100 MUI
If Parents Had Not Preached
Harry Might Not Have
Done It.
By DONALD ALLEN.
Once upon a time a man of some
financial substance, but of a good deal
more dignity, saw In the papers that
the son of a man a great deal like him
bad married an actress and thereby
broken his mother's heart and caused
bis father to hang his head in shame.
The "actreBs" was a chorus girl on a
oalary of fourteen dollars per week,
and she spent her money for choco
lates and left her poor husband to
bear all the expenses of the flat on
his ten. When he could no longer do
80, having been disowned by his
father, the wife ran away with a
butcher who wouldn't give even his
best customer a chunk of cat meat.
Mr. Frayne didn't take on so very
much about this affair, it being his
busy day, but when he read the same
sort of affair again three months later,
with the addition that the ruined hus
band had hung himself to a bedpost,
he turned to his wife.
"And we've got a son growing up,"
he said.
"Yes, and he's now twelve years
old," waB sighed.
"Do you think I had better speak to
him about it?"
"I would. You cannot begin with
a boy too early."
And so young Harry Frayne was
called Into the library and told these
two cases, and learned that they were
only two out of hundreds of like ones,
and then the question was put to him
with all parental sternness.
"Young man, would you marry an
actress?"
"But I never saw one, papa," was
the puzzled answer.
"That makes no difference would
you?"
"I I guess not."
"If you ever do, sir, I shall disown
you."
"Then I won't."
No one In the Frayne household,
unless it was the cook, who would
have married an actor right off and
taken her chances of being chopped
tip with an axe the next week, ever
attended a theater. It therefore hap
pened that when young. Harry had
reached the age of twenty-one and
was starting for Chicago to enter a
railroad office, his father did not think
It necessary to post him on any more
tragedies of the theatrical profession.
"I, shouldn't hang around the vesti
bule of a theater if I were you," he
Bald by way of advice.
"No, sir."
"Because an actress in front of the
house is Just as dangerous as one on
the stage."
"Even if you don't speak to her?"
"Even so."
"Miss Barrymore dangerous?"
"I have said that they are all dan
gerous." "But why are they, father?"
"Be careful, sir, or I shall think
you are taking an interest. I will
answer this one question for you. It
Is because they eat late suppers and
receive bouquets from brokers. If
you do not care to read evenings,
there is the Y. M. C. A."
A wooden-headed man would be
prepared for the natural sequence.
The evening of the young man's ar
rival was spent In his room. The
next one found him at a theater. He
entered with fear and trembling. He
was rather surprised that at least
six actresses were not on haad to
welcome htm. Such as were in the
play on the stage acted with just as
much propriety, and he quickly ob
served that they were far better look
ing than the girls in the audience.
"Why there are rich people here
and nice people!" said young Frayne
to himself as he looked the house
over. "I wonder what father and
mother are so down on actresses
for" . ,.
And for the next year, except when
his father visited Chicago, It was
always two nights a week at the
theater and sometimes three, and then
the young man had an actress pointed
out to him on the street or In a
restaurant, but he thought them more
reserved than any other class. It was
months before he happened to be in
troduced to one, and then by accident
and not by her stage name. They had
a few minutes' talk and though her
face and voice seemed familiar, it was
when he saw her on the stage again
that he fully identified her. ,
Young Frayne had good society
backing, and the more he talked with
people of social standing about the
atrical people the more he wondered
at the opinions held by his parents.
It was at a gathering of distinction
that he again met Miss Bell, and they
sat together long enough to become
quite w.ell acquainted.
It was then that the young man
learned from her own lips that he
had made the acquaintance of an
actress and no chill ran over him, nor
did he find himself gasping for breath.
He found her not only winsome but
broad-minded and well educated and
well posted.
"And ever since my boyhood I have
been taught to dread them," he said
to himself as he walked home that
night
His father and mother arranged
that when he had his summer
vacation they should go away to
gether, and one day in July found
them at a Lakeside hotel. A day or
two later brought Miss Bell, though
she had no Idea that he was there.
There were guests that knew her, and
people were discussing her 'befonl
young Frayne had a hint of her pres
ence. It came front his father and
mother first.
'Well," said the former as the trio
sat by themselves, "I was given to
understand that this was a select
hotel."
"They seem very nice people," re
plied Harry.
'You don't mean -that a lot of for
eigners have arrived?"
