Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-21


THEEE are three things every other
man considers himself competent to do
hold office. edit a newspaper. and keep
. hotel. In fact there are but few men
Who are adequate to the latter avocation,
for no person is fit for . hotel keeper
who does not thoroughly hate frying
pan. To place meat in contact with
that spiteful little iron enemy to human
health and happiness ought to be reck-
oned Is the objectionable sin. LET
me make the songs of . people, said
Beraneer, "and I care not who shall
make their laws" but it is the cooks
more than the poets or statesmen who
hold in their hands the happiness OF q
people. We believe that fried beefsteaks
and fried bacon were among the original
causes disposing the Southern people
toward secession, and discomfort and
disorder will vanish as gridirons appear.
OF all abominable and abdominal horrors
the greatest is mutton chop fried in fat
until one can exclaim with Byron:
It's grease, but living grease no more"
Why not cultivate cookery as fine art,
equal with music and painting? Is the
sense of taste less noble than that Of
sight, or hearing. or smell? The cook
of Louis Fourteenth fell upon his sword
because he had spoiled dish, and we
know of cooks who would be benefited
by implement for the same offense.
The morality of people is more init
mately connected with their cooking
than is generally supposed. Otard and
obstinacy 60 together, and SO do liberal
ideas and lager. We commend all min
listers of the Gospel to a study of the
benefits of gridirons. Fried meat, TOO
much grease and too little exercise drive
the ungodly from the ministrations OF a
clergyman who breaches sulphurously OF
total depravity, while they flock to hear
the man who, refreshed by meats cooked
in their own juices over hot fire, and
invigorated by exercise, sends the devil
80 grass" in the sanctuary as easily as
he /" counters on the nob' or " brushes
the fly trap" Of his adversary in the
gymnasium.
There are MANY excellent people
in this world who honestly believe that
those who differ with them upon any
point are either very great fools OF very
small scoundrels. We have seen two
Germans, wha agreed in politics and
theology, become deadly enemies be-
cause one asserted that Handel was o
greater composer than Mozart. We have
known intelligent people grow irrecon-
cilable foes over the merits of rival sew
ing machies, and the story of the jury
man who told the judge that "he was
agreed, but there were eleven obstinate
fools he couldn't dc anything with, |"
finds its parallel in everyday life. Let
rs be moderate in our judgments of those
who differ with Us. A man is not an ig-
norant imbecile and dissolute drunken
thief because he is fond of mullins for
breakfast or favors q high protective
tariff; nor is he striving to debauch and
degrade humanity because he drinks his
coffee without sugar OF has weakness
for the principles Of free trade.
What . pity it is that no person
has written great poem about the war
. lyric that should live. Longfellow tried
to write about the sinking of the Cum
berland, and mlserably failed. Bryant
approached it more nearly in his poem
of"Not Yet" Russell Lowell has given
Ms some lines which ring out with q
martial, blood stirring resonance, even
through the idiom in which Hosea Big
Glow is made to speak. Oliver Wendell
Holmes made some efforts, but never
eaualed his verses on Webster. We
have had some clever battle lyrics. but
the poem which can properly symbolic
the great sacrificing patriotic heart OF
Az ,.x;ou yomains IN be written