The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-07-26
All SIN AS A SERVANT.
Tho Monaghan Cook Secretively Refuses
to Make Known His Recipes.

I'D m8ke AuOWu HIS IteclpeSs
Those accustomed to ''Beau Bruu:
mel" colOred walters or neat house.
maids can hardly appreciate how RI
diculous Chinaman first appears in
the capacity of waiter, with his shaved
/ head, snakelike queue, stiffiy laun-
dered long, white coat and apron, pan
talet-like trousers, and thick sOled
slippers; but with all, says a writer in
the Washington Post, he serves the
different courses ''alle lite and
handles the table appointments with
his long, thin fingers in a character
istic style all of his own. When a
housekeeper employs a China boy
she must in the very beginning fOrci-
bly, demonstrate to him in pigeon
English his different duties, else
when she calls upon him to perform
extra ones he never fully comprehends.
AS an instance, a cook was one day di-
rected by his mistress to select and
''devitalize'' two chickens for dinner
He seemed never to have heard of a
chicken until he saw no way out of it.
whereupOn the widest confusion and
cackling issued from the poultry
yard, and there stood 'Ah Wing"
frantically swinging the neck of the
last of score of chickens, as he calm
ly said: You tell me killee chicken
an 1 killee chicken" AS the house
hold supply of coal oil was diminish
ing at a great rate, All Wing was
questioned abOutit. Much astonished,
he asked: do you think l drink coal
Oil?" His conversation consisted much
OF the phrase: You think So" When
meeting a visiting member of the
family whom his mistress presented as
her brother, he politely said: "Yon
think so;'' laughingly she told him She
had always been taught to believe SO.
Cinnamon are exceedingly sccretive
and housewives seldom find out how
they prepare certain favOritc dishes.
for as soon as her chef is watched he
hastily gathers together his ingrcdi
ents and utensils and rctires to tie,
pantry or discOntinues operations alto
gether, and it is quite as i:nn>5 ,ibic to
get him to write out q formula Of any
kind. The young son OF I: family liv
ing near Los Angeles once l>.rc,lascJ
an ostrich egg, and as an experiment
had the cook make an orlcl;t, Of it, re-
questing him to write the recipe. 1t
goes without saying the oli.cltt was
more powerful than dclicat> and the
description read: "One l,-aDec bi.e
egg he makee one heapce J, :a.lr@."
Celestials have a pcac.:inI t..l, :;>rNet
desserts and frequently u =: Garage
new cooks familic3 attempt i, ;>art;,~e
of three different egg d., -. III oac
dinner. 1t is better a. I', CO.
nomical plan to hide tiia -. a = in
the beginning. They a; = SIS a
great fOndness for letter: ii exc
cutting the most fant:: signs,
with cones. on pies and IN =. In
these they often sadly MS II sun
day-school teachings ana %huy Il lack
of reverence. Once at L lar e boar i
ing-house in Pasadena. the beautiful
suburb of Los Angeles. the COO
shocked all the boarIiers b., placin-
before them pie. upon whic.: was The
following eXhortation: ''Col;l> u Jc-
sus. Marengo Hall" Aaother, in
making out his grocery list, always
heads them with a >criptarai QUOTA
ton, as: blessed are he !,,!l. il iarart
for they shall see GOD. iwo pac ages
of eornstarch, five pounds of BUTTER