'I mean that at least one actress
haB arrived, and the guests are gath
ering around her like flies about
sugar."
"Mercy me!"
"I believe that most of the the
atrlcal people take a summer vaca
tion," said Harry In a voice he tried
to make careless.
"But to come here," gasped the
mother.
'Perhaps It Is only to pay a call
on someone," hopefully observed the
father.
'Did you learn the name of the
actress who has set the hotel all aflut
ter?" asked Harry after a moment.
"A Miss Bell."
The young man's confusion be
trayed him. He knew that being ac
quainted with an actress would be ac
counted a deadly sin in the eyes of
his parents. The mother's look was
one of pity and censure, and the
father looked as stern as a Judge
about to sentence a murderer as he
demanded:
"Harry, do you know this person?"
"If It is Miss Bell, the actress of the
city, then I know her," was the reply.
"Have you been to the theater in
Chicago?"
"Plenty of times."
"You were introduced to this per
son by whom?"
'By my hostess at a fashionable
function. Miss Bell Is received in the
best society."
'They must have queer society in
Chicago," said the mother.
"You have disobeyed me, sir!" ex
claimed the father, "and you must
take the consequences."
With that father and mother went
away to talk the affair over by them
selves. Could they hire a blackhander to
blow Harry up with a bomb, and per
haps the actress with him? Could he
be kidnapped aboard a vessel bound
for China, and given time to repent
before he returned?
To think that their Harry Harry
Frayne who had been brought up to
say his prayers to have his Sunday
school lessons dead-letter perfect to
obey his father in everything to
think this boy of theirs had not only
attended a theater, but had become
mashed" on an actress, and would
become her prey. When they reflected
upon all these things they found them
selves cast into desolation.
In this condition of mind they went
out for a stroll along the shore of the
lake. -As other guests were strolling,
too, and as they did not find the pri
vacy desired, they entered a boat and
pushed out a few rods from shore.
Mr. Frayne knew as much about
handling a rowboat as he did about
the stage, and as he finally picked
up the oars to row a little he man
aged to upset the craft. It wobbled
and rocked and dipped, and as he was
receiving a heap of gratuitous advice
from twenty different persons It
turned turtle and over they went in
water ten feet deep.
There was no other boat handy,
and as no man among those on the
bank wanted to wet his summer suit
and be called a hero, there would
have been a tragedy but for a lady
coming back in a boat alone after a
row across the lake. With half a
dozen swift strokes she reached the
victims as they rose to the surface
together, and a hand held either up
until help could come.
Was the lady Miss Bell, the act
ress, who had made prey of the son,
and was now inconsistent enough to
Bave the parents? Even so.
It was a triumphant procession to
the hotel. It was Miss Bell again
who acted as first aid to Mrs. Frayne
and general adviser to the husband,
and at the end of two hours both
patients were doing as well as could
be expected. In fact, they were doing
better. They had thanked the res
cuer over and over again, although
aware of her profession, and now
they were saying to Harry, who had
been taking a long walk to get used
to the feeling of being disowned:
"There Isn't one woman In a thou
sand that would have been as cool
about it as Miss Bell, and she seems
a perfect lady in every respect."
"But why shouldn't she be?" asked
Harry with some Irritation. "I must
tell you both that people will think It
Is you two who need reforming a on.
"Harry," said the father, "I'm not
going to disown you."
"Thanks, father."
"And your mother and I will go to
the theater to see Miss Bell play."
"And if you two should fall In
kve " said the mother.
"But one of us has already!" was
Interrupted.
(Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa
paper Syndicate.)
The Complete Conquest.
"This Is the headquarters of Gen
eral PuffUDSkV."
"Who are those learned gentlemen
who look like college professors?"
"Oh, they are etymologists who nave
Wn hrouehl alone to give Russian
names to all the towns and cities cap
tured by the Russian army.
Atonement.
He Miss Mayme, I did wrong and
I want to make restitution. Will you
help me?
She Certainly, Mr. Smlthers.
He Then let me give back the
kisses I stole from you.
HIGH STANDARD OF WRITING
Professor Pays a Tribute to Newspa
per English, Which It on the
Whole Deserved.
