The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-04


A LTHoEGH it may not occupy a po-
~ sltion of dignity in the encyelo-
= pedias, between the Picts and
Franklin Pierce. pie is of great import
ance in human affairs.
Herei s a case in point, reported by
a correspondent of the New York Her
aid:
After having been struck by a train
and having met vita all kinds of serious
accidents during the last two years, Hur-
nell j. Lynch. SO years old, died today
on his farm near Middletown, Del, from
the effects of eating huckleberry pie. The
ailment was acute Indigestion. He would
have been 90 years old in October.
1.-TWO years ago, after celebrating his
eighty-seveRth birthday Mr.. Lynch fell
Is feet from a load of hay and was badly
injured Soon afterward he was struck
by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad
and was again seriously hurt. Two
months later his horse took fright at a
train and backed him over steep en-
bankment Once more he was laid up.
These were only a few of his mishaps. He
frequently said he had a charmed life.'
This illustrates the great Importance of
the noble. subtle. elusive art of the per-
feet pie maker I<calls attention TO the
danger that lies in the ignoble illusory
craftsmanship of the jerry builder who makes
pie crust as tough as a saddle skirt
and tempts a man who partakes OF II.
Huckeberries are harmless. So are flour
and shortening" and the other ingred-
tents that enter into the making of pastry
But the tragedy in Delaware shows that
when a man is outside of a jerry built
pie he is in greater danger than when he
is tumblng off load Of hay, or being
shunted into the adjacent landscape by
a cowcatcher which has scooped him up
upon a grade crossing, or doing somer-
saults down a steep embankment with a
horse and wagon following in his wake.
or laid up with a malady owing its
origin TO something other than IA miscon-
structed pie.
/ All men who are civilized eat pie. II
they do not get 1t at home where 1t is
or should be-made according to Hoyle
they get it down town where it is factory
built. probably from the by-products of
glue factories and tanneries. The blum
dering. trusting, male bites as unsuspect-
ingly as a fish rising to a fly or striking
a lead souid when the bait is we'll laid
He sees upon sale cherry pie, peach pie,
cocoanut pie, apple pie, burberry pie. GUS
tard pie, blackberry pie, raspberry pie,
and orders it by label. 1t matters very
little whether the crust Is crisp insofar
as sales are affected The pie eating male
may grumble over his run of factory pas
try. and thinks sadly of his boyhood days
In the country, when pies for men were
more important in the minds of matrons
than votes for women. But he'll gulp
down the pie. regardless of the fact that
he'd as well-insofar as his personal
safety is concerned-be walking across the
mouth of the bottomless pit upon a rotten
! rail-.
Anybody can vote, but pie making is an
accomplishment. There are some women
nowadays who however well meaning,
have lost their sense of proportion.
| Reforming the currency, correcting the
evils of a protective tariff. dissolving the
trusts, are important undertakings. but
you never saw a man who had withstood
| the shock of rear end collision with q
lightning express train, who had lighted
on his head in a hay field, rebounded and