Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-04-17
THE C0MPOTE OF APPLES.
A King Taught by His Queen How
to Form a Good Cabinet.

There was once King, but 1 do not
know of what, for history is always SO
tiresome about questions and answers
that Ihave never dared to, inquire. The
only thing that do know is that he
was called Perico, and that he had
married certain Mari-C Castana, and
also that he passed his life thinking how
he could form a good Cabinet of officers,
and saying, when every one turned out
worse than the last: at is enough to
make my nose swollenr' 4t &
Mari-C -Castana, the Queen, was a
famous cook and looked upon politics
with indifference. In those days there
were none of those intimate relations
between politics and dining, for, like
other barbarians, the people had never
thought Of very simple thing: to
fortify the heart it is enough to fortify
the stomach. its neighbor, and half a
glass is enough to kindle patriotic
glow.
His wife's indifference to politics
troubled King Perico greatly, and such
discussions as these were quite common
between their Maiesties:
''Do you know, wife, think 1 see
how we can vary our course"
"Bnt it is varied every day."
You are mistaken; it has never been
varied"
WAS there ever such q forgetful
man! Anybody would think l never
took any pains not to have the same
course at table two days in success
sion!n
'But, wife, it was of other courses
was speaking"
why, how am to get you others
when everything in the market is as
high as the clouds, and 1 do not know
how ! am to lay hold of a thing
"How you run on! With your absurd
fancy for cook ng you mix up things in
the strangest-"7
mo, | don't There is no fault to be
found in the things mix. No King, be
he King ofwhat he may, ever eat bet
ter mixed salad than that you have just
eaten'
Woman. listen to me and do not
scorch-"
"Do you presume to say that there
was ANYTHING scorched on the breakfast
table this morningp"
II have nor sad anything of the
kind But will say this: that there is
no talking any sense with you. and l
shall leave you before my nose be-
comes swo len. -
Ani the squabble ended by the Kings
going to his private room to bury him
sef IN political affairs, while the Queen
hurried to the kitchen to see if the soup
needed skimming.
These alterations afforded King
Perico some very lively moments. He
was feeling of his nose one mo ming and
finding it, ashe thought, a little swollen,
ne made up his mind to forbid the
Queen formally from entering the
Kitchen; but an unexpected event
changed the appearance of affairs and
subsequently proved that he had been
mistaken IN his symptoms. .1'
As the King rarely left the palace and
as the Queen went out to market every
morning all petitions addressed to their
Majesties naturally fell into the hands
of the Queen. Ono morning. while she
was at the fish-market cheapening the
price OF a cotifish. a ragged lad ap-
preached her and respectfully handed
her petition and Immediately ran
away, E f f#
The paper contained these words:
"Your Highness The exponent is a
faithful subject to your Majesty, and as
a proof OF it, now out of Office, for your
Majesty's perlidious advisers have
cleared him ont to put in donkey out
OF one of their own families. So after
that he thinks it his duty to let your
Majesty know that your Majesty's
treacherous Ministers are preparing a
great pie as a present; and he SAYS no
more, for, he who has a good under
stand ng, etc" /" &
What impudence! what audacity!
what iniquityP2 exclaimed Queen Mari
Castana, angrily, ON reading it. 40
think there should be any one in the
palace who should attempt to make a
pie, when that is my speciality; that any
one should attempt to make pastry al
ter the receipt of my most noble glory.
The King shall know of 1t directly, and
II his Majesty does not hang these trait
ors tho instant he has read it, we shall
know the reason why" ,-sri rs ,ss-
And the Queen began to run toward
the palace, more angry at every step. :
''Perico!" she called out TO her hus-
band, '"read, read this paper and see
what your .perfdious advisers are plan
ming. Hang them instantly; have no
mercy, or else will put corrosive sub
limateiin your soup instead of salt"
King Perico had his suspicious that
the pie mentioned in the paper would
be less easy of digestion than the
Queens and began iuyestioafions wifi,