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The Green Seal
13y CHARLES EDMONDS WALK
Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ituby/'
"The Time Lock," etc.
CHAPTER XXL—(Cont'd),
I could not, however, complain of
any show of apathy or slowness on
the part of the police on the occasion
of this visit, What I had to say was
quickly told; I was asked only a few
queetions, and these were mainly dir-
ieted toward making sure that the
nine which had lured Lois away from
her rooming -house was the one I had
written in the afternoon m the belief
that it was intended for James
Strang. I had the missive with me;
I showed it to the chief. My blood
boiled every time I thought of the
cursed thing and the ridiculous ease
with which I had been gulled.
"I don't doubt either your word or
your conviction," he said; "but if Lao
Wing Fu really has resorted to vie
lance—h'm—" He ended with a du-
b' headshake, while the normal
austerity of his countenance deepen-
ed,
Illy fears once more became ram-
part. I anxiously asked: "If he has,
then what?"
Why, I was thinking' he was too
wily a Chinaman to take a desperate
chance like this without having his
means of making a get -away all pre-
pared for beforehand. That looks
bad. The greater the delusion of se-
curity from interference that is nerv-
ing hien, the more reckless and brutal
he may get. After all, he is a heath-
en."
"Then for God's sake, hurry!" I
groaned.
"We'll do the best we can—of
course."
Already the chief had summoned
an attendant and the place had taken
on an air of activity that it did not
have when I arrived. Somewhere near
at hand a man was talking into a tele-
phone in a rapid monotone, the tenor
of which I could not catch. He seem-
ed to be calling a list of numbers and
telling everybody the same thing.
Men in uniform and men in the ordin-
ary habiliments of everyday life en-
tered, were told briefly what had hap-
pened, were supplied with A minute
description of Lois—I was too miser-
able and distracted to wonder how the
police happened to be so well inform-
ed—and were sent away,
"Well, the drag -net is out," said
the chief when the last man had gone
and the agitation subsided; "China-
town and every likely quarter of the
city will be raked with a fine-tooth
comb. Every Chink that's likely to
know anything will get the thirty-
third degree right, too—take it from
me„
"Lao Wing Fu is the one we want,"
I suggested.
"And the very one who it 'won't be
easy today our hands on. Remember
when Struber phoned from your office
for two men? Well, they didn't find
Lao then anti haven't hit his trail
since. If he sent a messenger any-
where it wasn't from Chinatown." Ise I
concluded grimly:
"If it will comfort you any, this af-
fair of Miss Fox is more than I will
stand for, and I have a record for
landing my man whenever I go after
slim in earnest."
A silence fell which was broken by
the chief of police.
"Let me advise you, Mr. Ferris. Go
back to your club and wait; you ean'
do no good here, nor in running blind-'
ly about town. I've an idea that the
whole plot has not yet been disclosed,
that some sort of messenger really ,
will come for you. You want to be ,
there to see him. We'll keep in touch
with you and keep you posted on any
developments."
"I thought I would hunt up that
'chauffeur—Dwight," I said. 1
The chief smiled indulgently. "This
is our game, Mr. Ferris," said rte,'
"we're trained for it, you're not. I al- :
ready know that Dwight leas not yet
returned to Ralston's, that it was a
white man who phoned for the ma-
chine from the corner of First and
Spring at six -fifty, and that it was
be who must have, given Dwight the
note for Miss Fox. The machine re-
eponded immediately, and called for I
her before ten minutes past seven."I
I lingered to ask one more ques-
tion.
"Whore do you suppose Lao Wing
mei Presently
Fu could have betaken himself ?"
The chief at thoughtfully a mo -
"Within
Prese tl he said:
"Within rn radius of twenty miles of
the city there are dozens of Chinese
companies that rent large tracts of
land for market gardening. Each of •
these companies constitutes a settle-'
ment in itself, a Chinatown on a small
scale. There are as many as twenty
or thirty Chinese in some of them,
"By trying to put myselfin Lao
Wing Fu's place and reasoning as I
believe he would, it is my belief that
he may be found at one of these lit-
tle Chinatowns; he would naturally
!avoid the larger colonies at Pasadena,
San Pedro or the like, and it is not at
•;tl1 probable that he has gone very far
away. Don't forget—he wants that
ring more than anything else in the
tl e knowledge of the police, that I
should in return find Lois, and that so
far she was unharmed. But if I fail-
ed in any one of the conditions—!
