Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-12-14
FINDING AN EGGS AGE
Life Secrets Barred to the Cand-
Ter and His Bulb.
Expert :tke British Censor, Only
Doesn't Have to Open ThinEr-
Works in Dark Handling IL
Eggs n Minute.

you cannot join public or private gath
ering or surprise an investigating com
mttee at work without hearing the great
American egg freely discussed. Trained
ears no longer catch the familiar query,
isn't it awful about the war;" Now
they hear only. Isn't il terrible about
the price Of eggs?
Maybe II is. and maybe it isn't. says
the New York Evening Post. one thing
seems certain, though. The time has
come for plain speaking in the matter OF
eggs by some one who really knows eggs
ferhaps, after the butcher. the baker, the
candl"stich maker aud the doctor, lawyer,
merchant chief, have all had their say
the man who considers himself best quail
filed for the job will get belated hear
ing. That man is the egg GAMBLER If
you don't know wha. or who an egg
GAMBLER is, it only bears out the theory
advanced by one of Washington markets
expert Gamblers to-day that the truth
about the egg has yet to come out.
EVERY EGG Is CANDLED.
II may come as a distinct shock to users
of the extra fancy. seventy cents-a-
dozen variety to know that they are CON
Stunning candled eggs for breakfast. but
that is only one way of saying that every
egg that comes to market in New York
u " 'aiuI'N ese' 1T Is Il eoN ueil IKE
mail from abroad-all passed by the CEN
sor. Only the egg-candler is far more
advanced in his art than the European
war censor. He doesn't open the eggs.
Furthermore. he belongs to union-thc
Amagama ted Egg Gamblers union. or
, something like that-and works only ten
hours day on union wage scale OF
$3.50 a working day.
ne war censor being much newer
| product. has no union. and therefore must
work night and day opening letters, but
the egg-candlcr Just shuts himself UP in
a dark room, with several thousand de-
fenceless eggs done up in crates rips
open the top crate, removes two handfuls
OF eggs. turns on the light inside a kind
OF stationary burglars lamp. and gets
down to work. The gg-candler is the
only man VINO mas thus far been able to
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'ANbl'f Bf bpL-' hl'Tlil NUN
The name of the man who invented
| Gambling is not known in Washington
market, but though the old-faShioned
candle has been replaced by the more
modern incandescent bulb, the process of
holding the egg up to ray Of light in
order to wiring from IT the sad story of
its life is still called Gambling. You might
suppose that electricity had greatly bene-
fitted the art of Gambling, but with all the
one that works best with eggs is the now
old-fashioned sixteen-candle-power bulb.
There's very little that an egg can con-
ceal in its family history after GAMBLER
has candled 1t. 1t would he about hope
less for man to try to keep something
back from the doctor when the X-ray is
turned on. The first thing the GAMBLER
looks for is the 'air ring" When a her
lays an egg. the business part of the egg
all but fills the shell. There is a small
air space that can he seen when the blunt
end OF the egg is held up to light such
as the Gambler uses. The older the ega
becomes the larger the air space grows
and the deeper the "air ring" At the
end Of three months or so, the ring may
occupy half ali inch or more inside the
egg Later on, presumably, it goes fur.
Their than that, but eggs OF that vintag.
are seldom subjected TO the Gambler:
test.
After studying the air ring"-and yo,
must remember that he is holding three
eggs in each hand all ot once-the cand
lor wrigglcs his wrist so as to set tn,
insides of the eggs in motion. and studie,
the effect on each before the light Il
me WHITES ana !o'NS move rreeiy, IKE
water IN Il pau 'hen a.! is Wen. II thel
are s!uEslSh or SUCK 10 the smell and re
fuse 70 nudE"' then all Is not We'll Wher
an egg rea'he" thal stage III lts cTee
where the yoik becomes fastened to thu
smell the Gambler mas dark spot blot
ting the eggs photograph, and, thereafter
that eggs daYS IN TINS world are mum
bered. law-abiding Gamblers have separ
at" rec"placles Tor spot eggs, or spots
as they are called for short, and the egg