The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-18

through the Panama Canal, SOC. 600 gal
Ions of oysters. 1850 cords of sassa-
fras and 1900 pots as large as the
Devils Punch Bowl in the Big Ham
mock, but these are mere details when
compared with results of reducing the
high cost of living by so much as three
or four hundred per cent, and of having
everybody feel like you say the babe,
the belle and the bourgeoisie feels after
eating gopher gumbo.
More flower to the matrons OF Pen
sacola, who make the finest gumbo in
tire land, say we.
In devoting more than a column OF
space to the delineation Of gopher
gUmbo you more than earned the price
offered by your correspondent for the
information, but your reply came too
late to avail yourself Of the prize which
was to hs.ye been in the nature Of an
invitation to attend the daSheen dinner
given by the Brooksville Board of
Trade on the night of January Is.
1912.
That you missed something which
would have caused you to return to
Pensacola and start movement to
have the next legislature abolish
gopher gumbo win be apparent by con-
templating the following. which is a
coDv of the invitation we had prepared
for you and a reprint of the menu
served on the occasion of the banquet.
Having heard that the editor of The
Pensacola Journal is a connoissuer in
matters pertaining to the science of
dietetics, I am authorized by the
BrooksviIle Board of Trade and
Dasheen Club TO invite you to attend
a banquet which viii be masterpiece
OF the culinary art as well as one OF
the most unique functions of the kind
in the history OF scientific deglutftion.
''The federal government maintains
here, under the auspices of the Bureau
of Foreign Plant Introduction. large
farm which is devoted to the propa-
cation of vegetables and plants not
found elsewhere in the United States.
One of these vegetables, introduced
from Japan and known as the dasheen,
a tuber with a boiled chestnut flavor,
has proven a pronounced and unquaI-
fed success, and it is for the purpose
of disseminating concrete and accurate
knowledge about its attributes as an
edible that the Brooksville Dasheen
Club shall give this banquet.
THAT the dasheen is to play most
important part in the economy OF table
accessories in the future is positively
predicted by the experts Of the Foreign
Plant Introductory Bureau, who have
been here and who have made ex-
haustive study of its successful propa-
cation, following six years of unsuc-
ceSsful attempts to grow II elsewhere.
Therefore. the BrooksvfIle Dasheen
Club desires to make its advent on an
American bill Of fare an occasion be-
sitting the debut of distinctively new
dish.
THE great Castillon epicure, Her
nando De Soto, eminently wise tand
probably mighty hungry in his day
and time. was some four hundred years
previous, so may not we entertain the
hone that you viii embrace the de-
liehts that he so sagaciously OWNED
were here but unfortunately passed
by
"Brooksville situated as Rome or
Seven Hills, but with natural attributes
and environments more wonderful than
r. architectural decorations OF the
Eternal City, is an invitation personi-
fed Irresistible and compelling. else
our club would not have presumed TO
invite you and other distinguished citi-
zens to come here.
Since mans advent upon earth he
had been seeking natural wonders. but.
| having failed to find enough TO make
respectable showing, has constructed
some, for a total Of seven wonders OF
the world. fernando county, Florida
alone can easily muster that many
Sir. the wonder of wonders Is our
Hammock manufactured, ocean and
| gulf brewed ozone. so compounded by
! the Great Alcheu1iSt that storm. noods