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“Mlfts Davenport told me to come
Io you," Eve explained. "She Is
sick.”
B- U r. L. D . Ledear, V.S., Sr. Louis, Mo.
“Again 1” Miss Morris’s exclama
D r. f «G ear i j a ttraduate of the O ntario
V e te r in a r y C o lle g e , 1892. T h ir t y - s ix
tion held more sympathy than
years o f veterinary practice o » diseases
Jala-’s, ami she added briskly,
nt live stock end p ou ltry. E m in en t au
“Gawd! the poor kid!”
th o rity on poultry and stock raist-g.
N a t io n a lly k n o w n p o u ltry b re e d e r,
"I’m substituting for her,” Eve
I Toted atiihe. and lecturer.
continued with a smile. " A, leus,
I'm trying to.”
After the chirks are installed In
CHICK SAVING
their new home, I give them some
The information interested all of
BROODER METHODS water, grl, and milk. They are al
the girls. Miss Morris nodded.
lowed Io conte out several times
“Fine," she said heartily. “Stick
around till I finish this damned A U ttle A ttention to Details W ill during the day for gri, and water
Not Only Low er the M o rta lity and each time ! pu, them back un
thing, and I’ll put you wise to what
Rate of A rtific ia l Brooding, But der the hover. In this way they
you gotta do.”
W ill
Also
P ro rid e
Stronger, learn quickly and easily. My plan
Eve entered the crowded room.
H ealth ier Chicks.
may mean a little more trouble at
One of the smoker» spoke languid
first, bu, my experience is that it
ly.
A proper start in life means just saves time in the long run because
"Wliat’s eatin Ivy?” she wanted
as much to the newly hatched chicks are more quickly trained to
to know. "Same old t’ing?”
chick as Io a newborn babe. Even seek the hover for warmth and pro
She was a tall girl with green though a chick may inherit all the tection.
eye», a superb figure, regular feat desirable traits of many generation«
From this point on, detailed in
ures, ami red hair as closely cut of blue blooded avian aristocracy, struction cannot be given.
Your
a» Jakes. She hud a look of dis its hereditary advantages may be exact procedure will depend on the
tinction. a voice as harsh and shrill completely offset by lack of proper kind of apparatus you employ. Fol
ns a Russian's and her accent was attention during the days immed low the manufacturer’s instructions
the one heard in New York’s lowest iately following its exodus from carefully and watch the chicks at
East Side slums.
the incubator. Correct brooding all time» to make sure they are com
’’Yes. She says she’s had such methods, on tiie other hand, will fortahie and growing at a satisfac
attakes before.”
not only reduce the infant mortality tory rate. A word about correct
“I’ll tell the woibl she has. They rate in your flock, but will give temperature will not he amiss.
are Hie lings she ain'tgot nothin* you more robust ami more product Many experienced poultry men nev
else but, I'm wondering how long ive member« for your flock of the er look at a thermometer hut are
Jake will stand for it,” the tall girl future.
guided entirely by the actions of
drawled.
Such care should star, even be the chicks. If they lie quietly in
“Don’t strain your mind trying fore you are ready to receive small contented groups, they are
to think, Maizie. But if you really chicks from hatchery or to tran comfortable, bu, if they spread out
wanta know, I’ll say Jake’ll stand sfer them from your own incubator flat lifting their wing and panting
for it as long as Ivy can dance bet to hover. See that all parts of the they are too hot. Extend their
ter than the rest of us. You aint hovers and brooder quarters are fence so they can get away from
feelin’ up to Ivy’« acrobatic waltz thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. the hea, or if a canopy type hover
yourself, are you?”
’ BI Spray all pgrts of the room with is used, lower the ttemperature. If
Eve decided that she liked Miss a fairly strong solution of dip and they huddle together, they are too
Morris. Queenie, having thus sup disinfect to guard against lice, mites cold. Gently force them to hover
pressed Maizie, uml also conquered and other para sites. Be sure the closer to the stove by decreasing
the run, now felt up to other duties. ! room is well ventilated bu, free the circumference of your brooder
She rose, shook ou, her skirt, cast from draughts. Then put sand and fence or by using the broodr cur
a critical glance a, the reflection of litter on the floor to give the chicks tain.
her leg« in the long mirror, and something to scratch in and to keep
These things are only learned by
turned to the newcomer, prepared the floor covered.
observation
and experience. If you
to give her undividd attention.
