The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-21
Ole Miss, er Mans Heart is
lax de Winter Weather-al-
ways er L-e-e-t-l-e Unsettled.
YeSsum.


"seed catalog" prepare the ground and
start a large and flourishing vegetable
garden.
The moment his back is turned, the
bright-eyed "Leghorn" hen which has
been observing his efforts from behind
the rain barrel, rushes forth and digs
up his seed.
He merely SHES a pebble at her and
saws "shoo''-in the very mildest of
tones and patiently repeats his labors.
For the same offense he would stand
little Johnny or Susie up in the corner
for an hour, or switch them vigorously!
To man, the hen symbolizes the eter-
nal feminine-the homebody-the do
mestic deity-in the cheerful toiler and
above all, the good mother!
'If the women in our block" MUIR
murs the chicken fancier, minded
their own business and tended to their
families like a hen, what great world
this would be!'
From an "Ante chicken fancier"
comes a letter ito the editor"
Said letter contains groanings and
modification of the spirit brought
about by the night being made hideous
by the eackling and the growing of the
fea altered tribe, over two board fences
in the alley.
"The law should intervene says
''South Highlands'-the man signs him
self as such, "and make it a peniten-
tiarv offence for a chicken to encum-
ic h a
to fit the bottom of a frying pan.
Once the discussion is started, an
other letter quickly follows.
This communication ito the editor
asks vehemently:
"Where does South Highlands ex-
pect to get his omelet or eggnogg if
the chickens Wust all be killed OH when
they are frying size2'
Next morning south Highlands -
ncighbor writes an article and signs
himself. "Voice of the People, lin
Latin, of course to show that he's a
college bred man and knows thing or
two.)
He agrees heartily with south High =
lands" that the country is the place
for chickens as in the city they are a
rublic nuisance as well as a public
menace to health, and that everybody
Feast of Twentieth street would take
sides with it's champion, and suppress
the disease commonly known as chick
enetis."'
"East of Twentieth street!'
need,
Bv this time all of the other portions
of the South Highlands are on their
ears!
"Pater familias," throws down his
morning paper and slaps the baby on
top of it, and gets out pen and paper,
and begins to indite an epistle ito the
editor"
'.What's the matter with the eastern
part-of the South Highlands any way?
Does 1t think that all the virtue and
sanitation is east of Twentieth street
eh? | know certain alleys and pressed
brick fronts, etc"
1t was just as well that the paper
suppressed the spicy ''pater familias,
Though just as pertinent letters are
published every day.
"Working man" comes nobly to the
fore in the next days issue saying:
81 have six handsome Plymouth ROCK
hens all fed on scraps from our table
They are the children's pets They are
as clean as people, and our lot Is only
a tiny 50x120-foot plot, but If the board
of health. etc.
Fair Plays" specialties are "Rhode
Island Reds" the champion layers
which alone have enabled him TO reduce
the high cost of living. Six in his ram
IfIy-himself, wife and four kfddies, ana
they are supplied with eggs all the
year long, never buying single one.
"Laborer" was out of work tour
months recently and but for his II mems
his family would have starved.
"Peace Lover has hundreds or chlcK-
ems in his back yard, and so has every
other family on his block, and they
| live in fashionable section of the
south Highlands, too, and up to this
time he has never yet heard anybody
| complain of insomnia on account of the
chickens.
| tx. Y. Us" little boy had typhoid fe-
| yer last fall, and the doctor ordered
new laid eggs for the youngster when
he became convalescent and, but for
| the hens we have raised, we would have
had to give the poor little fellow cold
storage eggs
Fine discussion is this, for the paper,
| when up bobs correspondent who signs
| himself suburban and promptly venti-
lates his views thusly:
What, Somebody wants the raising
| of chickens eliminated on the South High
lands? Next thing we'll be hearing of a
society for the prevention of the increa Sc
| in the cat family in Capitol park or no
babies in apartment houses, and then
| forsooth what will become of us. Let us
be consistent brothers, and stop and rea-
son among ourselves
And
This communication promptly puts a
quietus on the subject. and everybody is
properly squelched on the chicken ques-
| tion
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