The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22
DRAMATIC I COOKBOOK.
How to Prepare Tragedies, Society Dramas.
Comedies and meiOdramas.

How to Prepare Tragedies, Society Dramas.
Comedies and MeiOdramas.
The following simple recipes, from
a Dramatic Cookbook which Mr..
Redundancy has in mind TO publish
one of these days, will be found OF
especial value TO young housewives:
4 Tragedy. One red cloak. trimmed
with white catskin with black spots;
two crowns of red plush, brass gar
nishing; a few suits of old armor; half
dozen pairs of tights; one dress, with
train; few doublets and three or four
short gowns and mob caps. Mix these
carefully in q battlemented vessel, and
add colored glass. swords, daggers and
battle axes to suit the taste. Pour into
several receptacles, namely, a forest
of three trees and one grassy mound
(the latter can be made of half the
body of bass-viol, cut lengthwise and
covered with green baize); an interior
papered in blue and gold, with two
mirrors, a table and four gilt chairs; a
dungeon, and a section of one side of
street Sprinkle with blood Cred
paint) and let them simmer for half an
hour. Add a poisoned fagon, two
largo daggers, one trumpet, few
cheers of the populace and some blank
verse. Set away to cool. Then gar
nish with strident gait, plumes and
funnel-tOp boots, and bake i'm slow
oven. Serve red hot, with thunder
and-lightning sauce.
Society Drama. Take six Worth
dresses; a mill-and-water dialogue;
two pairs of lovers; saucy servant
girl; an Irish footman, with a predilec-
tion for poteen; u French adventurer,
who speaks broken English like a ma
tive of the Emerald Isle and shrugs his
shoulders perennially; one mother,
very fat; one father, with gray whisk-
ers, bald head and very stiff in the
joints; guardian angel, in the form of
a very gruff family physician; one
police officer; tramp; forged check
an English lord. and graceless but
heroic young gentleman. Compound
these together in "A habby paste, pour
into a gaudy drawing-room, and let
the mixture remain until it is half
baked. Garnlsh with small-talk and
serve milk-warm.
4 Comedy. Take plentifully OF
chestnutty puns, Irish and French
brogue, horse play, giggling girls,
doggerel songs, shabby-genteel men,
cracked voices, exaggerated dancing
and dresses abbreviated at either ex-
tremity, and mix them intimately in
any thing that comes TO hand. Car
nish with slang and profanity, and
serve raw.
A Melodra1nG. One villain, with black
moustache; one irreproachable young
woman; three rejected suitors to same;
one noble young man Ga sailor or sol
dier preferred), redolent of lofty senti-
ment; one doting father, good-uatured
and given to platitudes, otherwise n
simpleton; one mother, deceased, one
locket with secret spring; one shabby
young man, who never speaks but in
didactic blank verse; one explosion
one jewel of a domestic, who knows
just what every body is going to do,
and is ever ready to assist or prevent.
as the situation demands; one serving
man, in love with the jewel aforesaid,
and like her in. every. respect. sex and
habiliments excepted; one drunkard;
one addle-headed village Clergyman;
and short-dressed, thin-leggcd village
maidens and country pumpkins to suit
the taste. Place over fergent fire and
boil continually for three hours. A bal
lad or two or breakdown may be add
ed if the mixture needs. thickening.
Season with bathos and patriotic fus-
tian and serve very hot.-B Boston Trans
cTTpt.