New-York tribune., 1899-02-14

And roese thch pancakes up for feare they
Ana all the kitchen doth with laughter sound.
To see the pancakes fall upon tho ground
Pancakes and valentines in combination TODAY
mark an epoch In the small boys calendar that
even phenomcnaly active and malignant blizzard
cannot totally. overshadow. II the postman.
"staCgorinG beneath the load Of delicate embarrass
ments NOT his own is late in delivering his stock
OF bleeding hearts" blue forrof- ne-nOts. the
time can nowhere be more delightfully."- put II"
than in the cosey kitchen. whore pancakes galore
turn warm brown checks to the enraptured gaze.
Just why pancakes should be the accepted and
essential concomitants of shrovetide is not Ger
taInly known. but a Catholic ecclcsiastic ventures
2 shrewd guess
when Lent" he says. was KEEP, by a strict
abstinence from meat all through the forty days,
f. was customary 70 use UP al Tho drippings and
ard n the making %: pancakes. To consume all
f. was usual 90 call in the apprentice boys and
others about the house and they were summoned
ny bell. which naturally called pancake
bell"
In the lapse Of wears The functions Of the pan
cake bell. which summoned feastiue and the
striving bell which called 20 fasting and prayer.
became iueXtrirahy mixed. and ne pancake he
came out ahead In 1880 Jolu Taylor the quaint
old Water Poe.." feels called upon 10 point
70 hts contemporaries the error Of their ways
There is bel rung." he says called the
Pancake Bell the sound whereof makes thousands
Of people distracted auo forge tful either OF man
uers or humaultio Then there r. thing card
whearn nowre. which the sulphory. necromanticke
cookies doe mugl- with water eggs. spice and
other trasicau. magical inchantments and then
they put fl hrtle by little into fryng-pan of boy
ling suet where t makes confused. dismal hiss
iuR-like the Lernean snakes IN the reeds Of
Achcron SIX or Pm eeeton-unul at last by the
skill OF the cooke it is transformed into the forme
Of d hapjack. which f. our translation is calrd
pancake. which ominous IncHntauon the ignorant
people doe devoure very greedly-having for the
most part vel dined hefore-hut they have no
sooner swallowed that sweet candied bate but
straight their wits forsake mem, and they runne
starke mad. assembling in routr end throngs num-
berlesse OF unRovernabe numbers with uncivil
connections
But the bells rang on. and the pancakes con
ttuue 20 he "dcvourad" even unto this day
Before ,hc pancakes were eaten tA The od days
there was great contention among tine jewellers 20
se, which could most adroty toss them n the
pan A. Apslev Old HAL. in Nottinghamshire lard
and butter. fire and fryine-paDs were provided for
al he poor families Of Wolaston. Trowell and
n th4 liz kitchen The oaIv stipuIarions attarhcd
me feast We're that there should be no quarre.-
Iug that each wife and mother should fry for
hey own family. and mat when the cake needed
turning iu the pan the act should pe performed oy
tossing it IN The air END catching n asain ID the
pan with the rncooked Sloe oownaWeia. ....u,
In many o. Tie boys Sc hoois ~ EhsaHa "a s W
Tie school year. A. Westminster the cook bear
a verger carrying the silver mace from the college
kitchen 90 the great schooroom. where all the
boys st expectaHt The cook tries 70 toss the pan
cake over an iron bar which runs across me school
room from one wall another If the pancake
goes clear over, the boys make rush and try 10
catch d. vho.e and me BOY VINO succeeds sett 6
ruinea from tne dean uron showing it in an IN
hngs If he perfo-ms his part Of the proeramme
onslaught which compared iavoraby with foot
ball rusn. uuf OF late years only many BOYS
jim n The Struggle for the pancake as there are