The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-12
Two Views Of Hot Biscuits.

We nave received from u Richmond cor
RESPONDENT tho following communication aet
Editor Of Tho Times Dispatch:
sir,-T read your editorial In IN y former g,
4issnc regarding tho Southern woman ~ ~
New york, hot biscuits etc.; also to-dny,s
odItorlal ."rhe South for Southerners,' IN
which YOU reply TO comments OF the y @ CIV
York Times. L must say I thlnk ING
,umcs has decidedly tho better OF you
when 1t states, referring TO the hot. pls-
cult episode: 1.-THE rensons for the slVlnB
may not DO any better thun tho reasons
for the refrainng," Tho southern .W '1
nvcrt,lres 10 her nelghhors by sending
them a plato OF hot biscuits, was elther
from the country nnd knew little of city
life ana acustons. or she was n very push
Ing person. Probably both. She may
have taken 1t for granted that her neigh
bors would accept u Gift OF her, q south-
crner and therefore Innocent ana hrtless'
which I hoy would decline from tnelr NEXT
door neighbor OF Northern birth. POSI-,
lily the nclghbor who declined the biscuits
was also a Southcrncr II
Now, i am Southern born and bred, as
were my people for several generations
/ live in a highly respectable localitydn
Ills city, and have an excellent COOK
| who makes good hot biscuits and rolls
as we'll. i, with my family, have been
keeping house for several mon this. With
few exceptions, my neghbprs nave NOT
| called. should consider 1t very imper-
lItincnt to mako overtures to them hylsenu-
Ing them samples of tho good things our
| Cook prepares for us, Surely The Times
| n!spntch docs not want to give tho world
| tho Impression that 1t Is n Southern Gus
| tom for strangers In our cities to begin
their sojourngby sending vlctuals TO their
neighbors We arc not quito SO proVl!l'
! cial. at least, such Is not tho custom IN
| tho Southern State call home. This
might be good form In Wakefield or
| Church Road, or some other small VII
| l:.gc, MS in Iavre Montana. or Tongun,
oxie, Kansas, but not IN Richmond Nash
| vile or, Atlanta. As for the South being
| for rSoutherncrs, and our being q peculiar
| people, j wish to say that ! have lived
| North enough to know that Northern pen'
| bio are already too much Impressed With
| That idea, is II wise to flaunt this "
the faces of people whom we are turglng
/ TO settle among us? 4.
For good reasons 7 sign myself only
a SUBSCRIBER,
We were amazed at the sentiments en-
i pressed by this correspondent until we
4 came 10 the confession in the closing lines
that he had been living at the North nnt
|
improved by his Northern association, W.
do not, as lie does. draw the intereHcs
! that the Southern woman In New York
who sent her nelghbor a plate of hot bis
cuits was n pushing person" and we d'
not agree that if this woman had moye'
: 10 Richmond and had shown such
friendly attention 10 her next-door neigh
Dor It would have been regarded us al
afrront. We reppdiate our correspond
ents suggestion that an attention Of thu
: character Alas only the Vulgar signiflcanc
''of sending yictuals." We also repudlat
: lis Implication that tho residents o
! Wakefield or Church Road or any othe
y village IN Virginia are lacking In dell
7 cary aud good manners, or that neigh
s borly customs IN those places arc out @
d vogue and offensive in Richmond. Tru
u gentlemen aud true gentleWomen N WI
3 ginia are the same IN manners and MOI