El Paso herald., February 26, 1912, Image 13

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Fortunate Mm Gertrude Clancy As She Was
When "Ham and," at $8 per, Was the Height of
Her Endeavor.
By GERTRUDE CLANCY
I'VE hardly got back my breath. I feel as though say
old world bad been shattered and I bad rjsea sa
some aeroplane into undreamed of heights, and 111
teU all of yon who read tbfe thai Fa dizsy.
A week ago I was a waitress at eight dollars a week
at Child' restaurant To-day I am a vaudeville star.
A. very short time age I earned eight dollars a week
and worked twelve boors a day. Now I ring for twenty
rainutes and earn -$500 a week. I'm sure Cinderella her
telt was no more daaed nor bumble nor beartfnfly
grateful.
I am an Irish girl. I am from that land where every
body sings Tup Irish sing as a matter of course, not
. a matter of art. My father died when I was a small
g;rl My mother was left with a little money, but a
large family among whom to distribute It and ever
tiiw I can remember I bad the Idea that when I grew
up I would go to America and earn my own living.
I came over three and a half years ago. I tried dif
ferent kinds of work and nude little headway.
The hardship told noon me and I became ery 11L
V.hpu I recovered I bad not a dollar in the world. I
"nt to Childs' and got work as a waitress at eight
hilars a week. The tips I got helped ft Utile. I waited
on about two hundred persons a day, and I got from
two to four dollars a week In tips.
One day a slim, blond young chap came In and sat
at my tablp He didn't look at the bill of fare I offered
b.iu. but aid "Wheat cakes and ooffee' Then he looked
bp at the ceiling and began humming an old Irish ballad.
"The Dawning of the Day." He got tbe melody wrong.
r ud before I knew it I aaid: "Sir. it goes this way." and
bummed it correctly.
He looked up at me and my heart stepped beating.
KK face had no expression, and I feared be was angry
Dt my boldness and might report me. That wonM have
been dreadful, for the rule is never to speak to a
tustomer except to ask him his order or answer ques
tions. But be only said: "Hum that again." I did so
while gathering up some dishes at his right, so that
the head waiter wouldn't notice He said: Youve a
good voice," and fell to work on his pflncfkgf
A few days later be came in again and sat at my table
egsin. He said: Yon've a good voice. Did you ever
think of going on tbe stager' I answered "Ho." and be
stc his pancakes and drank his coKee and left
The nest time he came in he brought with him a
!r,veSy woman They talked to me about my voiee and
j-skd me if I would come to her apartment and sing
for them. Miss Sophy Barnard Introduced herself and
tc'-i me thf man whose singing l had criticised was
Hrond u ' crck.
After hearing e friag tfcoy told me I nuc' to zr on
"Right Into the Restaurant Where the Hungry Find Surcease Walked Fame and Fortune, and
Taking Miss Clancy by the Neck Rapidly Whisked Her Whence."
NOBODY knows just where luck Is going to find
them. Maybe It's right around the next cor
ner. Luck's a funny thing. It never minds
where It has to go when once it makes up its mind to
go there. And It's bound to appear sooner or later.
So be cheerful.
Here are two little stories of how luck recently
came Into a restaurant and a nickelodeon. In ono ft
took a waitress and raised her Into affluence; In the
other it took a clay modeller who sang pathetic
ballads In front of highly colored lantern pictures and
raised him into more affluence.
Of course, this is stage luck, but not In the sense
that stage money is money. In both cases It's real
luck and real money. And there are, as we have said,
lots of kinds of luck. Be cheerful. Hear the ex
waitress and the ex-nickelodeon man tell you why
they'ro cheerful.
tbe stage, and Miss Barnard offered to teach roc. She
said she would take me Into her own home as a mem
ber of her family. I said I would think it ever. It
seemed hard to give up those sure eight dollars a week.
But after two days I called oe Hiss Barnard and1 told her
I would risk it
For six months she has given her spare time to
coaching me. and I've shared her luxurious apartment
near Riverside Drive. Great singers and players come to
the apartment to hear me sing, and have praised me
and prophesied enormous success for me.
Recently I made my debut on the vaudeville stage.
I. who bad walked te the dairy lunchroom because I
couldn't afford carfare, was driven to the theatre in a
brougham. And a few minutes later there were staring
into my face not a tableful of hungrily frowning peo
ple, but a respectfully admiring orchestra. Instead of
shouting "Stack of wheats" and "Eggs straight up" and
"Ham and" Into the kitchen door, I was guiding ay
TOlSStT&"oSfc I had become Somebody. And
srbat a dizzying gulf between!
