New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-03
HATfHIyG HARD BOILED EGGS


who sels butter, eggs ,nd cheese in State.
st. basement has invented advertising dodge that will
probably get him mobbed On one side OF the hole in
the pavement, which Is the entrance shops
class stands glass For months past II has con.
taned samples Of butter and cheese but yesterday
ing It's contents inspired a degree OF astonshm in
passerby caused large number of people be
to business What they dozen highly. colored
Easter eggs cast iron arrangement with lighted
cubator; Watch EN- Hatch" The shells OF several OF
the eggs we're ndened and through crack In could
be seen little chick actually caught In the act Of being
hached Around the moor OF the bits Of coored shell
were scattered and most marvellous Of ALL the chickens
which had Just pecked their way out Of them and were hop
ming about lively crckets were like the eggs OF all
the coor OF tho rainbow thermometer resting the
cast iron arrangement. registered 02 Ia degrees
That's right said seedy, middle aged carrying
that's the temperature REQUIRED 70 hatch
eggs artneally. Even 90 degrees would chill 'em and
60 degrees would give 'em the pip
WY bless my soul - cried an old lady who had driven
in from the country with rdn Of butter, who ever
set ewes on pink an blue chicken boforeI'
Amt the eggs the same colorT' inquired the man
with the dinner basket argumcn!apVeiy
thew be- but has the color Of the eggs 10 do
with the color OF the chicksT
Mcbbe the colorin' soaked through" suggested .
farmer whose load OF radishes and lettuce awaiting
around the corner on South Waterst Ye see
the chick that's just bc!n Matched Is white an 40 Is the
shell" .,
Easter eggs, and they've been boiled DID you ever
Rv mis- time the sidewalk was blocked clear to the
curb and the debate 10 how the chickens came to
In had become general ana rather
excited The .eedy man insisted that 1t was natural
law that newly Matched chickens were invariably OF the
same color as the shell OF the egg when gave them birth
He quoted Scripture support OF his position Jacob
could stped cattle not at his own sweet WILL why
could NOT tfe believer Of the nineteenth century
red white and blue chickens! Tho seedy man succeeded
I'm Convincing nearly everybody out the individual who
had asserted that the eggs were boiled and consequently
could not be hachcd , 80, 49,. ,...,.. -.
soo ia hen and tainted with camels hair brush and
different coored inks by the proprietor OF the shop Just
IN attract n crowd md advertise his business"
Here comes the proprietor now. said the seedy man.
" ask him. 80,
The prourietor was calm and busnoss-lke He opened
the glass case turned up the wick OF the burning lamp
trae examined two or three eggs carefully ana shut up
the case again The crowd watched him In GREATNESS
silence.
Weren't those Easter eggs boiled az hard as brieksr
inoujred the scencai Individual as the prophecies
returning TO his basement
Certainly. Why do you ask
And you expect them 10 hatehT
Why, Of course"
What hatch boiled eggsf
"YOung maa did you ever run m ineuoetorr
"N-no; but"
Wei, then. you don't know what you're talking
about" And the proprietor returned to his basement
After dark, when the crowd had difpciscd the seedy
emerged from the basement turned out the lamp In
the glass case threw old the particoored
chicks, ana put up the shutters