Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Pigeon's Milk Not a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Pigeon's Milk Not a Joke .

The joke about pigeon’s milk has a foundation in fact. After the incubation of the young has been completed the crop* of the parent birds become thicker and secrete a sort of curd with which, the young are fed. This description of nourishment is necessary for them, for if the young pigeons are deprived of it during the first week or two after hatching they are sure to die. So DisTiNorisHedapoet as William Morris going bail for an anarchist editor who lias been arrested for inciting his readers to murder naturally shocks London, just as the utterances of the artist Crane shocked Boston a while ago. Inasmuch as Mr. Morris has always professed extreme socialist doctrines, there seems to be no occasion for astonishment at his action in bailing out an anarchist who was anxious to attend the funeral of his wife. The world owes much to William Morris, including our Morris furniture, our Morris wall paper, our “Earthly Paradise” and thousands of lines of epic poems that are a delight to this generation and will be to generations to come. What a young man who has a best girl wants is to hold Jiis own.