The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-31
BEAN FAMINE in BOSTON.
Is Relieved by q Big Importation Of
10000 Bushels Straight From
ENGLAND

Is Relieved by Big Importation Of
10000 Bushels Straight From
England.
Borne to the hotbed of Yankeedom
from the shores of perfldious Albion
In preparation for the proverbial hard
winter, the succulent but common
bean, the pride of Boston and the
Joy of New England, has arrived 10,-
900 bushels strong in Boston harbor
aboard the good ship Anglian, and
the threatened danger of bean fam
inc has been averted, says the Boston
Post. The Boston baked bean, fresh
from England, is ready to start out
on its annual peregrination to New
Hampshire, where it is eaten with a
dash of catsup, and to- Vermont,
where it is consumed with stewed
tomatoes and cream cheese; to
Maine, where it is considered deli
oacy If served with oil and vinegar,
and to Rhode Island, where Chilli
sauce is thought Indispensable; to
Connecticut, where 1t is eaten with
whatever Is In the ice chest, and to
Pennsylvania, where sugar or mo-
lasses Is what is most desired.
Most nourishing of all earthly
fruits, the Boston baked bean, fresh
from England, stands ready for the
Saturday night sacrifice and the Sun
day morning rewarming. Ready to
turn itself loose from the uppermost
boundary of Maine to the lower
boundary line of Connecticut, and
then some, the product Of England
and the pride of Boston lies packed
in its little burlap bags.
In New England they will be cook
ed in beanpots. Everywhere else
throughout the country they will be
cooked in tin pans.
Wherever they are served voices
will rend the air every Saturday night
night and every Sunday morning,
saying: why on earth can't you
learn to cook these beans the way
that my grandmother used to cook
them?"
Brownbread, steaming hot, luke
warm or clammy cold, will garnish
the plate beside them. Plate after
plate will be tucked beneath the belts
of thousands upon thousands of true
Americans. Boarding house mis-
tresses all over the country will tell
the boarders that they are more
nourisning than the finest beefsteak.
Boarders in the same places will take
exception to the statement.
Some of the beans will be soggy
and gummed together in an adhesive
mass. Some will be juicy and swim
ming in brown "liquor." Those who
get the juicy ones will want the soggy
kind, while those who receive the ad-
hesive variety will lift their voices
the future their beans be served wet.
Many New England boy will cry
for more beans of Saturday night
and will be told that he can have
"just three beans" and no more. And
in many a happy home there will be
many fond mother and father who
awake from slumber in the still
watches of Sunday morning and wish
that they had had followed the ad-
vice they gave their offspring.
On New Years Day many small
boy will step furtively into grocery
store and ask for bag full of "Bos-
ton baked beans, uncooked," and
now, thanks to the imports from
England, his request will be readily
granted.
From Maine to California, from
Seattle to Ell Paso, from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf, in Hawaii and the
Philippines, wherever in the world a
Yankee has his home, there shall be
bean night, and that bean night
shall be Saturday. Wherever the
Stars and Stripes of the national en-
blem flap deliriously in the breezes
of heaven, whether on the land or on
the high seas, there shall be a weekly
bean-eating rite, sacred and inviolate.
UP from the bean barrel, out of the
big paper bag, bought in small lots
from the grocer, purveyed ready-to-
serve from the bakery, canned to the
hand with pork on top, the tiny but
omnipresent bean shall be devoured
at stated periods by every American
worthy of the name.
And wherever the consumer dwells
the beans shall be known as the Bos-
ton baked bean.
And the Boston baked bean comes
from England.