The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-08-19
This foggy weather is developing the fact, that
the average American girls hair does not crimp
naturally.

| the average American girls hair does not crimp
naturally.
BAKED BEANS. One of the peculiarities
about the climate of New England, besides fog
and new rum, is baked beans. They were dis
| covered at Plymouth, Mass, about twenty-four
hours after the Pilgrims landed, and they have
been discovered every Sunday morning since,
ON the tables of all respectable Christians IN
| New England. If there has been any improve
| ment made on this invention, it is III having the
| Sunday morning beans Saturday night. 1t is
on that day that the majority OF our people
have to do two or three days work. or lind that
thew have branded themselves liars The shoe
maker has promised more work for Saturday
| than he can possibly do in month, and the
tailor has agreed to have a new suit of clothes
ready for each of his customers. All through
the week they have labored at their customary
speed, until Saturday, when their piles of prom
ises loom up before them, and then they strip
for the conflict, and the way things hum is
wonderful But with all their struggling they
find themselves distanced in the race, and then
they fall back, faint and hungry, on ''heaven's
best gift to mana lie, and are saved.
1t is after one of these regular conflicts with
fate and business, that the weary man pulls out
his watch and anXiously looks at it, and gently
squeezes it, that he may induce it to hurry
little, and when the hand points to the supper
hour, he darts out of his store with the raplditv
OF ray of light through knot hole, and he
slackens not his pace till his house is reached,
and he finds his supper ready on the table.
He sinks into chair feeling like a length of
stove pipe without damper in it; hollow as
the reading on an outlawed note. He thinks
that the first mouthful will drop into him, like
a bullet down a shot tower. The corners of
his mouth are drawn tight, and huge wrinkles
furrow his brow. He don't make much con-
NcrSatiOn as he uncoVcrs the maple and dishes
out the stcaming beans to those around the
table. After all are helped, he ills a plate for
himself, and lays section Of brown bread be-
side it. He cuts into the butter as if If only
cost a cent a pound; then he leans back in his
chair and gazes into the plate for a moment,
then raises his goblet TO his mouth and takes
swallow; wiping his moustache with his nap
kin, he seizes his fork and raising it well filled
With beans to his lips, shut his mouth over
them like the spring of rat trap. AT the same
instant the lines at the corners of his mouth
and the burrows on his brow imperceptibly fade
away, and self satisfied expression passes over
his face and he looks as though he had corner
lois to sell in every large city in America, and
glancing upto his wife he CALCULATES, thunder,
Maria, them beans is bully" There is 10 par
ticular amount of grammar in that remark, bat
ii is check full of sentiment.
Now beans, to be beans, need to be properly
cooked. A woman may be as beautiful as an
angel and able to sing like seraph, 1--WE be-
lieye saraphs do sing), and yet not know how
10 cook beans. Authorities differ regarding
the best Kind of beans to bake, but as the ''yel-
market, they may be considered as the most
fashionable. Three things are necessary for
baked beans; the beans, nice pork and Gov
cred bean pot. Look al the state Of Minnesota,
which raises the finest wheat in the country.
has grasshoppers, and the falls of st. Anthony,
and Minnehaha, and vet an earthen bean pot
cannot be purchased in the State. There is
New York city, with all its wealth, its huge
swindeS and dirty markets; and yet they bake
beans i'll an open tin cake pan, and they stare
nj YOU from your plate, as white and pale as if
they had died of consumption. Fill a regular
down east earthen bean pot nearly full Of well
parboiled beans, but in a piece of nice country
pork, add a spoonful of molasses for the COM
p!eXion, bake anywhere from twelve to fifteen
hours. serve Saturday night ri $50 and invite
Us To tea, and we will come if we can.