There was an unnerving suggestion
in the image of a lily plucked from
'its stem and fading. I shrank from
the menti picture a p ur e of what might hap-
pen after midnight!
My first impulse was to rush in and
call up police headqua•Lore, but sec-
' and thought restrained me; this would
'be a disregard of the principal condi-
tion, the one that had been under-
scored. My chief aim eves to find
Lois tie speedily as possible; revenge
-"was a matter of secondary import-
ance, though if I could gain the one
and at the same time vent a modicum
of my pent-up wrath, there would be
an added element of satisfaction in
the achievement.
! With Lois, my well beloved, in the
power of that crafty, unscrupulous
villain—I did not make the mistake of
'disparaging his ability—it would be
nothing short of insanity to take any
;chances whatsoever that might be
!avoided; those already confronting me
;were desperate enough; therefore,
which course would involve the lesser
risk—to lay the matter before the
police and enlist their expert aid, or
assume the entire responsibility my-
self? I realized my shortcomings,
my unfitness for such an undertaking,
and my heart sank. Yet, if I invoked
police interference, what horrible
fate might I not precipitate upon the
innocent victim?
The longer I reflected the more eon-
vinced I became that I should not seek
outside help, The very fact that the
message had been sent me, worded
as it was, was almost certain evidence
world, the diamond next pereeps; and
if we were to remain passive, I'm
pretty certain he would make some
sort of overtime before many days
had passed. Miss Fox will suffer• no
harm, for the present at least"
With these slight crumbs of con-
' fort I was obliged to be content. I re-
tain onlythe haziest recollection of
leaving he police station and none at
all of my progress along the street,
except that I glowered ferociously at
every Chinaman that flitted noiseless-
ly by me, scarcely able to restrain an
impulse to collar each one and try to
wring from him some news of Lois
Fox. Fortunately I did nothing so
foolish.
I recall. that I either stopped at
Mrs. Fleming's on my way back to the
San Gabriel Club, or else I went again
from there to her house—I am uncer-
tain about it—only to learn that she
had heard nothing new.
My next clear recollection is paus-
ing at the club entrance and some-
body touching nee upon the arm.
Then, as I wheeled round, the fingers
snipped down my arm to my own
hand and pressed something into it.
Quickly as I turned, the person was
a rod away and disappearing in the
shadows of the eucalyptus trees that
lined this portion of the street, I
noted only that the person manifestly
was a Chinaman; then he was gone.
I opened my hand and saw a small
slip of paper folded once. I was
standing in the bright glare of light
from the club doorway. I opened the
sheet: and read six typewritten lines:
If you attend the Oriental Bazaar
to -night before midnight, bringing
with you those potent charms, the
ring and the box, but not the police,
their magic pray find for you the fair
white lily. o disregardthese simple
directions may cause the lily to droop
and fade, as is the swift fate, alas,
of all such beautiful, tender blooms
when plucked from the stem.
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that such a course would only land us
1' 1 1 T h 1 against an impassable barrier. The
Oriental Bazaar, if I went there with
a squad of detectives at my back, I
was sure would yield nothing. Then
Lois would suffer the consequences
without possibility of succor. I was
sensible of a profound belief that in
whichever direction I aright move, my
enemies would have full and imme-
diate knowledge of the circumstance.
God knows it was a desperate
enough undertaking at best. The pre-
dicament of having to choose between
two such frightful alternatives was
nerve-racking and mind -rending to
the verge of torture. But I had to
choose speedily; not alone did the cir-
cumstances call for immediate action,
but my own state of mind demanded
prodigies of physical endurance and
valor. And so I chose to go alone,
'The responsibility as at last
w
thrust squarely upon my shoulders,
and if I faltered, it was not for any
want of willingness to do, but a
lwretched weakening fear of failure
and consequent disaster.
Upstairs 10 my room, wrapped in a
strip of chamois, was an automatic
'pistol which had accompanied me on
rare holiday jaunts among the hills
and mountains, and with the Ameri-
'can's true inborn love of shooting I
was not without some proficiency in
its use.