"I well remember the pleasure with
which, as a young man, I heard my
venerable and practiced professor of
rhetoric say that he supposed there
was no work known to man more dif
ficult than writing," said Prof. George
H. Palmer, formerly of Harvard uni
versity. "Up to that time I had sup
posed Ita severities peculiar to my
self." He goes on to recount the ad
vantages which children of today en-
Joy over those of his own generation,
and hopes that some of them will find
the language he has used about the
difficulty of writing extravagant. Then
he says:
"Let me say, too, that since frequen
cy has more to do with ease of writing
than anything else, I count the newspa
per men lucky because they are writ
ing all the time, and I do not think so
meanly of their product as the present
popular disparagement would seem to
require. It Is hasty work, undoubted
ly, and bears the marks of haste. But
In my Judgment in no period of the
English language has there been so
high an average of sensible, vivacious
and Informing sentences written as
appears in our dally press.
"With both good and evil results.
the distinction betwen book literature
and speech literature is breaking
down. Everybody is writing, appar
ently in verse and prose; and If the
higher graces of style do not often
appear, neither on the other hand do
the ruder awkwardness and obscur
ities. A certain straightforward Eng
lish is becoming established. A whole
nation is learning the use of Its mother
tongue. Under such circumstances It
is doubly necessary that anyone who
is conscious of feebleness tn his com
mand of English should promptly and
earnestly begin the cultivation of it."
Hungry Man' Mistake.
Prof. Sigmond Freud, the eminent
German scholar, has made a study of
lingual blunders, spoken and printed,
and has embodied the result in his
book, "Psychopathology." As an ex
ample of blundering speech, caused by
subconscious cerebration, he gives the
following:
"A wealthy, but not very generous
American host, invited his friends to
an evening party. Everything went
well until about midnight, when there
waB an Intermission for supper. To the
disappointment of many of the guests,
there was no real supper; instead,
they were regaled with thin sand
wiches and lemonade.
'As it was during a presidential
campaign, the conversation turned up
on the different candidates, and as the
discussion grew warmer, one of the
guests, an ardent Progressive, re
marked to the host, 'You may say what
you please about Roosevelt, but there
is one thing he can always be relied
upon to do; he always gives you a
square meal.' He meant, of course, to
say a 'square deal.' The assembled
guests burst into a roar of laughter,
to the great embarrassment both of
the speaker and of the host." Youth's
Companion.
A Surgeon With "Sand."
The doctor suggested that if I could
let him have a couple of men to direct
those wounded men who could walk he
would send them back to the Chateau
of St. Marguerite, where the ambul
ances lay, three miles to the
rear. . . . '
He had been working at least forty-
eight hours, without cessation, but re
fused to stop ministering to the
wounded, although by now his work
had been supplemented by the arrival
of two Infantry surgeons. One of the
new medicos noticed that our surgeon
was In no condition to be on his feet.
A temperature of 103 degrees was
the record of the thermometer. Ex
amination presently revealed a bullet
wound.
Under cross-examination our little
doctor admitted he had been hit three
days before. A Captain of Royal Irish
Dragoons in Collier's Weekly.
Bibles Sent to the Front
Distribution of Bibles In Germany.
Austria and Bohemia In the last few
weeks has exceeded all records.
WorkerB have discovered no fewer
than ten different tongues In the camps
wd trenches. Great care has been ex
erted to keep from view all Bibles
printed In English.
The American Bible society is ac
:lve in the field and has some cooper
ition from the American Board, Of
Boston, and the Religious Tract so-
:Iety of London. The British and for
eign Bible societies have also been
engaged in the distribution, workers
in some cases traveling many miles
:o reach great numbers.
A depository for Bibles tn Budapest
las been exhausted. From Constanti
nople, one of the greatest agencies of
the American Bible society, no word
las come recently.
Extent of All the Rustles.
Russia's extent may be gauged by
the fact that European Russia Is In It
self larger than the other 19 states
of the continent taken together, and
when we Include Asiatic Russia, west
ern Europe shrinks Into Insignificance.
The Russian empire comprises one
sixth of the total land area of the
world.
It Is four times the size of the con
tinent of Europe, 42 times the size of
France, nearly three times the size of
the United States without Alaska and
70 times the size of the British isles.
There are 175,000,000 Russians, and
yet Russia Is the most thinly populat
ed of the great countries.
WHEN A MAN MARRIES
IS HE SUPPOSED TO ESPOUSE
ENTIRE FAMILY?
Consensut of Caeet Seems to Show
That He Actually Marriet His
Wife and All Her Relatives
How It Work.
