sport
And introduce it to our Court”
In Mario's Court, from Fool to Sage,
The Lying Art was now the rage;
Nor apter pupii e’er was seen
Than Mario’s most gracious Queen.
Where e'er she moved, her slightest acts
Were blended with distorted facts:
She'd look her Liege square in the eyes,
And slide him Lies and Lies and Lies,
Which much conduced at times, you see,
To get his goat most grievously.
Then to himself—"“A noble art,
But as | gave the thing the start,
| B'pose | shouldn't show amaze
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CAPPER -1 don't know what they want. 1 domn’t
know what they're after. All I can do is to warn You.
Woodhouse isn't taking orders from this room. He's
taking them from Wilhelmstrasse,
GENBRAL—Woodhouse?
CAPPER-1 mean the chap who calls himsel!
Woodhouse. Here was the plan. General: The real
Woodhouse comss down from the Niie country-ao
friends in Alexandria—has to walt a night for the
boat. Three men from the Wilhelmstrasse—the clev
erest three in Europe—are laying for him. Some
thing happens. I don't know where that Woodhouse
is now-probably dead. But [do know that the man
wht came aboard the Princess Mary carried a card
and a number from the Wilheimstrasse. They sub
stituted him for Woodhouse.
GENERAL~—It seems incredible.
CAPPER-—Yes—it does. But it happened, just the
same. | saw those three men Iu an Alexandria street
the night before we sailel. I've known them for years.
And they're not the kind that slip up—they put things
through. I'm warning you, General. That's all I
can do,
GENERAL-—~Ridicuious. I tell you If they had all
the plans in the world—if they knew the Rock as well
as | do—they could never take it. even with a hun
dred men Inside the lines.
CAPPER~—Perhaps they arn't trying to capture it
Best Stories of the Week
I The Last Word.
EA LITTLE girl travelling in a sleeping car with
! her parents greatly objected to being put
!in an upper berth. She was assured that papa,
mamma and God would watch over her. She was
| settled in the berth at last, and the passengers
| were quiet for the night, when a small voice piped:
| “Mamma!'"
l “Yes, dear,”
‘ “You there?”
“Yes, I'm here. Now go to sleep.”
! “Papa, you there?”
1 “Yes, I'm here. Go to sleep like a good girl.”
| This continued at intervals for some time, until
' a fellow-passenger lost patience and called:
I “We're all here—your father and mother and
I brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts and first
cousins! All here! Now go to sleep!”
There was a brief pause after this explosion.
Then the tiny voice piped out again, but very softly:
“Mamma!"”
“Well ?”
“Was that God?"
Increment. '
’IT is on the country circuit, and the audlence is
sadly lacking in appreciation of the efforts of the
l actors.
I Catcalls and groans, vegetables and eggs are
| directed at the stage, but still the well-meaning per
| former, who is in the midst of a long monologue,
| continues to recite his lines.
‘ Finally a despairing spectator hurls a boot on
| the stage, and the actor starts to retreat behind
i the scenes.
; “Keep on playing!” cries the manager In the
| wings. “Keep on playing till we get the second
i boot!"”
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I Nothing to Stop It.
A PASSENGER recently entered the Southern
Pacifie depot, Santa Barbara, California, to
take the 2:25 p. m. train. The clock in the waiting
room was several minutes faster than the one in
the office, and the passenger asked the porter ‘which
clock was correct. After scanning the clocks care
fully, the porter, with much satisfaction to himselif,
replied: .
{ “It don't make any difference which is right; the
! train goes at 2:25 anyhow.” .
[ Well Recommended.
|A YOUNG country Scotchman and his sweetheart
! went to Glasgow for a day's outing. After
Ispondlng the morning looking round the big shops
' and the centre of the city. the young man suggested
' that as it was near one o'clock they should look out
for a suitable eating-house to get something to eat.
Copyright, 1915, by the Star Cesupany. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
1 don't know about that Well—-I've told you-—as one
Englishman to another. [ hope I've told you in time
GENERAL~Where are you golog®
CAPPER-—Well, General —frankly, I'm broke. I'm
pot going —much of anywhere.
