Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1918 — Why Is a Guinea Hen? [ARTICLE]

Why Is a Guinea Hen?

Whoever designed the guinea hen and composed the music for her vocal organs must have used a rasp for thq tuning fork. Guinea hens and their husbands are alike in appearance; when you’ve seen one you’ve seen the (other. Their plumage is of one and the same piece of goods like the Quakers’. If ever you have indulged in filing the teeth of a cross-cut saw you’ve heard the synonym of her melody Nature produced this variety of fowl and the- farmer who gives her board and lodging is no good Christian. I say this because any man who sells you a guinea hen as youthful and tender, has designed to skin you. I have a dim recollection of tasting one many years ago, and I'will say this —the gravy was quite tender. A group of guineas running to keepsiut of harm’s way, resembles a streak of ten-cent calico of somber hue, with polkadots. The guiuea hen lays a very small egg with spots on it similar to those we see at cheap grocery stores In fly time. The eggs have no rating in the commercial world. They are used exclusively for hatching more trouble. — Zirn, in Cartoons Magazine.