Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-22

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And vivid counterpart is mine;
also serve my fellowmen,
Though in a somewhat different line.
The poor, and their concerns. she has
Monopolized, because Of which
1t fails to me to labor as
a Little Brother of the Rich.
For their sake at no sacrifice
Does my devoted spirit quail.
give their horses exercise;
As ballast on their yachts sail.
Upon their tally-ho's ride
And brave the chances of storm;
l even use my own inside
To keep their wines and victuals warm.
Those whom we strive to benefit
Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;
Hove my Rich, and admit
That they are very good to me.
Succor the Poor, my sister,
While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health
Will strive to share and mollify
The trials of abounding wealth.
These are no doubt the honest sentiments
of Mr.. Ward McAllister. Mr.. McAllister
is, indeed, a very Big Brother of the Rich. 1t
is hard to see how some 400 or so OF these un-
fortunate people could get along without
him. This impression is heightened and
emphasized by a reading of Society as 1
Have Found It" (Cassell Publishing Co. /;
J. r. Weldiu & Coz
In spite of the rather ill-natured iests and
jibes OF Life, whose editors seem for the mo-
ment TO have abandoned their good manners,
and in spite of the pictured and colored
quips and quirks of Puck, Mr.. Ward Nc
Allister has written an entertaining book
1t is not 4 contribution to Iitera-
ture, that is very true. But it
amuses. it diverts, it instructs. And
SO it has its place. Must all writers dis
course upon the pro orundities of Aristotelian
philosophy? or formulate pages of mathe-
MATES? Do we not all of us eat and drink
as well as think? And spend more atten-
tion upon our eating and drinking than
upon our thinking, some of us: will any,
body deny ii? Why, they say now that
even Aristotle himself wrote book of good
advice about how TO behave at the table.
And we all know that even the literary So
cieties always wind up their feast of reason
with another kind of feast, more substantial
and Ito most of the members) more enjoy
able.
Mr.. McAllister knows more about the
fine art of giving Coullion Dinner than
anv other man on all this wild Western
continent. By all means let him discourse
upon his pleasing speciality. Let him de-
scribe the wonderful banquets at which ne
has been host or guest; how was the table
set? In what form were the invitations made
out? who came and who stayed away? and
what had they to eat? and what said they
between the courses? This is what we de-
light to talk about and to hear about. We
always read the paragraphs in the news
papers which tell such history as this. Why
not put it between handsome covers, and
stamp the crest OF the McAllister family on
the blue binding?
And yet how funny it is! ''Chapter /:
NV Painfully Mother an Angel of
Beauty and Charitv-My Fathers Noble
ness of Character-My Brother the Law
YER" And the visit to Windsor Castle
Here is another verifcation of that profound
saying, "as we are We see." This is what
Mr.. McAllister sees: ''I saw the old, tall
doorkeeper, with his long staff, sitting at
the door Of the servants hall.
saw Her Majesty's kitchen and the
roasts for all living in the
castle-at least twenty separate pieces turn
ing on a spit. Then 1 examined large,
hot, steel table on which any cooked article
being placed would STAY hot as long as it
remained there. / have seen Her
Maiestv's table at Windsor Castle all ready
Tor her l have heard her footman in green
and gold, re-echo from hall to kitchen the
note that ''dlnner is served" and then /
was told to 60" Nir. McAllister was TOO
modest. He should have told Mrs. Victoria
who he was Then when the hon-and-
unicorn covers in frosted GOLD were lifted
from the entree dishes, and the toothsome
contents disclosed themselves to sight and
taste, an American citizen Ga matter of con-
C.rn and pride to all OF us) might have been
there to see.
Mr.. MrAllister is no doubt acquainted
with this dainty cook-book-aimost too pref
ti'y bound for a -book-which lies
upon the Critics table significantly close to
his culinary autobiography. He could make
2 column and half OF profitable comment
upon it. The Critic, however, is not "up''
in this sort of thing. To him it is as great
q mystery as it was to the inquisitive king
how the apple gets inside the dumping;
and ii he were lett, like another and wiser
king, to watch the cakes, the cakes would
surely burn. And so all that he can say is
that the name of the book is New England
Breakfast Breads. Luncheon and Tea BIS
cults" that Lee & Shepard publish it and
j. r. Weldin & Co. sell it for 81; that it
contains an attractive picture of big Mas
sachusetts kitchen, and that Lucia Gray
SFett, the writer, affirms that most OF the
recipes have been used in a New England
family Tor 80 years.
In paper covers. Three translations of
foreign works, published by Worthington:
"a Russian Country House." by Carl
Ditlei; "Asbein," a musical novel, by Ossip
Schubin; "A Sisters Love-" by W. Heinz
berg. The illustrations are considerably
better than in preceding issues in the series.
And two American books, published by
Lee & Shepard, both of them reprints of
novels which were first published as long
ago as the war times: "Cudio's Care" by j.
T. Trowbridge, and "In Trust" by Amanda
NJ. Douglas. These are included in a GOOD
Company Series" and are worthy of the
name. "a Boys History of the United
States" published by Worthington, and
written by Annie Cole Cody, begins with
the mound builders and ends with Benjamin
Harrison. There are plenty of pictures, and
the chapters are written in a simple and in
teresting style. "Vive la Americar' the
sentiment with which the history ends, is
rather queer French, but there is nothing
the matter with the spirit of 1t. And that
is better than all the pretty regulations of
Orthography.
We get long way back in our national
history when we reach the time at which
Americas place in the world was much
like Africa's place now. At that time this
broad continent belonged to nobody in par
ticular-the Indians counting for no more
than the Congo savages-and accordingly
England and Spain and France were each
claiming to own the whole of it, and coming
10 FREQ ouent blows in defense of their vide
elsiuG And they psrtitioned of these