See that heating units are in
“Set down,” she invited. “Here good order, burners clean and re do not care to trust your judgment
in that respect, the following sched
Stella, don’t be a pig.”
gulated mechanism working well. ule will be found helpful. The first
She seized the legs of the girl Then start your stoves, lamps or
called Stella, a tired looking and electricity running several days in two or three nights the temperature
plain faced young person who was advance to thoroughly familiarize at level of sleeping chick’s backs,
lying on (he rooms one couch, and yourself with operation and con should be between 95 and 100 de
swung them to the floor. Stella re trol of the devices. You will also grees, but never over 100. As the
trieved the cigarette dislodged from i have the quarters evenly wanned chicks begin to exercise they re
quire less heat. The latter part of
hr lips by the briskness of this throughout.
Place a temporary
maneuver, and gloomily huddled in fence around each hover to keep the firs, week befin to lower the
the couch's lop corner. Miss Morris the chicks near the source of heat temperature gradually until it is
pressed the visitor into part of the making allowance for gradually en around 85 at the end of the third
vacated space and fitted herself into larging it from time to time. This week. As many chicks will be fair
ly well feathered by the end of the
what was left.
is usually managed by using a roll fifth week, the temperature may
“What’s your label?”
of one inch netting two feet high run between 85 and 70, being re
“Berson.”
Do not cut it simply unroll a lit- duced until finally artificial heat is
“New in the business?”
ntore than each time you feel that no longer required.
“Yes.’
the growth of the brood demands
Avoid sudden variations at all
“I thought so.” Miss Morris had more room.
the air of one adjusting her shoul
When the chicks are ready to be times. Ane even heat is the ideal
ders to a burden. “Weil, things transferred or have arrived, carry condition.. The general tempera
don’t light up here till thetheater them carefully in a well lined box ture of quarters outside the hover
crowd blows in and that aint for or basket and place them gently should never be lower than 60 to
ten or fifteen minutes yet.”
unde rthe hover. The basket or 70 degrees. If it runs lower, some
box should be carefully covered to auxiliary means of heating should
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEKT“ keep the chicks from getting chilled be provided.
How to Raise Poultry
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WIIAT HAS GONE BEFORE
A beautiful young woman finds
herself on the sidewalk In a strange
city. Slit* cannot remember her
name or where »he came from. She
ha» nothing in her purse to tell
herself who »he 1». A young man
who ha» »ecu her In the hotel where
»he is »topping notices her unri
takes her to the hotel In a cab.
There she find» that she is regis
tered, in French a» “Miss Eve No
body of Nowhere.” The clerk has
been calling her Mi»« Parsons. The
young mun tell» her she Is in New
York. Ills name is Erie llumilton
of Chicago. She Is terrified at her
loss of memory. He asks his friend
Hr. Garrick, a nerve specialist, to
call at the hotel. Hr. Garrick talks
encouragingly, but says that tie
will send a nurse to »lay with the
mysterious "Miss Parsons" that
night.
Ml»» Nobody listens while Ham
ilton tel!» her what the doctor has
said, then steps into another room.
When the nurse arrives, the girl
has vanished from the hotel I
Eve's departure was simple. She
went out of a back door into the
servants hall of the hotel, where
she encountered a young French
man porter, who claimed to recog
nize her. He had seen her in Paris.
"Then you knew my nume?” »he
demanded eagerly. But the porter
bad fori otten that. He would write
nt once Io a friend in Pari.» and find
the nano of the American young
Indy they hud noth admired. He
tells her of an apartment houst-
wlierc thr Janitor, he thinks would
take her in. Meantime, while Ham
ilton is unxiouvly hunting up the
nerve S| ecialisl for advice. Eve gets
into a taxicab nod drive» away.
She ai ange» with Marcel's friend,
the janitor of a dingy little apart
ment In use on the East Side of
New V i rk, for a small furnished
apartment. He tells her not to be
l»e frighl ned If »he heurs the young
Woman who occupies the next
apartment come in very Inte in the
morning. Eve wonderi what sort
of a pla< e she has got into.
