ON A TOWN LOT 43 



It was interesting for me to learn that our ocean transports carrying 

 our men to France, carry approximately 25,000 eggs each trip. France 

 has always been a great country for eggs, and before the war, in Paris, 

 they figured to allow each person 180 eggs a year. 



A great many people think that eggs are good for the voice. Egg 

 rind lemon juice beaten together are recommended for hoarseness. Charles 

 II of England presented a favorite singer with a silver egg filled with 

 guineas, wittily remarking, "Take this ; I am told that eggs are good for 

 the voice." 



I could sit here and talk for an hour on the romance of what we call 

 "a common hen's egg" — I could call your attention to the Jewish people 

 who taboo pork but are a remarkably healthy race. As a people they 

 make great use of eggs — even the poorest giving them preference over 

 other foods. A man once said that if, for every pig kept by private 

 families, a flock of hens were substituted, there would be less patent 

 medicine required and a general improvement in health. If you will stop 

 to think of it, you will realize that fewer individuals show an antipathy 

 for eggs than for most foods — in fact no honest appetite rejects them. 



Right here it might not be out of place for us to give consideration 

 to the food value and chemistry of the eggs. I am showing a sketch of a 

 typical Ancona egg. The "Famous" Ancona egg will weigh two ounces 

 or slightly under that. Standard authorities give the following proportions 

 of chemical elements in the dry substance of the average hen's egg: 



Carbon 53% to 55% 



Nitrogen '. 15% to 16% 



Hydrogen 7% 



Oxygen 21% to 22% 



Sulphur 1% to 2% 



Phosphorus 5% 



Eggs are splendid food for trained workers. Ericsson, the inventor, 

 labored at least twelve hours out of twenty- four to a ripe old age; his 

 breakfast for every day of the year was two poached eggs. Weston, the 

 pedestrian, while walking one hundred miles in twenty-two hours, con- 

 sumed from sixteen to twenty raw eggs. 



Contrary to the thought which prevailed years ago, eggs are easily 

 digested— more so than meat and most vegetables. Not only are eggs good 

 mental food, but they sustain the body as well. They are about eighty-two 

 calories in each Ancona egg. So much about eggs. 



