The humble egg, joy of the breakfast table, has never been given a square deal in this world of ours. Long before curates were known pre-hists man had invented the story of the curate's egg (though curiously enough Mr. H. G. Wells fails to fix the date in his history book), and ever since then comedians and comic papers have owed a large part of their existence to the egg. To-day America has added another chapter_to its unhappy story by persuading the Supreme Court to declare as constitutional what is familiarly known as the "China egg law." The purport of this law (which was briefly sveferred to in yesterday's locals) is to require hotels and restaurants using foreign eggs, either for consumption or in the preparation of food, to advise the public of the fact by a "plainly readable sign'', so in future (having an idea of the egg exports of China) we may see the United States tagged and labelled all over with remarks about the products of foreign hens. It is really a case of subsidizing the comedians. for it opens out to them a new field, with never a thought for the feelings of the chicken waiting to be hatched. Of course all legislation is utilitarian in these modern times, and it really is a blessing. in more ways than one. that hens do not go on strike.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.