The g rl in the next apartment
is Ivy Davenport, a professional
cabaret dancer with a weak heart.
Eve help» her one night when she
Is ill. Ivy sugggsts that Eve, who
is short of funds, should take her
place in the cabaret. Eve thinks
it over, dislikes the idea, but real
izes that .»he has to do something
to earn a living until she finds out
who she really is. Ivy ba» twisted
the nume of “Personne” which is
the only surname Eve knows for
herself, into "Berson."
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"Miss Davenport told me to com e Io you,” Eve explained.
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“She’s
do it. What bluff must I make?” If you can’, dunce or doqt wants,
She wa« rewurded by the Ikook they’ll all help you out. They’re all
in the other girl’s face as she my friends, she weakly ended.
Within the next hour, when she
struggled up on an elbow.
"There’s nothing to it,” »he said had reached Jake'» Eve discovered
eagerly. "Even if you can’, dance that Miss Davnport had not over
all the dances—an’ I’m belling you ! rated her own iiopularily.
Jake was in the fastness of his
can— ¡III help if you just go there
and tell Juke how it is, un offer to ' private office, a small partitioned
take my place. Talk to him first, j retreat off the main room. Eve’s
and then go to the drcksingroom modest request to see the manager
and usk for Queenie Morris. She’s combined with he mention of Miss
Jake’s bead hostess. Site's in\ pal. Davenport’s name, procured an im*
too, an the be», of the lot. She’ll mediate audience with him.
Hr was dressed in immaculate
do the res,.”
” 1 understand. B
you’re quite evening clothes and his brilliantin-
ed hair clung to his head like
sure Jake's is all right?"
The girl in the bed was spent by thick black paste. He turned upon
the effort o f talking as much as she her the unwinking gaze of two re
had done, but »he rallied to this mote black eye» and waited for
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY question.
wha, she had to say.
“I’ve come to substitute for Miss
“I’ll tell the world it is.” she
Davenport,”
Eve explained.
brought
out.
“Donl
you
get
no
idee
"There somethin’ I’d rather you’d
“S'miitter with her?’
do. ’Twould help an awful lot if 1 of white slave stuff. There’» no-
“Shes sick,”
Straight
you'd do it,” Ivy urgently added. ! thing like it at Jake’s.
“Againeh?”
I
business,
on
the
level,
good
eats,
"What is it?”
The personal charm of Jake, as
Eve asked the question with sus good music, a pretty good crowd—
pidon. -Her mind was centered on and Jimmy Murphy on the spot to et forth by Miss Davenport, was
the girl’s condition—surely a ser throw ou, rough ones. I, ain’t a escaping Eve thus far.
“’S’ure name?” he ended.
iou» one for a dancer. Ivy’s next club. Most any one can ge, in,
“Berson.
Eve had decided to ac
| but they can’, stay in less they be-
words startled her.
“It’s my Job,” she muttered. "I'm have. The substi,oots git three dol- cept Miss Davenport’s version.
‘“S'ure address?"
I lars for the night an a five cent
goin to lose; that» all.”
“The same as hers.”
, card fer every dance they give to
“Oh! I’m sorry!”
“Enow
how,’ dance?”
visitors,
besides
their
tips.
You’ll
"Yep. Juke said he diiln' wnnta
“Miss Davenport says I do.
I
be hard on me, but couldn't be left 'e, that tonight of course. All I’m
-an’,
do
solo
work,
bu,
I
think
1
time I didn’t come or send u sub •orrying about is to hold my place
in the lurch again. So the next or the winter. See whn, I Mean?' can ge, along in the otherdances."
“S’ope so. Awright. Report
s'
Eve could no, help wondering
stitoot, it would be the air foi
tow, on a few dolar« a night, Miss Morris».”
mine.”
Eve followed to its end the nar
lnvenports income ran to aparl-
"I see.”
Eve saw with a clearness that ients, silk lingerie, over stuffed row passaige he had indicated,
made her wince.
