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THE UBIQUITOUS EGG

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 6.

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THE UBIQUITOUS EGG.

An English traveler who has visited every nation in the world is authority for the statement that one food is universal throughout all countries. “There is not a part of the world,” he says, “where you can not get an egg.” While in Western China, however, he at first had some difficulty in getting even eggs. The natives could not understand him and refused to recognize the pictures he drew as pictures of eggs. “The way I got out of the difficulty,” he adds, “was that I squatted down on my haunches, flapped my wings, and cock-a-doodle-doo’d until the entire nation grasped what I wanted, and I was simply provided with hundreds of eggs.”