The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-05-22
ALL HAIL THE HEM
Where Duty Calls She Always Comes
Up TO the Scratch.

The Hon. james Wilson, secretary OF
agriculture and the only member OF the
presidents cabinet who holds his office
Tor life, never tires OF singing the praises
OF the great American hen. He has
shown by statistics, pamphlets and ster.
eoptieon views that she beats anything of
her size and age on earth. lie has shown
how she produces more food, proyender
and nourishment than the COW, the horse
or the mule, and does not moo" or
Whitney or bray about 1t. She has right
to caekle now and then, for when duty
calls her she never fails 10 come up TO
the scratch.
No race suicide for her. She enjoys
raising a large and interesting family,
and does not worry a moment over the
increased cost of living.
Where can you find household where
the hen has not a place: We wait for
an answer. Whenever a cake is baked,
an egg is scrambled or a nog is mixed,
there she is in the midst OF them. She
climbs between the lids OF the chicken
sandwich; she finds a place on the menu
OF the swell cafe and makes the Sunday
dinner OF the boarding house a thing of
JOY. She helps in the festive fricasse and
assists in the triumph OF chicken la
Maryland. AT rare intervals she has
been discovered in chicken pie, chick
en- soup, and is vaguely supposed to be
one OF the ingredients in the mysterious
mixture known as hash.
All these achievements are known of all
men. But not satisfied with past per
fomances, the hen is marching on to
new and greater trumphs. For years at
Easter her eggs have bloomed forth in
all the colors of the rainbow; but this
season the hen is furnishing a novelty
that Is as much up TO date as the Taft
moving pictures or the Merry Widow
hat.
The hens of Ohio have started this new
departure, possibly in compliment to
their distinguished fellow.citizen who is
a candidate Tor president. We have it
on the authority of one of their intimate
trends and admirers that the Cincinnati
hens are, furnishing favored eggs. He is
4 man whose favorite flower is the violet.
and his hens have been giving him eggs
with rich violet flavor that give forth
Z z, perfume like the odors OF Araby the |
Blest. Other hens had their revenge an |
another Cincinnati man by putting into |
MS eggs distinct onion flavor. with that |
rich aroma of the onion that is NOT 10 |
De ignored or lightly brushed away.
j., what wonderful possibilities lie in the |
favored egg. Also what troubles and |
hangers. According to the Cincinnati ae.
cunt, Hall you have to do is to feed the |
len the proper flavor or food or drink
md II she is IN the proper frame of mind
'ou get your egg with the desired flavor
If the Ohio plan is success, You NAV
'e able to call for vanilla, chocolate or
each egg, Just as now you call for a
.lasss OF soda water. Then the dainty
title girl could waltz up to cafe table
nd call for an egg in heliotrope lavender
II new,;mown hay. We might have to
'ass law prohibiting hens from eating
MONS, cabbage or Dutch cheese or ins
lulglng IN Intoxicating beverages. We
,ope no designing man will seize mon
ms opportunity to furnish egg-noe on
he half shell or invent the bromo SET zar
gg for the breakfast table.
by sending an immediate special mos.
age to congress the president can keen
redatory wealth from Selling unon tbip
reat invention, and can preserve to f,,,
lre generations these great natural 70.
ources OF national wealth. He should
rder at once commission to invest;eata.
OF the Cincinnati hen thai
lld the onion egg; medal Of honor for
ne violet chicken; and, above ali ba
lould demand increased power over eoaS :
nd the governmental control of henssff'
altlmore Sun.