The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
IN PENNSYLKANIAs
Dreams or the Past over New York Fe"d
I'm n New Work Restaurant.

HH q mo WHIItI INVyOa VIZ
roast beef. the two cool boiled potatoes.
the brown circles OF g plant 10 iooAou
reproachfuIly at the man.
That's what you ordered, SIR, he said.
yes. L know that's what I orderedl but
when I order roast beef and 9 plant why
the devil don't you bring me catfish anu
waHies or canned oysters and popovers OF
homemade scrapple or anything else nan
a eatp"
The waiter xrinned and vanished. b
man on the other side of the table, sitting
behind a duplicate blanket Of beef, more
cool potatoes and more bromide egg plant
also grinned.
Guess you're a Pennsyivanian.' he
ventured.
sYou bet I am, " owned the kicker. That's
why I'm hungry. Are you one.
"You bet"
How'd you guessf"
Heard you mention scrapple. snd-say.
why'd you do it?'
The two glared at each other. The first
kicker leaned forward.
-Isuppose," said he, you're used to home
made scrapple. scrapple made out Of corn,
meal and buckwheat and sage and fresh
pork--plenty of fati--and seasoned with
spices ground in the home k~itchen-eh?'
The other man pointed at him a trem-
bling forefinger.
"Ill bet anything you like ynu were fed
on tripe and oysters every Sunday morning
with thyme and onions and old sherry in
the sauce
His neighbor leaned back and chuckled.
Guess at your house they used to have suet
buildings for breakfast-hot n steaming,
with lots of black pepper and sage!"
well. say!"
well. sdyi"
Two pairs of knives and forks were laid
down beside two plates. man bent over
the table, his face hot and red.
80 you remember, he demanded, when
your father wanted terrapips He used to
bring 'em home himself in a paper bag
from the club stewards private store
"Or the Twelfth street market
~It's the same thing. Sometimes they'd
scratch their way out of the bag and wander
over the seats of the little old wabbly two
horse car. And the conductor would stop
the car at your corner n your father and
the conductor would go In procession to the
front door, each with a couple OF wiggly
claw waving terrapin- .
Big fat fellows eight inches across-
shouted the other man.
"An your father would give the con-
ductor "A quarter and he'd go back to the
corner and start the car again. and your
father would keep 'em together on the
top step with his stick till the second girl
opened the door and said, Why. Judge.
wizard dem tar'pin come omT
"Oh. say" said the other man,
"And the cook, she'd cut on their a
and in about two days they'd be calm
49, ,ka,,,d o,, In mada;ra-tbe hest
madeira and egg and-and-
And your mother would send some to
the doctor-and the minister-and your
father"
He'd nave govt for a week.
The Pennsylvanians chuckled again.
IL guess" said one. that you people
bought your butter and eggs twice a week
of a farmers wagon,
You bet we did, " replied the other.
Mother used TO go down and punch the
chickens and sniff the butter and taste the
spinach and-say. ever eat fresh ham n
spinach and Drowned sweet p~otatoes?"
His vis-A-vis shook his fist across the
table. "D'you ever eat broiled Delaware
shad and waffies2"
How about farmers sausage and buck
-four or yaller ~cornmeal-and plenty OF
apple butter?'
"Oh, shut up, What's the matter with
a big hot roast of beef, with Yorkshire
pudding ana DROWNED DOJdJOcs uHucr "
and your dad standing up with the carving
knife in his fist at the head of h table to
saw Now, Willie, l know you like IL rare'?"
"Do you know" said the other man.
my mother used to leave our Atlantic City
box and go back to town and take the
second girl with her for two days in straw
berry time TO put 'em up, and"
And three days for CONVERSATIONAL
catsup, and with okra."
And four. days for peaches-preserved
and brandied-and jam and pickled-
Pennsyivanian Nobody owned a can
opener in those days! And then In Novem-
Der did you ever stone raisins for mince-
meat?"
Il guess / stoned one in four!' said the
That's il, And they poured brandy
on it in a stone jar and the cook would
get thirsty and squeeze 1t out with a coffee
cup and dinner would be latel"
"Oh. well, IL you had wild turkey stuffed
with oysters you Gained down.
-Or duck with potato and onion stufing
and grape jelly and celery salad"
And hominy fitters-and okra soup to
begin with"
Come to think Of it, there's nothing
and brown. with maple syrup
Nothing the matter with picked pigs
feet is there?"
-Oh. g'wayl"
COR, to come down to hard facts. with
rial old genuine scrapple and hot rolls and
coffee-cofee freshly ground and made with
an egg and"
-Oh, what's the use OF talkingi"
Meanwhile the blankets Of beef and tho
cool potatoes had disappeared, The two
Pennsylvanians paid their checks and
wandered out into Broadway.
Huh" snorted one, -and they think
they give you food in New Y~ork-think
you can live on sole leather Inc weeds and
ragtimel'
u guess" said the more cheerful OF the
two, we've had some kind Of q lunch.
anyway. even IL we didn't get It to eati'
In this fashion. dear reader. will the Penn
~sylvania Society OF Feeders be started.
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