The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-31
Of plucking blackberries. Artless dissem-

blers!
Mamma shouts: MARY, Caroline, Jane,
Tom, Harry, be back before 5, for we
must start for home.n MAY she get
them even at $50. From a group of peas-
ants over a bunch OF sticks in the Black
Forest up to queen who delighted to
picnic in Fontainebleau these alfresco
entertainments are ever delicious. We
cannot put our ears too close to the con-
fessional of nature.
In packing lunch for fisherman or a
hunter the hostess often has to exclaim
that brevity is the soul of wit. She must
often compress few eatabIes into the side
pocket and the bottle of ciaret 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 Ii the
fisherman will take one of these his sand
wiches will arrive in better order.
The Western hunter takes few beans
and some slices of pork. some say, in his
hat when he goes off on the warpath.
But the modern hunter or fisher. if he
drives to the meet or the burn, can be trusted
with an orthdox lunch basket, which
should hold cold tea, cold game pie, a few
olives and bit of cheese, and a large re-
serve ofsandwiches. When we grow more
celestial, when we achieve the physical
to concentrate good eating in a more port
able form than that of the sandwich, but
we do not know it vet.
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 -four, the milk of the cow-ali
that goes to make up our daily food in one
little compact rectanglel Egg sandwich
1t is immense in 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
picnic.
salad, however well dressed, is an oily
and slippery enjoyment. Like all great
joys. 1t is apt to escape us, especially in a
lunch basket Apple pie, most delicate of
pasties, will exude, and you are apt to find
the crust on the top of the basket and the
apple in the bottom of the carriage.
But if you will take salad and will not
be taught by experience. make a perfect
"Jardiniere" of all the cold vegetables,
green peas, beans and caulifiower, green
peppers, cucumbers and cold potatoes and
take this mixture dry to the picnic. Have
your Mayonaise in bottle and dress the
salad with it after sitting down ION very
slippery ferny 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 gown.
As for the apple pie, that is taken at the
risk OF the owner. 1t had better be left at
home for tea.
OF course pate de foie gras, sandwiches,
boned turkey, jellied tongue, the various
cold birds-as partridges, quails, pleas
ant, chicken-raw oysters, can be taken to
very elaborate picnic near 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 bit of bread. 1t is an
excellent dainty and so is the cold fried
oyster.
The public picnics, like Sunday-school
picnics, fed with ice cream and strawber-
ries, the clam-bake, unique and enjoya-
bic affair by the sea, these are in the hands
| of experts and need no description here.
/ The French people picnic everyday in the
| Bots de Boulogne. the woods of Versailles,
i even on their asphalt, eating out of doors
| when they can. 1t is a very strange thing
| that we do not improve our fine climate
| by eating our dinners and breakfasts with
| the full draught of an unrivalled ozone.
M. Z. w. SHERWOOD.