Show COURTEOUS HINTS they are RR forcible an other A case la point perhaps there is TIO greater strain upon neighborly feeling than living next door to a poultry yard whose in are allowed to run making exercise ground of the adjacent flower and vegetable gardens A san diego young lady who was subject to this annoyance politely a her neighbors says youths companion to keep his pets M home sh naked it several times and still no attention was paid to her grievance finally she hit tip on an ingenious method of protecting herself she prepared grains of eom by tying to them avith strong carpet thread small carda Plea Ee keep your chickens fit home and dia tributes tri buted the grains about her flower beds the chickens came to feast as usual and greedily swallowed the corn nol perceiving the thread until the card was against their jaws then aney could neither swallow the card nor rid themselves of the swallowed corn twenty or thirty of the marauders ran home bearing the polite request to their culpable owner who struck with the method of the hint promptly cut the threads and cooped up the birds this was forcible but a delicate hint upon 1 like of lene wn conveyed from one aggrieved relative to where stronger measures would have been out of place the su biering victim of hens haq taken ill and the perhaps unconscious offender slew his choicest birds and sent to alie invalid the invalid denst ed thereon and sent back a message of thanks to the effect that the fowl was delicious and ansted of her violets |