The Saint Paul globe., 1902-06-02
PRAISES WRONG EDIBLEs.
New Yorker Lauds Home Products
With Disastrous Results

~ IS not always necessary to throw
Douqlets when you are dining said a
New York travelling man. when I was
~ ~ d Kansas town not long ago, was In
yiled TO the home of a customer to take
pihner A travelling man never permits
nmseif to misunderstood an invitation
TO eat home dinner.
MY customers wife was one of those
AhdCter-oI-Tact, common sense women to
Whom a primrose is a primrose. whether
IL grows by rivers brink or in a barn
yard. Soon after I was seated at her
oaLhtiiy spread table, L began fumbling
around Tor something Of a gracious brand
TO launch which would show nv aDnre
clatlon of her hospitality.
opened on butter. It was worth
tt,at ttEavenng miles to taste such butter as
that tl9 on her table. | said few nice
thlngs about New York, of course: we ali
90 that; but | admitted that there was no
Sucn butter IN New York as that l found
on her table r
She couldn't understand that, for the
putter was tasting was from a firkin
sent hef by express by her aunt in Herki-
nef county. Just then | happened to think
Oh Oh story and the butter incident was
We had got down to peas, and I al
lowed that there were no peas like the
homegrown kind. 1t added to the lus-
clousneSs or the pea to watch it grow
ana Gull 1t from the vine.
She thought otherwise. her peas had
peen failure ever since the grasshoppers
did ner gardening last year and George =
dt tLdt was hef husbands name-had bought
canllea pease ever since. l had been
throwing tulips at canned peas
thlnk | said something about the
weather Just then. That's what a man
coughs up when he goes against the
rocks. You would think after a throw
down or two such as 1 have mentioned
tnat would have confined myself to
the monosyllable. And l would had not
lne httie woman spoken of the wild goose
she served.
.u At least she said in a splendid way.
we can offer You in this something Won
don't often have in New York
~ course Allowing much in New
1oFk !aVof L must say that the goose
we get IN the metropolis is a pretty tame
blrd. l admitted this. And then I cat
that honks.
II could conceive of no sport like that
OF huntlng the wild goose. Then | quoted
something from Hiawatha' about the
know.
Il said her husband must be mighty
hunter- OF course it is only in the great
open country that the wawa can be hunt
ed. 1 said. 1 got second round of va
wa, and felt quite satisfied at last that l
rad hit the right trail. Then the little
eyes, said
+" I think we are indebted to Mr. Edit
son or some one of his school for tEe
dish we are enjoying. Recently, quite re-
Gently, our modest little city has been
lighting the streets with electricity
I" In the night when the sky Is over
cast these lights seem to attract the great
fiocks Of wild geese which pass this
way and when they get into a radius Of
the lamps they become confused, and
even the boys kill them with clubs.
T" The wild goose we have this evening
IS quite modern. 1t was indirectly killed
by electric light
''Wen, it was to laugh There was
nothing else to do. I didn't feel like It
but i laughed. And so 1 lifted my goblet
and proposed the health Of my hostess in
the pure. sparkling liquid which only
Kansas could produce.
{" From blank spring. in the state of
New York, said my hostess.
Then ! laid down the time left on nay
hands at that house was devoted to a dis
| cussion of infant baptism. Cuban reci-
prccity, the Philippines, tie beef trust
and Carrie Nation.'-New York Sun.