"Does a man marry his wife's fam
ily?" He claims he doesn't. But a
prominent society woman declared not
long ago that he does, no matter what
he thinks about It, and more recently
a prominent college professor made
the Bame statement.
Looking around among one's ac
quaintances, for evidence, it is a pret
ty general fact that the wife's family
is more in evidence than the hus
band'B. One hears more of the wife's
kin, and the children seem to be bet
ter acquainted with relatives on the
maternal side.
When mother's relatives come a-vis-
iting they are made much of and giv
en the run of the house. If any of fa
ther's relatives have the temerity ,to
invite themselves for an extended vis
It there is a chill in the home at
mosphere and nobody acts natural
least of all father, who is made to feel
that he Is imposing upon the good na
ture of his overworked spouse.
The wife's relatives feel that It Is
not only their right but their bounden
duty to butt in, no matter what the
circumstances. And usually the butt
in is accepted meekly and endured
more or less amiably by the entire
family. Any husband who is a gen
tleman will do his kicking away from
home, or, if he cannot contain himself
at the moment, go down and poke the
furnace and commune with the cat.
And yet, on the whole, the wlfeB
relatives seldom do the amount of
damage that a husband's relatives can
do, once they determine to make
themselves felt.
When a husband's mother decides
that his children are not being
brought up right, or that his wife is
extravagant or a poor housekeeper,
etc., and that her interference ts nec
essary, real trouble starts, not only
for the man's wife but even more bo
for the man himself. His mother-In-law
would never dare to attempt what
his own mother will do to him.
The wife may have a ne'er-do-well
brother who occasionally comes and
camps upon her hospitality. But if
the husband has such a brother, nine
times in ten the brother has married
and expects his more prosperous rela
tives to support a wife and numerous
progeny.
Ab for fathers-in-law on both sides
they don't count appreciably. By
the time a man becomes a father-in-law
he has been so well trained Into
his proper sphere that he wisely re
fuses to mix in any kind of family af
fairs that do not concern his finance.
Aiayway, there is usually a chord of
sympathetic understanding between a
man and his father-in-law, while every
wife knows the wiles that will bind
her father-in-law to her for ever and
aye. Philadelphia Bulletin.
How Doctor Abbott Prepare 8ermon.
My method of preparation for any
sermon or address is to consider,
first,' not my subject, but my object
that is, what I want to accomplish.
Next I consider, what thoughts and
what organization of those thoughts
will be best fitted to accomplish that
object. And, third, in arranging those
thoughts I endeavor to make of them
not a chain but a river, to make
my argument cumulative, not merely
logical, so that the last thoughts will
be not merely the conclusion but the
climax of the thoughts that have gone
before. This I generally do without
the use of pen or pencil. Usually,
however, I jot down In a notebook or
on a Bheet of paper the major points
In the address after I have arranged
them In my mind, though I never
have this paper before me In speak
ing. It Ib much more Important to
keep my mind in touch with my aud
itors than in touch with my theme.
Lyman Abbott in the Outlpok.
Domesticated Geography.
You can wander around Meta (In
diana), and Gibraltar (Pennsylvania),
and Belgrade (Missouri), and Dun
kirk (Maryland) without being shot
as a spy. If more scholarly associa
tions beckon, what say you to London
(Texas), Stratford (Connecticut), Ox
ford (Idaho), He.raelberg (Mississip
pi) and Cambridge (Maine)? If you
love art and architecture, hie away to
Milan (Tennessee), Florence (Utah),
Vienna (South Dakota), or Versailles
(Kentucky). And if you seek the
antique flavor of Athens, or Pompeii,
or Venice, or any other venerable
ruin
But what's the use? We have It all
In America; Just run over the map
and take your choice.. Geography ts
the finest of Indoor sports thl year,
anyhow.
Barrel of Booty.
Sol. Sodbuster Hear about the rob
bery down t' th' 5 an' 10-cent store
last night?
Hiram Hayrack Nope. D'they git
much?
Sol. Sudbuster Yep. They was In
there two hour and carried away
nearly a dollar' wuth o' goods.
Puck.
Rather Indefinite.
Guest (In restaurant) Walter, yon
don't mean to say this Is spring
lamb?
Walter Yassah; dat's what It am,
tab.
Guest Urn! Spring of what year?
