St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-12
Danger of Getting Crow.

AT market
gentleman enters to buy apate of partridges
Z" How much is this patef" he asks.
"Twenty frances
'Are there several partridges In it?''
"Only one."
ga man must be millionaire to eat your
pates."
1--WE have others that are much cheaper"
'sWhere are they?''
"There. Five france ~
"They are just as large as the others?"
g Yes, but they are filled with crow"
The charm of this opening dialogue is its can
dor. When a man wants a bigger pate than the
legitimate market affords, why he can have one
with the crow filling and no mistake about it. If
he be politician after some signal victory over
the other fellow, he could seem magnanimous,
and at the same time secure delicate and wholly
novel revenge by serving him banquet of crow
disguised in pates. To come right down to 1t, If
crow must be eaten at all, economically or polit-
icaly, it is decidedly better to make it in pates
The pate is the thing.
The bizarre fancy might improvise hydra
headed extravaganza starting with the
idea that the pate is only
rebus typifying the convenience, and possibly
the necessity of stimulation in nearly all our hn-
man methods.
plausible medium for swallowing things which of
their simple, unfxed selves would not be at all
paatable to US. The French say often Of good
natured man, c'sst une bonnie pate d'hon,Dse,
which is very expressive way of Indicating that
his crustis Of the puff or rich order which hath
made him unctuous enough to lubricate popu-
lar saying.
The pate was the adroit discovery of sophisti-
Gated m iefoe f,11
we'll as for giving piquancy to others agreeable
in the mouth. Likewise doth it convey q mys-
FERROUS flavor to certain edibles by suggestions of
artifce and completely
Moreover tho very word in that polite foreign
tongue, naturaized by elegant humanity every
where that sublimated cooking is known, appeals
in its halfguessed, half-comprehended mystery
to innate love Of eabala in the average mind How
few are positive about the contents of an ordin-
airy pie, and when it is question of pate with
its accents alone, and its inwardness-who has
the diyinatiou to speak as BELTS cttoyen oracu-
larly cognizant.
With us, alas, it is not in many respects a mat
ter of the commendable candor of the introduc-
tory dialogue. There is a lurking terror of adul-
teration in nearly all that is eatable and drinka-
BILE. No butter that is above suspicion no milk
IHdI 10 NlOiiy VI DONluc NO
pork that is not sick in advance of the consumer.
and now with infinite perturbation tbs averred
that the aristocrac trufle is subject to the aban-
doned tampering of the perfdious and mercenary
French purveyors. Read that lozenges of black
cloth garnishing the cuticle of turkey can be
passed off trufles, and regret that Carlyle
couldn't have used that stuffing for his courtier
in Sartor Resartus rather than the sawdust which
betrayed him.
Blackened bread crumbs, potato, and Turkish
-four deceitfully thrust into the jackets of the
Pergord black potato, and are eaten with perhaps
the remark that the trufles of the year are lack
ing in perfume.
A number of French officers were almost at
the point of death after eating trufies
at the Palais Royal. The police arrested aman
who owned a factory for making artificial truffes
at Versailles, and who gave them the right per-
fume by means Of very injurious essence. He
is in Jail, shops and stalls are under government
observation, the real article and the shams are
up for analysis in the municipal laboratory, and
the truihe world is doubtful and gloomy.
The strict integrity Of pate de foje gras is all
that solaces the average western man in these
demnition assembling times.