New-York tribune., 1911-11-19

A patriotic American woman who resentS
recent criticisms Of American cooking says
that its bad reputation Is partly due TO
the fact that go many American homes
have employed foreign cooks-chiefiy OF
Hibernlan lineage, real American girls pre-
ferring shop or factory to life in another
woman's kitchen
Bridget" says the patriotic woman
land not the American housewife mas
brought disrepute upon American cooking.
Bridget's day is fortunately passing Dut
she has ruled I'm the past In altogether 100
many homes. while the boarding house ana
country hotel, which certainly cannot boast
OF serving good fare, as critics have justly
remarked owe the ruin OF their reputation
10 the same cause. The mistress OF the
premises has occasionally gone down 10
the kitchen to prepare a chocolate cake OF
a huckeberry pie, but It has been her ois
and brawny Irish cook who has sent up
stairs the soggy potatoes. greasy liver ana
bacon the coarse boarding house hash and
the favorless stewed prunes. The Ameri-
can woman herself, no doubt, has as a
cook her lapses from grace but she should
not be blamed for all the bad cooking OF
a whole nation, and we have the tesu-
mony Of the Department OF Agriculture III
a pamphlet issued last summer that IN no
country are the people so well fed on the
average. as they are in the United states.
! The universally acknowledged energy and
| achievement a of the American people ana
/ their general good health and physical
! powers would prove this beyond question
| Uncle Sam assures US. even II scien-
,lfc study Of the food supplies OF all lands
did not do so
| Let other countries the patriotic one
concluded learn how TO prepare baked
beans and Johnny cake II they want So'-
/ dlers and sailors equal 20 Uncle Sans
They say that a Massachusetts polite
ness" has crept into the balmy air OF
Maryland. and whore but yesterday the
descendants Of the cavaliers We're wont to
lavish Southern hospitality nowadays the
most charming girl gets only an invitation
to dinner or card party. two weeks
visit now lasts only fourteen days. in con-
( trast to the happy oden time when Eliza
was urged TO stay on another month for
/ the hunt" and afterward TO visit round
/ among the other cousins until the whole
/ happy season was over.
The reason FOR the mOurnfu change IS
not hard times, is not that The spirit Of
/ hospitality has died ont; il Is just the
same old story-seryants.
'The good old family servants are now
obsolete" explained the Southern matron.
"and the rcv-farelod Niger simply will
not stay with any one who has company,
because Of the extra work. Tips do not
compensate the lazy negro; he just loves
his time and his ease, and any imported
talent of dark skin soon becomes contain
mated by thc worthless, shiftess negroes
Of the nei2hborhood The groans that 80
M in oi.r households when the news speeds
around that sorlc belle is 10 visit a prom
ineat family could never Le groaned by
inhospitable people, and we just yearn 20
give that girl a good tmc for as long as,
among us all. she can be persuaded to
stay. but. in darkey lingo, we 'dassent'
The maiden aunt of the DAY is getting
used TO shocks from she careless younger
generation. but what happened the other
dav she Characterized as tine lmit'-the
Vocabulary Of nr owa generation being
Inadequate 10 cxrrcss her horror.
q was out walking with Dorothy" she
said "ard noticed a hole starting in the
heel Of her fine silk stocking so | called
/ her attention TO II as we got near her
/ house suggesting that she should get 9TH
ers on before We proceeded. ! went 20 her
room with her and saw her huricdly take
a pair out and run her hand In to see II
/ they were whole. a toe needed darning
hut. with "a triumphant This Is the pair
| wanted she pulled th"m on over those
already on her feet, put on her pumps and
said I'm ready; come on or Wen he late
81 was shocked and said go. but her re-
/ ,I,. ,,,s per me. If ! darncd that heel
or maj toe the place would just make a
/ hus,er so I've learned 10 keep the ones
,,u toe holes on one side Of the drawer
and those with heel holes and ladders on
| the other side. 30 can always make my