Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
WITH THE
HIGH SCHOOL.
CLASSICS
By MARGARET BOYD
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the adjacent provinces IN search OF
Impoverished French, who, tempted
by shilIings and haIf-crowns, would
impart culinary mysteries to her."
A Tale of TWO Cities.
For many centuries France led the
civilized world in the matter Of cook
ing and eating. The French believed
with their compatriot Sayarin that
''The destiny of nations depends upon
the manner in which they feed them
selves" and they bestowed upon the
subject of eating the attention that a
misunderstanding matter deserves.
While their neighboring nations
were leaving the matter of cooking to
menials, Frenchmen were regarding
it as one of the fine arts. No one
thought it at all incongruous when the
chef of Louis XVI declared that
Prominence in cookery never occurs
under thirty years of age, and nothing
but consummate experience can ele-
vate one to the rank Of chief profess
sor. In connection with diligent and
studious application one must also
possess no small Share of intellect"
Within recent years, the rest of the
civilized world has begun to rival
France in its interest in food and food
falues. Our interest has been growing
steadily ever since the Japanese sol
diers performed such feats during the
Russo-Japanese war on their fish and
rice diet. The statement that third
Of our school children were undernour-
lshed proved decided impetus to the
study of culinary mysteries.
The effect on the French people Of
their study of culinary mysteries is
delightfully."- set forth by Max O'Rell,
who, writing a decade or so before the
late war, stated: 'The French are es-
sentially a happy people. Their cheer
fulness, which strikes the foreigner
the moment he sets foot on French
soil, is due to sound stomach. Dys-
pepsia is not known in France. From
the rich bankers mansion in the
Champs Elysees to the simple mechan-
les garnet at Belleville, business cares
are never allowed to interfere with the
pleasures Of the table"
As to the economic side of good eat
ing, the brilliant Journalist writes:
1.-The pleasures of the table are with
in the reach of all classes in France.
The working people are better off in
England than in France, but they are
not so well fed or so happy. What
the English working classes throw
away in bones, scraps and vegetables,
would suffice to nourish poor French
family. I assure you that with a
vegetable soup, stew, some cheese
or fruit, and good bread, these people
dine remarkably well at two or three
pence head"
From this it seems evident that
Miss Pross was but exercising good
business Judgment when she ex-
changed shillings and half-crowns for
French culinary secrets.
"AII the dull, deep pain, and con.
slant anguish of patience!"
-Evaneeline.
Peaceful patience is for the old or
the philosophical. For the rest Of
humanity, patience is, indeed, mat
ter of constant anguish, a waiting for
the hope deferred that "maketh the
heart SICK So true is this that
Thoreau, looking around at his ac-
quaintances, expressed the belief that,
'aThe mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation What is called resigna-
ton is confirmed desperation"
Patience has merits, but no pleas
ures. There is no doubt that what
ever we greatly desire will come to
US if we have the patience to wait for
it long enough; but it takes age or
great philosophy to lead US to say
with Burroughs:
Serene, fold my hands and walt,
Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea:
rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For 10! my own shall come to me.
The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
Most of US want what we want
when we want it. When we are pa
tient, it is because our only choice is
between patience and impatience.
We speak much Of the patience of
Job, but little of the anguish of that
patience-the anguish that led him to
curse the day of his birth, crying out.
eLet the day perish wherein was
born; the anguish expressed in his
speech, when l lie down, 1 say,
When shall l arise, and the night be
gone? and am full of tossings to
and fro unto the dawning of the day"
One of the great causes of misunder-
standing between the old and the
young is due to the fact that the old
can be serenely patient and the young
cannot. 1t was Holmes who told the
tale of the farmer who refused to
plant an apple orchard because the
trees matured so slowly he might not
reap the benefits of his toll. The
farmers father refused for the same
reason; but the old grandfather plant
ed the orchard and lived to drink cider
made from its apples. 1t takes much
of the dull, deep pain, and constant
anguish of patience to bridge the
gate between the impatient young man
and the patient grandfather.
Meaning of Equinox"