The elevator took me up, and after
aquick change to evening togs, I
slipped the weapon into a hip pocket,
snatched up a light top -coat and opera
hat, and paused for a final survey of
CHAPTER XXII.
It may be that I was rnerely stupid,
or else gnawing anxiety had tempor-
arily dulled my comprehension, but
the fact is that I stared unseeingly at
the typewritten lines for fully a min-
ute before their deeper significance
struck me.
In Los Angeles there is a coterie of
women's clubs that is quite famous,
and deservedly so, as is our climate;
these organizations are animated by
an intense civic pride and are con-
stantly devising ways and means for
the betterment of the city. The ba-
zaar mentioned in the missive was one
of their happy inspirations; a gor-
geously elaborate affair, according to
press reports; and I recalled that 1
was the possessor of two season tick-
ets, neither of which had been used.
Here, through a medium that even
police ingenuity would never have
suspected, I was promised word of
Lois. But I must confess that my
intelligence was not yet quick to
gather the full purport of the mess-
age. It was with a start that I re-
cognized the threat conveyed in the
concluding lines.
Reduced to simple terms, the mis-
sive meant: If I would carry to the
Oriental Bazaar the ring and box,
manifestly to deliver them to some myself in a cheval-glass.
person yet to be ascertained, without Surely I diel not present the ap-
pearance of a man bent upon honi-
side; but as I felt the weight of the
pistol I experienced a sudden hot
pulse -quickening, a fierce gripping de-
sire t1hat I might
be offered both
an
excuse and an opportunity to use it.
I hastened down again, entered one
of the many taxis that lurk about the
San Gabriel, and went to my offices,
where I got the box containing the
ring and my tickets to the bazaar.
Once more in the cab, I got out the
ivory box and opened it. My mood
was reckless, yet I was cool and
steady, and I went about the most
trivial details of conduct with a de-
liberation that d the a made t c lilceldhoodf
n
error remote indeed.
On a suddenacl • wl hi
m m I turned the
ring out upon the cushion beside rhe
and retorned the empty reliquary in
my pocket. Then 1 tried the ring upon
several fingers It fitted snugly the
second finger oi' my right hand; and
there I let it remain. I smiled grimly
at the fancy, that hero, perhaps, was
a surer passport to my goal than the
tickets reposing in my bill -fold.
The auditorium where the bazaar
was in progress was a blaze of light,
and the moment I alighted and ills-
mis;red the call I grew alert and ex-
pectant. My hat-and-coat-cbecic was
a red slip of paper, like a laundry
ticket, bearing three enigmatical
Chinese characters, which 1 scanned
with earnest concentration on the
chance that they might conceal some
message.
The ticket-ta1cer was much the same
00 all ticket -takers at American
places of'amusement; but once by him
and 'inside the large auditorium, and
it was like passing instantaneously
half -way round the world, Orelhiar-
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(barn -like; but its unsightliness was
,now hidden by showy Chinese and
Japanese draperies and numerous
plantsar to teurists fro
the Enst,h butnfomn which Southern Cale
forma is pp/line.
Just inside the entrance one waft
startled by confronting an enormous
dragon's head. Ite resplendent, sinu-
ous body, winding down the centre of
the big hall quite to the stage, was'
familiar to ree as having been an in-
teresting part of our own fiestas and
of Chinese gala. occasions,
At one side was n Chinese village
with villagers, men, women and chil-
dren, going about their affairs with a
supreme unconsciousness of being' a
Part of the show that only an Oriental
can maintain; n little farther along,
embowered in flowering cherry -trees
and wistaria, was a Japanese village,
bamboo tea -houses, geishagide and
all. Next to it was a group of aipa
huts from the Philippines. ,Eaeh of
these tiny communities might have
been transported bodily from its re
speetive country,
1 There were scores of booths, al
gaily decorated in keeping with th
spirit of the spectacle, where ever
conceivable sort of gimcrack alit
]cickshaw was offered for sale, and
,others where rare Chinese vases, por
cclains and lacctuer ware, jade orna
! ments, brasses, rich silks, brocades
and embroideries were heaped t
tempt the wavering visitor. Here
there, and everywhere Orienta
grandees trailed their brilliant robes
!mingling with the throngs of sight
seers, for the Chinese and Japanes
' population had been drawn upon free
ly to help build up the illusion.
