The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20
CITY FOOD VS.. coUNTRr.
The Girl Who Came Back to Man
haitian For Her Health.

that have come to the city to liye."
said the girl who had been living in
the country for her health, "and can
have what I want to eat--good
things. Look at these peaches / got
for our breakfast--real peaches. red
one side and creamy on the other.
See. they are so fine you can take the
peeling off with your fingers. And
guess what paid for them. Next to
nothing. l haven't had any this sea-
son. You see they don't have peaches
in the country till they grow on the
trees. love the kind that grow on
the New York pushcarts.
Nov, don't think I'm extrava-
CANT, but bought canteloupe. too.
We can eat that first, then make the
peaches our dessert.
"Do canteloupes grow on trees or
just come up out of the ground?
never saw any at all in the country.
think they must be a city fruit, you
see so many of them around. Guess
what paid for this lovely little can
teloupe big enough for us two. Three
cents. | tell you we can live very
cheaply here in the city, and have
just what we want. We can both live
on what you paid for my board in the
country. ! will count up exactly
what ! spend and you will see.
Isn't this cream simply deliciousF
/ am glad to have cream again. Yes.
know, l lived on dairy farm, but
do you suppose they let us have
cream? Ii we got skinned milk we
were mighty lucky. haven't tasted
cream since lived in the city. May
be this is milk from our dairy farm
we are drinking. / wouldn't be sur
prised. And still, 1t is awfully good
milk. / don't know.
These eggs, too. I am very fond
of eggs for breakfast and l haven't
had them for such an awful long
time. Have them on the farm? Why,
of course not. Dairy farm eggs bring
too much money in the city for farm
people to eat them.
II have bought some corn on the
ear for our dinner. Did you really
think we had it out there? Why, II
hasn't got ripe yet, and when it does
they won't have it. They will sell
it. We have been eating canned corn
the year round. suppose If it wasn't
for the country people the canned
corn people would peg out. There
wouldn't be anybody to sell it to to
amount to anything. The same with
tomatoes. The same with nearly ev-
erything. And you wonder why am
thin.
Look here, I don't believe I'll
ever in the world get back my liking
for meat. You wonder why / want
little. tiny, thin slices of cooked ham
cut off at the delicatessen store by a
long, thin, sharp knife till it almost
looks like the shadow of slices of
meat. This is why. l like to eat
animals am not acquainted with.
am tired to death of eating legs I've
seen running gayly about the farm.
pigs I've seen squealing, that I've
heard in their death rattle, that I've
seen chopped to mince meat and
made sausage of, the odor of which
| have had to endure. I'd rather eat
cured ham that's been in the cold
storage a century or two. Then you
! know the owner hasn't been a friend
of yours and you haven't got to lis
ten to him in his last agony.
''The chickens! My landlady used
to wait till they were greatgrand-
mothers before she'd kill them. Then
she'd have them in the frying pan
before they'd quit wriggling. We
were eating them when by rights
they should have been cooling off and
getting ready to be cooked and eaten.
There was a COW they were all very
fond of. They called her Rose.
rather liked that COW, too, IL she did
give skinned milk and little enough
of 1t at that. Well, the time came
for her to die and they killed her.
No cold storage for Rose. Like the
chickens and pigs she must be eaten
up at once while they were in the
humor. They wouldn't have eaten
her at all IL she hadn't been tough as
leather. They would have sold her.
DO you know what they did? Sat
up at the table and said, viii you
have some of Rose?'
Wouldn't that take your appe-
tite? Wouldn't you have lost flesh.
too, and got to be skin and bones as
l am? just reckon you would.
"Oh, yes, l shall be getting well
and fat and rosy now that l have
come to the city again, where can
have all the fruit I want and eat
strange animals. New York Press.