Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-31
GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN CABBAGE.
Warm EulOgy Of Succulent, Delicious,
Esculent, He-baceOus Henderson
County Product.
Editor Democrat:


In treating the above subject it is to
be regretted that the word cabbage is
Tot to be found in the Bible, but Meth
Ell is potato, turnfp, nor peanut, and
The reason is that there we're no cab
bage in that and and time, or the
country where the Bible vas written.
! for we read where the children of
Israel when discouraged in the vii.
derness longed to get back to the gar
lie and onions in Egypt. Suppose
these good people had known anything
OF the gorgeous, succulent, delicious,
~esculent, herbaceous old mountain
cabbage, does any one for a moment
think that garlic and onions, of Egypt,
would ever been thought of, or men
toned?
Let us lay a few wreaths and tie a
few blue ribbons, red ribbons and yell
low ribbons about the stalk of the dear
old mountain cabbage. Is there man
living so full of ingratitude, that he
can sit down to boiled cabbage, fried
cabbage, sliced cabbage slaw, chow,
chow, cabbage soup, or cabbage
vhat-not, seasoned with streaked pork
OF fried breakfast bacon, and not feel
that he has before him the best goods
of life? Of course the beardIess
youth may take his dulciana to the
moving picture show and while the
show progresses, MUNICH over a bag
of roasted peanuts, between them
but if he is a lad of brainsr when he
gets back to her home and finds the
intended mother-in-law has retired,
he will whisper in her ear to "let's go
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cabbage. juicy pork and corn bread"
then both of them will feel like some
thing. This writer is talking from ex-
perience, for in his younger days ne
tried it.
If you want to keep down the hign
cost of living, by having cabbage all
the year round, the you should make
a barrel of sauer-kraut, which wiz
carry you into the summer, and it is
said that kraut being a German dish.
will make a man fight, which perhaps
accounts for the Germans being such
everlasting fighters. If they get our
mountain cabbage, to make kraut, or
which to fight, then we trust they will
have to pay well for them. Cabbage
is more important than most folks
have any idea of, for instance, it has
a special meaning of its own in the
English language, you all know that
a little "nigger" will cabbage your
watermelon every time he gets q
chance, (and who car blame him?l
while the big negro may cabbage your
chickens or han of meat, but you sell
dom hear of a thievish white man eveT
Cabbaging your cabbage, though he,
may sneak to the mountain and pur-
,Oin your fat muttons.
Gentlemen and ladies, you may nib
BILE your delicatessens and expensive
~Gelicacies, but if you want to find out
the true symbol of democracy and re-
and home of the brave, then put your
self down to just plain good old tooth
some cabbage, Grn bread AMI runs
pork. Talk about your faddists and
doctors of medicine who have de-
roCnced and put out of business al
most all other articles of food, who
ever heard one of them denounce early
York or drumhead? 1t is true, some
of our grandmams used to think cab
Lage was bad for collie, but let me as
sure you, if this delightful dish ever
does give you pains, it is you, that IS
wrongfand not the cabbage.
The man who lives outside the linn
it's of a town or city, and does no=
raise q, good sized cabbage patch every
year, ought to be sued by his wife, for
at least a divorce, a-menSa ct thOra.
Yes, plant cabEages, plant them for
home use, plant them for market,
liant them for your South Carolina
friends, who cannot raise them, let
them pay you for them, it is your OPP
portunity, and if your daughter brings
her best fellow to dinner and you find
he does not know how to eat cabbage,
let her put him off at once. He is
dude and will never make a success IN
life. Henderson county, has up 10
row, been the champion cabbage
raiser, let her not lose the reputation,
South Carolinians are not all in the
world that love and banker after them,
chickens love them, turkeys love them.
do rabbits and hogs, and my, how a |
COW is crazy for them, and here is
the only charge that is brought against
them. You say it makes mean milk
end butter, when a cow eats cabbage.
Well, If so, it is because she loves
them so we'll, she eats, too many OF
them, it is not the cabbage's fault, it
ie the cows imprudence. The cab
Rage is too good for her to let-up.
Plant cabbage, plant more cabbage,
keep on planting cabbage.
This article is intended for the COM
fort and benefit of the citizens of the
and not for the special benefit