To you, dear child!

The child is marked by the stamp of "curiosity": he scarcely sees a thing without asking — what is it? Who made it? How did it come to be as it is? To satisfy this curiosity, "The Woman's Voice" decided to tell the dear child how

the egg turns into a chick — this marvel that proves the power of the Creator, exalted be He...

Gather, dear child, a little straw and make a nest of it. Place a few eggs in this nest so that their mother the

hen may sit brooding over them for twenty-one days, until they become chicks. The eggs must be turned every little while, for fear the chick should stick to the shell before its formation is complete; and nature herself has endowed the hen with the knowledge of turning the eggs with her beak from one side to the other.

The "broody hen" keeps the eggs warm, for she does not leave them, night or day, except for the call of food or drink. And while she is brooding over them she lays no new eggs. And do you know, dear child, that there is another way of hatching eggs, by means of an electric machine that turns

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them automatically every three hours?? Now look at the pictures, to see how the egg gradually becomes a chick.

In the picture you see a child

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