The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-14
MR. B0WSER FAILS
EXPERIMENTS WITH 4 FROZEN HEN TO PROVE A GREAT
 THEORY
FO|lEO BY THE FAMILY CAT
In Massaeing the Fowl to Restore It to Life, Thus Showing Doctors to Be Charlatans, Tabby Steals the Bird and All Is Lost.

klC olIO anu All IS Lost.
 Mir Bowser had been hitching around in his chair in an uneasy way for half an hour and Mrs. Bow. ser had been expecting something to happen when the doorbell rang and he hastened to answer it. She knew that a boy was at the door. and she knew that he handed in a package of some sort, but when Mir. Bowser returned to the sitting room he had nothing in his hand. He was simply looking very wise and important.
 Your laundry was a day ahead of time?" she half queried.
 He walked about and made no answer,
 Was the boy looking for Brown's?"
 No answer.
 Mrs. Browser let 1t go at that. and five minutes had passed when he halted to say;
 How puerie t seems to speak of my laundry or of old Brown in con nection with such an affair as this! When a Convulsion of nature was throwing up the Rocky Mountains do you suppose men went around talking about rat traps?"
 T didn't know there was con- yulsion of nature going on. thought things were very quiet just now"
 There are convulsions going on day and night. but little does a wo- man think about them unless they are headed Bargain Sales.
 And because boy handed in package there is to be an extra conyulsion! Let me know the nature of it, please. that I may get ready for it."
 Her tone was so frivolous that Mir Bowser stopped and glared at her, but finally resumed his walk without saying anything, She had decided that he had lost his data and that the conyulsion wasn't due for another six weeks when he ceas- ed his parade and asked:
 Mrs. Bowser, how many people do you think are frozen to death the world over every winter?"
 "A hundred perhaps"
 Yes, and 10000 perhaps. It's l0,- 900 anyhow and maybe double that frozen to death and laid away among the dead-and all because of the ignorance Of our medical men. l want to say, and say it boldly, that with proper understanding of the case every frozen life thus far could have been saved. In other words, those 10,0G0 people have been bur jed alive.
 Ten Thousand People Buried Alive,
 You don't mean it."
 T say what mean and what l am going to prove here tonight l nave long cOntended that freezing vas simply case of suspended ami nation. It is a sleep. Let the vic tim continue to sleep and he dies; apply the proper treatment and he aWakens and lives on. Water freeZ- es and becomes ice. That is sus- pended animation. Apply heat and it becomes water again"
 But water isn't a human being or an animal" protested Mir. Bowser.
 But the theory applies just the same. There is 35 per cent water in human and animal life It is the water that freezes. I shall devote this evening to an experiment that will prove my theory and reyolution- iZe the world"
 Are you going to freeze to death and then thaw out and return to life?"
 Not exactly. Three or four days ago l asked a farmer to bring me a hen that had frozen to death That was what the boy brought, hen hat had been frozen stiff as a poker. She has been dead three days-that is, they call 1t death but am going to prove to the contrary. 1 wish to be alone in making this experiment, and I wish you would take the old cat and go upstairs. shall make some notes and l want nothing around to distract my attention"
 But cant I stay and hold the poor hens head?"
 'I can attend to her head and body too. If l find that I need help will call you down. Be sure to keep the cat with you"
 After being shown the hen Mrs. Bowser went up to her room. Poor Biddy had got 1t bad. She was like a rock with feathers glued on to It. She might have been hit with an aX without making a dent. The farm CT had done his best. As soon as the room was cleared MT Bowser plac- d the frozen body on the reading table, took out his notebook and pre- pared for business. He felt like Dr. Cook felt when he reached a point 564 miles from the north pole, and sat down to rest for a year. He wrote:
 ''Temperage of room, s4 degrees"
 Name and age of hen unknown, but evidently fowl in the prime of life"
 The doctors would pronounce it a case of death by freezing, but call It suspended animation"
 Massaging the Frozen Hen.
 Have just massaged her legs"
 Have just lowered the head a bit"
 Have gently kneaded the bod,