Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-14
SERVE DELIcATEssEN STUFF
Owellers In City Flats Resort to the
Dealer in Table Luxuries When
Company Comes.

Come right along up TO dinney," sale
the city man heartily TO his out-of-towr
friend.
The latter looked dubious
How about your wife? She won't BIZ
expecting me-"
The city man shrugged his shoulder:
and laughed lightly, says the Louisville
Courier Journal.
oh, I'll just telephone her and tn.
delicatessen shop will do the rest"
The country visitor wondered, but re
Trained from questions
His hostess received him in demure
looking shirt-waist suit and made n,
apology for the fact that she and her 16-
year-old daughter took turns at waiting
on the table. The first course was clam
cocktails embedded in ice, the second
was cold sliced chicken, garnished with
cress and lemons, and the hot dishe.
consisted of macaroni with cheese ant
tomato sauce and crisp Saratoga pota,
toes. Crab salad, served in the shells
surrounded by a wreath of parsley. and
radishes cut in small tulip shape, were
served with thin salt waters and tiny
jar of creamy cheese. For dessert Their,
were ice cream and sponge cake, witt
coffee to finish
The man from out of town waited un.
til he got alone with his host and Their
bluntly asked what the latter had meant
by saying the delicatessen shop would
do the rest
The city man explained that nothing
served for dinner had been cooked al
home, save the coffee. The macaroni
with its cheese and tomato sauce. hao
been bought in little earthen dish al
the delicatessen shop and heated along
with the Saratoga chips in the gas oven
The crab salad had come in bulk from
the same shop, with the shells in a sep.
arate package. Cold roast chicken ha6
formed the meat course, and the various
garnishes the lady of the house invaria
bly, kept on hand.
The guest could hardly believe that b,
had eaten what his good wife at hom
would scornfully term "bake-shop stuff.
The delicatessen shop Of to-day is an
institution Of evolution. It is the nat.
ural result of the vexed servant girl
question. The woman who attempts ia
keep but one servant finds that often one
is worse than none. She dismisses the
maid and does her own work. with the
aid of the caterer and the delicatessen
shop. The latter has increased it's sphere
OF usefulness only as the housewife has
demanded it, and is now as essential to
the family of moderate means as the
caterer is to the family of wealth.
In the big department stores, which
maintain delicatessen shops, regular
chefs are employed. generally of French
extraction, as they have brought the art
Of ~cateEing to family trade down to a
science. In Paris the masses have all
their baking and cooking of Importance
done at shops. because fuel is so high.
America was slow to adopt the delicates.
sen shop. but once having accepted it as
a part OF the household scheme the
American wife goes in for it with en-.
| thusiasm
All kinds of bake stuffs are to be had
at these shops-cold meats in every pos.
| sible form, from plain roast to the most
| elaborate loafs and made dishes; vege.
tables which require only warming up;
| salads already mixed. or the ingredients
| may be bought prepared separately to
be mixed at home; and, of course. all
the imported can goods like de foie gras.
cavaaer, etc, are in stock. The delicates-
! seA~shop makes a speciality of packing
picnic luncheons, travelling baskets and
automobile luncheon cases. 1t has be.
come, in fact, an important industry.
The small shop is to be seen in all its
| glory Sunday evening. for which trade
| special preparations are made. The city
fat dweller who has not pantry room
enough to lay in the Sunday supply, the
| hostess who is caught unawares, the
young couple who are living in two fur
| nished rooms and take their meals out
and the bachelor maid-all swear BY
| the delicatessen shop.