Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-30
BONFLESS EGG RIDDLE
Is OFFICIALLY SOLVED
ATPHNE NOTCH, N. ].
Solution of Problem Now
r e SITS in Archives Of
Board of Poultry Trade,
Philosophical Gymnas-
tics of Newt Bull.
special Correspondence Evening Ledger.

Epeofot Correspondence EUeHing Ledger.
PINE NOTCH. n. j., March S0.-The
great boneless egg riddle has been of
away in the archives of the Pine Notch
Board of Poultry Trade This great
centre of egg culture breathes q palptat-
ing Sigh of relief-that is, so far as the
boneless egg riddle is concerned.
Another vexatious little matter has
arisen to harass the chairman of the
Hard Questions Committee of the Board
OF Poultry Trade, but of that more anon.
Let us first to bat with the boneless egg
riddle.
II happened, as the world must know by
now, that Watson Malone, the well-known
Bala breeder of esthetic, game cocks
and split toe Langshams, touched off the
riddle by sending Newt Bull chairman Of
the board and leading Pine Notch ex-
ponent of a direct to the consumer trade
In eggs (settngs, specials and just eggs),
an order for a consignment of boneless
eggs, and II has likewise come to pass
that the same intensive hen culturist
solved the riddle in the document he ship
ped to Newt Bull and which was read
OF the Board of Poultry Trade.
THE HISTORIC MEETING.
Having these important facts in mind
let us come to the board meeting and
listen to Newt Bulls reading of the docu-
ment in issue. The silence was so tense
In the board room when the secretary
unfolded the manuscript that you could
hear Rodney Pulp's whskers crackle as
he gently stroked them with his horny
hands of toll. This is what Newt Bull
read:
"Gentlemen of the Pine Notch Board OF
Poultry Trade:
''Having had my attention called to
the fact that my order for two dozen
boneless eggs has perplexed and troubled
you. for the reason that there is a wide
variance of opinion as to Just what
boneless egg is or isn't. L have decided to
turn myself loose and describe to you
just what n boneless egg is or isn't, so
that you may finally record and specify.
as an official finding of your board, just
what homeless egg is or isn't.
LET us begin then with a positive con-
clusicn, or in other words, let us pro-
pound the objective potentialities of
boneless egg in n state of being. All mat
ter either is or isn't, so as a primary
premise let US begin with is l will de-
scribe clearly then what a boneless egg
lbt upon Lne Assumption OF ltS DelnB
which predicates a state of life, though
not necessarily strong chemical action.
THE RIDDLE SOLVED.
"A boneless egg then following this
simple line of reasoning) is an egg which
has not begun to construct its bone
fabric. All the bone in boneless egg
is on the outside. just as we imagine
Is the case with the construction of our
heads. An omelet Is a boneless egg hash,
inasmuch as we have to throw away
tho shells. An egg by itself is utterly
boneless during its infancy. Some scien-
lists say you may detect the wshbone in
. nine-day egg by use of the X-ray
ut Is not necessary for boneless egg
to be replete with bones to put it in the
category of eggs that are in the mega
tive class of boneless eggs. A boneless
egg is not q homeless egg only when 1t
qualities the essential fact of a mellow
unclouded fluid yoke. You may reach a
certainty of the negative fact by follow
ing an Intensive method of Gambling, or
II you wish to work the problem out in
algebra you need only throw away the
egg and allow n to represent its prob
lematlcal equivalent. Here you have the
crux of the whole thing. and trust that
my careful calculations are of certain
value to the board, and will aid it in
its further commercial transactions"
A TENSE MOMENT.
Newt Bull was perspirlng freely when
he finished reading; so was his father
and the Bull twins. No one spoke, bu.
all were breathing hard. zedekiah Bull
was breathing so hard that his windpipe
whtstled little, and he was compelled
10 remove his lower tier of teeth to facilI-
tate respiration.
He seemed on the point of jumping up
and exelaiming vehemently when his son,
Newt. forstalled him, and said with fierce |
and compelling determinations
Let us accept this document as a |
complete total an everlastin' settlement !
o. the boneless-egg specifications for this |
board o. trade. an let us further have |
copies made O. this document to mail to |
all customers sendin' in orders for bone |
less eggs. That'd save us sayin' another
word onto the subject. All them as is in |
tavo- OF this resolution raise their right |
hands"
Every right hand In the assemblage
vent up. ZedelSiah Bull seemed too feeble
or too distraught or something to raise
his right hand, but the twins lifted it for
aim.
The session was about TO adjourn when
Rodney Pulp let go of his whiskers and
asked sharply;
lin that there document, Newt Bull the
ieller mentions the left side o. an egg
which"
But the chairman and secretary of the
Hard Questions Committee cut him short
and declared the meeting adjourned
Without day" But as Rodney Pulp filed
'ut there was what you might almost |
all a wicked look in his eyes, so that
he apprehension is growing that he is
Ioing TO start something even worse than |
he boneless-egg riddle.