wee chicks were a sorry looking sight, but they improved quickly when put in a soft lined basket and placed behind the warm kitchen stove. Within a few days the entire flock was ready to take up life under the shelter of their mother's wing and learn to peck away at food provided for them in their protected shelter. Somehow, as I eat chicken today, I have a feeling that it just isn't chicken at all. It is something scientifically created with never a mother's wing to nestle under - no mother to talk to it in her "cluck, cluck" language - to scratch for it or lead it oflf to the far reaches of the orchard where the biggest and choicest worms and bugs were to be found. We listen in vain for the crow of the old rooster and the cackle of the hens but bow to change and the path of progress as we order chicken for dinner. 33 Memorial - ''Decoration Day Looking back sixty years or more to "Decoration Day", May 30th, one of the very special Holidays of the year. August 12, 1862, Company G of the 117th Illinois Regiment, was organized at Marine, 111., with volunteers from Highland, Alhambra, St. Jacob and Marine. When mustered out at Camp Butler, Springfield, 111., on August 6, 1865, a goodly number