Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-03
EGGS LIKE NUGGETS OF GOLD
Ordering Three for Breakfast Vulgar
Display of Wealth.
GIRLS GRAB FOR POULTRY MAN
swamp Jehn Aye of blair with Pro-
possls when He AdvertIses that
He Has Eggs for
sale.

Egg dealers as we'll as consumers arc
mere calculators OF chance and will be
during the present week. when there may
be a change in prices OF from 5 to 10 cents.
Sharp advances IN the price Of gigs
threaten TO cause some peculiar changes In
old customs Of the people. II Is already
considered a vulgar display of wealth to
order two or three eggs for breakfast;
children are no longer allowed TO carry
them from the grocery stores; the time
honored wooden cases may be replaced by
steel safes before the express companies
will accept eggs for shipment; while throw
ing eggs at such distinguished citizens as
Carrie Nation will have to be discontinued
altogether and some cheaper material used
for showers.
When John Aye of Blair, a bachelor OF
no mean standing, advertised in an Omaha
newspaper that he had eggs for sale, it is
said he received seventy-eight proposals Of
marriage in the next days mail. A far
mers laughter with several baskets of
eggs IN looked upon even by the boys in the
cities, and. who hold responsible positions
as clerks in the dry goods stores, as an
heiress. The young farmers who have no
eggs, simply have no prospects beyond
spending their lives pulling a pair of bell
cords over the backs of a team Of roam
mules and following blithely in the wake
of a double shovel pillow.
Cause II a Riddle.
Just what caused the advances on the
Omaha market is a matter OF conjecture
to the dealers. but it is already known hat
anyone with a string of egg shells has a
sure- way of showing prosperity and opu-
lence than one with a string of pearls.
From 30 cents per dozen eggs jumped up
to 80 cents, then to 90 and finally TO IS
cents, the price paid by commission dealers
for the fresh oandled varieties. The retail
ers had to have the eggs included in their
insurance policies when they secured a case
or two that they might play safe with their
creditors and protect their families from
hard times in the event of a fire, and they
were compelled to charge the consumers
from 70 TO B cents per dozen.
1t was then the poor people quit buying
eggs and substituted the less costly articles
OF food which contain no eggs. such as
eingemachtes veal. pommes de terre fraises,
oysters algonquin and pommes de terre a
la julienne. The well-to-do have potatoes
shoe string style and buckwheat cakes for
breakfast instead Of two fried straight up.
Caught short when the wind began to
blow" explained a commission merchant
when asked the reason for the advances.
There are no storage eggs in Omaha and
anyone who thinks there are knows moth
ing of the troubles of the dealer. The eggs
have to COME in from the country and they
have not been coming in. The price Tues
day eased off a little and it was safe to
quote the farmers IS cents for their eggs,
but it IL a mighty uncertain proposition.
They may go off to 30 cents this week and
they may get back UP to IS and even reach
10 cents. The outlook is for eggs to go
) down. but 1t is not yet safe to carry a
basket home after nlghtfall, as there are
stin those who will hold up peaceable citi-
zens IL they are assured of articles of
value which can be easily converted into
long-green." ~ ~