The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-29
BOY WAS THERE TOO.
Re Took No part In the Discussion, but
Took About Everything Else.


Took About Everything Else.
The people who gathered three times a
day at Mrs. skinner table represented a
wide range of territory, for Mrs. Skinner's
establishment, like most New Ycrk board
ing houses, was very cosmopolitan.
The house also enjoyed The just reputa-
ton Of being thomeiike place, q repu-
tatiOn due in part to the frequent appear
ance on the table Of dishes whose social
position might e doubted, but which al
ways awakened pleasant memories in the
minds of the b0arders-
On this evening a plate heaped with
russell circles decl1ed with white occupied
the center of the table. Mr. Jilnson, who
IS a native of New York, and who sits at
the head of the table, smiled and remarked;
You may say what you please about
dessert, there's nothing goes so well with
coffee as a good, old fashioned eruller."
ttIt amusos me to hear you call them
crullors - said Mt. Haskins. Now in
Boston we never think of calling them
anything but doughnuts, but I suppose
the influence Of the early Dutch settlers of
''Wby don't you give them name that
means something? They re fried cakes
nothing moro nor less. Anybody ia Con
necticut viii tell you that, - Interrupted
Mr.. Chesterfield, tins fioorwalker.
''I'm afraid you gentlsman are not given
to nice disorilTli naUions, - remarked Mr..
CoIlalnore, the young lawyer at the right
of the landlsdy. There's q great differ
ence between q cruller and doughnut. A
crulIer is sort of twisted and is solid, but
doughnut is round and has a hole in it.
Now these are
TT always makes me laugh to hear men
discuss any question of cookery" chirped
up Miss Riggs. the stenographer. They
see only the outside aud never notice the
5sa7 I'M Afx lnf faI
difference between crullers and dougbnuUs.
A cruller is much richer and shorter than
q doughnut. 1t is made with eggs, while
doughnut isn't. The shape has nothing to
do with it. A dOughnut is made Of plain
dough-
why, that's what we used to call 'pov-
erty cakes up in Nermont!' exclaimed
Mr. Plunkett, the drug clerk on Mrs.
Skinner left.
Il was about to say" resumed Miss
Riggs severely, that doughnuts are made
of plain dough, raised as bread is raised,
while orullers are not raised'-
But down in the state of Maine We
have what we call plain doughnuts and
what we call raised doughnuts, both, - said
the medical student.
sfAnd out u Chicago we call those things
sinkers, said the tall, long haired man ct
the foot of the table as he pointed to the
plate.
The debate lasted long and grew eio-
quent. In the midst of it there was the
sound of q chair pushed back and a salts
fed sigh The new boarder, a bOv-just a
plain boy-who was learning the hardware
business got Up and remarked as he slid
out of the door:
''Then things may be doughnuts or
orullers or fried cakes or poverty cakes,
but they're awful good. I amt had any
before since 1 left home That's why [ cat
so many We used to call EN- fried holes
The eyes of the baarders turned toward
the plate in the center Of the table 1t con
tanned only little powdered sugar. The
boy had listened to the discussion, but he
had not allowed it TO divert him from more
momentOus matters.
Il believe that boy will do real well in
the hardware business, = said Mrs. Skinner
after painful pause. Youths Compan-
ion.