(To be continued.)
IRELAND'S POPULATION.
(Increasing Birth Rate and Fewer
Deaths Reported.
t The latest census figures for Ireland
show an increasing population. How
ever common this may be in America,
or in the other countries of Europe
this feature is for Ireland all agree-
able novelty. For the. quarter ended
September 20 last the number• of
births in Ireland was 27,779, a rate of
20,8 per thousand, and the deaths 14,-
670, a rate of 13.4 per thousand.
There were only 3,511 emigrants, so
that the net increase in population is
9,558.
It is the decrease in emigration
which has turned the scale. The sit-
uation might be even more satisfac-
tory if it were not for the heavy death
rate of children under a year old.
About one Irish child in every dozen
dies before it has reached the age of
12 months. Leinster and Ulster have
the predominance in this respect. In
Ahem one child in every seven or
'eight dies an infant; in Connaught
only one child in every 15. Dublin and
Belfast no doubt account for this, for
poverty-stricken Connaught has more
fresh air than can be found in the
cities, especially in Dublin, which has
a system of teneinent houses where
scores of families live in one house,
and often more than one family hi a
single room.
That Ireland is a less distressful
country than it used to be, and now
is on the mend, is further evident from
the statistics of pauperism. Here
there has been a very marked de-
crease. There were nearly 8,000 few-
er people in the workhouses in the
quarter under review than the aver-
age of the same period for the last
10 years, and there were 12,325 few-
er people in receipt of outdoor relief
from the rates.
The least satisfactory feature of the
returns is the maintenance of a high
death rate from tuberculosis. Enorm-
ous effort, inspired by Lady Aber-
deen, has been devoted in. every part
of Ireland to stamping out this
scourge. It: has been by no means un-
fruitful, But the scourge is still
there, and yearly takes a great toll
of Irish lives.
FORESTS PREVENT FLOODS.
They Are Really Natural Storage
Reservoirs.
It has been. shown that forests pre-
vent the rapid melting of ice and
snow, and thus avert or modify floods
in the spring. Mountains also play
an important part with regard to
floods. By intercepting drifting cur-
rents of moisture -laden air moun-
tains are active agents in precipitat-
ing -rainfall; and, unless they are pro-
tected by forests, the waters pour
down into the valley in destructive
torrents:
The evergreen trees, particularly
the spruces, are especially useful in
controlling these torrents. Under all
spruce forests there is a large de-
posit of what woodsmen call "duff."
This is composed of partially decayed
trees, bark, needles, cones and
mosses.
This dull varies from one to six
thickness, and has the power
in hcl. e•
feet1 W r
of absorbing and holding water like
a sponge. During the heavy spring
rains it becomes thoroughly saturat-
ed which gradually
ed with water, g ua y
oozes down the mountain sides into
the streams in summer. The tires
also protect the snowfall from the
rapid action of the sun in spr'ieg, thue
restraining floods from that source
also.
The prateetion of the forests there -
Core le the surest and safeet way in
which to prevent dostruetive inunda-
tions. They are really natural stor-
age, reservoirs, not holding back great
masses of water in bulk, which may
be released by the breaking of some
darn and carry terrible destruction
before them, but storing it in the cap-
" h • or soil and ield-
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ing it gently and continuously daring
the season when most needed.
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PORT, ENGLAND,
Companion Tells of Last Letters Re-
ceived From the Heroip ' •
Woman,
Nurse Maude Iiot'n of Drumrosslo,
Wellington Road', Stockport, Englund,
who recently returned from Brussels,
where she wee ' attached to Nemo
Cavellis nursing. home, describes the
life Of the heroine and her subsequent
e.D. arrest. .
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=o"s"' '--% • ties for a considerable time.
es o oncrete Manure Pit.
"In the summer of 1915 Mr. Carman
Metcalfe, Cherry Valley, one of the
enterprising farmers of this county,
e built a concrete manure pit, the par-
ticulars of which are rather interest-
ing. For some time previously Mr.
