Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-20
COOKING
By DR.. Frank Crane

When General du Pont, Mr.. Daugherty,
Howard Warrington, L. w. Henley, Henry
L. Stoddard and Jess w. Smith arrived in
Marion the other day to discuss the political
situation, say the news dispatches, they en-
tered the Marion Club, hungry for breakfast.
Marion is a city OF homes and breakfast is a
sacred meal. Club life here does not begin
until later in the day, when business men
drop in for luncheon and dinner. Conse-
quently there is no arrangement for serving
breakfast at the Marion Club.
When Jess Smith wants breakfast he
Graves it, and he returned from a reconnai-
sance in the club kitchen with loud lamen-
tatlons that food was there but no chef
What's the use of man being a hotel
owner if he can't cook? General du Pont
| asked, as he pulled off his coat and rolled
up his sleeves. "Show me the Kitchen. The
rest of you keep out and set the table,
In few minutes there was steam from the
coffee pot, ham and eggs were suffering in
the pan, and flapjacks flew through the air
Later General du Pont staggered through
the kitchen door with breakfast tray bal
anced on his palm and napkin hung over
one arm.
Come and get it," announced the General
And they did.
All Of which leads to remark that the man
who does not know how to cook be he mill
lionaire prince or bishop, misses lot.
The preparation of food is of the sim
pie primal joys of existence.
Eating is fun, but cooking things to eat
setting the table, brewing coffee, making
biscuit, and putting up the chairs have a
ubtler appeal.
Tere is no unfortunate wretch on earth
who deserves more sympathy than the Door
duffer who is compelled to resort constantly
to restaurants and hotels. He must take
what the naughty waiter brings him. He
cannot have one lamb chop; he must order
three because three is IAN order"
He acquires Indigestion diabetes and ner-
| Vous prostrat1on because by and by he eats
only in state of fury whereby men dig
their graves with their teeth
He is overcharged, snubbed and sneered at
| Dy the gentleman from the Walters Union
who brings him his food
he never gets what he wants when and
how he wants it.
He goes to an early grave bullied. taxed
starved and buttled to death; he passes out
unwept, unhonored and unstrung.
Give me frying pan, hunk of bacon and
loaf of bread, land thou beside me singing
| in the Wilderness and l will laugh to scorn
all the Frenchified monstrosites that ever
| glared at "a hungry victim through the eve
! less sockets of bill of fare
! Mr.. du Pont, when you said, "Show me
| the Kitchen" and afterwards, Come and
get it," you said mouthfui. I'll forgive
your dollars. You have sense.
Still, l think could show you a few tricks.
Do you know how to fix round steak, for
| as good as spring chicken? Do you know
| the secrets of beaten biscuit? Can you do
things with toasted cheese? 1 speak of deep
| matters. AS Einstein said, "Only half a
dozen living men probably can understand
me-"
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
%
City and State lose 100000 by eligibles
! failing to qualify for the ballot, but this
doesn't compare with the loss to Georgia of
| fhor
! be voting for better conditions.
! That Augusta gentleman who offers to
| marry any young lady worth 100000 and
| return half of the money if he is dissatisfied
| possesses the same brand of modesty as that
displayed in a circus poster.
! Coal companies are blamed for invisible
profits" Usually, the fuel profits are star
| tngly apparent.
1t doesn't seem quite sportsman-like to try
/ to blame all the social trouble in the world