Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-24
lenr. of The Star

Special Correspondence. of The Star
PARIS, June ia, 1917
nn@7 HERE are fircless cookers in
W America" wrote Louis For
est in the Paris Matin.
q You are a pochete Gin the
pockeD; you are cracked; the stamp is
on you; there are spiders on your cell
ing wrote back hundreds of constant
readers. mostly women. Postcards and
letters flowed in during eight days. and
Your thoughts deceive you" was the
mildest expression.
Il may be in the pocket" replied
Louis Forest, "all the same, here is the
way to make a fireless cooker out of
an old hat box. (And he told them.) In
six months. by lack of coal, you'll all be
using fireless cookers. How do you keep
warm in bed, madame? Have you Il fire
beneath the covers?"
l.ouis Forest is not newspaper man.
This is why his name is one of those
most regularly reproduced In the world
at the bottom of signed article. The
Paris Matin sells 100000 copies daily.
1t is beaten by the Petit I'arisien, whose
figure is 2,100,060, but the Petit
i'arisien has no daily signed article. the
name of Louis Forest. attached to his
daily Echo, holds the European record
Amusing. striking, bizarre person
allty. riSolo, as the French say Tor
funny, with little twinkling eyes and
windy beard, you might take him for a
Montmartre joker or poet Cor both),
the first five minutes, then for doctor
of laws or professor Of oriental Ian
guages. If you should guess the school
of political sciences. you would be
equally correct, but, in the end, you'd
md him out for what he is-the presl-
dent of the Club of the one Hundred.
the grand gourmet of crowd of il
lustrious hard-eaters of France, Amerl-
ca and England, who. already before
the war. We're at once the hope ana ter
ror of all the restaurants and hotels or
France
He is a savant. He holds record,
they say. for learned diplomas, but.
certainly, the science of which ne is
proudest has no parchment-pnre gas
tronomy. An epicurean, you VIII say, Il
learned man Disguised with learning,
who goes hunting lark pies AT Nerac
and stuffed ducks at CastelbaJac with
an international bunch whose watch-
words are: Let the bottle be uncorked
before the CLIENT" I'VE eat food, not
furniture" Clean linen, clean hands,
combed servant maids" Cheese under
glass" Fresh mustard dali% Al
coffee prepared in advance Is pi" 'oi-
fee" and We use the card catalogue
system"
The Club of the one Hundred had.
before the war. become FAMOUS ana
influential. Composed of some o"o
prominent persona lities of the politlcai,
commercial. automobiling ana leisure
classes and including many h"usehold
names of America. its system OF ny
ing cards notified all members wheh
q single member commended OF com
nj II nj AZ &
cliEibl" each member must nave pre-
vi"usly done at least $4,000 miles IN
automobile-"th circumference OF the
earth lat least"
The club had tand has) for object to
discover good little hotels, good little
inns, good little restaurants. run per-
sonally by the proprietor. who makes
good little dishes"
We have no objection to fine hotels
II they are good" says the president
but w" know that palaces ana ma
Jestics are often barracks OF aca]ou,
ana that. In France at least. there are
inns where you eat better. t1oou
french cookery is mad" OF 1rtSh M
gredientS. fresh vegetables. ffesh eggs;
fresh butter. fresh milk. and hotel
Which mas not some specially or dlsh
particular to the house is not MoI'Hy
OF US NO soups or sauces poueht IN
p01ties' Down with gelatin ana hsh
glue. Cookery is. not learned In
schools It is learned by getting a
iast@ Tor fine dishes in good trench
kitchens
The club made the fortunes of any
duahtity of honest and painStakthG NJ
tle establishments all over France. II
was the terror of many a great one,
because 1t told its members tand the%
Iold their friends), Here is poison
Inc club looked like n close corpora
i ,loh OF gourmandizers seeking tasty
niue dishes. but its philosophical Cd
Ject was deep one-to protect
france, playground of innocent hearts
against the monsters of organization
and standardizing in the kitchen
we don't want food altered ny IN