New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-22
aB4Of INTEREST to W]OME NA@ |zge
WAFFLE SEASON ON
Christine and Mrs. Russell Sage
Make Business Boom.


Persons eho don't know anything about
waffies except that they are good to eat
might be inclined 10 say, offhand' that
brand new shining waffle iron Of the latest
manufacture would bake better wafiies than
an iron that was made century and a half
ago and had become dim and dull with use.
But those persons would be mistaken. Wai-
file irons II appears, are like meerschaum
mines. Age softens melovs and improves
them. and the older they are the better the
product they turn out. Anybody who doubts
this can Just ask Christine, the waff1e
maker al the New York Exchange for
Woman's Work-snd then go into the
luncheon room and eat Of her waffies' made
in a l5O-vear-old iron. To eat them IS TO De
convinced.
The omen season for waffles began last
week. and Immediately the street outside
the big building Of the Womans Exchange,
az Madison avenue and 45d street assumed
lively aspect from before Y until the
dinner hour
peonle came on foot and people came IN
carriages and motor cars 10 eat OF ChrIs-
tines wafFies. smothered In butter anu
svr,lp The brisk little Swedish woman
dou,n in the kitchen there, has had 10 "orh
hard ar mixing her batter and' turning heF
waffle iron these past few days.
Christine has been al the Womans Elk
change twenty-five years. The ancient wal
40 iron has been there good WINE wv
christine cherishes it as the apple Oh ue'
owe She washes and dries 1t rehgiousiy'
- r.ber the last waffle for the day Is
baked hangs II tenderly away. a sl'''"s
,o,. u,a4e iron hangs liz the exchange
/ ti,chen TOO but Christine never looks d.
=. or could not make good wafies IN
/ that" she says.
,-o+b.r factor in the excellence Of the
! ...o4sos is Mrs Russell Sage's recipe gwen
I g.. Mrs Sage 10 the Womans Exchange
7, is ye-v simple. one quart Of -four one
,,.rt %. cream. six eggs. a tablespoonful OF
s,,gar and a pinch OF salt That is al
avcant the mixing but the mixing Is most
. important.
Christine always attends 20 tnat nerse'-'
when rungr- crowds in the luncheon room
are clamorinc for wafties ana Ohr's''ii'
can't keep up with the rush she some Iiiies
allows Sarah, the coal black assistant -
-,,r- the waffle iron: but the batter she
always mixes herself
p--sous come from far away 70 eat
: Cbristine's waffles There IS one woman
who writes TO the exchange regularly every
mid-October. asking 70 be informed as u
the very earliest date on which wafnes
will he served She lives az a fine MOTEL
rbis woman. where there are all sorts OF
good things TO eat. but they are nothing 70
her when Christines waffies are 70 be mad
7, tho tall Of 1900 the first letter Of inquiry
from this waffle loving woman was re-
ceived. and ever since they have come as
regularly as the waffle season comes
around. The letter is duly answered, and
the woman never fails 70 be on hand 70
eriov the very first wafies OF the season
from Christines hand.
Four and five big round waffles has this
woman been known 10 eat at sitting.
on one occasion she was observed resting
quietly In q chair in the salesroom outside
the luncheon room.
THE wafies are ready" one Of the maids
said 90 her knowing that she had not
eaten vet I'm waiting a bit. 20 be
hungry enough. she said. i don't feel
unite hungry enough 10 enjoy them prop
erly just now
Christine though she bakes waffies all
dav during the season. has many other IN
tarests too For instance. she loves the
opera once a week regularly during the
fan and winter she and her husband-who
b,- the way is quite young and handsome
60 10 the opera. and they always choose
the best things Christine knows what the
hest things are. too. She likes Wagner
most and there is not a motif OF one OF mis-
ooeras that she does not know by heart
one Of Christine cronies at the ex-
change is Billy TAFT the eat. Billy sits for
hours watching Christine bake waffies but
when it comes 20 eating he personally pre-
ea-s the corned beef hash made by another
euplove OF the exchange woman who
has raised q family OF five children on the
proceeds Of corned beef hash.
Billy likes the opera TOO as Christine
p does. only he prefers 10 sing his own
operas and does. every time he eludes the
b vigilance of the exchange staff and gets
night out