Sultana

Two great, sad eyes of liquid, melting brown turned last week in mute reproach upon the President of Austria, good Dr. Michael Hainisch, kindly, snowy-bearded and well beloved.

The brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck.

While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails.

To Maria goes now the golden bell. Sportingly President-Hainisch declared last week, that he is glad, not sorry. He is glad because Austria has become, during the past few weeks, a milk exporting country. This development, thinks kindly President Hainisch, is due in part to the interest which he has excited among Austrians in Bella and consequently in dairying. Bella has now lost her bell, but Austria has gained a new export industry.