Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-07
CIVILIZED COOKERY.
Bah DiScOurSeS on How to Serve
Good Things In GOodly
and Cody Manner.

TROUT ON A WATER LILY LEAF
AND COFFEE IN A CUP-LIKE
ORCHID-THE PROPER DINNER
ON A LIMITED PURSE - THE
WISE WOMAN AND HER DINNER.
DRUNKARDS COME FROM HOMES
WHERE WINE is NEVER SEEN
THE MAKING OF A MEAL-THE
SERVANT GIRL QUESTION-HOW
TO TREAT MARIA.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, June 6.-Long before
Owen Meredith so POLITICALLY stated the
fact, it was known that civilized or
uncivilized men require his dinner. In
the very early days handful Of straw
berries served on their own leaves, a
brook trout broiled over sticks Of wood
from the apple tree and offered on the
leaf of a water lilly, with the absolute
Juice OF a coffee berry as finish, serv-
ed for the dinner Probably the COT
fee was imbibed out of a cup-like Or
child. Then men grew less poetical and
more uncouth and were satisfied to
tear apart meat with their fingers and
to absorb gallons of strong wines from
big cups made of coarse clay. The
wears went by. They became hun
dreds, they became thousands, and man
was counted as civilized. This was
about 1880. AT this time the ordinary
dinner was known. 1t consisted of
number of dishes more or less well
cooked. all placed upon the table at
once and removed before a dessert,
composed, too often, Of heavy pastrys
and buildings. that we're ineXplicable.
And the result was that the civilized
man had the dyspepsia, for he ate much
grease, many more vegetables than
were required, and he always arose
from the table feeling that life wasn't
worth living, and that the objections OF
life we're principally material and took
the form of a cook.
Now we do things a little differently.
The simplest dinner is served so that
it is pleasing to the eyes as well as to
the lips. and one may enjoy it. There
are women who persist in offering the
same old dinner, that one that brought
dvspepsia. but this number is few,
thank goodness, and their number IS
gradually growing less. You and i
each with a small home, one maid SER
want and a limited income, know that
a dinner can be served properly, even
if one has not the income of Croesus,
Mr.. Astor or Mr.. Vanderbilt. 1t is
true that a little more thought is re-
uuired: that a little more attention is
given. or. to sum it all up, ones dinner
must bear the hallmark of the manage
ment of a gentlewoman. The markets
are full OF good things, and the
GOOD THINGS ARE CHEAP.
1t remains with you whether these
good things shall be served in a goodly
and a godly manner, or whether they
shall be served after fashion dictated
by some servant OF Satan. How much
appetite have you when you sit down to
a table, heavy with the roast Of lamb,
a dish of peas, a dish of potatoes, a dish
of asparagus. dish of sliced tomatoes,
a dish of sliced cucumbers. a dish Of
thick slices of bread with a centre piece
composed of a butter dish? After this
have you any appetite when there is
put upon the crummy tablecloth a
large apple pie. dish Of strawberries,
a pitcher of cream and whole pound
cake? Your eyes eat your dinner,
which means that you see so much that
you want nothing.
But put this dinner in the hands Of
a wise woman, and the result will be
that you will be seated at table COW
cred with white damask, glittering
with shining glass and reai or plated
silver. Everything is immaculate
from the standpoint Of cleanliness
There is no better dish in the centre of
the table, but instead either an en-
broidered centrepiece, or one formed of
a mirror. On this may stand tall
slender glass holding a bunch Of sweet
peas. or a single rose. while around it
Is a tiny glass dish filled with al
monds. a curious Japanese saucer with
radishes on ice upon it, and tiny plat
ter overlaid with cracked ice, peeping
out from which you see small olives.
At each place is soup dish filed with
cracked ice, standing upon an ordinary
plate. and having six tiny clans, in
their shells, to invite your appetite
To be sure. it is the cook in cotton
gown and clean white apron, who re-
moves the dishes when -thS clans are