The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-02
From the Kansas City Star.
 (fN M not very anxious to go '\PV abroad" said Mrs. Mary A.

GN M not very anxious to go '\P0 abroad" said Mrs. Mary A.
 White of Emporia, mother of tinued, q don't care to live where they can't make a good American hash."-El- dorado Republican.
 This is probably a correct statement of Mrs. Whites opinion on the question of hash and kindred matters as they may affect the visit to Europe which she ex- poets to make with her distinguished son, William-or "Bill Allen," as he is inva- riably called by Bent Murdock of the FL dorado Republican, who had lot to do with Whites newspaper bringing up.
 To know William Allen White for all that is in him one ought to have the privilege and opportunity of meeting and becoming acquainted with his mother It is an example of like mother, like son; this Is mostly true in those instances where men amount to more than "com- mon" Now and then "a man of parts takes after'' his father, but not often enough to break the force of the saying. 'the degenerate son of illustrious sire..
 It is a great pleasure for people who are "real folks" themselves to neet a person like Mrs. Mary Allen White. She looks a lot like "Bill Allen" or, if you choose to put it the other way, ''Bill Allen looks lot like her. She Is a plump, fair It, tie woman with keen, pleasant face that gives Billy mighty good title to his bright and symphonic visage. With the soft outlines of her face and her com fortable figure, she is not at all unlike pretty, old-fashioned picture, in plum colored silk gown by which she "sets stere' with its right finishing of dainty lace.
 But to one who knows her we'll an in- adequate estimate of Mrs. Mary Allen White seems to be implied by her alleged fear that Europe will not be to her every thing she might hope because hash is not one of the articles of diet she is going to meet in that effete land. True it is, Mrs. White will not find awaiting her in the world beyond the sea any such thing as hash no more will she find bat ter cakes, nor fried mush, nor many other things to eat. out of which, in Amer lea, or at least in the west, proceed the issues of life. Moreover she might, if she were like most women, suffer the additional affliction of being forced to put up'' with things like bitter marma- Jade and Ceylon tea, and what they speak of as preserves lover there" and other dietetic innovations to which no rooted and grounded American ever becomes genuinely accustomed or attached But let none be so far deceived as to fancy that the Whites, unless they follow a habit of life in Europe far more mo- madic than is expedient in the case of a family with young children, will be de- prived of hash-or real sausage or pan cakes or fried much or anything else that the household is accustomed to using here. What does the sausage of commerce amount to in America? When did anyS body who reads this piece" eat any 'boughten' sausage that was fit to feed to the dogs?
 But the writer of this article is able to state on authority that is absolutely undeniable that Mrs. White, who keeps house, is not without genuine, all-pork sausage with sage and sweet marJoram in it and everything else of that kind that people used to have 40 and 50 years ago. What Mrs. Mary Allen White can't get at the provision stores and meat shops is a matter of small moment to her. She just turns in and makes it-thats all, and she has found it more than worth the labor in different ways.
 Suppose "Bill Allen" White hadn't been brought up on the Honest, hearty things to eat that nurtured his boyhood and his manhood5 suppose his mother had