Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-20

The krOut Fesai v ai-Histery and hiiesoPhv
Ofthe X routs.
This ancient and time honored association CONT
to celebrate its periodical festivals with due So
lemnity and in its green old age and vigorous Sc
ncscence, il shows that Of all our propensues the
pleasures Of the table are the last that leave us,
and that we frequently step into the boat Of the unre-
lenting feryman of Styx, with yesterdays relishes
still fresh upon cur lips very wise providence has
ordained not only that the continuance OF the success
sive generations Of the of men, but that their
maintenance in strength and spirits, should be manag-
ed by pleasureable process and that the first and
most craving Of human wants should be rendered an
Intellectual operation, in which some OF the sublmest
mysteries of nature should be Incorporated to CRAFTY
an e,herealzed appetite, and show how much genius,
inspiration labor and refinement can be eXerted in
connecting surprising dish, and the quintessence OF
odor and govt mraculously blending into perfect
and nnryalled sauce The heroes and sages of old
did their own cooking; kings and warriors attended
indscrmnately TO the service of the Spit and priests
were the able and scientific functionares of the
XII chem war and eating were tie principal business
of life; and the sect of the Krous was held in much
esteem and reverence. For they are very ancient
people, and as universal as they are venerable; they
disc, and listened attentively the which
passed between the archange Raphael and our pri-
NAL parents in Eden. The gravity and demeanor with
which the Krous ofthe garden hey were then IN their
original state efvegetables listened 10 the celestial col
oquy between first parents and their guest, SEEM
ed to strike the Imagination of the archange and he
took the family of Krouts into his especial favor
and when the earth began TO be peoped, he breathed
upon them, and they became men, like the Myrmldons
of Thessaly. The Krouts present at the building
of Babel; and it is said, that by this time they had
become more profane than any Of their assembled
brethren engaged in that stupendous undertaking.
aud this accounts for the uncouhness OF their dialect
and the number of consonans that 60 10 the manu-
acture of their parts of speech; as in The confusion
of tongues that then ensued, the most daring tribes
were cursed with the mos, unpronounceable Ian
guage.
The antiquity of the Krouts is even greater than
that of the Freemasons, as their mysteries are more
reconcile. They were prominent class in Egypt
and conjured in opposition TO Moses. Magi in the
East magicans in Egypt Brahmins in India, (who
abstain altogether from animal food, and shew their
veneraton for their origin by living upon m the krouts
at the present day emnlvorous generation, and
shew their high rank in the table of presidency of
gourmands by the universally Of their food, while
they prove the honors of their origin by the enhus
asm with which they reverence the emblem Of their
faith and name.
This sect has always fourished very much in the
Netherlands, and its cutie was introduced by that
hardy and enterprisng race when they came TO this
country with their lares ct penates In an unner-
rupted descent from the first adventurers sprung the
present race of KRoUTs who held their periodical fes
val on Tuesday evening last, at Nowlan's Prospect
Hill Hotel al which nearly two hundred vo,ares of
he Krout like Rabelais' s'amateurs de la Dive bou-
eille'' were present, witness the rcsusctaon of
the venerable Grand Krsui; who ever and anon opens
his eyes, heavy with years. and mods his head with
mysterious sublmity, like an oracular messenger of
good tidings that all is going well in the world of
spirits, and our sublunary sphere that all influences
are pure and saubrous and that the universal world
and the Krou,s in portsular may assemble in
his honor and rejoice in their good appetiles, and the
boun,eous supply of increment for their exercise. On
this occasion the Krou,s ou'did all former outdongs
and in the annals Of the fraternity, the feast OF Tues
day last is emblazoned as rubric day for the vcnera
ton of future generations of Krouts and as subject
fer generous emulation TO be
In their a ,wing caps freshly remembered"
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