DWARF EGGS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3013, 26 February 1917, Page 10

DWARF EGGS

NEW BREAKFAST-TABLE FEAr "What bird's egg is this—wren's or wagtail's?" asked an ironical London husband tho other morning of his wife as he pointed to his breakfast egg. It ivas a very small breakfast egg. The egg-cup absorbed it and left only the little domed top visible. The husband shook' the eeg-cup and the meagre little egg rattled loosely in it. He lifted the egg out of the cup, cut off the top of it, and then complained that he did not .know which was the top and which was tho egg. "If it is really a henV egg," ho said, "then there is only one explanation—they are turning two eggs into throe eggs in special factories."

But tlia lucky ar.d rolativelv affluent people who can. stiJl procure breakfast oggs aro beooming used to the dwarf egg. It is indeed credibly reported that a now race of egg epicures aro arriving who swear by the dwarf egg. They havo it split and eat it ou£ of the deep shell liko an oyster. The explanation of the dwarf egg is simple. It is no now curiosity of natural history. There have always been a percentage of undersized eggs, but before the war the buyers of "new laids" never saw thorn. They were picked out and sold among the "fresh eggs," "Best eggs," "cooking eggs," or that of eggs which Dan Leno sj.'nply described with an intonation that cannot be described as "eggs." Now that eggs are as precious as pearls, the dwarf eggs are sold with the normal-sized eggs, and most people flcccpfc them without a murmur.—— "Daily Mail."