Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-23

with terrapin, and this terrapin is not
served nfter the fashion peculiar 10
many fashionable restaurants IN New
York, where it ia SO deluged with vine
that the flavor of tho terrapin is lost,
No. Hero it is cooked simply with
butter. favored with pepper and salt,
and IL you don't know Just what ter
rapin means anu how perfect its flavor
is you can throw little madeira into
your Own special portion, but somebody
who knows better will look at you with
surprise It you do Then wa have can
vaHback ducks at one end OF the table,
just high enough and 10 perfectly
cooked that when the carving knife
GOES in tho blood spurts out They
have truly been COOKED III tho ideal
way--carried through hot Kitchen by
a cool hended cook. At the other end
there are roast capons, thanked, as they
should be, by home cured ham, the
outside of which ia delicate brown,
the result of its having been sucared
with tho yolk of m egg mixed with q
little wine that has some sugar 10 il.
The Southern housekeeper knows, AZ
docs the English one, that with white
meat there must always he eaten ham
or bacon. Consequently the chicken
never appears without its proper ac-
compartment. On the sideboard there
is little shoat, roasted whole. In his
mouth iB a lemon, aud his tail Ia tied
with narrow blue ribbon. TO remind
you that while he was pig as fur as
eating wns concerned he never drank
too mucn. There are the hearts Of
celery; there are roasted sweet 20
tatoes; there are white ones boiled, AZ
they should be. in their peticuats ;
there are delicate Jerusalem articokes,
any of tho Vegetables that you want
But who eats vegetables whom they
can have plenty of canvashack duck or
fat capon9 Capon stuffed with chest
nuts too.
Then there comes on SALAD, green
one, which madame dresses after the
fashion of India, with grated cheese.
| And then the servants file 10, two by
two and line up by the doorway each
holding a lighted candle, while the
two cooks, walking proudly between,
one carrying the plum pudding, in a
perfect blaze of brandy, add tho ufher
holding up an enormous mince pie. To
each one of these good retainers is
| given a glass of punch, and We all
stand up, aud everybody drinks to
what thoy will, and the darkies call
out in Rayest tones, merry Christ
mas, missus, merry Christmas!" And
it is a merry Christmas, for We I'll
laugh later on over the Christmas tree
and Jest about the little presents none
costing much, hut each making fun,
whils We wonder If there is any place
quite SO good as this southland. And
| ], who am of il, | wonder il there are
any people who can 40 entirely throw
aside their cares and became as little
children for awhile MS can the people
of the South. 1t is good thing, | tell
you. 1t keeps the women and the men
loyal. 1t makes people love each other
and believe in each other-like little
children. 1t ia good for US to inset
this way each year and give out greet
inps rs sincerely as we do. II means q
/ coming out of the hard, working world
and the tiresome, everyday life and
having glimpse of something tetter,
1t makes life worth having. If you
don't bBlieve me, throw your home
wide open, open your purae stringf
and ask your kindred ami your friends
to come and make Christmas with you.
You will find that old friendships are
good; you will find that it ia worth
while TO have about you the people
who have always known you ant
always cared for you, and it ia also
worth while to have a stranger withir
your gatea; to make stranger, WHIT
may be alone in this world, have somt
happy hours. You know SO many hun
bred years ago, when the angels sans
their song, it was to strangers. VIII.
should not we, in that way al least
try to reproduce the old Christma
time and to make glad those who have
no one to make life glad for them
You can find them without any trouble
right in your own fashionable seth,
man who would otherwise eat his din
ner at tho club; the woman who woult
otherwise dine at hotel and thosl
others who, because they remembered
would eat no Christmas dinner. Ash
them TO come with you; he generou
10 your hospitality and make you
Christmas gift giving one, and thei
be sure you will never want for merr,
Christmas or New Year full Q
pleasure. Whoever you are, whereve
you may be, IL You think us kindly o
me as l do of you, or even II you ar
indifferent to me. | wish with all M,
heart that God will bless you and Civ
you marry Christmas and happ.
New Year. BAD.