GULLIBLE PEOPLE ARE MANY
All Sert of Fak Scheme Successful
ly Floated Prove Credulity of
Humanity.
Human credulity passes all limi
tations. Before me lies a newspaper
story from Chicago: A man was on
his way to a savings bank to deposit
$145. Two smiling strangers met him,
fooled him with the story that they
had "a magic handkerchief" which
would double the stranger's money if
he would fold his bank bills within it.
After the operation, the strangers told
him to watch the handkerchief and
see his money grow. They disap
peared. They had his money and the
handkerchief contained waste paper.
Does this sound Impossible?
Here is another story, even more
improbable, but true. In New York a
company, appropriating the name of a
well-known corporation, advertised to
sell Its shares at a bargain, and fixed
a price that was Just twice the stock
market price. A circular was sent to
the Italian quarter intimating that a
great opportunity was presented for
worklngmen to secure an interest In
a wonderfully prosperous railway, that
only a few shares could be had, and
that they must be bought at once. A
rush was made for the stock, although
every dally paper printed the quota
tion of the same security at half the
price at which the swindlers were
offering it. The police put an end
to the game. If people are so credu
lous, is it surprising that the post of
fice authorities report that $150,000,
000 a year is taken from the gullible
by dealers in fake securities? If Wall
street did this kind of wretched busi
ness, it would deserve reprobation.
None of the cheap mining, oil, plan
tation, real estate and similar schemes
could get a foothold in the stock ex
change because, before a stock can be
listed, It must submit a detailed report
and show that it represents a legiti
mate enterprise. This does not mean
that occasionally a stock Is listed that
should not have been, but it means
that, as a rule, listed securities have
merit. Nor does listing mean that
they will advance in price. Securities
only represent business Institutions
subject to the laws of trade, but
chances of profit in the purchase of
listed securities or those that are sold
by representative bankers and brokers,
rather than by irresponsible peddlers,
should be the choice of every one who
has money to Bpare.-!-Leslie's Weekly.
lfnlnn Mn Out nf Mischief.
To keep its men out of mischief a"
big coal company Inaugurated the gar
den habit among Its miners. Result!
Pay day sees far fewer fights, much
less money spent for liquor and a
larger sum carried home to the wife
and children. I learn from the mana
ger that besides these Immediate ef
fects many of the miners are now able
to raise a considerable part of all
the vegetables their families eat.
Some of the large Iron and steel
companies divert their men with
music. C. M. Schwab is patron saint
of a great band at Bethlehem.
There are four bands or drum corps
at the Cornwall Ore banks, and the
Frlck company goes the limit in ml
ing music with coke, having 14 bands
at Ita various works.
Give men something pleasant to do,
and they will spend leas money and
time for things that are unpleasant.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Soothe Tooth; Fire Bed.
John Wolf, a rural mall carrier of
Ebensburg, Pa., has demonstrated that
an electric light bulb will cure a
toothache and then some. Wolf was
walking the floor with a toothache of
the Jumping kind, when the bright
Idea struck him. Wrapping a towel
around an electric light bulb attached
to a long cord, he got into bed, press
ing the bulb against the aching molar
as a warming pad. The device worked
magically. The Buffering stopped and
wolf fell asleep.
Shortly after midnight, the mall car
rier dreamed there was a fire and that
he was fighting his way through smoke
and flames. He awoke to find the bed
burning. He sprang to safety and
gave the alarm, but before firemen an
rived the house was almost gutted.
Prayed He Might Fight Again.
Here Is an extract from a letter
from abroad never mind the nation
ality:
"Louis Is still here on sick leave,
He was awfully battered up and is so
nervous he can't hold his hands quiet
for a moment. It was the concus
sion of a bursting shell that flung him
against a stone wall, you know. He
was In the hospital a month. He Is
getting a little better now, and every
morning and evening I bear hlra
praying. 'What in the world are you
praying for? I asked him. He had
hard work steadying his voice. 'I
I'm praying,' he stammered, 'that the
war won't be over before I can get
back.' What are you going to do
with a spirit like that?" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
New Woman Is Marrying Woman
The alarmist assertions that the
spread of "feminist" doctrine Is going
to destroy the home are disproved by
statistics. More women marry today
than did In 1900. There has been a
gain of nearly 2 per cent In the num
ber of marriages of women over fif
teen in the last 20 years.
