The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-08-10
The PreireI

Ab'o 'ShNiouS buib Hi'WS btst "
the shade, the shade of boor gar.
den boiug preferred. II is ripe
birth, and is ready to cat as soon
it is picked, In north Germany.
whore tho bcnigh,od pooplo do no
know any bettor, the pretzol lie call
cd "kringlo." This ia enough ,
spoil the pretzol, only that it is im
p ssible.'
The pretzol is always planted o
FREQ lunch counters. There ia NOR
nutrition in a barrel OF sawdust thna
there is in q clothes basket full
pre,2els. Bnt tho pretzcl is mucl
the dryer Of the two. The genuiu.
pre,zol has heart like mar. |.
yard, and tho hide is vanished /
keep il dry. II is vanished wit.
bot lyo, and sprinklcd with salt an,
auieeed to givo it tone.
Before it assumes the expression
30 familiar to the lovers OF this por-
onnial fruit. the pretzel is about thu
size OF a garter snake. After it is
tied mp in that intricate knot which
makes the Gator wonder where t.
takc his first bite. no man can guess
at its length Enough is known,
however, to warrant scientific au
thoritios in saying that II man
should swallow a pretzol whole, aud
it rhould suddenly straigbten out it
him, IL would kill him in minute
II 10 not possible, however, for
man to cat pretzel hole. You car
cat all the rest OF it, bat while there
Is moro hole than pretzol to bogiu
with, yet the IN orc you eat the pretz
el, the more hole there il left.
John Horning, OF Baltimore, baked
tho first pretzols over baked 10 Amer
lea, nifty years ago, II is believed
that some OF them arc the sam,
pretzels set out on the lunch coun-
tor to day.
The prelzel, however, is Of Cor
man origin, aud was 6rst made in
that happy land.
Colonel lngersoll, however, denios
this. Ho says there is no evidence,
in the formation or external struct.
nre OF the protzoi. Of a ruling intolli-
genco, and he had rather be a peas
ant and wear wooden shoes, than be
worth million dollars, and manacl-
cd to tue dust by the clanking chains
OF blinded priostcraft that laid it's
fingers, livid with hate, upon his
throat and bade him accept the hid
eous superstition that tho protzel was
made by human hands. He says ho
rather halls with glad eyes and
unfcttored brain tho plnin, grand
truth that the protzol sprang full
grown from the limitless relms OF
tho illnminablo infinite, like Atlas
from the brain of Pericles. But for
infidels, he says, to-day there would
be no pretzels.
The Colonel's thoughts on these
metaphysical questions arc deep aud
beautiful. Bat they are very much
like tue protzel you cant tell which
is tho front end.
The pretzol is eaton. Why, no.
body seems to understand. When
first introduced in this country,
hackmen used them for snaillo rings
but by and by people got to eating
them, and it has been popular GUS
tom ever since: The soberer the
man is, the fewer pretzels he eats,
and conversely
The market valu, of the pc ,el is
one hundred aud fifty for q dollar.
They got started at this, and have
never varied from ii very much. AS
an article OF food it isn't worth quite
80 much as that probably not by q
hundred and fifty,
After a man has lost all his teeth,
it is hollow mockory, withering
sarcasm. and an ineflacable stain up
on the name hospitality, to Offer hiln
a pretzol.-B'trdette,