Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — Turkish “Bird’s Milk.” [ARTICLE]

Turkish “Bird’s Milk.”

“I fed him birds’ milk.” This curious expression was used by the eld Sultan of Turkey while a prisoner on his way to Saloniki, with reference to bis brother Mohammed, his predecessor on the throne. Abdul Hamed was lamenting his own fate and telling his captors how little he deserved It and how kind be had been to his brother. “I fed him with bird’s milk,” he said, as if that were the greatest kindness he could show. What is bird’s milk? Not the Turkish equivalent of the milk of human kindness, but a European brand of condensed milk bearing on the can a picture of a bijd on a nest. It is more unfortunate for a man to be named Smith than a girl: A girl may get married some day and change her name. And every woman knows best whara her oWn shoe pinches. 1