The National tribune., 1907-09-05

SeSan to go elsewhere. and Saratoga
;ost prestige as 4 fashionable resort.
Now. however. she seems to be coming
o the front again, being frcauan;ed
each year by n greater number OF the
fashionable set, who appear in large
numbers al the time of the races. No
where, perhaps, in America. l. the eN-
element of hcrse racing al quite such
4 fever heat as there Everyone IS more
or loss affected by it. As thu stable
boys and hack drivers at Rayreuth talk
Of the NibeIungenlied and motifs from
operas. so the elevator boys at Sara
to2a discuss the merits of this or that
horse. Even the maids catch the craze.
and the other day many Of thcm We're
sent to the races by their uistresses,
some of them actually driven there by
the family coachma1. From chamber
maid to cook. these employees of the 400
| took the best seats in the house. one
matrons $500 box being occupied by
the various females who do her hair
bring her tea and otherwise make life
easy for her. while dressed in their very
hest they haughtily surveyed the scene
with an air as much like that of their
various m!StreSSeS as they could make
lit. When some one suggested TO 4 Sara
! tcga matron that if the maids insisted
upon going to the races field tickets or
SranGstand tickets be purchased for
them. she replied that that was not the
style of the Saratoga servants; that the
boxes were none too good for them in
their own opinion.
The Glenview Club of Chicago agreed
TO have a real Southern dinner the
other Gay. and in deciding upon the
menu much animated discussion took
place. and many interesting and
mountaineering bits of information
were brot to light. The members mad
a lot of trouble in settling upon the
dishes to be served, and when they did
that it was found that there were sew
eral well-established Southern ways of
preparing the same dish. For instance
take the Southern way OF baking
ham: There is the Virginia way. and
a mighty good one it is. which bakes it
in champagne: the Carolina method.
which wraps it first in dough: the
Georgia style. which sprinkles it pre-
liminarily with brown sugar, or the
kentucky, recipe, which calls for cloves
and skinning after baking. Each of
them good, and each different The
question of the corn bread provoked
much discussion, the epicurean mem
bers of the club declaring that the
Virginia spoon" cornbread was the
only true Southern way of mixing the
meal, while the advocates of the Geor-
sla pone, tender, delicious. but which
admits of being handled and of sustain
ing generous hunks of butter. saeered in
deris1on at such an idea But they got
down to real business when the sub
Ject of the mint julep came up. and
while all agreed that the real secret of
the julep lies in the degree of pressure
given the mint, just whether that
should be two gentle twists or the mere
suggestion of a pressure between thumb
and forefinger occasioned grave and
scholarly argument.
Probably the first Ministers Union
was formed in Kansas the other day,
the parsons being driven TO it by the
eXigencies of the situation It seems
one of their cloth was called to a neigh
boring town to preach a funeral SER
mon. He was obliged to pay his own
railway fare TO get there, hire a car
riage when he arrived, and buy his own
supper after the funeral WAS over there
belng no train to carry him back to his
nome until long after the hour for that
meal He was pretty indignant over
this treatment, and called meeting of
the local Ministers Association. which
resulted in the forming of union for
their protection against such impose
TONS. They decided to make a regular
charge for conducting funerals outside
their own churches, and settled on a
fee of IS.