Evidently Miss urniture, uml painted beds. As if guided by the sound of voices. The
Davenport expected a great deal lie sick girl had read the thought door of a room a, the right was
vawing slightly, and a glance thru
from her fellow beings. She would .he hurried ou:
“You'll knock down six or eight the opening suggested that here wa»
not hav been surprised if this
stranger in her room, having out dollars a night without Iryin. I her destination. Half a dozen girls
her to bed ami cased her pair., *.”>w make ten or twelve. Any guy that's in evening gowns occupied its limit
announced her intention of substi a real guy’ll slip you a dollar or ed space, lending them selves to
tuting for her at the cabaret and two for dancing with him a lot, various occupations. One, in the
at once departed Io do so. She her especially if he lands on your fee, only easy chair, sa, holding a hand
self had already shown that she most of the lime. And there« always glass and touching up an already
Was a friend in need
probably some guy that will pay for your striking facial color scheme. A
her associates also were the kind supper, too. Say—” she asked the second was down on a knee, sewing
who did that sort of thing.....But question with sudden anxiety—•— the beginning of a run in the top
of one of her silk stockings.
A
Jake’s! To dance nt Jake’s! Eve "you go, anything to wear?”
third fluffel her bobbed hair before
Eve looked a, her blankly.
felt that she had definite limitations
“No. I didn’t bring an evening full length mirror, and the remain
and that one of them had been
ing three were smoking and resting.
dress.”
reached.
“Then take one of mine, any you Eve waited on the threshold and
"You oughtn’t to talk,” she rest
like. You and me’s about the same tapped on the door panel. No one
lessly pointed out.
size.
Bu, hurry. That close,....... answered, so she pushed the door
“If you’d go up there and report
wide.
to Jake, you could bluff your way see?”
"Pardon. Where shall I find the
Eve hurried ami selected the leas,
through the dances,” Ivy hurried on
hostess—Miss
Morris»?" she asked.
flamboyant
of
Miss
Davenport’s
sev
"You’d do fine. The other girls’d
The girl who was sewing the
help you, If you told them what It eral dancing gowns— a fairly sim
meant. The fellas would, too. ple creation In white and silver. stocking run raised her eyes from
“The slippers to match is on the the absorbing task.
They’re nil my frlen’s. They see
“Right here," she «old brusquely,
you weren’t put up against It, top shelf.”
Eve found the .slipper« without Her manner implied that she could
'cause they’d k n o w you was try in g
! • help tue.”i
s
But, good Heavens, I can’t—”
port bail a sense of order. They
Eve liecame conscious of her were u trifle large, but like the
tone and checked her words, uppnl- | gowns, thep passed muster. Ivy,
led. This girl had come to her days bluewhile around the mouth, ap
ago, offering her a job because she proved the result, ami Eve also re
believed her to be down ami out. ceived from the long mirror in the
Now it was clearly up to her to re living room the assurance that it
ciprocate. The demand was a wild was not bail.
"I only go, one evening wrap,”
one, of course, but surely she was
the lust human bring who should Ivy confessed, “but it goes with
fail anyone in trouble. She thought ! most anything.” It did.
"Ho I have Io dance with every
of Hamilton—of the swift willing
ness with which he had come to one that asks me?” Eve inquired
her help in her crisis. She could when she was realy to leave.
Ivy looked a, her with a flicker
never repay him, but here was a
Ivy now lay in the exhaustion of in her pain filled e/es.
"Say, haven’t you never been in
chance to pus» on the mercy and
kindness he hud shown her. This a cabaret?” As Eve did no, reply
girl’s Job was at »take, her very she answered the question: “Course
bread and butter. As for herself, you got ,o dance with em if you
she could stand Jake'« for one nigh, wants make a hit. The big features
whatever possibilities Jake’s might is the program dances, but the men
is there for a gooil time an you
liold.
go,,a
help. If they ain't perfect
She leaned over the bed. In which
the girl reelinrd, now in extreme i gentlemen you tip the wink to Jim
my and he gives em the air. But
pain.
"Tell me wha, you want me to do its like I told you,” she ndded
she said kindly, “And I'l Itry and j more faintly. “You do wha, I said.
d iffic u lty .
E v id e n tly
Miss D aven endure runs but not interruptions,
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