The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-21
Trying to Turn
German Right


ard 10 cook for As officers.
jules wear bis uniform, a blue Goa;
and red trousers. but he doesn't wear
the soldiers cap. Who ever heard OF
man cooking in anything but chefs
hat2 don't believe the entire French
war department could get Jules to try
such an unheard OF thing.
The pear trees about his fireplace
are very old and very small and they
have been trained By generations oi
uurseymen TO grow in grotesque pat
terms. like Vines. on queerly shaped
frames. Each pear is covered with a
paper bag which was tied over the bud
BY the old gardener, in the French
fashion.
An, for such fruit as that in Paris.
said Jules, as stood by his big copper
kettles one afternoon. mot bit OF
dust, not even a raindrop has ever
touched the skins of those pears. Only
the sunshine has penetrated the white
little paper home"
He shrugged his shoulders with
pleasure at the thought The orchard
looks queer enough with taa twisted
trees growing paper sacks Of fruit
The Germans lived in this orchard foE
eleven days They may have saked
Louyain but the splendor OF this orch
ard seems to have overwhelmed them
Now Jules and his French soldier
trends are showing now well they can
let dollar-a-piece pears alone. Maybe
the fruit win find its way. after all,
to the swell restaurants OF Paris, Lon
don and Berlin
Jules pets are under a grape orch
ard. Huge clusters of malagas hang
down over him as he works and the
steam from his morning coffee settles
on them in thick moisture, which, for
some odd reasons, seems to make the
coffee all the more wonderful James
H. Hare, the veteran photographer,
who stumbled onto the front with me,
and had his camera and films taken
from him, was discovered the other
day standing at the wicket gate almost
sobbing because he could not get a
photograph OF Jules in his grape-arbor-
pear-orchard kitchen. Jules kitchen is
good to see but it is better TO smell.
Today he and three soldiers spent the
forenoon in working away with knives
at bushel of ugly, dirty little pota-
toes which had been dug from gar.
den nearby. About this morning
walked over TO where Jules was toll
ing with ladle at two copper pots. In
one pot was quantity of sizzling hot
lard; floating therein, were slices OF
potatoes which swelled, under my
sight, in puffy, round. crisp balls. In
the other pot was at least a bushel Of
these same potato bits, crisp and hot,
which Jules was ladling from the
grease. From time to time he put
raw potatoes into his cooking pot
"Potatoe saute?" | asked him.
$50 you call them in English In
Paris we say pomme fruit. This is the
best way to cook potatoes"
He tore a leaf from the roof Of the
kitchen, put handful of the potatoes
on it and gave me the lot.
could do any better than that in
Paris?' he asked me. ! started to say
mo" but he gave himself the same an
swer before | did. BY dinner time
Jules had cooked enough steak-I
don't know how, only it was very good,
in the same grease in which the pota-
toes had been fried and, by the time
we got through with the potatoes and
the steak, Jules brought out a gigantic
salad of fresh lettuce. with the vine
gar and salad touched up, in daring
aud artistic fashion, with a bit Of gar
lie. When that was done his soldier
walters served cheese. And then came
coffee, which had sent its steam to
the cold. fresh grapes. Most of the
times Jules, in his blue coat, his red
trousers, his soldier shoes and his
chefs cap, stood looking on as if dar
ing even the highest officer there
who happened to be part general--to
say that something was the matter
with the meal In truth, the only
thing the matter with it was that we
all ate too much. | made this com
plant to Jules and he said, ut is
music to my ears the wall of a man
with an overfuI stomach" All this
time, remember, the cannon were
booming and not far away, men are
killing and dying.
"Have any OF your mess been kill
ed?" asked Jules.
"Fifteen out Of forty-five," ne said
but know they all fought well be-
cause they all ate WE'LL