Middletown transcript., 1907-03-30

exchanged guarded bnH aigniti. /
cant glances.
And there you found POUR for
tune ? the former yentnFad ID say,
as carelessly Is possible.
Such as it was yes. Its fonn
dation was laid there. Gold was
discovered il the TransvaaI ii
1885, and / was among The first
to realize a success from the
short-lived boom in The Rand IN
1883. That was before the days
of the cyanide process.
You use that process in your
Western mines, don't you ? asked
Mr.. Sloane.
Yes, but most Of my capital is
now in the cattle business.
Then you are one Of those ter
rible Barons of Beef. whom we
are told to look upon as the cause
of the high price Of food, and the
oppressors Of labor, suggested
Mrs. Sloane, as Katy removed
the plates Of the substantial
course. hope you have no
rooted objection to Union made
goods.
Statira alone, and that only
after a moments consideration,
understood the meaning Of this
comment. Then she exclaimed
Oh, uncle Mamma says you
were born in the ''pie belt" and
have never outgrown that partic-
ular natal influence.
Chester Sloane gave vent to
the first hearty laugh of the
hitherto constrained occasion.
! Outgrown it? Well, Z should
say not AS much Of a globe
| trotter as-I have been for twenty
years, and as many and various
vile foreign concoctions as I have
eaten in that time, ! have never
been disloyal 10 pie Of course
I mean the genuine old New Eng
land pie, such as our grand
mothers used to make, and par
ticularly Aunt Adde'S pies Eh,
| Robert?
] I never knew you had an Aunt
! Addie, cried Mrs. Sloane, with a
look of enquiry at her husband.
i She was not a relative of ours,
explained Chester, but a sort of
aunt to the entire community,
and famous for her cookery
especially her apple pies. | have
never known but one other per.
son make them taste like hers.
| Oh, I see.
That reminds me of Prof. Hud-
sons defense Of the American
pie, said Mr. Sloane. I can
| quote from it almost literally
LET us, then, examine it dIspassion-
ately, with the view of determining, ap-
proximately, what proportion of sugges-
ton has been mixed with its other ingred
tents, in order to render it indigestible.
'.The American pie, per sc, is built up
OF the following materials, te-wit: Flour,
water, lard or butter, or both, sugar and
fruit, the latter normally predominating
| largely as te bulk. The more epicurean
tastes prevailing among the aristocratic
portion OF New England farmers de-
manded little fiavoring of nutmeg
nutmeg, not the nutmeg of Connecticut
commerce, that being manufactured solely
for the export trade.
"Will some dietetic crank rise to in
form US what there is among the materials
themselves, or in the combination, that
is unwholesome, or indigestible, or even
bard to digest? Is it not, indeed, a COM
bination devoutly to be wished for, by
| anyone of simple tastes and normal appe-
tite? l. there anything connected with
it. suggested excepted, that could have
the remotest tendency to cause it to "dis-
agree" with the most delicate digestive
apparatus? Clearly not"
All at the table laughed, and
even Katy, who, during the dis
course on pie, had been brushing
the polished table with napkin,
the use Of a crumb-scraper being
inadmissible, could not hide a
smile.
/ Good The essay is ideal
CALCULATED Uncle Chester; and so
was its recital.
| Thank you; ! trust l shall not
| be considered as posing as a
Deipnosophist, returned Mr..
Sloane, with an assumption of
mock humility.
Again. please keep Latin or
Greek, or whatever it is, for the
bar, interposed his wife. You
know I never have had States
advantages, she added, as Katy
re-entered the room. Here is the
ideal materialized.
[To BE Continued
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