Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — FIND PLOVERS’ EGGS COSTLY [ARTICLE]

FIND PLOVERS’ EGGS COSTLY

Two Americans Eat Appetizer In Lon- * don Restaurant and Discover Item Totals $5.50. London. —That young American dramatist, Avery Hapgood, in company with the young American theatrical star, Robert Dempster, arrived in London the other day after a pleasure trip around the continent. European customs and conditions are practically all new to them, but they are learning rapidly and having no end of fun in doing it. The other night they learned about plovers’ eggs. /That wasn’t as funny. After the theater they went to the Savoy for a drink and a bite, and joined the gay crowd at the' supper tables. Neither was hungry so they paid little attention to the items on the menu. “Plovers’ eggs to start with?” asked the waiter. Yes, they would have plovers’ eggs, ' although neither of them had ever seen one even. “He brought us a sort of a nest full of little speckled hard-boiled eggs," said Mr. Dempster. “They didn't look very appetizing, and when we tried them they didn’t taste any better than they looked. I’d a good deal rather have hen’s eggs. There was that nest of. eggs, however, and we as supposed it was the portion we had ordered we

kept on eating until the rest of the supper came. We didn’t like them either. “When the bill came the plovers’ eggs were charged at £1 10s. It took our breath away when we found we ha<T eaten $5.50 worth of them. I never Invested so much money In eggs in a whole month before. The one and six a portion I discovered consisted of one egg. And all the while we were committing this gastronomic sacrilege we were grumbling at ourselves for our economy in eating them to save them. “I am glad plovers are not a domestic bird you meet frequently, for I shall blush every time I see one.”