Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-09
A MINE OF WEALTH.
An English Lecturers Discourse on EggA
Medicine as We'll as Food.

An English Lecturers Discourse on EggA
Medicine as We'll as Food.
The discourse on eggs which Mr. Sim
monds has just delivered before the So
ciety Of Arts is well worthy Of the most
careful consideration. Eggs, according to
the lecturer, constitute neglected mine
of wealth. They are the one article of
agricultural produce for which the de-
mand is unlimited. and perhaps the only
one in which we might did we choose,
defy foreign competition. They not only
mean money, but they command prices
that admit of profit compared with which
beef and mutton are OF little account and
wheat barely worth mentioning Hens,
for those who know how to utilize them.
lay eggs which, If not made of gold. are
quite capable OF being turned into that
metal, when they are retaiiable all the
year round, one month with another. at
something not much short of a penny
apiece, while the eggs of ducks will bring
still more remunerative price.
Eggs are a meal in themselves. Every
element necessary to the support of man
is contained within the limits of an egg
shell, in the best proportions and in the
most palatable form. Plain boiled, they
are wholesome. The masters Of French
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dress them in more than 800 different
ways each method not only economical
but salutary in the highest degree. No
honest appetite ever yet rejected an egg in
some cuise. It is nutriment in the most
portable form and in the most concen-
trated shape Whole nations of mankind
rarely touch any other animal food.
Kings eat them plain rs readily as do the
humble tribesmen.
After the victory of Muhldorf, when the
Kaiser Ludwig sat at meat with his burg
gratis and great captains, he determined
on piece of luxury-"one egg to every
man, and two to the excellently valiant
Schwepperman." Far more than fish
for its watery diet-eggs are the scholars
fare. They contain phosphorus, which Is
brain food, and sulphur, which performs
q variety of functions in the economy
And they are the best of nutriment for
children, for, in a compact form, they con-
tain everything that is necessary for the
growth of the youthful frame. Eggs are,
however, not only food-they are medicine
also. The white is the most efficacious Of
remedies for burns, and the oil extractable
from the yelk is regarded by the Russians
as an almost miraculous salve for cuts,
bruises and scratches.
A raw egg, II swallowed IN time, Will
effectually detach fish bone in the
throat, and the white of two eggs will
render the deadly corrosive sublimate as
harmless as a dose of calomel. They
strengthen the consumptive, invigorate
the feeble and render the most susceptible
all but proof against jaundice in its more
malignant phase. They can also be drunk
in the shape Of that egg flip which sus-
tains the oratorical efforts Of q modern
statesman. The merits of eggs do not
end even here. In France alone the wine
CHARTERS use more than SO, 900, 600 year,
and the Alsatians consume fully IS, 000,-
600 in calico printing and for dressing the
leather used In making the finest of
French kid gloves. Finally, not to men
ton various other employments for eggs
in the arts, they may, Of course, almost
without trouble on the farmers part. I've
converted into fowls, which in any shape
are profitable to the seller and welcome to
the buyer, Even egg shells are valuable,
for allopath and homeopath alike agree
in regarding them as the purest Of car
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