RAISE LEGWRNS THE BLUE TRIANGLE^ A CIT OF HOME DAZZLED THE 1AME AJ A4.L THf I iArS?. :T TASie HOT! AT RUSSIA'S FRONT rlVITHIN THE MP 1 F-ROM NOW ON FOR FAMILY USE RESTAUR THi: ALLIED In The Blue TriangTe clubrooms A long, low building of frame conru.-iion, in A Petrograd were half shadow. attractively planneu. with few scattered candles flung gleams as :k' verandas and a homelike aspect. By GRACE ANDERSON HEATH persistent and as vague as Russia's Meat Possibilities of Fowl Have (Mitsiie are hanging the .flags-—the hope of liberty. A hundred Russian '*::rs and Stripes, which must soon Been Neglected by Most Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Tinion.) girls and six young men were guests fi' cen in as it is nearly sunset, and of the first Young Women's Christian 7 Poultry Breeders, *Tm going to know my fate," deHired flag bearing a little triangle association in all Russia. It was a Abner Gale. ft I»!ue and the letters Y. W. O. A. gala afternoon tea but it was dark Why not You're alluding to popping i. fall afternoon and the air is a because the winter days end at three AVERAGE BIRD iS TOO SMALL tie question to Miss Naomi .i i.1 ,. !i). Through the front windows o'clock and there is a restriction on Wer+?" questioned his friend, Parker iiv house the woman .-approaching the use of candles and kerosene as Blisv "She's a likely woman, fair walk can see the cheer idov. well as of electricity. a-tt and rood-tempered at thirty, and truly, •of. open fireplace. T'.ioiv The girls were making merry even t-n:l of a piano and soiiie ouy Oale, I think you've been uncommonly It Would Be Profitable for PoultryRaisers in the gloom of winter, the twilight v. .. not trying your chance befw*," to Give More Attention to .and the tragedy of war. One slendei The woman, who is sli/rftt iiri'l These Egg Producers—Make white-faced girl with purple-shadowed mi. *fs there any?" rather anxiously propounded tiredrlooking, puts her heavy Splendid Broilers. eyes was merrier than all the rest. Abner. do-wu" oh''the walk and shifts t! contagious. Her wit and ringing laugh were Tor ought to know. You've been she is carrying to the other \rw (Prepared by the United States Department hanging around the West place off and She-listens a minute. then picks ir. 'nf of Agriculture.) "Sonya is wonderful tonight," one !i on for i^ro years." and walks, bravely up The Leghorn fowl owes its popularity girl whispered' to another as she Abnei perked up, with the consciousnew fi ::*:^^diooi^ Some one has" heard hA so largely to its egg-producing stirred gently into her tea the on€ S.»ki.: of looking neat and nifty in a is.there'to meet her. capacity that the meat possibilities of lump of sugar doled out carefully for brand-new suit, and forthwith started r!e-«F^:ys is-in places like this. Tm the breed have been neglected by most the party. The Y. W. C. A. secretaries In the direction of the West home. dxr is: thrown open and a kind wouiu«fi? Leghorn breeders. Such failure to recognize had been saving the sugar foi Miss We&t lived with two bachelor yoife says: "Oh, do come in an" the potential food value of months—putting aside at each -meal brothers, who worked in the local n*t. Let me take the baby." Tht birds kept to produce a special food one of the two lumps served with the hank. Recently a new element had III'lMijjiJ! over and the stranger is passed product may have been excusable under coffee in the' restaurant, that there couae into the lives of the harmonious .vorri from a long journey, tired an prewar conditions, but in the present might be a bit of sweet for this first trio. A stranger had visited the town ^ad. is given the welcome which on .he need of utilizing to the full every party. There was no bread. and had put up at the village hotel. ¥. W. C. A. hostesses know j\v capacity of every food-producing animal, "Sonya is not drinking her tea," He registerfd under the high-sounding 1?. breeders of Leghorns should give her pale little admirer went on, "yet title of Sir Annesley Wellington, explains that she has .come tf due attention to the development of she fainted this morning at the factory Sir Annesley Wellington was very sve Jolui before he 'leaves, for th. their table qualities. and the forewoman said she waf guarded as to his antecedents, but front. She has been saving her innuej hungry." Discussion of the meat value of a tnysteriouslj hinted at high social connections for traveling expenses, and has c.n.i breed must note and take due account "We're all hungry," was the monotonous anl a great estate abroad. to surprise him. John has never su. of the fact that the markets—that is, reply. "It wasn't that." His passion was diamonds, which he tfi«- baby, and now maybe lie never rhe dealers and consumers—do not Something stopped the laughter and Wore in perfusion. His hobby was win, for she has discovered that h: recognize breed differences in poultry, talk suddenly but the hush that fefl poetry. He showed the same to any has just left op a two days' furlou^i In except as in a few localities particular the dimly lit room was as