New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-25
pUCKwuEAT CAKES.


sunny breezes and cheat December OF his frosty
bumor But he has gone at last; ard now for the
merry days How many large eyes were gladdened
AS they peeped from nursery windows this morning,
and saw through the frosty pane the thin snowdrft,
and visions of sleigh-rides and snow forts, and
skating in the Park Pretty dears tuck up your
vkating dresses, and bind your velvet hats over
your forehead, and make the skates tight around
the cosiest feet that ever wbired along the ice
and away You will even coax roses out OF Deeem-
Der by your very sweetness You thought the ball
would never go up, and that your furs would rest
in camphor until the buds came. 1t did seem so.
But we find that we were only little impatient,
and that Santa Claus and his deer viii have snowy
roads for their jolly Christmas journey
SO. then, Winter is upon us at last, The good
housewife looks forward to the long nights of home,
the early cande-light. papa in his slippers Jenny
with her knitting the most bewitchine little con-
triyance Of zephyr, as neighbor Jones IS gawky son
thinks, who comes in twice week to-well, to hear
papa read THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, and his old
stories about the cTops, and the discussions Of the
Farmers Club the idea that be thinks anything
of blushing Jenny, the idea of such thing why
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5eries of most perpexing 'charado "'My 4, IL,
s. 81 is the greatest general chat lived Well,
{ wonder! 1t can't be Washington, for his name
has ten letters and this has only five. Try again,
boys" Or that astonishing mystery of the two men
trying TO carry fox aud three geese across the
stream the fox will certainly eat the geese, unless
some mathematical remedy is provided Or il may
be that Squire Thomas comes. Squire Thomas, who
has been the unsuccessful candidate foT poundmas-
Ger for 40 years and talks dreadfuly and stays late,
and is the mortal enemy of JOnes's gawky son, VINO
arranges a scheme of homicide in the midst of
The Squire's argument about Mexico, and pleases
himself with the fancy of the aforesaid Squire lying
dead in the middle of road, never more 10 steal
from him the most delightful hours with the most
delightful girl in the world. Or it may be the
Parson. whose knowledge Of the ten command
1nents and all that is forbidden and required, rs
most astonishing, and whose visit brings dread to
Harry, for his conscience is heavy with the sin of
ravaged bird-nest. Or, perhaps, the pale-iaced
Schoomaster whose patois suggests New-iiamp-
shire, and who wears shabby coat, and talks
good deal of Franconia in the mountains, and
knows so much 1t would not take him long 10
lind out the name of the greatest general in the
world, nor rescue the three geese from the bad fox
And over oil presides the happy housewife, stirring
ND the most charming mess Of buckwheat which
bubbles and froths as though it were waiting I'M
patiently for the ecstasy Of blazing fire and hiss
ing pans and a flood of ravishing honey.
We ask no better type of our American civiliza-
zion than this crisp. brown buckwheat cake. We
,lisdsin the muffin and the waffle They belong TO
ruder civilizations, and associate themselves with
hurried breakfasts and insufficient rest We disa-
vow the hoe e-cake and corn-brcad. 1t would lot be
hard TO show that corn produced rebellion. Mr.
Brooks thinks the Abolition party; Mr.. Stevens,
the fre-eaters of the South. We go back to
aboriginal times and boldly denounce the rebcliious
maize. Mr. Emerson pleads in behalf Of the Apple.
He calls it the social fruit. We are far from beihs
unjust to the apple In its place 1t Is good pt' II
must not be nstionaliZed. The apple belongs 20
The Ysnkee-the restless, bothcrnS Narkee-Who
perplexed our fathers in mercantile spec~hiohs'
and still carries Boston round in crumbs lhe
S,pple means radicalism, or else why dld lhe
serrent select it Of all the fruits TO perpleX
q curious woman. Nor can we accept me
,,bestnut A roasted chestnut is fl for the
gods. 1t gives employment 70 many noble dukes
and counts, who after failing TO sing opera 70 'hi
.ago and TIE Neu- York Herold, find comfortable
business Oh the Bowery. The chestnut suggests
ruins and poisoned daggers, and bandits III the
mountains and Verds tremendous music. MOI
ran we accept the Pancake pancake IS inc
feast of Shrove Tuesday, and the Carnival, ahd
nsbers in Lent. 1t is Jesuitical. BY pancakes tho
.Jesuits hoped to make America kneei TO Rome, Du'
the beloved buckwheat cake kept us true to th'
teachings of the Reformation. The treacherou'
pancake comes again il another shape
German conspiracy, evidently arranged by
the Jesuits, has forced the pancake upon u'
AS the representative Of liberalism, and PHI
losophy, and German thought. 1t has mad'
many converts with its insidious eggs aud seducne
Jelly. but we trust that it will be confined TO New
York. Freedom lives in the mountains, freedom
and buckwhoat cakes, and all Bohemia cannot sub
due them. Above all things, let us beware OF th'
omelette, which means NapoeonisIn, ana wa'
brought here by French emssaries, in the Interest
of Maximilan and Of the hot cross buns, wlict
ara the choice food Of the arisiocrscy Here IS 81
idea for Col. O'Mahony and the Fenian Brother
hood, Let them drive the bun from Ireland, an1
substitute the buckwhcat cake. Then may they
hone TO triumph over Priest and Queen.
We trust that our rcyclcrs, they follow these
chatty whimsical thoughts, may SIT around th'
home table tonight and see nothing but comfort
and peace, and domestic JOY and faces smiling upor
q little monument Of SETTLING, dripping, luscious
buckwheat cakes, and beyond, the cold night th'
,ntreating star, the mocldng merriment OF th'
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