The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-13

and that they simply HAD to have a recipe for Mayonnaise Dressing"
 And, of course, in the end the trained nurse gave up her profession 10 become the bride of one of the Bachelors the Man suggested.
 Certainly" said Nancy with a cook in the kitchen and bride waiting at The Little Church Around the Corner- everything ended happily"
 "So that's why you approve of this casual acquaintance business-picking up people, as it were" the Man said.
 'I didn't say that exactly" Nancy re- Turned. But I do say that when two people see each other somewhere, and at glance know they'd like to know one another. it's foolish to have to wait to have a third party say,.'Allow me to pre- sent MT. So and So to you, Miss So and So.''
 Well, what would you suggest In the place of introductions?r asked the Man
 "A clever married woman of my ac-. quaintanee in explaining to man the other day her attitude toward presenting herself to a man whom she didn't know when asked If that wasn't a bit uncon- ventional, replied: That is an etiquette that needs only to be observed by Debu- tantes.' Of course, there are some people who couldn't be trusted with too much liberty-I mean just to speak to anybody whom they migllk like to engage in con- versation. It's an attitude I think that should maintain among the discriminate ing few
 Tt is a question of privilege, then?'' the Man observed.
 "You don't understand yet" said Nan cy impatiently. wen say, for instance, that you go to the theatre in place where you know no one. Between the acts you look over the audience indis- crimiriately, until your eye falls upon some person-one who attracts you. You watch them during the next act and if they laugh when you laugh, and weep when you weep, you know then and there that their viewpoint is the same as yours, and that if you only knew them you'd be .good friends"
 I seldom go to the theatre alone" the man replied. "But 'sposin' I did, as the darkies say. If I singled out a particular person like you've been describing, do you think if you explained the situation, went over and sat by them, and intro duced yourself, all the while with your hand upon your heart, that they would resent it?"
 How absurd" said Nancy petuIantly, I'm talking of the people one meets every day-in the shops-in the streets at the market, buying the same food we are buying. You know I have always cherished a secret belief that there's bond among people who like the same food-a bond even stronger than those, whose tastes in jokes are the same"
 Because, don't you see," he said, fol-. lowing her argument. that in the general scheme of things our sense of humor, our appreciation of even literary things, Is influenced by, as you say, what goes into the family market basket?p
 "I hadn't thought of that" Nancy re- turned, but It's an idea. You think, then, that different classes in society are divided by the fine line of food?''
 "Certainly," he answered. "Where do you ever catch the Artichoke and Alliga- tor Pear and Mushroom person, even so much as Glancing in the direction of the Sauerkraut and Weinerwurst neighbor?'
 "Precisely--in the kitchen" said the man. WO ptbpic nay nave tihiHcili- cally opposite tastes in books; they may. be totally devoid of an artistic feeling about pictures; they may hate Beethoven and Mozart like game bird hates red dog, yet if they come from the circle in life that enjoys the same things to eat I'd take a gamblers chance that they'd live happily ever afterward.'
 That carries out my idea in the begin ning,' Nancy insisted, 'of two people who have never met, knowing at glance that they'd be good friends and presum- ing on that premise, start an acquain- tance without an introduction, and
 If they like the same food" the man cajoled .If were to see a girl who looked like she liked Nightingales $ Tongues in Aspic. setting her affections upon a man whose taste l felt sure ran to Pork Chops and Big Honiny, I'd know that such a match was foreor- dained to come to smash upon the rocks" "Dood-aIways food with men," sighed Nancy Its the way to a mans heart; there's no keeping 1t in the background,