GENERAL~Humph! A few drinks, and you might
talk
CAPPER—! don't know, General-—1 might,
GENERAL~—~Where do you want to go?
ing. Yow're going to
Paria. (Jaimikr appears vight,) Send my orderly te
me at once.
(Exit Joimihr,)
CAPPER-—General—it was the truth.
GENERAL (writes a note. The orderly appears)-—
You will cross to Algeciras, where you will be put om
a train for Madrid. You will have a ticket for Paris
You will be allowed to talk with no one alone before
you leave here. Under no circumstances will you be
allowed to return.
CAPPER~—That suits me, General. Paris!
GENERAL~OrderIy, turn this gentieman over to
the officer of the guard at once and give the officer
this note.
CAPPER--I didn’'t come here for—this. 1 came to
do a service for you—and for England
GENERAL~—I understand, And perhaps you have
Good day.
CAPPER-—Good-by, sir,
- Having spotted a likely place, they entered and
took thelr seats at a small table, and when the
waitress came for their order the young man asked
for a six-penny meat-pie. This was brought in due
course, and he started eating it with evident relish.
The girl waited a little time wondering very much
where she came in. At last, in sheer desperation,
she said to her companion:
“ls the ple good, Jock?"
“Good?" replied Jock, “I should think it is;
it's ripping! You should get one.”
Apparently.
THEY were discussing in the workshop the ques
tion of corporal punishment.
“] believe in the old maxim,” said the foreman,
“‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ When I was
a boy I know I recelved many chastisements and
whackings, and it did me good. On one oocecasion,
1 remember, I was punished for telling the truth.”
" cured you-"':'_:_——————-————.___.___-:
whispered a voice
fom ' the far oor
ner.
Getting
Around It.
A MISSIONARY
was returning
to Basle from
Patagona, bring
ing with him, for
the purpose of
sclence, a coliec-'
don of Pategonian
skulls. The cus
tom-house officers
opened the chest
and informed the
owner that the
consignment must
be classed as
animal bones and
taxed at so much
per pound.
The missionary
was Indignant. So
the officials
agreed to recon
sider. When the
way-bill had been
revised, it ap-»
peared in the fol
lowing form:
“Chest of native
skulls. Personal
effects already
worn.
It Wasn't Agony.
MRS. JONES went shopping one
afternoon, accompanied by
her husband, and as they emerged
from a store after a busy seance,
hubby noticed that mother wasn’t
acting naturally. Beneath a spotted
veil her face was undergoing a
series of fearful contortions, twist
ing first to the right and them to
the left.
“What’s the matter, Mary?”
asked the old man, in alarm. “Are
you ii?™
“Of course not, silly!” answered
wifey, as the conturtions continued.
“l never felt better in my life.”
“Then what in the world are yov
dofng with your face?”’ wondering
ly demanded father, *
“What am I doing?” answered
mother, exposing both hands, which
were full of bundles. *“Why, I'm
trying to get my veil down over
my chin.”
An Improvement.
“l GET a pretty little rug with
every package of cigarettes.”
“1 know it.”
“How did you know it?”
“By the smell. You have made a
mistake and are smoking the rug
this time,”
CAPPER —Wall -
they tell me every.
body's Dbroke o
Paris-— miifonaires
and everybhody. You
ean get a rom
ot the Ritz for
the asking - that
would mean Heaven
for me
GENERAL ~— You
want 10 §o to Parls
do you?
CAPPER-—We!! —
if it conid be an
ranged ——
GENERAL— Osp
per—did you come
here to blackmall
me?
CAPPER-—So help
me, General, I came
bere to tell* you the
truth! I waat to go
to Parie—l admit it
But that has nothing
to do with my com
ing. I'm an Eng
ishman, and I'm
loyal
GENERAL— [ 4o
not know. (Capper
looks out from fromt
shifting and gradw
olly round to Gen
eral,) At any rate 1
can't have you talk