Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-01

hear hear the view Of youder valley.
this inspir1ting air. these hard boiled
eggs would there had been more sslt!)
these lovely Hebas and graceful Gsny-
uaesss - esvffee2 Yea more coffee
thanks CaptsSn- have you ever been
IL love?
The captain responds grufny Is II
from the bridge:
.Hsever have been any thing else
Then let as drink - whst-clsrst copt my
dears. this Is too much
Csd IS We are, for ladies' love unit
The power II beauty We reale1Der yet"
Things have not been served In order
they neve< are at a picnic, and the cum
ming hostess now produces some claret
cup. She has made IL herself since they
reached the top Of the mountain Two
tottbes Of claret To one of soda water.
two lemons, q glass of sherry. . GU
cumber sliced IN Ito give IL the most
perfect favor, plenty OF sugar and Ice.
and where had she hidden that inn
mense pitcher. q regular brown Toby.
which she has brewed il in?
"Iknow," said an ''enfant terribly; II
saw her hiking it under the back seat"
Well, there Il is filed with the most
refreshing drink of q warm afternoon.
claret cup. Various young persons Of
opposite sexes VINO have been looking
at each other more than at the game
pie. now prepare TO disappear IN the
neighbortng paths, under q pretense
but feebly made of plucking blackber-
ries, artless dissemblersi
Mamma shouts: MARY, Caroline,
Jane, Tom. Harry. be back before five,
for we must start for home" May she
get them even at halfpast six. From
group of peasants over a bunch of sticks
IN the Black forest up to a queen who
delighted 70 picnic in Fontainebleau
these affresco entertainments are ever
delicious We cannot put our ears too
close 30 the confessional Of nature
In packing lunch for a fisherman or
n hunter the hostess often has 10 ex-
claim that brcvity is the soul Of wit
She must often compress few eat
abies into the side pocket and the bottle
of claret into the fishing basket II 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 tho fisherman Will take one of these
his sandwiches will arrive in better
order.
The western hunter takes few beans
and some slices of pork, some say, in
his hat when he goes OF on the war
path.
But the modern hunter or fisher, II
he-drives 10 the meet or the burn, can
be trusted with an orthodox lunch
basket, which should hold cold tea,
cold game pie, few olives and bit Of
cheese, and large reserve of sand
witches. When we grow more celestial,
when we achieve the physical theory
of another life, we may know how to
concentrate good eating in a more
portable form than that of the sand
witch, 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
Only indefinite chicken, wheaton -four,
the milk of the cow-an that goes to
make up our daily food In one little
compact rectangle! 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.
A salad however well dressed is an
oily and slippery enjoyment. Like all
great joys it is apt to escape US,
| especially IN lunch basket. Apple
| pie. most delicate Of pasties, viii 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 viii take salad and will
not be taught by experience, make a
! perfect "Jardinierc" of all the cold
vegetables, green peas, beans, ard
caulifowcr, green peppers, cucumbers,
/ and cold potatoes, and take this mixture
dry to the picnic Have your May
onaise in bottle and dress the salad
with it after sitting down ION a very
slippery ferny rock) at the tc6le.
| Truth cornpels the historian to OBJ
| serve 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 ct
The risk of the owner. 1t had better
be left at home for tea
Of course pate de foie gras, sand
witches, boned turkey, jellied tongue,
the various cold birds-as partridges,
quais, pheasant, chicken-raw oysters,
can be taken 10 a very elaborate picnic
near a large town Salmon dressed
with green sauce. lobster salad. every
kind Of salad. is in order il you can only
get il there, and "Csviare to tire gen
eraI." Cold terrapin is not 70 be de-
spiscd eaten on bit of bread II is an
excellent dainty and so is the cold fried
oyster.
The public picnics, like Sunday
school pscnics, fed with ice cream and
strawberries. the clam-bake, a unique
and enjoyable affair by the sea, these
are in the hands OF experts and need no
description here. The French people
picnic every day in the Bots de
Boulogue, the woods Of Versailles.
even on their asphalt, eating out Of
doors when they can. It Is a very
strange thing that we do not improve