Among the 30,000,000 married wom
en whom the last census takers re
port, only 185,065 had been divorced.
Ida Tarbell calls this a "small per
cent of disaster" and says that there
Is no other human relation that can
show anything like so large a statis
tical proof ot success.
Fundamental
Principles of
Health
By ALBERT S. GRAY, M. D,
V -.. .... -e-.,.m.....J
(Copyright. 1914, by A. S. Gray)
FOOD INSTINCTS.
It all men and women had sufficient
work, mental and physical, to give
them healthy appetites and the means
to gratify them with simple foods,
the greatest happiness ot the greater
number would be established on a
thoroughly sound basis. We only ex
pect pleasure and comfort to be exper
ienced where ancestral habit through
long ages of ubo has established a
sensory track to a center and where
that sensory center Is permitted to
function freely within the scale ot its
development Happiness consists es
sentially tn the free and normal use
of our functions and any restraint in
the normal use of those functions
must Inevitably lead to unhappiness
and ill health.
If a flock of hens is confined In per
fectly sanitary quarters of limited
area and fed what we believe to be a
perfectly sclentiflo balanced ration,
there will still be a deterioration In
the general physical stamina of the
group. They will appear dejected
and unhappy, and will mope around
and grow fat and indolent; also there
will be a material drop in egg produc
tion with a clearly defined tendency
to an abnormal mortality during in
cubation. The individual metabolism
of the flock is thrown out of adjust
ment by the unnatural restraint and
the lack of work. If, however, means
are adopted to compel the hens to
work for their food, definite Bigns of
deterioration are postponed for a
great many generations.
Life Itself Is very tenacious and re
sistant and if the changes are not too
abrupt, any given species will quite
easily adapt itself to practically any
condition. Under Insanitary condi
tions,' of course, the deterioration ot
a strain Is marked and quite abrupt;
but even under the worst states imag
inable, normal incubation being per
mitted, chickens will survive, the line
quickly and simply adapting to the
environment. This is true of the hu
man species., It is stated that the
last annual report of Doctor Thomas, '
health officer of the Flnsbury district,
London, England, just published,
shows that In Flnsbury district, the
most congested of the London
boroughs, where 6,000 families live and
sleep in 6,000 rooms, babies are im
mune to the filth diseases.'
"Some of these babies," says the re
port, ''as soon as, or even before, they
are able to crawl, are placed on the
sidewalks early in the day, to be
watched or nursed by a girl ot four
or five year of age. They are true
gutter children. Sometimes the Imma
ture nurse falls asleep wearied by
her task, and the baby crawls to the
other side of the road, heedless ot
traffic. Both are filthy and gutter
stained. But they seem to live. In
fact, the stock from which they have
sprung rises superior to the ordinary
diseases ot childhood." The problem
of humanity in general is largely a
matter of quality rather than of quan
tity and to secure this requires
thought on all sides. Expert breeders
of chickens and of other lower organ
isms, both animal and vegetable, ap
pear to have learned a solution, at
least, they make practical application
of principles productive of highly de
sirable results, while humanity at
large ineffectually seeks a life solu
tion by means of "eugenics," or some
other equally vague method.
A properly fed organism Is always
an efficient organism. It chickens,
dogs, horses, cows or men are prop
erly ted they are efficient machines
and If they are not properly fed noth
ing else can make them efficient.
With chickens the ration and work
determine the quantity and the vital
ity of the eggs, and once hatched or
born, as with all other organisms.
Individual success becomes a matter
of food building material. A defi
cient diet with chicken produces
many peculiar results.
Of course, the hen does not know,
as we do or as we can and should
that carbonic acid, water, ammonia
and salts from the Inorganic world
are manufactured into complicated
proteins, starches, gums, fats, salines
and water combinations suitable for
animal consumption. Neither, proba
bly, does she know that the animal
world, Including herself, takes lu these
proteins, amylaceous matters, fats.
Bait and water of vegetable construc
tion, and, extracting the energy from,
those particular combinations for in
dividual use, converts them back into
carbonic acid, water, ammonia and
salts all readily available tor plant
food again.
The hen does not know these things
s we do, but the writer knows from
personal observation that the average
hen will make a vastly harder strug
gle to correct a deficient diet than
will the average human being.
. The hen doesn't bother about the
color ot food, but it she feels badly
she seem to know instinctively that
something Is missing and hunts It up.