Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — Morsels of Gastronomy. [ARTICLE]

Morsels of Gastronomy.

American ginger in Chinese jars is a new gastronomic humbug. Lamb has fallen a little in price, but not enough to injure Mary’s pet. There are some hotel soups so thin a blind man can see through them. Fashionable families’ prejudice against hash is only shown away from homo. It is denied that Boston yachtsmen use their city’s brown bread for ballast. Clams are once more seasonable, and their indigestive qualties just as good as ever There is one peach crop that never is a failure, and that is the preserved kind. A man who puts sugar on lettuce will eat ice cream and drink coffee simultaneously. The trouble with hotel waffles is that they appear to put too much flannel in them. There ought to be some way to compel the boiling of cabbage and turnips outdoors. Those who delight in the good thingsof life are charmed just now to go to market. The edict referring to the Chinese now applies to the sausages—they, too, “must go.” J Disraeli used to say tho test of gentility was to see women eat oranges and grapes. Shad roe and lime juice is the approved breakfast of the effeminate clubman. It is believed that the last gun nas fired for vea , and it is “meat and right” to let it alone. When -scrapple disappears from the Philadelphia breakfast table; spring haaactually come.