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...answer several questions which are riddles to many a U. S. traveler in Europe. Questions such as: "Which are the rarest and finest wines?" "Should Châateau Yquem be iced, or Châateau Lafite warmed?" "Which wines ought one to drink with the soup, fish, roast, fowl?" "At a mixed dinner of ladies and gentlemen in a restaurant is it smart or vulgar to drink exclusively cocktails and Champagne...
...salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...
...those present, the persons, staring about them with ennui or enthusiasm were the most absurd. The rabbits crawled about in wire enclosures, their noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged...
...contest. The 4-H Club ("head, heart, hands and health") is an organization of boys and girls fostered by the Department of Agriculture to encourage an interest in farm life. The judging contest is a contest in which the members of the 4-H Club handed their opinions of fowl to the real judges...
...nine months the Federal courts have been investigating the live poultry situation in Manhattan. Last week they indicted 91 poultry racketeers who had maintained a monopoly on the distribution of live fowl by persecuting retailers who refused to join a ring quaintly called "Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce." The retailers were unable to get chickens for their markets, or only to get inferior, poisoned poultry. Their homes and shops were destroyed by bombs; their markets burned or polluted by poison gas. Their truck drivers were slugged; the tires of their trucks sliced...