The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-31
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ments, judiciously sailed and wrapped in a
very white napkin.
eartben dish, and having been baked the
day before, its plecea will have amalga-
mated with the crust, and it will cut into
easily handled slices. DO not forget a
dozen lemons and some sugar.
Tongue. cold beef and even cold sau-
sages make excellent varieties of sand
wich.
But to prevent their becoming the sand
which is under your feet' cover them over
night with a damp napkin.
All must be packed in luncheon baskets
with little twisted cornucopias holding
pepper and salt. with hard-boiled Z with
the patty by itself, with croquettes, if they
happen to be made, with cold fried oysters
excellent if in batter and well drained af-
ter cooking), no one refreshment allowed
to touch the other.
II cake and pastry be taken they should
should Ne carefully packed by itself. For
if food gets mixed and mussy even a noun
tain appetite will hun it.
A bottle of olives is a welcome addition,
and pickles and other relishes may be in
cluded. Sardines are also in order.
Now what to drink? Cold tea and iced
coffee prepared the night before, the cream
and sugar put in just before starting,
should be always provided. They are cap
ital things to climb on, to knit up the
laveled sleeve of care" and, if somewhat
exciting to the nerves, will be found the
best thirst quenchers.
These beverages should be carefully bot
tied. firmly corked-(don't forget the cork
serew)-and plenty of tin cups or those
strong glass beer mugs which you can
throw across the room without breaking.
Claret is the ~favorite wine for picnicers,
as being light and refreshing. Ginger ale
ia excellent and cheap and compact.
"Champagne," says Walter Besant in his
novel, "By Celias Arbor," sis a wine as
Catholic rs the Alhausian creed, because it
goes we'll with chicken and with the more
elaborate pate de foie gras."
Some men prefer sherry with their lunch.
some take beer. 1t you have room and a
plentiful cellar take all these things.
But tea and coffee and ginger ale will
do for anybody. anywhere.
1t has been suggested by those who have
suffered losses from mischesious friends
that n composite basket containing every
thing should be put in each carriage, but
this is refining the matter.
Arrived at tho picnic ground the whole
force should be employed by the hostess as
an amiable body of waters. The ladies
should set the tables. the men bring water
from the spring, and the less ceremony the
better.
1t will go hard with the oldest picknicker
If at this juncture he does not relapse into
poetry and say:
what good things these are, and how
few know how to cultivate their senses.
Wine such as this (here he drinks to the
hostess, who looks very rosy and dishevelled
after her climb. but snilingl, the beauty of
women to take us out Of ourselves,
such sandwiches, and allow nue.
to pause over the ganGe pie an
unqualified success (much enthusiasm)
(hear hear the view of Wonder valley, this
inspiriting air, these hard boiled eggs
(would there had been more saltD these
lovely Hebes and graceful Ganymedes-cof-
fee? Yea; more coffee, thanks. Captain,
have you ever been in love?'
The captain responds gruiiy as if from
the bridge:
Never have been anything else."
"Ihen let us drink-what-claret cup! my dears,
this Is too much.
Did rs weare,, for ladies' love unit,
The power oil beauty we remember YETI
Things have not been served in order:
they never are at II picnic, and the cunning
hostess now produces some elaret cup. she
has made II herself since they reached the
top of the mountain. Two bottles of claret
to'one OF soda water. two lemons. a glass of
siieffy. n cucumber sliced in Ito give IL the
mest~p-rfect t~lavor), plenty of sugar and
iees aud where had she hidden that i'm
'mallse pitcher. n regular brown Toby, which
she has brewed it in?
II know said an "enfant terrible;'' Il
saw llor hiding it under the back seat
Well, there it is, filled with tho most re-
freshing drink of u warm afternoon. claret
cup. Various Young persons OF opposite
sexes who Lave been looking at each other
moro than at the game pie. now prepare to
disappear in the n~eighboring paths, under
Il pretense, but feebly made, of plucking
biackberries, artless disssmblsrs