The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-23
BY MARY GwYNN wHlTEMAN

good steady hcnS-hcnS thN might
well inspire your confidence. but
they exercised their feminine prcr-
ogative-they changed their mind in
the absence Cf their mistress. and
when she returned they were cack.
ing around the barnyard
Then she got l20-egg incubator.
She set it by going halves with a
neighbor. They bought eggs at $3.50
setting
Have you over run an incubator?
IT you haven't--dont
These women were fresh. strong
and robust when they first parted
with their dollar and a halls and
set this machine. The strain cf keep
ing the Thermometer at l0J degrees
has made them such nervous wrecks
that they have to hire cab to taKe
them to the bridge parties.
The incubator was the center of
social attraction IN the noigibor-
hood
Visitors were invited u take a
look-,frec gratis Friends turned
green with envy when regaled with
the number of fryers that lay dor
mant within its door
As the day for Matching arrived
enthusiasm increased until on the
2lst day II reached fever heat
The ladies abandoned work and
sat at the feet of the incubator,
expecting To see the eggs burst
open and the chickens hep out
That's the end of the story For
there aren't any chickens in IT,
There weren't any in the eggs
You would think they had enough.
wouldn't you?
Well. they're Just human-thcy
| haven't. but have sworn allegiance
to the hen from this time on-the
modest. Industrious gentle hen.
/ And Matching isn't all # it-chick-
red at night. chickens with the
cholera. chikens with the warts.
chickens with the bumblc foot
chickens with the gaps. chickens
with the scaley leg. chickens with
the spraddles chickens puffed ~
with wind under their skin. chick
ems eaten by rats. dogs and cats
these are a few things that besei
the daily life OF chicken raiser
And lots of Us raise chickens by
hand who after attaining manhood
and womanhocd are the veriest men
dicants on the face OF the green
earth.
II you come home from town the
chickens all begin hollering the tim,
they hear your voice.
And then YOU feel like an exccu
toner when you get ready tn chol
ones head off-why they will posi-
lively sit on the hatchot Will,
you're getting uD nerve to do th'
job
speak of what ! know
| have an incubaor myself, and owe
hundred chickens that | raised il
IL runs in the yard and they sleel
well. maybe I'D better not tel
where tney sleep
IT.
Lecture Next Friday.
Rev. Louis Morris will lecture o,
the Life of Christ" at the Carte
J Avenue Methodist church on mex
! Friday evening His lecture vii
contain the interesting stages in tn
| life of the Lord from the mango
TO the throne Stereopticon view
: viii accompany the lecture.
The Old Chantecler.
: Ethyly-Oh, grandmamma, Jac
I and | were to see the new play las
9 night All the players were dresse
n up b represent barnyard fowls
! GrandmaIma-Wh that's not
II ing, The summer before | was ma
. ried had a duck suit, leghol
y hat trimmed with canary ribbon, al
!. everyone said your grandfather vi
IS the biggest quaCk in town.-Iudg
d #
~ Children's Day exercises nj n
II Presbyterian church ON yesterd;
'e Nere Wcll attended, and quite exec
5. ed other days they have had. II
little folks especially, were enjoy
al n recitation and Song over six
ld dollars was taken as a free "
W Offering
- f.
"a Mrs. Mary T.. Nesbit has return
IS from Rockwall, Texas, and "
- spend the summer with her daus
- ter, Mrs. John Whiteman, and b
d. broyhel, VIII NJ Gwyn.
Mt T.