The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-10


M gan to build pig palaces on her
w beautiful estate at Westbury, L. l.,
those who came to scoff never thought
that not only would other lovely members
OF New sYork's fashionable society fol-
lew her example, but that Mr.. Hoover,
the food conservator, would make her work
the subject of special report and common
dalton, and that the War Office would look
upon heFSss 9 benefactor and a source of
profit and welfare for our military camps
here.
Yet all this has happened. Not only that,
hut in the months Of her unusual endeavor,
Yrs. Burden, who was Cynthia Burke
Soahe, only daughter of Mrs. Frances
cu?ks. Roche, has qualified as an expert,
md has been. of enormous assistance in
he BOY Club RAISE Pig" movement
starter By H. w. Gossard, the Illinois
multtsmiiionaire breeder OF prize winning
champion stock.
How did you, of all people, go in for
such dirty pets?' the seofers asked.
Because wanted 10 do something real
to help win the war. and l felt like scream
ing every time l locked ball of wool in
the face. And they are not dirty either"
Not dirty? How do you Keep them
clean: Have the butler tub them every
day.
Now, don't be absurd" the lady re
spends Pigs are the cleanest animals
lin the world. II you keep them in decent
surroundings II there is no dirt for the
lpig to wallow in, why-why-well, he
JUS won't wallow; that's ALL"
II is Just a year since Mrs. Burden
started her Keep a Pig" campaign on
Long Island. and by actual count thou
sands of little porklets are growing where
but one grew before. Naturally enough,
the lady's interest in pigs gave rise to all
sorts of wild tales during the season just
ended. There was plenty of truth in the
report that the Burden pigs lived in pal
aces. There is nothing finer in all the
pig world than the hog palaces built with
glass walls and marble floors, where Pen
eIope and Prometheus, Cleopatra and
Caesar, ct al, are raising their families
to the glory Of America and in the fear
of one Mr.. Herbert Hoover.
When the food shortage began to be
very menacing last Summer. Mrs. Burden.
. who was a good deal of a lady farmer on
a most beautiful estate in Westbury, began
preaching the production Of pigs.
Mrs. Burdens two brothers, the we'll
EpDu-, purka-Pocha tuv{ps bad goi,ad +ha
service, Maurice going in for the army and
Francis for the navy. Naturally, being q
r~st affectionate sis IT as well as an
ardent patriot, Mrs. Burden wanted to do
ne bit toward providing food for the
service.
Mrs. Burden having inherited a fondness
for animals from her mother, whose ability
to raise horses and dogs led to lots of
trouble, decided that pigs should become
her great war contribution. She conferred
with Calvin J. Hudson. the Pig Commits
sioner for the State Of New York, and
learned all about pork possibilities. At
this time she heard about H. W. Gossard's
remarkable pig campaign in Illinois, and
made a careful study Of his methods, and
particularly of his Boy Clubs.
Mr.. Gossards pIggery is well known to
all pig fanciers, as we'll as to the food
officials at Washington. II was his inter
est in pigs as pork that led him to found
his club for boys, the National Pig Partner
ship for Boys" and its object Is to induce
every boy in the United States 10 raise at
least one pig. In detail, the boy partners
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