joyous as audience he could find, and as Abner ro surprise her. Before she could .aa breeds may the gaiety. One of Russia's greatest be generally kept and may neared the West home he caught the !r:.in back to her home John's ur become known locally, or In special singers stood by the piano and lifted echo of sonorous tones. From the I0U.J1 \vill have expired and he will i. up her glorious voice filled with the trade lines for excellent table quality. street he could make out Naomi, seated on his way back to camp. The h.t.i tears and heartbreak that people at The poultry breeder, therefore, in planning upon a garden bench, while her visitor mother does not know how to meet peace call thrills. how to make the most of the was parading up and down before situation and tears of fatigue and They went away early when the meat values of his stock considers her, his eyes rolling in fine appointment begin to flow. music was done—these sad-eyed, halfstarved what market demands can be filled frenay as he shouted inspiring rhymes "Well, that's too bad," says the ?—.apatlietic ARE YOU FURNISHING YOUR SHARE OF THE HAR0WARE7 little guests of the Blue Triangle—for with poultry of the breed which he which told cf chivalrous knights and Y. W. C. A. worker. danger lurks in the dark keeps. Indies fair. Then he dropped to one clit'er up. You can just stay here f«»r of Petrograd streets, robberies and Average Leghorns Too Small. rfiusHl DoH'-r ueT line® before her, his hand on his hesnt, 9 cc!iip:o of days. We'll send a v,..v murders—sharp little by-products of O0R PeopLE HtftR Average Leghorn hens weigh only his tone,thrilling with turtle-dovelilce PAPA HE. HftS "to Mohn. at the first place his ir.j tblo You. I've a nation's chaos and a world at war. about 3 pounds alive. Many of their, HORSESHoES accents. KtV»ps .ad tell him to take the «.xt Iff lHe«THAT fttc Sonya lingered after the others will dress only 2 to 2% pounds. This -THAT JUNK HAS "That settles It for me!" growled He can enjoy his !..ek. H(5 DE.E* SPUR LOS re gone. She was standing close is not a desirable size for a table fowl, Abner, turning backwards. "If Naomi Go hi'iv." VaRSEHKT by the secretary-hostess' chair when being too much under the weights (4 Is sHly enough to train with thaf bejeweled his is done and the little lat::r 13 she turned from saying good-night to to 5 pounds) which most people prefei and crack-brained laughing hu.! 5i juiorious day of it. the last one of the- other girls. The when buying a fowl. utock of the village, I'm through The Young Women's Christ!:.n asso:ia. laughter had died out of the girl's Besides being siaall herself, the average Ftor all her attention to her erratic iun has established 91: ii s* ey- nd the gaiety from her voice. Leghorn produces chicks so -guest, however, Naomi would have houses ci' this character for Aaieru..n "Will you give me a note to the small that they do not remain very fluttered considerably had she known ••oiiiii rs and sailors and tlK-ir lauiU.os. factory superintendent," she asked soft-meated until they have reached that Abner had appeared bent upon 11 ihls brief bulletin of news lies »:i "telling him I'm attending classel the size the market demands In broilers, proposing to her, and for msinv a ,...f the most potent factors in the win here at night?" She spoke in French and so the cockerels cannot be mouth she wondered why he h«d not iihio i.f this war. Our boys sire for Ae knew no English, and the sec? spoken out what her woman's wit told ii:- for their homes. The Y. W. C. A retary, no Russian. her lfinust be on his mind. its hostess work in this country "Yes, if it will help you." The secretary Sir Annesley Wellington to a degree 1 in France is helping to keep the was glad to give her such a hnd fascinated her. Certainly he was i:ai of American home life c-on:t:.:i note but she was curious. '"Tell me flighty, and now li ha arrived at a iy before the men who are pro why." poira where he avowed to Naomi eet.ng it. These men had to go away "If he knows the girls are going to profession of undying love, and asketf their individual homes, but there night classes he won't put us on the her to marry him. She was flattered a home which follows them—a place night shift. He will let us work days and the backwardness Of Abner anf, .'.ti:cre they can. go when they are oil so we can come. Yesterday I asked thp hunting fear of heco*ning an ol# 'uty and meet their families and rest. for the night shift. Today I have CIPVJM mnii'i had a certain influewe upon hei. There is a room in every Y. W. C. A changed my mind." ?K»Jce and she was seriously considering tb lostess house with a real fireplace in The secretary wondered. Sonya proiosn!. I and a domestic hearth. There are had not been in any of the classes. Annesley WellingToa had paint -hairs with cushions on them the Had the bright little party given her ed picture like *^uie modern Clamlf hina is not of the iron-bound bucket an interest in the work of the association? Melsotte. He desh^'d the jjtfnmour. thr variety necessary in camps and best Had the friendliness of the romance"of at! elopement. 