Metcalfe t a]fo ]tad been aware that he was
suffering some loss clue to waste on
account of the manure lying exposed
in the yard, but . was somewhat at a
loss as to how to eliminate it. At our
suggestion he finally decided to build
a concrete manure pit 16 ft. in dia-
- meter, 23 feet deep, with walls 1 ft.
thick, and a concrete floor, with the
, floor and walls plastered to make it
waterproof. The following is an item-
ized account of the costs:
4 bbls, cement at $2 $ 8.00
2 loads gravel at 15e. 0.30
Hauling gravel and stone 8.50
Hauling silo rings ' 2.00
1 man 1 day at $2.50 2.50
1 man 1 day at $2 2.00
$18.30
Mr. Metcalfe is more than delighted
with the results. It holds about 25
tons of manure, thus it is only neces-
sary for inn to have it drawn out
once a month, and one man with a
team will do this job in a day. He
has never found any of the manure
burned by overlteatihg, nor has it
ever been frozen so that it could not
• be removed, even when it was 30
degrees below zero. He considers
that it pays for itself at least once a
year, in fact he thinks it paid for it-
self during the past summer. In con-
nection with this he said, "Before we
had the pit the manure which was
made during the summer was dumped
lout len the yard, and in the fall it
couldn't be found. This year we drew
enough manure out of the pit to pay
for it. Before, the liquid manure was
all lost, but by having the pit it was
all saved. Some of the neighbors
said I should have made •it square
and with a door so that the waggon
could be backed in, but if I had done
this the liquid manure would have
been lost, and besides, there isn't
much to be gained by backing the
waggon or sleigh in when you can
drive all around it."—A. P. Mac
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Vanua, Prince Edward County.
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A creamery that uses a steam en-
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by-product. Exhaust steam can be
used successfully for heating milk,
cream, boiler -feed water, wash water
and the building. The heating of
boiler -feed water and wash water only
will be considered in this circular,
says a circular issued by the Dairy
Division, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
in the majority of small cream-
eries the boiler is fed by means of
an injector, but this isnot an econo-
mical apparatus for this work, be-
cause it requires live steam for its
operation and cannot handle Piot wa-
ter. For every 10 degrees F. that
water is heated before approximately
one per cent. less fuel i
s required to
generate a given amount of steam,
and for each 10 degrees le. increase
in feed water temperature the boiler
capacity is increased approximately
one per cent. When hot feed water
is used a constant pressure on the
boiler can be more easily maintained,
and there will be an additional saving
of fuel, attributable to even firing
The heating of feet} water from a
temperature of 50 degrees F. to that
of 200 degrees F. by means of exhaust
steam will reduce the fueI colsnrnp-
Mon about 13 per cent., or will reduce
a $500 fuel bill to $435,
The use of exhaust steam for heat-
ing wash water will still further re-
duce the fuel cost. It is estimated
that in a creamery making from
100,000 to 300,000 pounds of butter
annually a maximum of 800 gallons
of hot water are used daily, It is cus-
tomary to heat this water with live
steam from the boiler. To haat so
much water from a temperature of 50
degrees F. to that of 170 degrees F.
requires approximately 127 pounds of
coal. "When the heating is done with
exhaust steam there is a net saving
of 127 pounds of coal a day, or, if
operated 300 days a year, an annual
saving of 38,100 pounds. At $5 a to
this is worth $95. In a• creamery of
this size the heating of the boiler
feed water from a temperature of 58
degrees F. to that of 200 degrees F.
will effect a further saving of ap-e
proximately $100 annually. An
equipment, consisting of a 20 horse
power heater, a hot water storage
tank of 220 gallons capacity, and a
boiler feed pump, can be installed for
about $200 and will effect an annual
saving of $195.
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ASQUITH'S BURDEN.
Sir P. E. Smith Defends Prime Minis-
ter From. Attack.
Sir F. E. Smith, the new British
Attorney -General, has paid this high
compliment to the Prime Minister. He
said:
"The London Globe said this of the
Prime Minister: 'It will not do for him
to attempt to find cover for his Gov-
ernment behind the rampart of the
dead.' '
"In other words, it is said that Mr.
Asquith is attempting to cover up
the delinquencies of his Government
behind the rampart of those who have
died for this country.
