The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-09
'TWixT YOU AND Me.


There's one feature of the PROPOSE.
tion 10 plant lot of trees and make a
park out 6f Exchange Place that / want
TO put the stamp OF my unqualified
approval on.
Some folks may suggest that my
unqualified approval or disapproval
cuts no fruit cake.
That's matter of opinion of
| course
Here's nay landladys for instance
she often tells 'ne that she thinks more
| of what l think of her doughnuts than
of the estimate OF all the other board =
ers pat together on that subject
i flatter myself do know dough.
nuts.
I've known folks, though, aho could
make no more distinction between
doughnuts than they could between q
row of telegraph poles or paper Of
pins
To them a dopghnut Is a doughnut.
and that's All there is To II.
Il pity persons TO whom all dough
nuts ,oolI alike. They miss heap OF
delisht-though l suppose too. they
escape a heap OF misery. I've been
caught out at a picnic with nothing
but doughnuts left when | wished that
my taste I'm doughnuts hadn't been
trained so fine. There's compensation
in all things.
There's "A difference i'm doughnuts
just as ,here is In men, women and
other things.
You take one OF these thin. sallow
doughnuts, looks as II il were made Of
sand and water and had the jaundice-
well. ia no more call that a doughnut.
not real doughnut--well, no more than
anything.
That's one extreme. Sometimes.
too. the skinny little doughnut Is a
brick red in color, like a Frankfort
sausage. What an unworthy burlesuue
on the good name and reputation of the
doughnut
And the other extreme that mas
querades under the name of doughput
Is quite as bad. That's the big, atuffy
kind, shaped like n life hucy. and all
wad and grease, with "A weak attempt
at the rich colorng of the true thing
in doughnuts that is no more like the
true thing than grceny brass is like
virgin gold. When you bite into one
of these doughnuts il gathers itself
together like "a hunk of chewing gum
gum that has been chewed and left
stuck to the wall over highland you
chew and chew and chew and drink
water and chew again, and If you are
really bound To eat that doughnut per-
haps you VIII manage TO get down half
of IT,
But you take n doughnut that is
generous in size, but not a monstrosity.
tho specific gravity OF which is less
than YOU would judge by it's fullness,
but yet that is not so lightweighed as
To slump all To nothing, like a lunch
cart turnover when you bite into it
That has a rich brown color. sort OF
speckled over with moisture from the
kettle suggesting the crackly back OF
a nicely roasted sucking pig
That gives way to your eager teeth
and lips neither mushiy. not like a
caVe-in. but with n suggestion OF rus
Ting like a silk skirt swishing down the
church aisle when the minister is pray
ing
That, when a piece is bitten off. |
shows a cross section as white as snow !
trimmed about with brown edge about |
one-slxteenth OF an inch deep, of the !
consistency of angel cake i'm the mid |
die with just the lightest crust about |
It,
That when you dip il into your |
cup of coffee. creamed and |
sugared, takes the coffee up like a
resist absorption as If |
It were made OF india rubber. nor vet
such up the fragrant liquid and then
hicken like a handful of cotton-but
lust drinks it as If il enjoyed the taste.
md fills its pores and expands genially |
md changes all it's white insides To
he soft brown of the coffee
And makes a mouthful that all thesI
onfectioners i'm the world together
ouldn't reproduce or even plausibly
initiate.
That's what / call doughnut
Don't you2 THE CRANK.