'They wo'ul* of' all, the boys say, there are nice American secretaries reached her? Pv from the commorpine*. heights women to talk to. No boy in camp Was it the music that had given her of 1 ileallty! Then when t£»f ioivl off would hesitate to ask his mother or an impetus to study toward something un'ra w«s cemented they 'Id pas* sister or the girl he thinks most of to beyond a factory? their honeymoon at the reg*! lome of meet him at a Y. W. C. A. house, fov "What is it that interests you?" the his sister, in mother state he knows that the Women she will see secretary asked her. "You are not in One day Ab»ier was (lolori.i think Ideal Type of Leghorn. there are of the right kind. The very f. any of the classes now, are you? What Ing nvr his disappointment vhen CAR.TOOM FURNISHED By THE. MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFIlTy- THIS fact that it is known there is a Is It you want to take up?" strange- caiv?ht ""up with hU "You sold for poultry at that stage with real, homey place near each 'camp authorized "This morning I looked out the factory are acoualnl in the townhe observed. (he same profit as cockerels from larger by the war department and window," and Sonya's voice reminded "C» you direct in- to (he tock. presided over by dignified and refined the secretary of the call of home o# Mir* Naomi Weistf" Abner Leghorns Better for Poultry. Standard women, has served"very largely to dis night bird before a storm. "Down in rcqrtieseed nth a nana1 of remory The standard weights, for mature courage the other type of woman and the courtyard was a crowd and three that caused him to wince. Leghorns are: Males 5% pounds, females keep her away from the men she formerly men- were killed. Killed by the police—the "Thanks. You don't ha^ -en to 4 pounds. By making these the preyed Upon. bolshevik police, vhile I n.:"w Sir Annesley Welling on, do minimum weights for birds used in The Y.. \V. C. A. houses are not established stood there and -watched. They said yos?" asked the stranger. breeding, and by giving the preference with any view to markir^' they were anarchists. One wtfs iny Tes. Abner knew him—\ 's sorro to the largest specimens that show class lines, however, although many t. brother. Another was my sweetheart.I He casually told knew Leghorn type without coarseness, the hostesses who assist led lives came here tonight to forget. But I of thr* individual in question Just strains of Leghorns may be developed greatest ease and luxury before tilwar. cannot forget:' Always I will remeiober. fh T^hn Cale, the older hrot \cr of that with no los3 of laying capacity Democracy rules at the sign "or I want nothing now but to carry N nv!. csune mshing to the spo *. He have considerable merit as table fowls the little Blue Triangle. on their work, and to do that I must "ir ('h:Hi the arm of Abner he ul!ed in a limited range of uses. A story is told of a great merchant.'* study and learn—I must learn English hitn excitedly aside. Leghorn hens which alive weigh 4 wife whose individual fortune mount"? and many other things. I want to "go "Abner." he gasped, "hurry wi me pounds or more are heavy enough to sj to the million marie. This lady is in all the classes. If the foreman r«t to the house! The maid has just telephoned meet the demand for dressed fowls a member of one of the Y. W. C. A. committees, the factory knows I do that, he will mo that Naoiv,! and that VVelttngton little under the weights generally pre? ii*"*' and on one occasion she wa: help. He will let me work days."_. fellow have gone off a.« automobile—eloped!" rerred, and there is enough demand helping in the cafeteria of a hosted In the dark, the hunger, the cold, for fowls at this weight to take all the house at the Great Lakes naval train and the terror of Petrograd, the Blue supply. The stranger caught the wtrds. He ing station. A little shopgirl who had Triangle is sending out its shining invitation came forward, throwing open the iapel The cockerels bred from hens of 4 a "day off'' from her work In the base to the bewildered women and of his coat, revealing an official star. pounds weight and over, if properly ment of the great store owned by tin young girls of Russia. It is offerin.2 "Gentlemen," he said briskly, "no ~rown, will make broiler size as quickly C. A. worker's husband, and win Y. Vi\ a little oasis in the midst of the Intrusion, but I'm a detective. I have as the chicks of most of the larger had come to see her sailor brother, wa.in chaos where they may come and rest been on the track of this Wellington, breeds. They will also be soft-meated a State street hurry for servic and relax, play games, listen to whose real name Is Watklns, for over up to about 2 to 2% pounds' weight. She sharply ordered the merchantV music, study English, French, stenography, a month, at the request of hla wealthy After that they are apt to harden wife to "look alive with these forks, bookkeeping, or music, and' as relatives." quickly and their flesh is not so tender. girlie." one tired girl expressed it, forget for "Who is he—a criminal?" asked Abney Leghorn cockerels produced from as The lady addressed "girlie" quit, the moment that they are in Petrograd. very large males and females—that Is. Most of the girls who gather humbly saw to it that the pile of forks "No but mad as a march hare. He from males that weigh upward of 6Vs. was replenished. Then she went over at.the sign of the Blue Triangle are escaped from home with a lot of pounds and females upward of 514 bookkeepers and stenographers, bi» and talked to the girl, helped her to money and the family Jewels. He las pounds—frequently keep quite softmeated scattered among them are factorj locate her brother and sent her away His been cutting a wide swath, I hear. until they reach 4 to 5 pound? happy. The' shopgirl never knew that girls, domestics, and girls who nevei great specialty is to act the swell] foreign weight. Such birds make very satisfactory have worked. she had been talking to her employer's nob, and marry. He T»a» I six small roasters for home use. wife. "In Petrograd and elsewhere In wives to date, and If you want to fescue though they will not sell as well on the There are two hostess houses at tlx Russia,** says Miss Clarissa Spencer this new lady from" him. get nto market as birds of the same weigh* and it is a world secretary of the Y. W. C. A. (reat Lakes station, won action quick." of a slower growing breed. ierful sight to see the crowds of worn who started the work-in Russia, "girls They ran down the fugitives w-tere Growing Leghorns for Meat. en relatives and friends of the saltor formerly employed In government offices their auto had broken down, 20 dies Even when good-sized Leghorns an come to us who have struck vlio throng to them on the Wednesda along the road. Sir Annesley Wellington used for breeding, the chickens will not afternoons. From 1,000 to 3,() (•gainst the bolshevists. They're out hill placidly submitted to deten Ion make good poultry unless they are of jobs. They're hungry. One girl persons a day are cared for in tl. Naomi fainted away from sheer ortlflcation. well grown. In a measure this is true :afeterias. and the nurseries are fu' told me she couldn't take gymnasiuir of any chickens those that are poorh jf" sailor babies, whose mothers ca work. It gave her such an appetite "I can never go back ani fac the grown never make the development But they refuse to return to work fo. eave thern there safely while they art people—everybody will laugh at lie!" or have the table quality of those that j,- (he bolshevists." the grounds. Abner heard her sob out. 4:: are well grown. Miss Helen Ogden, one of the Y. W In addi ion to the hostess house "No one need know of your 1 oolish To secure good growth, Leghorn C. A. secretaries who was forced adventure," declared her brother -und vork in t'lis country the Y. W. C. A. chicks must not be overcrowded in leave Petrograd on account of the Ge.r then Abner glided to the side of the '.ias established the famous Hotel Peirograd brooders or coops, and as soon as they humiliated lady. man advance, writes home that: "It% a lv Paris as center for tranient are large enough to range over an extended like living on the screen of a melo "Naomi," he said softly, "maybe, after wo nen war workers overseas, piece of ground should be given drama to be in Russia. Bullets an nil the false glamour that has fliere an also many foyers or recrearion as wide range as possible and at the cheated your fancy, you'would can to ^shooting are almost as familiar stive.-! centers in France where girl munitions in P&OPER INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SOLDIER AND THE GENTLEMAN. same time fed liberally. Chicks so Cunsider the proposal of a coiiini.vii. sounds here as the clang of the streei w- rkers, signal corps girls and .Th,s s®idl?p "f tte Inmomi Rainbow Division of National Guardsmen nOTtvoluntarily treated will grow twice.as fast as in France has not lost all of his joy of living. He believes ever.v-day man, ready tj make you 'car and the honk of the automobile iii ,thers ar.- refreshed and brightened those that are rearied under the intensive |n pets anil In sharing tEc good things with tfe«m. When the snap shot was Mrs. Gale the day you say the word.-' home. Here we'learn to liv» arid o^fe associiition with the play leaders 1 e/Tas letting his puppy read a few pages of Isaiah out of the service conditions to which the greater Bible just presented io him. For soldiers with inclinations of this kind their and Miss Naomi horned upon this vun-ler frequent shooting and srret-' chicks are subjected. the Y. V. C, A. who have Introh'iced number of Leghorn cvpcncnocg ©31 the fighting front will make them better citizens, and the sooner loyal adorer, comfort:il and content. n-.tles nr.d to flee only when we arc (i gymnasium classes "e get them back to this country, the better this country will be. We can all Air lean do our share toward getting them back by making sacrifices and buvlne bonds '1 ii authorities that -ye mu*t.r- uiiriug the iFccrth Liberty Loan campaign Sept. 28. 1 stags' I'M j. ft "i +&