"Whether you agree with the Prime
Minister or disagree with him, whe-
ther you admire or do not admire his l
public record, he is at least a man,
who has grown grey in the public ser-
vice, and who has contributed three
brilliant sons—not soldiers until this
war arose—to the trenches, two of
whom have already been wounded,
and all three of whom are serving in
infantry battalions. He is a man who
is to -day bearing a burden of respon-I
sibility the like of which has never •
fallen upon the shoulders of any Eng-
lish statesman in all the history of
this country.
"To say of such a man that he has
attempted to find cover for his Gov.!
ernment behind the rampart of the i
dead is a gross travesty of his speech
and a statement which is discredit-
able to journalism."
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"The arrest was effected quite
quietly, Officers arrived In a motor
car, a fete questions were put and
answered, and she was carried off.
She wrote to me from prison, The
letters, with practically allmy be-
longings, except the contents of a
sols
handbag, e
a are still in Brus 1.
She
seemed quite resigned.
Her Last Letters. -
"Her letters were bright, and made
it clear that she was glad to have
the rest that the prison afforded, She
said she had everything she could
wish forexcept her liberty. She lit-
tle thought that such a terrible pen-
alty awaited her, and we at the school
were dreadfully distressed when we
heard the awful news of her death.
The shock was terrible.
"The German authorities apparent-
ly convinced themselves of Miss Cav-
ell's guilt by what was described as
the confessions of a Pole. He told
the Germans he had represented him-
self as a Frenchman, and had stayed
a night under Nurse Cavell's roof.
This Pole was apparently trapped in
his endeavors to cross the frontier,
and was no doubt pressed hard for a
confession.'"
Saw Germans Enter.
Nurse Horn Was in this Foundry
when war broke out, but in response
to a telegram she hastened to assist
Nurse Cavell. She saw the Germans
march into Brussels, and says if it
had been rehearsed a hundred times
it could not have been clone with
more precision.
There are now signs that money is
scarce, and, German officers display
less opulence. There are fewer elab-
orate motor cars. Brussels people
seem to think that General 'von Biss.
ing does not represent the worst type
of German officer, and that natters
might even be worse with another
Governor. Life, however, is very re-
stricted, and the city has lost all its
old reputation for gaiety. The tram-
ways and bakeries are under German
control, and the allowance for bread
has been reduced to four slices a day.
Butter is 4s. 2d. a pound, and ether
commodities are relatively dear.
Just before she left an order was
issued to the effect that the Ger-
mans were about to saddle the re-
sponsibility of provisioning the troops
on the people of Brussels. The men
are to be billeted on the citizens with-
out allowances.
The Germans are confident of vic-
tory, but the people of Brussels re-
fuse to think of defeat.
THE EXCELLENT EGG.
It Contains Ingredients That Are
Wholesome.
A new -}aid egg is always worth its
price, for it contains much more nu-
triment than the same weight of best
meat. A two -ounce egg, costing two-
pence, or a trifle more, is all food.
Prince meat, at two cents an ounce,
will lose much of its weight when
cooked, and more than half of its ori-
ginal nutriment, while what remains
is not such good nutriment as an egg.
An egg is an undeveloped chick, and
its constituents are those, therefore,
which will best build up the body.
The "white" is almost a pure solution
of protein—the basis of life, and ab-
solutely essential to the body --and
the yolk, besides protein, contains fat,
and other very valuable substances
for the nervous system, phosphorus
and iron being
the chief.f. Amiemie
persons should eat egg -yolk for th
1'o
ironin it, and if they add spinach,
which is also full of iron, their anae-
mia would disappear.
But an egg is not quite a complete
food, lacking carbohydrate material --
the energy part of life ---but if rice
or other cereal be eaten with eggs,
the combination makes a complete
body food, Eggs, too, have another
excellence. They are easily digested,
a slightly boiled one leaving the sto-
mach under two hours. Other foods
would remain there four or five hours.
The less stomach strain there is the
better. Raw eggs, by the way, are
not more easily digested than cooked
ones, in spite of the popular belief to
the contrary.
Stale eggs lose some of their wa-
ter and get lighter, and this provides
an infallible egg test. A really fresh
egg will sink in salt and water—two
ounces to a pint ---and the staler the
egg the nearer the surface it will
float