New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-26
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD.
MANY AMATEUR COOKS AMONG MEN
PROMINENT IN THE BEST SOCIETY.
AwYwARDNEss OF THE ATHLETIC GIRL IN
gA1L.RooM-soME REASONS WHY A GIRL
BABY SHOULD NOT HAVE HER


RAIJ,ROOM-SOME
BABY SHOULD NOT HAVE HER
MAMMALS NAME.
"I had rather an amusing experience not long
AGO" remarked clubman recently. You kho"
I consider myself a bit OF a Gordon bieu ana III!
wife complains that am continually upsetllns her
looks with my suggestions and ob1ect-lessons
Nell that may or may not be- but do thhK
know n thing or two, as II Is exasperating TO the
last degree to have good food spoiled in the COOK
Ing However. ] say. that is neither mere nor
there What | going to say was tfat was
giving a little dinner TO some men at famous
restaurant wien, as luck would have IT, recei'eo
several brace Of English pheasants from man
whose preserves had often shot over on the o'he'
,do ,Thsv were I'm prime condition. and If there IS
one th,rC that / pride myself upon more IMAM an
other IL f. my knowledge Of how TO COOK game
81 wanted to give these men the pheasah's' Out
loneed to treat them myself. Suddenly n happy
idea struck me. 1 a note to the cher WIN
whom had had many confab over ine,hoo' any
means and with whom in consequence, / was u"
excellent terms: asked him If he would nave az!
direction II came into his culinary department
aad cooked those birds myself. His reply came
coucned in the most fowery French Preno"
almost my mother tongue). saying that not ON!
would he gladly allow me to cook the COURSE Du
tina, he put all the resources Of his establishments
mon disposition. ,,
at is a curious world that subterranean region
where all the wonderful confections are maze 'n,'
tickle the palate of the best epoures III Ne"
and it reminded me of the picture III my i''o 81.
Dore story book where the busy gnomes are pi
pairing the wedding feast of King Drosseioal'
Such running to and fro Such saNory ouo''' ""-
We: such excellent system ard order!
81 found my friend the chef. waiting for me- a
nrsttv little kitchen maid put freshy iauuo,ou
anron over my head and tied It around my ""iS';
Then put on pair of sleeveless. "n'ch '0'e.
my arms above the elbows and a shihihe "'" o"''
which had evidently never Deen WoiH'
when had assumed these insignia OF ONCE
felt as II for the first time had fouhu NY w
ton The chef kept his WORD every co'' 49,,
was placed at my disposition competent iep
Voc p.taa ,o assist me- and l spent one OF the
800, aptovabIe hours | have had for long liihe'
How did the birds turn out? why IL eoeS "''" ~,
sav,rg NV dear madam. that if cooked tlei',
,bev were excellent. for without vanity 'ninN
may say that II there Is one thihs
better than ano&-er it Is COOKING . ,r.,irc,
:. - o,,r,ons nv the way. how much more instinct
80, h.ya for that sort of thing than women anu
how many excellent amateur COOKS '"V'e CAV
among OF the WORLD 49,. ,r,.ro, >,
az reos travelling with my husband in the Tyro!'
a,d a 'voung married woman, ana we I"pP0
=, stov for a few days at picturesque niue I'M
u,,h Young German prince. who was taxing
a,Linc tour for his health, with only one servant
in attendance. ,,r. i, tho
.The Mace was pretty, and the excursions IN ''e
neighborhood tempting, but the coohins va"
have
Maxine III do-he was one OF those ou'iou'
nan princes who are really nobodies from nowhfre
but Charming young fellow an 'n and cook our
turn tne ,bms@ives She good SOUL could not eet
over the eccentrcities OF the 5ennrrinr
a aGd a for me- never enjoyed any meals more
Everything was delicious
,,r.,r,,v GIRLS SOMETIMES AWKWARD
,r,o-a was a slight but very dppreciable Diner
.o,rao, tho summer girl of 1896 and OF 1897.
,rhn latter was even more pronounced, more Sell
assured and more Independent. This graouai eVo-
l,tion causes an onlooker 10 ask WHAT VIII ~ Wv
how people would have stared and talked
half dozen years ago sa itiae in her Carriage
older woman no,S VINO match sh III they had girl
se nodded oTa her R RARITY SSqs
about in the breeze her feet up against tg Not
ooaru irvi turn of the game with apparently the
utier Inconsistencies OF anything Ho''O'"D "
her 9reI little Ia Gertrude S." he continued there
Of girls of her type aS o%rs in any way
!; Is Just a part of the life they i've ,dor turned
aeffv in The narrow space between them and the
next carriage. almost drying oyer me ave him
spif She also was hatess and goyeess ana ana as as
her sprang down and s5oGG az ' began uH
twisting and pnning up her hair when mao o1To,o
ocsenea in the wna 6G%g ad the old lady
yhe landau who regarded her through her lorg-
% DISQUALIFICATION" said the lat
ter slowly emphasizng each wore 1os me he man ral
tnrSed struggling his shoulders There Is no
harm In them let us be thankful for that; Th nr
haps after all II is good thing for the race that
they ere what they are - .
.siut have YOU noticed these girls when they are
dressed IN for any fashionable function? pursued
The gentewoman Of the old school, unconvlnced
.aThey NAV ook attractive now, and do not deny
there is a certain charm about their appearance
en- nlen air: but it all departs when they put on
mad hat
both awkward and ungainly then. They SIT win
their knees wide apart and souchy carriage that
a. ILL, dreadful Is there no way" she con-
rluded plaintively "of combining what Is admirable
a. botb pnnocbsq Cannot the girls Of the period he
,nught the grace and elegance Of old. together with
inc athletic development OF the day!
The question remained unanswered