Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Liked It Seasoned. [ARTICLE]

Liked It Seasoned.

He went into a Twenty-eighth street restaurant and sat down at the first table near the door, says the New York Commercial Advertiser—a square-built man with glasses, and a mustache that turned up at the corners. He glanced over the bill of fare, picked up a fan, and told the waiter, with the air of a Supreme court judge handing down a decision of national import, that he had decided to eat watermelon. They brought him a luscious, blushing slab of the toothsome ground fruit. Then he put it through a course of sprouts which would seem to have eliminated every vestige of the natural flavor of the fruit. First he dosed it liberally with salt. Pepper followed in proportion. Then he astonished the waiter, cashier, and diners generally by shaking the Worcestershire sauce bottle over the cold viand. He ate down to the rind with apparent gusto, and arose to go with an expression on his face as of one who hears for the first time the music of the spheres. It was sublime.