By CAESARE NESI
THINGS have moved so fast for me In
the past few weeks that I am bewildered.
Wbea I go to bed at night and dream of
the things I have been used to all my life, then
I seem awake, but when I wake up in the morn
ing and see everything so different to what I've
been accustomed to, then I think I am asleep
and dreaming.
Just think of it! Four weeks ago I was sell
ing day medals on the sidewalks and trviag in
a single room in a Sullivan street tenement
house. My wife had only one cheap dress.
When business was particularly good I took in
about seven dollars a week just enough to pay
our rent and for the humble meals we could
afford. We used to get up at 6 o'clock in tbe
morning so that I could get an early start Our
meals were cooked over an oil lamp.
Then one night, just as I was packing ud
my statues, a party of men came along anc
asked me what I was selling.
"The clay model, the statue, the lion, tna
tiger, the wrestlers, the Venus," I said.
"That's all right," said one of the nen, a
Ms fellow, who was evidently feeling very com
fortable, "that's all right; but can yeu sing a
song?"
I sang the famous tenor aria from "I Pag
ilacei." - The man asked me my name and address
and said he would get me a job in a moving
picture show. .
The ' next day I was engaged to sing at a
nickelodeon in Chrystie street at $18 a week.
Heavens! $18 a week! It seemed 'ike untold
wealth to me.
Two nights later, just as I finished, my stunt
the boss of the moving picture show told me
that a gentleman wanted to see me. It was
Mr. Williams, and he said he had been passing
the nickelodeon when his automobile b.'oke
down. He bad heard me singing and had come
in to find out who it was. Then be asked me if
I would like to sing in a big theatre.
Of course, I said I would. He tried my -mice
before a lot of gentlemen musical critics and
then he said he would give rae a contract for a
year, at -$609 a week! I thought he was joking,
but when the papers were drawn up and I saw
with my own eyes that I was really to get that
fabulous amount my eyes became so full of
tears I could hardly see to sign my name.
Bat it is true. I have actually received my
first week's salary. I know what It is now to
earn real money. My wife can now have fine
dresses. We have already moved to a real
apartment We don't have to eook ojr meals
over a lamp any more we don't have to cook
them at all, for my wife now has a maid!
Is it any wonder that whan I am awake &
seems like a dream, and It's only whea I ga te
sleep that things seem natural?
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Most Efficient
Egg.
Colored Drinking Water
Makes the Chick Reveal
Egg Secrets.
Fed on Certain Chemicals,
She Lays Eggs That
Stay Fresh.
Calendar and Clock Record
Her Yearly Output.
Lays Her Last Egg
at Two Years
Old .
And Is Fattened for
the Pot or
Oven.
By RENE BACHE
THE development of the "Super Hen," which
will mean an additional $2d0.eO0,ftM each
year in the pockets of the American
farmer, is virtually assured by the achievements
e( the United States Agricultural Department at
its various experiment stations.
Results in the same direction have been ac
complished under the auspices of several States,
and by individual breeders of hens for laying
purposes who have realized the possibility and
importance of "Burbanking" our cheerful and
industrious "biddy."
These results are Important also to those en
gaged in the business of raising poultry for the
aiarket Indeed, the results of these experi
ments bring the parallel industries of egg-produc-lag
and poultry raising closer together than
ever before; for, with every hen laying the
whole of her natural endownment of eggs seme
WO In two years, she is still, when fattened, in
prime condition for the pot or the oven.
Aad an even farther-reaching benefit from a
different class of experiments with the laying
ben is promised nothing less than compelling
Nature to abolish the detestible cold storage
octopus. The hen is to be fed on food contaln
nig sueh chemical ingredients as will combine
with the natural constituents of every egg she
lays and automatically preserve it against de
compositioa! This miracle according to a recent issue of
The Journal of the American Medical Associa
tion, published in Chicago wiH result from the
experiments of Dr. Oscar Riddle. Dr. Riddle's
experiments were based on the knowledge "that
certain substances which are not readily oxidized
or destroyed in the body may reappear in the
secretions, snch as milk. aul :n th& eggs ef
fowls "
Dr. Riddle says the journal mentioned has
found that the compound called "hexamethylena
min," from which formaldehyde is readily formed,
can permeate the egg-membranes of the fowl
whea it is fed to laying hens. It undergoes de
composition in the eggs in which it Is deposited
and acts as a preservative. It does not appear,
however, that the Agricultural Department has
yet undertaken to verify this claim that the ben
not only can be Induced to Increase her laying
capacity, but can be compelled to make her out
put Indestructible.
