The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-11

main there and die before she can re-
member where that hole is or use It to
get out through.
| noticed moro idiotic hens in the
past two years than ever before. Brain
troubles are more noticeable. More hens
are noticed who caclIle when they have
not laid an egg or who forget to cacklo
when they have done so. More hens
show signR of hypochondria. The glad
and careless laugh is no longer heard.
| see more pale, languid hens-hcns
that are still young yet with an air of
age and senility, prematurely aged and
tough,
am led to believe that there is n
cause for this, and simple one.
a year ago l bought 16 plain pullcts
of II man who lives at Hogg's Neck, IS
miles away. He delivered them ON the
following day, he and his son bringing
them on foot in four punches of four
each, with legs tied together like par
eel of spring onions. For Is miles they
had come, with their heads hanging
down and the blood rushing TO their
brains.
As result. these hens are noticeable
for their impaired intellects. 1t is al
most pathetic TO watch thom dawdling
their lives away or cackling vaCautly
to each other, while the rising genera
zion seems even more silly than the old.
er Uues.
Where is the leading hen of the fu
| tur0 to come from? Where shall we &c
| to find the typical American hen? Thest
! uestions must some day be met square
| ~, and now is the time. ! ask my fel
! low ornithologists to join with me il
rescuing from destruction the threaten
ed intellects of our rising hens
So intellectually deficient has the
4 American hen become recently that She
is today the dry nurse for the turkey,
| the duck, the guinea hen and the goose
/ What other fowl would quietly and ever
che rfully hatch and rear the castofi
/ children of other barnyard fowls? Wha
warm blooded mammal is so far lost t
decent pride as TO become a foundlinl
asylum for the gander, the type anC
symbol of cheerful idiocy?
What other fowl would without com
plant forego her vacations in order t,
sit for six weeks on child's tin dog
! What other class or genus of the brut,
crea ton, aside from congress, is con
tent to sit its life away without tangi
BILE result? What mammal, aside from
the hen, will sit all summer gazing int,
space and then come forth with a IA
diant smile and with nothing to shov
a "a. 1. 1 4. L
meut!
Probably one of the most exhaustiv
works on ornithology, and one that ha
beguiled many a weary hour for III
when the long, long summer days hum
warm and pulseless on the Blue Ridg
mountains, is small volume, or book
let, by Professor Parker, entitled 9Th
Ostcology of BalRniceps.
1t has wiped away the collected cob
webs of centuries, and for one / cal
truthfully say that all to me now i
clear BalRniceps have no secrets nov
from me. All one calm summer nigh
a few weeks ago, while a large owl il
the porte cochere of our country hous
sang "A solemn song, and big beet
weighing three-fourths of pound Oc
casiunally bumped his broad forehead
against my own, l read of the life an
times of the Bal9niceps,
Professor Parker is also the writer o
The Osteology of Gallinaceous Bird
and Tinamous. This is not so excit
ing, however, as the other work jus
mentioned. But if you want somethin
to take with You to the seashore there
nothing better than Professor Parker
little work entitled "On the Skull o
the AIgithognathous Birds. 1t take
a line of treatment similar to my trea