The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26
BAKED BEANS IN PARIS.
a TOPIC OF INTEREST TO AMERI-
CANS STUDYING ART.

Tales, Pitirui sud Otherwise, Brouaht Up by n
RhoFt ~suppiy-Rrench Enasavors 10 Grasp
the Idea OF Baked Beans-seme Worni
Disappointments - French Beau Soup.
The supply of baked beans ran short at the
American Girls Club in Paris ono Saturday
night, and tho stout girl from Melrosc, Mass,
and the thin girl from Montreal. who demanded
second portions and said they wouldn't DO happy
until they got them. went of to their studio to
drown their sorrow In unlimited tea. The two
girls from North Dakota were 30 low In spirits
when they, too, heard the announcement, plus
do bake BEANS that they failed to realize what
they had done until sober second thought
showed them that they had ordered breast Of
turkey instead Of the usual leg, and that, as
everybody knows. was n reckless extravaganza
of two cents.
Though. to be sure" said Little Sister, I've
get moro for our money than the mere fact Of
white meat. The French turkey, as I have OBJ
served 1t, is constructed OFF tho same inartistic
principle as the French soubrettc, or whatever
you choose to call her-thin legs, no hips, a
small waist, and big bust"
Big Sister choked up at this fiippancy.
"Oh, Gladys!' she said; how can your As
IL the disappointment were not enough, without
your saying things that sound for all the world
like an art girl!'
Even after dinner, and when one would have
expected the sorrow to tighten with time. there
seemed to be a very epidemic Of baked bean
conversation around the American girls quar-
ter. And as birds of q feather flock together in
the students quarter as they do nowhere else.
probably 1t was a group OF piano girls that sat
around one fire and talked beans. a half-dozon
voice girls who talked beans on the next story.
and as many or moro art girls who lounged In
the studio on the top floor and talked not only
beans but also brown bread.
when We werc keeping house at Asnieres
last year" said tho member from Melrose. we
got almost baked-bean mad. Beans we must
have or we perish. Tho house had nothing in it
but crate fires. and in the kitchen a blue and
white something that looked like a monument
to everything good to cat. with two fire boxes
the size OF cigar boxes sunk in the top. LEARNED
to appreciate those little furnaces that one can
feed with a teaspoon and keep clean with a bit
Of cloth tho size of a handkerchief, and that
make no more ashes than you can carry away in
a teacup. but to make Boston baked beans there
WINS out Of the question. So we went and bought
a stove. 1t was a real surecnough stove, but l
am positive l used to play with its big sister
when I was little moro than a baby. But that
made no difference; 1t was a stove with an oven.
We had it set up in the dining room. What did
we care for style! All we wanted was beans.
I'VE hurried out the moment the stove was
up and bought a litre of hdricots bldncs and put
them on the blue and white tomb in tho kitchen
to parboil, and with the first sniff our mouths
began to water. We had the salt pork, and the
pepper, salt, and the little pinch of mustard and
the teaspoonful of mGidsse. and then 1t struck
us we had no bean-pot. The whole family turned
out. even the bonnie, who probably had a very
chaotic idea of what we meant by a bean.pot.
but there's no doubt she meant we'll. We walked
from Asnieres to illiers and around by
Argentcuil before we found anything that would
answer our purpose. 1t was dissertation, of
course, to call 1t a bean.pot, but we concluded 1t
would do. We took 50 long to make up our
minds nil how rev ;. that It, The b man thought it was
Our tired feet flew home. In went the pork
and 'nIe in went .shsI the %o beans eSi s,o and d the LITTLE ct tEs saa fol- j.
into the oven; What do you think' The oven
was asO5f' 700 eo ems,, we were be,rtsick but there WA,
nothing else to do only to run out and try again.
Anything smaller would have created discord in
Sa;IiHSs dish; ana had our Boston baked beans
and "R S.v sh 'Se a1d eoeE EsG e fss sst tsip ,s to s shs e %fss 8
tendency to be superior; att , A.
&" You know Nine. Louis Philippe. who keeps
the pension next door, said the girl from
The girl from Connecticut laughed. You
mean the one you told that her husbands name
r was weii R1 FoT h, In A M1ta1i% thereby getting a
"The same" admitted tho daughter of vir-
lure with, and sends around TO us girls. every
few days to say she is going to have baked beans
for 5 a1RnHr R pon e %sIf iEn;to my p.rlor p said the
spider to the fly. You shall have baked beans
for dinner. II our pension you will try moaned
beans M% than n she di dt the HTst N timo sh % Sns p aSG1S
the tssS story % to te sho% "% ISF a gave w Ser all the the f hint w' Ma
could and laid particular stress on putting in a
Word, 1 another c fifteen ii n'E minutes OF GOO Cooking a md
you could have pulled them for taffy;"
cir, rp ,lbo you eyer eyer eat eat bean y swagini" said the
OF sporting blood as they are Of artistic spirit.
" You know l go to America every August Just
f han hG1s' n the IN l ASi TSptG RSt 81 F Sam a b @Dnlhrs
is my pet guide. and he and make bean swagin
of cooking beans and other people say it's Ca
muck. but any way it's good. and easy too.
pepper and onions and water all into an
Iron kettle together and cover the kettle and set
Il the e0 Srou nntT t You 0 DC I 3Ss. 8 e been IN a
hot fire made and cover 1t up with the hot ashes
and then you go out floating all night, and when
you como home in the morning you find your
beans all ready, waiting for you, and then you
cat them and think you never ate anything 80
THAT American girl that started the baked
bean, fsh.ball place over on the, Avenue de
asked one of the girls OF everybody in general.
Yes" answered the chief 9onrmamde of the
group, out tneTe X n french RESTAURANT over
near the Opera where you can get all sorts OF
American things to eat II you''n only pay for
them-ham and eggs. corned beef hash. and
johnny cake. II hurts my feelings to pay 81 for
picked.up goldfish, like that rog'e ting old pirate
sells. but do it once in a while when it gets to
be q case of American breakfast or l die!"
Speaking Of baked beans or die" said the
girl who had been living in the past for a few
moments; 81 was once one of a party that had
been in Valparaiso for several months and was
on its way to the West Indian Exhibition. The
second day out. some OF us saw the sailors eat
ing beans. and we begged very humbly Of the
steward that we might have some. too, as we
had been a long time away from Boston. That
night a storm carried away the storeroom-and
tho beans!
w had been three months in Jamaica when
one OF the men found an unappreciatcd can, Of
baked beans in a little shop kept by a darky.
and brought it home to the house where six Of
US, were staying. ! divided the canful into
of us had Just enough OF a taste TO whet our
appetites TO madness; but we had the rest put
away for breakfast. breakfast came, but no
bepns, and l went to investigate. Cook had
given them to the chickens!"
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