The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-16
HER ONE TALENT. .

The parable of the talents was
exempli6ed by little Mrs. s. in
an interesting manner. Here, Liz
zie," said one Of her aunts to her
one day, there is fifty-dollar gold
piece for you. See," she continued,
jokingly, chow far you can make
your one talent CO." Lizzie s.,
who was a practical little soul,
thought that by way of experiment
she would take her aunt's suggestion
literally. In her neat little house.
hold ledger she entered separate ac-
count under the head O" AuntMary's
Contribution crediting the account
with $50. She then proceeded to
make an experiment which she had
long wished to try.
She bought two incubators, hold
ing one hundred eggs each, for $24;
two iout5ne Bf6ladels,S tin vaaf,
making $42 in all. The remainder
she invested in eggs from reliable
poultry farm for Sc hundred.
She received her incubators on
March I, and by June had hatched
out with fairly good success six sets
of chickens, which she raised as
broilers and sold to herself by sys-
tenn of accounts that was somewhat
original, but Ito her) perfectly salts
factory. She found she had made
profit of about $40 over and above
the cost of her plant, the eggs and
chicken food. The labor she did
not think she need include, as their
utility man, whom they kept any
way, attended to her chickens.
The next summer she decided she
would like to try vegetables instead
of chickens, and she also wished to
have her cottage repainted. She
made inquiries, found man who
was anxious to go into the chicken
business, and made an arrangement
with him to take her incubators,
brooders, etc., for two-thirds of their
cost, paying her for them by days
work at $I.oo a day. BY this ar
rangement she paid for the paint and
work on her little cottage. With
her profit on chickens she started
vegetable garden, and opened up a
new account against her housekeep-
ing allowance. Aunt Mary is much
amused by the new evolution of her
ffty-dollar gold piece, and wonders
what will be its next development.
did you ever stop to think how
unsatisfactory things are arranged
in this world?" asked the sporty
young man. 'In what way?" inquir-
ed the prosaic old gentleman.
"Why, / was thinking of appetites,
especially answered the youth.
Here am I, comparatively poor
man, with a seven-course dinner
appetite all the time, while most OF
the rich men / know have just a
plain ten cent bread-and-milk appe-
tite." Possibly" returned the old
man, thoughtfully, that may at
least partially explain why you are
poor and they are rich.
A young man with tallowy COM
plexion, blotched face, and slender
legs called at doctors Office to con-
suit him. Doctor" he said, "I've
heard there's such thing as tobacco
heart. l wish you would tell me if
Won think that's what I've got" The
physician listened to statement of
his symptoms in detail, noted the
yellow stain on his fingers, and re-
Piled: mo, young man, it isn't to
bacco heart that ails you. 1t is
worse than that. 1t is cigarette
brain"
Fame.-''Your case," the doctors
told him, SIS absolutely unique. In
the whole range of medical annals
there is no record of anything like it.
1t is an entirely new disease. We
congratulate you" ''You congratu-
late me!' feebly replied the patient.
"Am / going to get well?" 1--WE
can't tell yet" "Then what are you
congratulating me for?' 1--WE are
going to name the disease after you."
Doesn't it cost you good deal
to run this yacht, old man?" eyes,
but my wife can't spend cent when
she's here"