The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-09-09

dC OO CeulS pldte. bOr the chicken
and noodles or roast fowl you can work
in the venerable hens, but you cannot
cheat on the fried variety. The local
sisters whooped the fried chicken rate
to so cents years ago, then slid 1t up
to IS cents and later on, finding that
the city trade was big-hearted, made
it a dollar head. With a hundred mo-
florists on a reliability run, all arriving
at one time, the sisters began to handle
important money. On the day of the
MONDAY feed for the Glidden tour
outfit the receipts were $3.50, which
represented the high mark. Much of
this amount was contributed by the
motorists who insisted that the dinner
was worth more than a dollar.
After many years experience with
city visitors and numerous conferences
with the women providers, l think I
have discovered the menu which will
always make hit with the consumers
The grand motif or theme song Of
the production is fried chicken, taken
entirely apart and served hot and
MOSTLY tender. No armor plate.
Mashed potatoes or new spuds with
their jackets on, hand in hand with
coolies and coolies and coolies of giblet
gravy.
Small, light fluffy rolls. No "sody bis
cult"
For the second vegetable, corn on
the cob or fresh garden peas or tender
juvenile string beans, depending on the
season.
Fresh beets. Always in demand
Overlooked by most caterers.
Fresh leaf lettuce "wilted" with hot
bacon juice and little vinegar. Those
addicted to this Old-fashioned salad
simply rave about it.
For dessert, ice cream and cake, or
pie la mode. Cherry pie always makes
ten-strike. That or "punkin" with a
top story of whipped cream.
It is surprising how many people
will take hot coffee If it is offered to
them.
Please take note that the preliminary
fruit cocktail' is omitted. The Wis
itors want to fly at their fried chicken
as soon as the bell rings. This menu,
bordered with some jells and preserves,
may be repeated over and over, and
always goes big. Go right back to the
old sure-fre items and stick to them.
They cannot be served as 80 cent
plate luncheon but they are what the
visitors take. if they can get them.
The sisters know how to fix them up.
When people come to the country
they want home-cooking and plenty Of
it, regardless of hard times and de-
preston. The meals may be frugal
when company is absent but the sis
tiers never hold out on bunch of en-
thusiastic eaters.
Certain undertakings, such as the
feeding of multitude, cannot be stage
managed by the men. The women are
the ring-leaders in putting over ambi-
tious plans. We have hoped many
social barrier since Main Street" was
| accepted as the real picture of coun-
try town. Every village is now the
suburb of a metropolis and enjoys all
the privileges of the big town, except
tie noise and the dust. The radio, the
moving picture and the high-powered
motor car have made Main Street the
tail end of boulevard. It has changed
a lot since every villager was classed
as a yokel and his wife was house
hold slave.
This is an essay about the small
town woman. She may have been
down-trodden home body in the good
old days but now she is a gadab0ut
and a mixer. She is all hooked up with
movements" and belongs to clubs and
believes in going places and seeing
things. She has opinions and doesn't
belieTe everything she hears on the
| radio.
The ancient couplet ran:
Man works from sun to sun,
But woman's work is never done
| 1t is my candid belief, after moving
back into rural community, that wem-
en- are the self-starters.
@George Ade.---wNU serXice.