The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-26
KANSAS COAAENT
wANTED-A cr.EvER cooK.

Solomon, his wives, his concubines
and his glory would look like thirty
cents. Belshazzar's feast would taste
ike a mess of boarding house hash.
Nero's Kidding would sound like a cat
hght- And the people-the patient long
suner1ng people-pay the bill. The
magnificent 4 million dollar office
building for the use of the United
States senate is completed and it stands
as a great marble monument to the
senatorial love of luxury and contempt
OF expense. The vast palace has its
hundred private offices, its 127 private
bath rooms, its motor car attachments,
its mahogany and mosaics, its murais
and bronzeS, as If IT Dreamt That
Dwell in Marble Halls had been turn
ed into tangible reality. 1t has a din
ing room good enough for princes and
kings, kitchen that would have made
the cooks of Lucullus green with envy
and wide-eyed with amazement, and
now the senate is looking for a 4 mil
lion dollar cook. Tariff revision may
be important, foreign complications,
domestic problems and the new system
of finance are all questions that de-
mand some attention; but none of them
requires quite SO much care, good judg-
ment and acumen as the selection OF
the proper person for cook. Southern
senators demand an expert one who is
versed in the mysteries of planked
shad, barbecue, Brunswick stew-who
shading, and who understands how to
give dinner with that mintjulep at
mosphere that makes it present JOY
that will linger in the memory. Bos-
tonians will have no man who is not
scholar On baked beans or who is not
deeply versed IN the various brands of
breakfast foods and oatmeal. The west
ern senators will demand an expert
ON steaks, roasts, sausages and beef
croquettes. San Francisco must be
<l@xl LII AL d<e~t. r,x11
fowl and chop suey and "yo cami, ;"
while the Texans will want now and
then hot tama1es, chilli con carne and
chilli coIorow with proper fervor OF
peppery flavor Kentucky may be sat
isfied with the breakfast of a quart of
borbon, two pounds, of steak and a yell
low dog: but senators from Maryland
will stand up for their traditions. The
Marylanders will insist that the new
official understand just how to cook a
canvasback duck; that he be deeply
versed in the lore of oysters and of
crabs, whether they be deviled, soft or
sweetly laid to rest in the chatting dish.
And most of ALL he must be familiar
with sacred mysteries Of terrapin Ia
Maryland.
For its $4,000 900 building the senate
will hardly be satisfied with less than
a s4,0O0,900 cook and all that goes with
both: The tariff is being revised up
ward and not downward for it takes
money TO keep up a m1il1On dollar or
flee building with its wine, women and
song-and the people-they pay the BILL
The fire and the birthstone will come
later.-El Dorado Republican.
[ - THE MOB AT ADA.
The expressed dissemination of Gov
ernor, Haskell to bring the Ada mob to
justice is commemorate. Oklahoma has
a capital punishment law, her courts
are honest and the men suspected were
under. arrest. Only one of them was
guilty, yet a mob of men in a highly
civilized community broke open the
Jail and hanged alltfou suspects The
affair was one of uncfvilized brutality
adding one of the worst incidents on
record to the list of crimes committed
by mobs. For the honor of Oklahoma,
and for future protection against mob
violence, Governor Haskell should act
with promptness and severity. That all
four of the men killed by the mob
were reputed bad men," does not add
one iota of justification for the act.
The crime against the state of Okla
homa she ald be punished. not that
punishment might render justice to the
men dead, but that it might render
justice to the great people of the new
state.-Wichita Beacon.