New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-24
.TEFFERSONI.4N CHEESE.

There are Joy and rejoicing Of the uneoninO
sort up in Jefferson County these days-Jeilersoa
County. New-lork. And with good reason seeing
that Jefferson won the first three prizes in the
great International competition Of checsemaliers
at the Worlds Fair NO wonder that the sons
and daughters OF jefferson so about these days
with their faces, as Dickens described Mrs.
Fezziwia, "one vast substantial smile why
shouldn't they? They should by large majority
in fact by unanimous consent Peacc-as has
already been remarked-has her Victories no less
renowned than those of war so county that
.merees triumphant from cheese encounter has
greater reason to congratulate itself than if ii hal
taken q city or made mince-mcat Of countless
battalions We tender to Jefferson the assurances
of our distinguished consideration. If We venture
TO add cheese it," the exclamation is to be re-
oarded as equivalent to hurrah-hurrah. as il were,
with local flavor
A word to the intelligent foreigner who likes
cheese Don't fall into the error Of surprising
that there is any connection between Jellersonlan
cheese and lcurrcnt) Jetiersonian Democracy.
.Jehersonian cheese is a thoroughly wholesome
article and improves on acquaintance. The IN
telligent foreigner will also please note that JET
fersonian cheese takes its name from Jefferson
County and not from Thomas Jefferson This is
as it should be. Jefferson County pumes itself upon
its noble simplicity; so. we take it. does Jefferson
County cheese. But it is different with Thomas
Jefferson. As he stands revealed in the most
trustworthy Of the biographies which deal with
him. Jefferson is not an exponent of Jencfsonlan
simplicity, hut person OF luxurious tastes
and habits who was accustomed to
darn the expense Another hint to the intei-
gent foreigner. Some of these days you and
your notebook may bring up in Jefferson County.
n so, you must not be surprised if, on asking
the champion checsemslcrs of the county how
they came to win the great prizes in the inter
national contest. they simply explain that where
there's will there's whey
II remains to bc asked and the query s an
interesting onc-what are the poets OF Jefferson
going to do about it? Clearly, here is an adj
mirablc opportunity Tor local bard who has
respect 10 the injunction. do the duty neirest
thee" The duty nearest him is cheese, the
fair round. triumphant cheese of Jefferson. Let
him proceed 10 celebrate il, pouring forth his soul
in AN artcss pastoral There may br those VINO
f,ncy that chccs~ does not lend itself 10 vcr'".
that il il not - roctic theme They arc mnch
mistaken Does not the pcrvade poetry
Do not all the members of tho sOodly company
who dwell upon the shining heights OF Parnass'Is
fondly hail her as u thing of beauty, Il JOY
iorevct? And yet. as Haywood sings. and as
every schoolboy knows,
The moon 4. made Of greene cheese.
Now. chccscmakng was emphatically an infant
industry when the moon made. II ought
not 70 he difficult, therefore. for II J"h"rsonIan
poet 10 establish the proposition that II the
making Of the moon Lad been deferred until
the chccscmakers OF this county got well 10
work, the result would have been an orb consd-
crably more celestial than the existing one. VINO
will pen the pastoral?