The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-31

Mamma shouts: "Mary, Caroline, Jane,
Tom, Harry, be back before five. for.we
must start for home" May she get them
even at half-past six. From a group of
peasants over a bunch of sticks in the
Black forest up to a queen who delighted
to picnic in F~ontainebleau these %alfresco
entertainments ara ever delicious. We can
not put our ears too close to the confess
siona of nature.
In packing a lunch for a fisherman or a
hunter the hostess often has to exclaim
that brevity is the soul of wit. She must
often compress a few eatables in4o the side
pocket and the bottle of claret into the
fishing basket. If not, she can palm off on
the man one of those tin cases which poor
little boys carry to school and which look
like books and have suggestive titles. like
Essays of Bacon" "Crabbe's Tales or
News from Turkey on the back. If the
fisherman will take one of these his sand
witches will arrive in better order.
The western hunter takes a few beans
and some slices of pork. some say, in his
hat when be goes of on the war path.
But tho modern hunter or fisher, if he
drives to the meet or the burn, can be
trusted with an orthodox lunch basket.
which should hold cold tea, cold game pie,
a few olives and a bit of cheese, and n
large reserve of sandwiches. When we
grow more celestial, when we achieve the
physical theory of another life. we may
know how TO concentrate good eating in Il
moe palatable form than that of the sand
wich. but we do not know it yet.
Now, take an egg sandwich-hard boiled
eggs chopped and laid between bread and
butter. Can anything be more like the
sonnet? Complete in fourteen lines, and
yet. perfection! Only Indefinite chicken,
wheaton flour, the milk OF the cow--all that
goes to make up our daily food in one little
compact rectangle! Egg sandwich. 1t ic
lmlmense Ill its concentration.
Some people like to take salads and
apple pies to picnics. There are great
moral objections to thus exposing these
two delicacies to the rough experiences of a
picnic.
But if you will take salad and will not be
taught by experience, make a perfect Jar
diniere' Of all the cold vegetables. green
peas, beans, and caulifiower, green pep
pers, cucumbers, and cold potatoes, and
take this mixture dry to the picnic. Have
your Mayonaise in a bottle and dress the
salad with it after sitting down (on u very
slippery fernv rock at the table.
Truth compels the historian to observe
that this is delicious with the ham, and you
will not mind in the least (until the next
day. the large grease spot on the side
breadth OF your o W
As for the apple pie, that is taken at the
risk OF the owner. 1t lat better be left at
home for tea.
Of course pate de foie gras, sandwiches,
ponea turkey, Jeilieu tongue, the various
cold birds-as cartridges, quails, pheasant,
chickon-raw oysters, can be taken to a
very elaborate picnic near a large town.
Salmon dressed with green sauce. lobster
salad. every kind of salad, is in order if
you can only get it there, and "Caviare to
the general" Cold terrapin is not to be
despised eaten on n bit of bread. 1t is an
excellent dainty and so is cold fried oyster.
Tie pubic picnics, like Sunday school
picnics. fed with ice cream and strawber-
RES, the clam-bnke. n unique and enjoyable
aialr ny the sea, these are in the hands of
experts and need no description here. The
French people picnic every day in the Bots
Gle ~Boulonge, the woods of Versailles, even
on their asphalt, eating out of doors when
they can. II is Il very strange thing that
we DO not improve our fine climate by eat
ing our dinnels and breakfasts with the
full draught OF an unrivalled ozone.
M. II. w. SHERWOOD.
Copyright.