At present the ordinary hen. reckoned a fair
layer, produces only 120 eggs. If this average
could be raised to 20fl eggs, the difference would
represent an additional $2W,000,000 nr annum
to the American farmer..'
That the Idea of such a super hen Js no mere
dream is proved by the fact that, even to-day a
good many individual hens do lay 206 or more
and one ambitious "biddy" at the Utah Experi
ment Station not long ago made a record of 251
eggs ia a twelve month!
It Is entirely conceivable that In the coarse
ot time the 300-egg hen will become a fecund
uCLLthitftwy8fd- when she has arrived
it is likely that. In order to keep jp her tre
mendous average, slje will lay fwo oggs a (toy
on many days of the year.
The fact Is scientifically established that a
S tetirav(or ,htched with every egg in her
body that she will ever lay some 600 and odd.
Such being the case, the aim of the breeder has
hem to cause the bird to produce as many of
these eggs as possible during the first two years
of her life.
It is deemed possible, however, that eventu
ally strains of cbickens may be developed which
will have a greater potential egg-laying capacity
mean m M'rphv that the hens will be pro
vided by nature ith a larger number of egg
cells when they are born. It this were accom
plished tiie output of eggs per hen would be
Broaortieaately augmented.
So important is the Increase ef egg-nevdw-tien
deemed that elaborate experiments la this
line have been conducted for some years past
at the agricultural stations of Kansas and Utah,
at Orono (Me.), and at Cornell University. Ia
the Cornell peultry department experts hav
gone so far as to dye chlakeos scarlet sky-blue,
yellow, etc.. In order to study moulting in its
relation to egg-laying belag enabled by this
means to know what feathers were shed by
whieh bens.
In these experiments no young pullets are
reserved for breeding whose mothers have not
produced 200 or more eggs In a year, aad tbe
cockerels employed as sires must be sons of
equally distinguished maternal parents. Similar
methods used with cattlo have resulted in the
development of strains of cows yielding as
tonishing quantities et milk. Accordingly, it has
seemed reasonable to suppose that 300-egg hens
were by no means beyond reach.
It should be remembered that these birds
have been domesticated for at least 7,000 vears,
and probably a good deal longer. During all of
that period they have been undergoing a pro
gressive selection of egg-production, the best
layers being kept for that purpose and the poor
layers weeded out for the pot It naturaUv fol
lowed that the eggs of sueh good 'avers 'were
used for "settings" in a great majority of In
stances, the desirable ofaaracteriatie betn thus
perpetuated and Improved.
The original hen still found in the wild
state in Southern India is no bigger than a
bantam, and she lays only twenty or thirty
anal! white eggs a year. From her are de
rived aH of the mala varieties ef ehfekeas
kaowa to-day, some of them of giaat she. Tha
weight of the animal, the she of the egg, aad
the number et eggs laid have all bees multiplied
by six.
To show how easily the farmer may rag
meat his egg output by such means, a recent
"bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture
speaks of the work done by twenty-nine relets
- batched last April at the Maine experiment sta
tion and nicked out from among their sibters
for no reason xcept that they were first to
show signs of laying or wanting to 'ay. They
ware chosen -because their eombs were red. or
because they prated ia every-dey hea language
about the work they were sooa going to do."
Accordingly, tbey were carried to the laying
bouse, marked with metal leg band, each bear
ing a small tag with s number, and so placed
as to have access to the "trap" nest.
Now mark the results. The poorest layer ot
the lot laid 1S7 eggs the first season; eighteen
laid more than 190 egg, and eight hud over 2M
'99 the average at the nock for the twelve
months being ISO eggs. In other words, the
flock contained ne poor layers, but a phenomenal
number of high layers.
This is a method which, obviously, any
termer can adopt for bis own serpoees.
There seem to be a jolation between the
shape of a hen and her laying power. The ex.
perta have been trytojc to t at this with
scientific accuracy through tbe empioymont of
the camera, photographing large numbers of
fowls from different points of view. Up tc izte.
however, the work 'has not progressed far
enough to yield any very definite results.