El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-26

! M are really the best and that no
- one should scorn the delicate hen
NUT because it happens to be few
! years of age, or even old enough TO
vote, is the surprising testimony Just
rendered by an expert witness IN d
hearing now going on to determine the
status of 400 cans Of frozen eggs
seized by the government three years
! ago.
The witness testified that these aged
eggs were perfectly wholesome, and as
evidence told of feeding them to his
family and workers in his laboratory
without any i'll effects When the
health sharpS at the hearing seemed IN
credulous the expert explained that 10
keep eggs a few years IS really nOtnlng
compared to the feats of the Chinese
who preserve them for indefinite
periods. He recalled that when Ii
Hung Chang visited America he
brought with him eggs hundred years
old. because there were none in this
country old enough to suit MS palate
While, the eggs have been ripening IN
storage in Jersey City the Federal
courts have been wrestling with the
problem of their fitness for food Judge
Gross, Of the United States District
court decided that the government had
not proved its case against the eggs.
He was reversed by the Circuit Court
of Appeals whose judgment was in
turn set aside by the supreme court of
the United States OF the ground that 1t
was without jurisdiction. All that now
stands between the eggs and the public
is the want Ct an order OF the state
board of health releasing them from
storage As the latest reports show
that the cold storage eggs on hand IN
the United States amount to Of $1,000
600 dozen, this case has attracted par
ticular attention.
To The Arctic in Luxury.
OF the many odd vacations taken by
New Workers the most oddly character
istic is believed to be a journey on
which not bath shall be missed ana
no NrOughing it" shall be endured not
WithStanding that it will be from
Broadway to Fort Mckenzie, the last
port of call on the Mackenzie river, 200
miles within the Arctic circle. The
party will be able to cling to the lux
uries of sleeping cars until trans
fer to steamer on the Athabasca river
is made and will risk discomfort only
at one point where for a stretch OF
rapids another transfer will be made
to York boats, which being open, may
call for umbrellas on a rainy day
The major part of the river journey,
however, will be made in steamers Of
the fur trade up and down the great
Mackenzie for a distance of $500 miles
and this viii be only trifle less COM
Portable than on Fall River steamer
of the Hudson.
The trip was proposed to the aston
ished cafe patrons of Americas most
fastidiOus city as a challenge to the
deep seated prejudice against ventur-
ing westward, out or range Of push
buttons and the sparkling vintages
which come forth in cobWebbed bottles
The opening Of a rail and river route
to Fort Mckenzie fell upon needless
ears until the thought was diSpelled
that hardship might Turk in the expert
ence and that coffee might be brewed
sofeWhere on the route from smoky
pot over a campfire and that pine
boughs needs must be slept upon in
stead Of soft mattresses and springs.
The completion of a railroad, the Can
adam Northern, to the Athabasca at
the post which for generations was the
QUILTING point for trappers, Athabasca
Landing, made this novelty in summer
tours possible, but it will be next year
before the idea will have percOlated
far enough for the trip to be under
taken in any numbers.
Has Servant Famine.
New York is rapidly approaching
famine of domestic servants. Employ
ment agencies find it impossible to
meet the demand for them Every en-
ployment agency in New York has
more applications for work from would
be servants than it can fill, but there
is not an agency in the city that would
not place 100 per cent more servants
were the latter competent to fill the
places. One class of employment
year. These are the agencies which
got employment for cattle attendants
on the transatlantic steamships Young
college men who wanted to work their
way to Europe often went as cattle
tenders through these agencies. Since
October last no American livestock has
been shipped abroad, and consequently
the occupation Of the cattlemen is
gone.
WriggIing Dances Hurt Card Business.
Another protest against the modern
dances is just making itself
heard. Curiously enough, however, il
does not come from refOrmers or per-
sons whose sense of decency is Of
tended by. the terpischorean acrobatics-
Instead 1t emanates from the manu-
facturers Of playing cards, for so gen.
orally have the Tango and the Turkey
Trot succeeded card playing that last
year showed a very serious falling off
IN the card manufacturing business As
the new dances are most popular with
the persons who formerly were card
devOtees the case against such dances
seems to be a clear one What the
falling off actually amounts to is
shown by the fact that during the last
fiscal year there was a decrease Of
1921 packs Of cards manufactured, |
or nearly 40 per cent.
Half Holiday Expensive.
That the granting of Saturday half
holiday during July ard August 70 all (
Of the city employees of New York who
work by the day is going to be 4 costly
plan has already become apparent, and
officials are wondering Just where the
money to meet the cost estimated at
SSOO,OO is coming FROM The control 1
er, to whom falls the puzzling job Of
discovering some means of providing
the money, cnaracterizes the outlook as
a very inviting one" particularly in (
view of the fact that the margin OF /
revenue bonds which can be issued this /
year is about $230,00O.