The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-06
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the cool dining rooms and yell back
orders for the cooks to yell at
the student cooks to yell at the kay
PEGS.
This is not the beautiful goldbrick-
ing life that it seems, though. The
mess sergeant has to make requisi-
tons and keep records on all the
rations, he has to make out the
menus, see that the food is pre-
pared properly and supervise the
work of the cooks, the student cooks,
and the kaypees. Besides this, he
must listen to all the gripes about
his food and to the threadbare jokes
about cooks who get drunk from
lemon and vanilla extract.
All this he must do, with his brains
baked out.
The cook, lucky little rascal that
he Is, also leads an ideal life. He
10 allowed to believe that he knows
more about cooking then the mess
sergeant will ever know, although
he is not supposed ITO tell 1.-THE mess
sergeant that he does. He works
one day and sleeps the next two.
II the cook is not feeling cheerful,
he can pick on at least one student
cook and at least FIVE kaypees. On
the battlefield, he is in the safest
position behind the lines, since the
food is endowed with more senti-
mental value than the top sergeant.
The jokes about Army cooks being
shot at from both sides are not
based upon fact.
| However, friend cook has to greet
the morn before the morn gets there.
On the days when he works, he has
to get up between 500 and $3.50
o'clock in order to prepare a SUBJ
stantial breakfast for about two hum
dred healthy, growing boys whose
appetites are exceeded only by the
size Of their mouths and the power
Of their lungs.
Yesterday we started to school,
with cookbooks and manuals and
loose-leaf notebooks for our home
work. The only way in which it
differed from public schools was that
the naughty boys didn't have to 60
and sit with the girls. Also, the
Ounce seat, instead of being in the
corner Of the classroom, was said to
be behind large sack Of potatoes in
the battery kitchen. tr
The only hope for an easy time in
| class was gone in this school.
There's no percentage in bringing
shiny red apple to a teacher who
has the key to at least one we'll
stocked pantry.
In the kitchen, they tell us, all
the cleaning-up work is to be done
by the kaypees, so that the cook
may be doing more important
things. This, unfortunately, doesn't
apply to the daily task Of cleaning
the stoves thoroughly. The stoves,
it says here in the books, are the
cooks tools and he must do his own
! grinding.
It isn't worth the time to wait for
the stoves to get comfortably cool
before you begin the twilight beauti-
fication Of these overgrown infernos.
In order to avoid the rush at the
theater, and to let the kaypees off
early, start work now.
The stoves must be cleaned In
side and out-thoroughly. First,
shake down the fire. All the live
Goals must 60 into the ashpan un-
der the CRATE. That much is SIM
| pie. Then remove the ashpan, red
Goals and all. It must be dumped
into the ash can out on the garbage
rack. This entire procedure should
be simple, too, it says here. All
you have to do is catch the front
handle with heavy glove and catch
the little hook In the rear with the
far end of your cap litter. Here we
60!
Carry the ashpan well in front Of
| you. Amt it hot! When you get to
the door, simply open it with the toe
Of your shoe. Like this. Like
Doesn't seem to work. Try again.
Try pushing the right screen so that
the left one will swing slightly to-
ward you. Ready? Slightly push
the right screen. Something seems
to be wrong here.
During this time, you will become
increasingly aware that the glove
over the ashpan handle is becoming
hotter and hotter. Just as you get
your toe into the door, the heat
penetrates the glove and you de-
cide-very suddenly-that perhaps
it's best to drop the whole matter.
Drop it slowly, carefully, tenderly-
II you can. Do not drop 1t upon
the wooden floor. Look around, If
you think you have time, and locate
an overturned boiler on which to set
it. Whew, that hands hot! No boil
er? Then drop it anyway
You win find that dropping the
ashpan, even though you did 1t gen.
tly, has released q small amount of
floating ash, all Of which win be
absorbed into your mouth and nose.
Patience, brother. See that the ash
pan isn't lying where 1t will burn
anything, such as q perfectly good