The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-08-06
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Beverly Hills-Well all I know is
just what I read in the papers. And
been doing a lot of reading in
the papers here lately, for that's all
could do. You know the other
day coming home from the big
Claremore celebration on the plane
either ate something that dident
agree with me, at lunch in Ell Paso,
when we stopped, or it was the
general effects of what I had stack
ed in while at home in Okla. But
anyhow got home sick.
We always have such good times
to eat at my sisters in Chelsea.
Beans, and what beans, kinder
soupy navy beans cooked with
plenty of real fat meat. Well when
I can't knock off a whole bowl of
those myself, why am sick before
I start.
Then the cream gravy. You know
there is an awful lot of folks that
don't know much about eating
gravy. Why not to be raised on
gravy would be like never going
swimming in the creek. They got
their own cows and real cream.
Ham gravy is just about the last
word in gravys Course good beef
steak gravy is good. You know we
fry our beefsteak. It's cut in thin
pieces, and say let me tell you
something. Did you know all this
eating raw, bloody, rare meat, like
they order in these big hotels, and
city people like, well that's just
them. That amt old western folks.
Ranch cooks and farm women fry
steak thin and hard. That old raw
junk goes for the high collars in
cities, they are inder comm balistic
anyhow.
Beans, cornbread, country ham,
and gravy, and then just raw on
ions, either the young ones if they
are in, or the sliced ones. Sallie
had some dandy Bermudas that
Tom had raided. He has the best
garden in that part of the country.
Well these wasn't strong, so she
was going to send me some to Cal
ifornia. But I don't guess they
would let them come in. No, that's
one thing about California, if you
raise anything better than they do,
they got a law against it coming
in.
Then for dessert. Don't have
room for any desert. Had any more
room would eat some more beans.
Now then I go from there over
to my old home place where I was
raised at O-la-gah, and there her
son and his remarkable wife
Madeline give you an encore on all
this, and baby it's tastes better, for
this is the house you was born in.
So about all I do when I go to Ok
lahoma is just shake hands and
eat.
So the day I left we come by the
old ranch place and Madeline did
have a fine dinner for us. Now
she is out in the country with no
ice, electricity or all that and yet
she has got things that she can
make everything that you would
have at a town dinner. Can make
ice cream. Yes got some kind of
a doodad that makes ice out of a
hot water thing, and she can put
up and can more things than you
ever saw, and this girl learned all
this in the last five or six years.
She wasent a rancher; she was
from the city of Los Angeles, but,
brother, she made a real ranch er's
wife and good one too. You
know that's a funny thing, ranch
girls don't stay with it much. Looks
like the city ones, when they have
to, really come through the best.
Well the old home place looked
mighty fine, Bout all we got left to
farms is their beauty. Lays on the
bend of the Verdigris river. My
father settled it just after the Civil
war, same old log house weather
boarded over. Most of the farmers
are all raising EN- good garden
and getting ready to try and offset
tough winter. What they going
to do with people this winter any
how? Conditions cant improve
enough to help everybody by them,
so Lord knows what it will be and
especially if we hit a tough winter.
Oh yes I started out to tell you
bout being sick. Well I have been
for a week or so, thought I was
going to die, something eat eth
err at Ell Pasa where the plane
stopped for lunch, or the night be-
fore at Anon G. Carriers SHADY
Oak" farm. I had dinner with him
and the Gas Sextette, and there was
an Amateur Doctor Walker, that
mixed up a batch there layed me
low. The doctors called it Catarrhal
Jaundice. I was the yellowest
white man you ever saw. never
heard who else died from this
Carter dinner; the diet was. cove
oysters canned, then canned toma-
toes, and raw onions all in one
mess. Well if they was laying for
me, they got me. Next week I will
write you of all the pleasures Of
being sick.