The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-25

ago to have the children plan Thanks
giving dinner. She told them to make
a list Of just the things they would
want to eat, and to arrange them in
the proper order for serving -.
The school is far from the fashion
able districts of the city, but the re-
suits of the teachers: scheme were none
the less interesting. -
A least Iepected development was
included ice cream il. the list.-> Only
two set their hearts on soup, and one
of the children placed the "soup and
crackers' at the dessert end of the
bill of fare, .,".%.
The children were almost unanimous
in putting turkey on the list, tho one
boy thought he would like "sausage
meat also. Two asked for "pig IS
feet" and others put down such lus-
cious items as ''pot roast" "pork
roast,' etc.
in }esaia s p Of sRie' gas
tatoes was the favorite fashion for
serving them, altho one child had set
her heart on "fried'' potatoes, and
one girl is evidently fond. of onions
with her fried potatoes, while third
called for "hash. d.: /"
With scarcely an exception the child
rem wanted pie, many Of them naming
more than one Notwithstanding pump:
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kinds Of fruits, while the pupil ended
his list with "nickel's worth of
candy almost plaintive in
this.
Commands, some of the children
stamped themselves, by calling for all
the things they liked to eat best-one
list containing forty different articles
of food, beginning with turkey and
ending with popcorn, peanuts, crack
erlack, ice cream and lemonade.O ''
Epicurean taste was evidenced in an
ries.
Some of the Lists.
Here are some of the unique lists:
Az the beginning of my meal I
would want plate of potatoes and
meat, then a turkey, then some mince
pie, then bread and butter, then some
'punkin' pie. then ham sandwich
then some cake, then plums and other
fruit - ,.a.. -.
cooked, turkey, coffee, bread, eggs eggs
plates, hives and forks: peF Fiat, sup al
for my dinner This pupil exhibited
tremendous gastronomic proclivities far
beyond those. of his fellows. ~
Another. and this from boy, too,
reads: ~ would want the first Of ali
the bread and mash potatoes and tur-
key. and after the turkey went down
would take more; then stuffing and
cranberry sauce and then cake and cof-
fee, and the best Of all, punkin pie.''
In some lists the spelling alone would
cause Indigestion, with the meal still
untasted. Witness the following: .Tur-
key, pumpkin pie, chicken geese,
oranges, .pares, peaches, ssuace,' pota-
toes, bread butter, dried beef. bannans,
beans, salt pork, blones, milk, coffee,
cream, oats, pork stack, beef stack,
cookies, liver, sugar, Deaths, corn, dry
appercots, macrone, crackers, pop corn,
enade.' -:
One Of the most complete lists, with
its spelling standardized, reads: ssFor
dinner, turkey, pork roast, catsup, horse
radish, mustard, coffee and tea, cocoa,
pies and cake, oysters, pig tail, pig feet,
pig roast, pig ear, pig snout, pig Head,
Pig RIB, pig heart, chicken, goose, duck,
That, is all 7 can think Of, 50 Isgugss /
will 60 skating''
An equally exacting young epicure
puts down his stomach's desire as fol
low 49,; Turkey, cabbage, salad dress
ing, fried potatoes, custard pie, cheese,
cranberries, chicken, pudding, bread.
oysters, horse radish, johnnie cake.
/ lemon cake,ssjohnnie shortcake, baked
beans, apple sauce, pear sauce, straw
berry sauce, Pig liver, calf's liver,
gravy, coffee, sweet rye. - ~. 81.
~ INHERITANCE HELR STATE. s