The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
Ellen Terry's Cooking.


Ellen Terry's Cooking.
At tWenty-one years of age Ellen
Terry had been on the stage long
enough to feel the necessity of a long
vacation. In the October Mcclure
she goes back to those six years of the
simple life with much delight:
actors must take care of them
selves and their voices, husband their
strength for the evenings work, and
when it is over they are too tired to do
anything! For the first time I was
able to put all my energies into living.
Charles Lamb says, I think, that when
he left the East India house, he felt
embarrassed by the vast estates of
time at his disposal, and wished that
he had bailiff to manage them, but
l knew no such embarrassment.
began gardening, the purest of human
pleasures I learned to work, and IN
time cooked very well, though my first
essay in the difficult art was rewarded
with tn dire and complete failure,
chickens had names--Sultan. Duke,
Lord Tom Noddy, Lady Teazle and so
forth-and as I was very proud of
them as living birds, 1t was a great
wrench to kill one at all to start with.
1t was the murder of Sultan, not the
killing of a chicken. However. at las,
1t was done, and Sultan deprived of his
feathers. Toured and trussed. I had
no idea how this was all done. but l
tried to make him sit up nicely like
the chickens in the shops.
He came up to the table looking
magni1cent-as large as any turkey.
Hasn't this chicken rather an odd
smell?' said our visitor.
How can you'll I answered. 1T
must be quite fresh-it's Sultani'
However. when we began to carve
the smell grew more and more potent.
Il had cooked Sultan without taking
out his n'ards!
There was no dinner that day ex-
cept bread-sauce, beautifully made,
well-cooked vegetables. and pastry like
the foam Of the sea. had a wonder
full hand for pastry!
my hour of rising at this pleasant
place near Mackery End in Hertford-
shire was six. Then / washed the
babies. I had perfect mania for
washing everything and everybody.
II studied cookery-books instead OF
parts-Mrs. Beeton instead of Shake>
speare.'
Leaving 1t Open.
Sir w. s. Gilbert received a note not
very long ago from a young lady telling
him of her approaching marriage. He
replied at once, heartily congratulating
her.
Two months passed, and the fair cor
respondent again wrote to say that she
had broken that engagement and had
accepted another sutton.
Sir William replied that he had every
confidence in her judgment, and once
more expressed his good wishes for her
future.
Three months later she informed him
that she had broken her engagement
with her second sweetheart, and was
now about to be married to Lord -.
This was too much. for Sir William, and
his reply ran:
It desire to congratulate you on your
approaching marriage with -" Here
he placed an asterisk, and in a foot
note added: Here insert the name of
the happy man."-London Answers
DIR. McCosh's Impression.
"Ah. I have an IMPRESSION ex-
Princeton college to the mental-phil-
osophy class. Now. young gentle
men," continued the doctor, as he
touched his head with his foref1nger,
can you tell me what an impression
No answer
What; no one knows? No one can
tell me what an impression is?" ex-
claimed the doctor, looking up and
down the class.
st know" said Mr.. Arthur. IAN i'm
preston is dent in soft place"
young gentleman" said the doc
Tor, removing his hand from his fore
head and growing red in the face,
Judges Library.
Too High. |
1.-THE autumn" said Eben H. En- |
cry, New York's weather forecaster, |
is by far our finest American season. |
Foreigners visiting US should invari- |
ably come in the autumn
Suddenly Mr. Emery smiled.
81 am reminded of an old autumn
song" he said. GA thousand leaves
ire falling is the way it begins.
"a lady at a church concert, rose
% sing this song. Il
"sA thousand leaves are falling
i, oaro1ad and then her voice broke