Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-02-06
a NINE or WEALTH.
An Engiish Lecturers Discourse on Egxn
Medicine ss Well as Food.

An English Lecturers Discourse ON Egxa
Medicine ss Well ss Food.
The discourse on eggs which Mr.. Sim
monds has just delivered before the So
ciaty OF Arts Il well worthy of the most
careful consideration. Eggs, according to
the lecturer, constitute a neglected mine
OF wealth. They are the one article of
agricultural produce for which the de-
mand IL 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, II not made OF gold, are
quite capable OF being turned into that
metal, when they are retailable all the
year round, one month with another, at
something not much short of a penny
apiece, while the eggs OF ducks viii 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-
she'll, In the best proportions and I'm the
most palatable form. Plain boiled, they
are wholesome. The masters OF French
cookery, however, affirm that IL Is easy to
dress them In more than 600 different
ways, each method not only economical
but salutary in the highest degree. No
honest appetite ever yet rejected an egg In
some guise. Il 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 as readily as do the
humble tribesmen.
After the victory Of Mnhldorf, when the
Kaiser Ludwig sat at meat with his burg
grafs and great captains, he determined
on piece of luxury-''one egg to every
man, and two 10 the excellently valiant
Schweppermann Far more than fish
for its watery diet--eggs are the scholars
fare. They contain phosphorus, which Is
brain food, and sulphur, which performs
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 efifcacious 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 caiomel They
strengthen the consumptiye, invigorate
the feeble and render the most susceptible
all bat proof against jaundice in its more
malignant phase. They can also he drunk
in the shape Of that egg flip" which sus-
tains the oratorical efforts OF modern
statesman. The merits OF eggs do not
end even here. In France alone the wine
clariiiers use more than 80, 600, 600 year,
and the Alsatians consume fully 80, 900, :
900 in calico printing and for dressing the
leather used in making the finest Of
French kid gloves. Finally, not to men,
tion various other employments for eggs
in the arts, they may, OF course, almost
without trouble on the farmers part. be
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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