The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-11
ACADEMIC WOMAN
RAISES FINE HENS
DR.. Hooker's Buff 0rpingtons
Have Taken Long Series
of Awards.
PATIENCE LATEST WINNER
Prize YearIing at Madison
Square Is Bird of Dis
tinguiShed Lineage.

Patience, Lady Orpington, daugh
ter Of the late 1amented Henrietta
Garden, New York City, the Other
day. Her rare type and beauty
combined with her coyness of pose
attracted a continuous line of ad
mirers.
Patience thus early in her career
stepped into her mothers honors
Her mother was winner; so was
she. Henrietta was photographed
and featured from coast to coast
Patience is to sit for her portrait tc
the artist Schelling and her fame
will spread far and wide among
connoisseurs consulting the Amer
lean Standard of Perfection. Hel
ancestral grandmothers Polly, anC
Cassandra, and Pertelote, to name
ONLY three, line back to England
ianu Patience lives up to her an
cestry. She runs true to type; not g
feather of her which does not pro
claim her lineage.
For Patience Is prize Buff Or
pington, who, exhibited for the first
time at the recent Poultry Show al
Madison Square Garden, at the ten
der age of one year, a brilliant de
butante, carried off highest honors
special award for the hest color Of
any female in her group.
Patience is thus no ordinary bird
neither il her owner and breeder
an ORDINARY owner and BREEDER
Poultry exhibitors in Holyoke, Brat
tleboro, Washington, Newark anC
even New York City do not neeC
to be told that the owner OF the
famous Henrietta and her promising
daughters--for Patience is not the
only beauty of the fanily--is none
other than DIR. Henrietta Edgecombe
Hooker, born in Gardiner, Me.
formerly professor, now professor
emeritus of botany at Mount Hol
yoke College.
INVESTMENT IN LONGEVITY.
DIR. Hooker describes her ventur.
ing into the domain OF the poultry
fancier after retiring from the
academic sphere as IAN investment
in the preferred stock of longevity
The man or woman with a hobby, SC
her physician assures her, has q ten
to one chance Of OUTLYING the man
or woman who, after retiring from
active occupation In a business or
late his or her interest in life.
DIR. Hooker's hobby began as a
matter of sentiment, from her love OF
the charming village of Orpington, in
Kent, England, with its hedgerows
and hopfields not far from the home
of Darwin, where lived the Original tor
of the Orpington fowls. Her first
pair, bought from his yards in 1900
bore the dignified appellations oil
Lord and Lady Gladstone.
DIR. Hooker exhibited for the first
time in 1903 in Springfield, at the
earnest request of college students
again the academic urge-who i'm
plored her to compete for the prize
offered, an alluring five-pound box
Of chocolate creams. She entered
and won the candies for her student
friends and gained many other
awards besides. Since then, though
at first she considered it ."rathel
sporty" for an ex-Mount Holyoke
professor to become a breeder Of
poultry, she has exhibited every ye0l
with unvarying success. Since 1905
no year has passed without bring
ing her some award at Madison
Square Garden.
So many prizes has she won, sc
DIR. Hooker's strain has come to be-
known as perhaps as good female
producing line OF Buff Orpingtons
as the United States Possesses. She
has three times imported birds from
England, bringing over and exhibit
ing in 1910 the first pair of Blue
Orpingtons imported into and ex
hibited in this country. The diff
Guilty of breeding two kinds OF hens
caused her eventually to give uT
the Blues, though she had mary
prize winners in her pens, in order
to concentrate on the Bluffs.
TAKES MANY PRIZES.
Though her flock of the latter
birds is relatively small, her success
this season has been remarkable
At the Brattleboro Valley Fair she
took five first prizes and one specia
Display award; at the Holyokt
Poultry and Pet Stock Association
exhibition last November she won &
cup for the best display of Orping
tons, another for the best display ir
the hall, all classes competing, anC
also special prize for Henrietta
then still in her prime, for the beet
female bird in the hall.
At the Newark Fanciers' Show
also in November, DR.. Rockers ex
hibit was granted the award for the
second best display and at Madison
Square Garden at the end of last
month, with six birds to show, tn.
eX-college professor won fiv. rib
bons, one of them being a first.
Henrietta's sudden illness, i'm
mediately preceding the Madison
Square show was q cause of great