The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-18

They Were introduced Into England
in 1907.

AhCy WCAC Aht4uAASCN ANU Eh&AahN
in 1907.
The present year sees the tercente-
nary Of the Introduction 81 forks into
England, for it was in 1907 thta the
now indispensable articles were intro
dueed into France and England from
Italy. Ii is odd that the discovery of
the ordinary ne Of the fork should have
been 20 long in being made, for in all
ages man has used that instrument for
getting his food out Of the cooking pot,
and themen who carved the joints in
Saxon and Norman times must have had
something besides their knives and their
fingers to work Without it appears that
it was in the reign of James /. that
forks on the dining table made their
first appearance among rs, and for
long time they were by no means in
common use. They were originally
steel and two pronged; and silver forks
were scarce and only used by high and
puisssnt personages. There was UNI
doubtedly preiudce against them, and
the habit Of eating peas with knife,
which has been Of so much service TO
comic writer's, IS no doubt servival
of the old feeling that fork was hard
~ a manly adjunct To the dining table
furniture. The advent of electroplate
made the fork quite a common object.
but il would not be bad idea to hold
an exhibition Of early forke, silver and
steel, by the way of celebrating the
third centenary OF their introduction
into England
He was quite right, which l. Of course,
disbelieved, and equally, of coure, ! dis
covered the truth for myself when in
support Of the terrible unbelieying char
acteristics knowledge" and believed in
sentiment" My hrown-eyed monde
script wagged stumpy tail offered me
paw, took two laps with that air of
profound polteness which seems inbred
in the blessed mans companion and 50
absent in man himself, and in so doing
cast a shrewd eye into the dakened shop
to let me down easy in the knowledge
bic proprietor's eve Returning some
what wiser and much crestfsllen within
the doris; and anxious to explain my
somewhat unnecessary entrance and
application, | commented on the fact
that apparently Cape dogs and European
ones took different point OF view Of
life on hot afternoon, to which my
proprietor, in a somewhat pathetic tone
OF voice said, @Ah, yes, yes; Of course
you've not benn here long. The last
time I saw You was in the Isle Of Man,
and that Is three years ago" II seems
d somewhat far cry from Mainland TO
King Williams Town, and, despite the
humble outside appearance Of his store,
my proprietor was evidently so eX
tremely satisfied with the conditions OF
things and looked so rubicimd and
wealthy, o / thought it better not to
ada to my mistakes BY asking how
things had turned up in the way they
had
Don another oecaion, in America, /
was waited on BY albert nails belonging
to a hand which had been round my
waist on more than one occasion at
county balls. And for the two days
during which he waited ON me the psngs
Of hunger were great and dyspepsia
rompant, ID consequence Of my lack Of
courage to ask for anything I wanted
and conscientiously taking all that was
preented to me which ! did not want.
For was 800 filed with pity for the
lack of things turning up" the right
way to worry my cidevant partner for
anything that was not there, ard 80
anxious not Co fail in approaching his
efforts in presenting me with what was,
that nothing but Eustace Miles"
strict diet for fortnight could have
ever put back my Little Mary into
condition,
Almot as funny a speeiy-psn Of the law
of something "trtning apD was when.
desiring to be really comatoe in full
ummer time. "lazed away some week
or ten days in a little tiny provincial
townlet in France, where the food for
the body was excellent and 1t was inn
possible for even the most active mind
to find anything to feed the brain with.
! The only industry OF interest the sur
ounding ueighborhood was concerned
in was growing peas for canning. And
I'm defy the energy az an Edison or the
enterprise of a Humboldt TO grow any
thing but sleepy while studing the con
dition Of peas feas in rows, peas in
bloom, peas in every period Of their
growth up stick, peas in pot peas
picked and peas unpicked--on a hot
summer afternoon. Stroling about the
town under pretence Of "exerisc"
(IIeayen saye the markl) and being
heartily DESTROYS Of oyereating myself
as form 1T holiday exercise, entered
delicious little patissefie presided over
by most hale and hearty large figured
male, who, understanding from the cut
~ my lib my nationality, AZ once hailed
me in the most admirable Englih--shocx
No, l--and with direetness Of speach
quite foreign TO the polite Frenehinan--
shoekshociS No. 2asSed me- with no
preliminaries, did ! come from the south
of England, and ii ~, what news, if
any, had ! Of nautical afgairs
knew directly / had entered the shop
something was gniong 10 @tufd up;
the feeling perlneated the cir and danced
in the hot shadows cast BY the oppsite
wall where ingenious little French
children, with their idea OF sport, were