The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-23
) A CHRONIC sITuATToN

~, Iu LIZA, WINDOW needs pane,
/ O1 locks hear complaint
Inc chimney needs a brick or two.
Inc house Is needing paint
we need q man to spade the yard.
we need some garden seeds
In fact. in summing up find
This is a world of needs
1 don't know how we get along
WITHOUT the things we need.
we really ought to have a horse.
But then it might not speed.
ana the piano needs a man
| To put the keys in tune.
II there is something we don't need.
Wen need it pretty soon. -
We need another bed room set,
We almost need a stove
We need a fancy rustic seat
10 oeautify the grove
An1 as 1or money. well, I guess,
| we need 1t in our biz
III there Is something we don't mead
| don't know what it is.
| Nashville American.
| Penguins' Eggs as Food.
several society women who pride
| themselves on being always ahead of
tneir neighbors In fads as well as
fashions have arranged to introduce to
Ineir guests new breakfast. food.
rms Is not cereal, nor is 1t a new
form OF sawdust under a fancy name.
II is nothing less romantic than the
penguin's egg. the praises Of which ex-
piorers have sung and writer's OF adven-
\ ture tales have sounded.
| Didn't Mr.. Crusoe eat penguin's eggs?
If he didn't he failed to exhaust the
possibilities Of his island. ANYWAY.
they have been enjoyed by hundreds of
men daring enough to break away
from tradition. Travellers in subtropi-
cal countries for years have regarded
the egg of the strange bird as an i'm
portant article Of food. Now the deli
cacy has been placed on sale in Paris
and London, and three or four New
Workers have ordeed shipments from
| the British capital.
| It Is possible the year will see the
egg on the menu Of every up-to-date
| said to be tempting to the most jaded
palate. OF course. the taste for 1t has
to be acquired, but epicures say 1t is
nothing like as startling as caviare.
| Frogs legs and snails are served In
many public dining rooms Of the me-
tropolis and have been for a long time.
| Quantity and quality are found In
the penguin's egg. 1t Is almost twice
| as big as a hens and certainly twice
| as appetizing. The shell is snow white
but the CLAIR, instead Of being white
| Is a brilliant sea green. 1t has a yolk
however, Of q rich yellow.
| One respect in which it differs from
| a hens egg is that 1t takes much long
er to cook. 1t has to be boiled for
| twenty minutes, and an omelette made
from it must stay on the fire longer
than if composed Of the product of the
barnyard fowl.
| The penguin's egg is not as cloyine
| as that of a goose or duck. 1t has
| however, a slightly flshy taste, a little
like caviare, which turns certain per-
sons against it. Strangely enough
1 once one gets to like the egg, the fishy
flavor is the most piquant part of the
| taste. Physicians say the penguin's
egg can be digested easily, and that the
large percentage of phosphorus it con-
tains is an excellent tonic for brain and
nerves.-New York Press.
Ships Cat Made Monkeys Behave.
| Big Tom, the ships cat, saved the
Atlas liner Venetfa from a pest OF
monkeys, according to the narrative OF
Capt. Huger. who arrived yesterday
from Central American and West In
| dian ports.
At Santa Marta, Colombia, Dan Jose
velasquez. gold prospector. came
| aboard with thirty blond monkeys. On
the pleading Of Don Jose the captain
| consented to allow the monkeys out
Of their cages one day. They jumped
| and climbed everywhere. They pulled
the tail feathers from the shippers
parrot, broke cups in the galley, and.
posting themselves on skids. pulled off
| sailors caps and then grinned as the
men swore and threatened to knock OFF
| their heads.
| Capt. Huger ordered Don Jose to
! catch his monkeys, but he could not.
| A sailor brought Big Tom. The cat
| swelled up, spat once or twice, and
chased them all into the rigging. The
monkeys stayed aloft for two days
whining with hunger and cold. ThcI
Big Tom was removed to the fo'c'stle.
and the monkeys came down from
their perches.-New York World.
Real Americans.
| In certain sections of the city, length
] of citizenship is computed in a peculiar
way. A teacher in a downtown school
reports one original method of de-
| termining whether or not a man Of for
eign birth has become good Ameri-
can.
How long has your father been in
/ this country" she asked a pupil
"Oh! a long WHILE was the reply.
But how many years has he been
here?" persisted the teacher, who wish
ed to get hold of a few facts.
II don't know anything about the
years." the child replied, but he is a
real American now. because he has
shaved of his beard"
Later. the teacher made inquiry and
found that In that particular neighbor-
hood not even a set OF naturalization
| papers is considered so indubitable a
AoSS
a man has taken to patronizing the
barber.-New York Times.
Stage Superstitions.
"A stock actor is apt to have a pre-
judice against decorating or fixing up
his dressing room. He Is certain to
get his notice shortly after he puts his
pictures on the wall and otherwise
makes the place comfortable and home
like.
ACTORS and managers both have a
horror of the witch lines In Macbeth,
and they never will allow them to be
spoken, as 1t means a fire In the play
house before the twelvemonth is over.
Sir Henry Irving was a firm believer in
this superstition and he would never
allow the fateful lines to be read when