The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-11-27
FAT PORK.

petite-their pivotal attractions-their
cpicurian monomanie. Fat pork is
mine.
There is flavor about the delicacy
that can be found in nothing else. The
unctuous, juicy richness of nice pork
steak, cut well forward on the tender
loin-a slice of light brown meat,
streaked with semi-transparent fat, for
all the world like an agate stone-has
charms for me that few other edibles
have. admire ham-I esteem bacon
fiat and lean together, broiled to a
turn, with bit of lemon squeezed over
it)-but love tenderloin!
o golden days of boyhood! How
fondly does my soul gaze backward
with yearning eyes, looking wistfully
through the lorgnette of memory,
toward the halcyon hours l passed in
the valley of the Mississippi-that land
of fever and ague and swine! The name
of Illinois will forever be coupled in my
mind with the name of tenderloin and
thus made forever dear. How well
remember going again and again to
Gou's slaughter-house on the Piasa
creek in Middle Alton and getting a
large tin pail full of the delicious streaky
pieces in their freshness of
rose and snowfall for the inconsidera-
morn;ros, hreaLfsst Of tandarlo o;,'
cr;snly 5ro;led with ;ts arovu nnnrad
over tbe hncLwheat cob o,.;s,,u P PoLoJi
Al WIN J;d 7 avar Lao t a,. rs' 1870 oe
the setting sum- have eaten nerioord
pate since them have known the lows
of perelrir aur trufes-but my Gastric
longinps still revert To those bannv davs
Let ne pause and drop q tear
| sat at the long table of the Banouet
House. in the pleasant town of IngIa-
ton. whitLer | had been called on nm
portant business. AS usual. / was late
at breakfast always am-but there
was reason for it on this occasion. for
a very pretty Young lady and her broth.
err had also a way Of coming late.
Three MORNINGS had met them there
and we had got To know one another
so that we exchanged those little eve
recognitions that betoken a readiness
for further acquaintance. If had
bowed to nv fair table neiohbor She
would have returned the salutation. II
she had smiled and "made as If she
would speak, l should have bowed
But we were both obseryant of etiouette
and did not trespass upon its ruies so
far. / am naturally diffident-so was
she; and we contented ourselves with
the salaam of chances aforementioned
until the third morning.
She entered the dinino-roop, le.n;nr
on her brothers. arm and look;ng ;naxse
pressibly charming. in lowered dress
inp-gown. bordered with broad scarlet
stripes. and confined about the round
slender waist by a scarlet cord and tas.
sci. Her hair. which was very th;cp
and dark. was loosely and tastef,,Ir ar
ranged with n few little snravs Of bal;o-
trope; or something of that sort care.
lessly thrust into its shadowy tresses.
Her coquettish collar, of white mar
settles, cut in rounded points and but
ton-hole stitched with red silk, encir
cled a neck of the most bewitching
whiteness and grace of contour. A Sc
rene, yet vivacious smile PLAYED about
her clear, hazel-gray eyes, with their
long, dark lashes, and her exquisite
mouth, which combined the soft, coral
line pink OF some sea-shells, with the
dewy freshness of a rosebud. Her hands
and arms were like her throat. very
white and OF the finest form, and were
innocent OF any bedizening, if / except |
a large slngle-stone diamond-ring-
the forehnger OF her right hand. The
only ornaments her other fingers bore
were their own dimpled knuckles and
ponshed nails, long, narrow, roseate |
ana scrupuiously cared-for. As she
.rippea down the aisle between the two
laoies her swaying. crinoline disclosed
Sllmpses OF TWO charming little feet,
arranged IN cunning slippers, with bows
u mni,e iace ana req ribbon
,s o aauon me- gen'le reader put am
- ooSer'a'i' as am susceptible.
IL was late, even for us, and my wait
Or returned, Just as the last-comers en-
Ie req TO say that he could not get what