Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25
A CULINARY MASTERPIECE.
When You Go to Paris Don't Turn Up
 Your Nose at MusseIs.


 You will find in Paris a small res taurant just inside the street entrance presided over by a waiter who has ap been forty years of age for i tue last twenty years. He has q friendly. alert air. and anything in the world that you want he will promptly provide. You will naturally order some sort of potagc or something that your fan cy suggests: but whatever else you do be sure to call for musses. 1 can see you turning up your nose at this. In America who eats musseis except at rare times-perhaps some picked lnu>- scls? They are with us in the same category as tripe.
 But behold the genius of the French When the waiter brings in an enor- nous silver bowl with domelike sil- yer cover and W ben he removes the cover. then you forget everything ill he world except the delicious Savory smell of the steam which rises from the myriad shells that open lovingly for you to extract from them the dain- ty sea favored mussel that turks with in.
 Musscl, did l say? No; these are not the ordinary muSses that Americans know. French .aSlrOuomic genius has transformed them into moules mari uere In some deftly magical way the | French chef has impartcd delicious suggestion to the motlcS. just that ln- l dr.in;bic cNaneoccnt memory Of gar ! lie garlic which in the hands of the I ordinary cook is an offensive and dead " weapon. but which in the hands of a cook of nigh dcsrce-an artist in fact-is Il means for achievn. some of the supreme triumphs of his art.
 After the moules you will have any thing you care for-daiuty slices of gaaniine or sliced capon nestlinS amid watercresses and then perhaps some peaches in little basket where the fruit is infolded in leaves from it's own tree and ripened to precisely the right turn on some ancient wall in the sunshine of an old French garden, 1 then perhaps some pulled bread and a bit of Camembert and a Cafe Maza- gran in a long glass. No one remem- bers now the battle that gave it's name to this particular preparation of cof- fee, which shows that men may come and empires may fall and armies may be dashes into fragments upon the bat tletielu, but the genius of cookery re- mains triumphant and it's achieve i mentS are never lost.-Bookm man.
 "Nicknac ckitorian." London ShopheeprrS' slang is a uia- lect ii, itsef and one that is alwaA> 1 changing What. then. is Il "nicanlc..- itorian:" We know not the word to- day; but. looking recently through some old law cases dating about hundred yearS back. was puzzled to find il applied iii all good faith to describe a plaintiff in the sheriff court On fur her search it turned out | to be piece of forgotten cockney slang fer |; dealer in bric-;-brsc. l The evidence show ed that this plain tiir kepi ,t ,ort of cid curiosity shop, , in which lie dispensed "MlmmieS. l poisoned arrows the head of King Ar thurs spear and q genuine nlanuSeripj of the first play acted by IheSpiS aW. his company ill Il wagon. The de- 1 icnuant. Il MollAn, nal actually l bought and paid for some of these r;.ri:ie>, but '>ile died alter h;iN Nin.s eoin- 1 miSSioneu t'.a eH45a!min- of an oran@ l outANG tu :tdd 60 her collection, al, for this her eAecUtuv> refused to pay. Counsel for lhe drfeEsc poured c"li- tempt ou ths mummy ut the orah. 1 oui;tu3 and c,illci it Il ''Slui1cu mou- key"
 But the "nichnackitorian" won his ] thau his naHle.- Manchester Ci1laruian Like a Mental Moving Picture.