The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-11

1t 10 nufritous animal, and 1t seldom deceives.
The egg is the only creature with whom am 40
quainted who does not diminish in size and per-
scnsl appearance by being eaten. The turkey
becomes ghastly skeleton-a veritable Gehenna
OF peaked bresst-bone and dislocated back;
wilderness Of gravy spiotches and fragmentsry
stufirg The fowl is scarcely better, or the duck,
The goose 10 hideous in the first place, and isn't
improved by q regiment Of carving-knises. The
sucking pig even-thst epitoms Of all that Is sweet
and touching In cookery-the pig with an apple tn
his mouth the pig, succulent and tender within
though outwsrdly crisp and CONNIE il.fauf, the
type Of true good breeding; even the pig, if Pc
rused with prsndisl eye, alasl how changed.
The crab too, the shrimp, the crs Wish and the lob
ster, each or any Of them, can only give at best
mere diJecta memord to the gaze OF him who
seeks their beauty joined to use,'if may quote
from my friend Merlin. Passed through the dery
| furnace Of human hungriness they are no more
themselves. But eggs How sweet how simple,
| how innocent and pure, how beautiful and yet how
benehciall Like true Christian. the egg does
good TO man and still preserves himsslf unspotted
from the world. He is as great OF substance; his
form is urchsrged. save q eight short
ening OF stature, like one who bows
his head to fate yet perseveres; he is
| there before you. gentle and accomplishing even
| in look or eesture. He wears no frowning race,
| nor Goes be disfgure his appearance By the sack
| cloth and ashes of after dinner desolstion like
gsuDt legs OF mutton, obese hams or manyspined
| certtbr0td, such &c ret-snappers, sheeps-head or
| croBkers No his cheek Is smooth, bis manner
| is susve; he smiles and seems to say, I" / would
| really Ike 70 have you eat me again II does ms
so much good" always understand. this unset
| fish creature must be taken In the Anglican man.
ner, l. e., from the she'll. The Romanists make
! modification of him, and therefore don't think
they duly appreciate his merits And as for frying
| him or shirTing him, or poaching him, or making
| an omelette OF him; well, they may all be very
| good in their way-as omelettes, and so forth
but the great original fact is lost sight Of. For
eign habits come in to modify and corrupt his
native taste and the egg In its unique originality
disappears.)
There has been much already written about
| eges and don't fiatter myself that am destined
to make any extraordinary revelations in the mat.
ter only am very fond of eggs, and always
| did like to talk about my friends.
The egg is essentially pure. There Is an old
Latin pro verb, quite In point Just here, and for
| nv leaders, benefit don't mind mentioning IL
| The Romans when they wanted 10 give sense
| of going the whole nor used 10 saw a5 ono ns91,e
| I'D malxra. or from the egg 10 evil: from perfec.
,ion 10 nerdi,ion from ali tbi1os hest and hrioht
est 10 All that IA worst and vicSedest Thus Mac
ing the egg in its proper lieht and evincinr their
| anrreciation of IL virtues. Don't let any com
ceed cIassicist tell me ,n0,,,n means annie for
Know n doesn,tl The Romans were aware that
g9s srs 9ood ,bav Insw ths. egS. s,s sin,.
NV and severely right. thew know In a VOID
hat "egos VISA ergs'D TaIk of the innocenee ~
the bsbe unherni Bah, Compsre II for
| bnt one single instant with tbe limo.
cence Of The egg Unmatched. and meyer
| AGAIN indnIce IN so bsld and meaninoleas an ex.
| nTession. 9Chiz inst here n much struck nv what
I cay, and observes that g babe Is sometimes
rather bald and meaniurl IN ia expression
Int Chiz IL A munster and trifies.l A bebe nm.
bern! thing uncreatedi A mere legal fiction
The babe unborn, indeed No, sir; for regular
| downright purjtv of suirit Give me an egg every
| tire
\ don't mean 10 say there are no sucb things "a
| bad eggs. Not at ali. Ihave known good many
bad eggs myself. Mrs TOWELS nv lendIady, is a
| bad egg-s yerv bad egr.-She came 20 into nv
Office The other day. when there were At least half
| dozen of nv Young le gal friend. there. and had
| the ipdeljcacy 10 mention nv bill tits q certain
| mark in nv opinion. of a vulgar person 10 talk
about money matters in company but then what
| can you expect of those people, Fortunately,
| thew were discussing End Guessing without the ais
| the Shin Canal and other matters Of Highway rob
bery 80 thew didn't exsctlv catch her remarks ex.
cept that IL was something soou, a Bill. and in
fact. enabled TO foist the Old creature of on
them, when she did 60 at last, as ellen. who was
worrying me vastly about petty suit for room
rent. said very heartily that wished the rascal
would pay the old woman and get me rid of her
| as / certainly did. So On that occasion escaped
rather with credit. But il is not "always thla,D
and it has been otherwise" This quotation is
\ from Manfred.)
Bad eggs, however. were never originally bad.
IL 10 only through contact with the world that they
become SO. Now, there is Mrs TOWELS whom
have just sposen Of. When first took lodgings
| with her. shortly after the war she was Jewel.
She was almost absolutely unsuspicous She
| never even used 10 intimate so much as doubt
| when would refer (unwillingly-for l always
loved truth)-when would refer, say, TO my
disappointment at the delay of +" that rernttance,n
which have been so long expecting. She habit
| usy paid great attention to my comfort she saw
to my hot water in the morning herself and as
clothes, Emile would as soon have thought of
being guilty OF honesty in the way of stray cigars
and odd niekels Of leaving anything undone in
woes shall not be exposed to an unsympathedc
world. Yes, emphatcally Mrs. Towels is bad
egg A bad Creole egg at that; for though the
| being who exists in the imagnaiions of Mrs IT'S
locQtdires under the name and style of Mr.
| Towels is supposed to be of English descent his
wife and bodily representative is of French ex-
traction and says. Mastdre Zho. kop and " re
|