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Show V eaaa TELL A MAN'S NATIONALITY By the Way an Egg Is Eaten Ons May Discover Country From Which Consumer Comes From, Sherlock Holmes might bare figured this out, but he did not. The average Englishman will always al-ways demand his egg boiled Just threu minutes, then he places It In an egg cup Just large enough to comfortably b'-e the egg fa in, taps the top of the srell and removes tue broken shell with bis lingers. Tbe egg Is eaten a spoonful at a time A Frenchman, much like the Eng-IlKhman, Eng-IlKhman, likes his eggs of three, minutes, min-utes, exactly. He then, "peels" them, places tbem In a glass, stirs ami mixes well together with salt, pepper and butter. He makes a practice of dipping dip-ping bread Into tbe mixture and tut lug It olong with the eggs. A Spaniard wouldn't think of letting his eggs boil more than ono minute. He then breaks It and lets the contents run Into tbe glass, and consumes It as though ho were draughting down a glass of wine. An egg Is only fit In sn Italian's estimation es-timation when It has been placed In cold water and removed just aa the water begins to boll. He then brraks It. pours It on a plate and proceed I to sop it tip with bread. The Herman, like the Italian, demands de-mands Ms eggs as near the liquid state as possible. He breaks his eggs In an unsightly cup and scnupL the liquid out as though It were soup. The American is about the only on that prefers his eggs boiled hard When they are served up to him. h knifes them In half, removes the con tents Into a glass, after which lie add a plentiful supply of pepper, butter ant salt. He then minces tbe eggs fine mixing them well with the spices. an( eats them with his toast. |