Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29

lis scrambled eggs and shrimps. scram-
Fled eggs and tomatoes. sips his Bor-
DEATH. listens, sips again. and then
launches out into some terrific diatribe-
which will become his article.
But chiefly the rich juices of that great
French steak. tie chateaubriand stir and
sustain the brain cells of that brilliant in
tellect Scventy-fiya years ago the Cham
psauX Of the time inv6 nted il for the great
writer and statesman. Chateaubriand him
self. IL is a thick piece Of fifet Srilled
between Two thinae! pieces of rumpsteak
These latte" yield their gravy TO the Met
ard give IL tenderness Obtained In no
other way. Then they arc discarded, the
tiief = which is The "Chateaubriand =
alone being served. after being passed
quickly over a phenoTrenaily bright IRE
Il ..singe" its outer surface.
once the fried potatoes sWeiled IKE
balloon that go with Rocheforts steak
were "A great mystery. ROchefort invent
Cd them iii England. and considered when
he brought them back from exile that ne
bestowed n boon on France we'll worth
his ransom Hot air, How do they get
il ins.,Ie the slice? Every Dody knows ROW.
You FIRST cook the sliced potatoes III mod
erateIy no, lard over SLOW flre; theH
drS and let them cool trifie. lastly Jump
them into Sizzling hot lafd = Wilefc tit4
swell and swell.
You have heard that Rochefort says
the "AngeIus'' has lost its soul. But not
III America says Eochefort The painting
that brought the record price returned
perfect from America. and Rochefolt
ought TO know. because the guilty party
a observation-disclosures the ''assassina-
ton 10 him with hopeless scif-compla-
ccncy. as YOU shall learn. Meanu bile
France believes Rochefort. who knew and
III t.d Njtlat whfu il the mon
10 laugh at him.
I, besan when Miliet was very poor
and Eochcfort very young.
One dan when ! was little pic
lure dealers Of the Rue Notre Dame de
l.orette. bearded Young man entered
CARRYING under his arm canvas about
nftv centimeters wide and fifty centime-
tiers high SAYS Rochcfort. When he
united the paper covering | saw that il
represented a peasant Girl sewing under
lamp. while her child slept III is
cradle. I strolied 10 the back of the shop
by discretion: it did not prevent me from
hearing the painter ask the dealer SCI
aud The latter refuse il. II is 4 painter
who lives NJ Fontainebleaa,' said tho
dealer. after the man had packed up the
painting and gone Out. lie added His
name i N'llct, and he paints We'll enough,
hut YOU understand don't want 10 in
cumher myself with lot IF stuff that
Will not sell. might have taken that
enc FOR S.tl-he needs money"
THAT one. says Rochsforl. was
bought twenty-five wears later for SlS.0po
by 4 New Yoker. whose gallery il still
ornaments. was at an age when one
never has $50 loose in the pocket. end
probably | was not Yet in q state tn APP
precate the value Of the work Later |
learned To admire the great Miliet and
Was one Of the first TO extol him.
lie refused The criticism of The Wood
cutter and Death in which Edmond
About treated that magnificent image of
human misery as IL it were the work of
a caricaturfst." The year in which Miilet
exhibited The Man With the Hoe which
Rochefort thinks is his greatest painting,
there was All avalanche of criticism i'm the
Paris press The cN- Empress Eugenic-
whom Roche.ort calls Mime. Bonaparte
nee Montijo, To whom the Mexi-
can war. that of 1870 and the disme mbei-
m~nt of our country exclaimed on see
ing I'm the salon that man OF the farm
resting OF his hoe after a day OF killing
fatigue: All Dumoliard, and all the
push of ee4rtiers repeated the word.