Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1910 — The Last Touch. [ARTICLE]

The Last Touch.

“That indefinable something” is a useful phrase, and has helped many a would-be critic out of a scrape. It often happens that the “something” Is nothing at all. As in the present instance, quoted from the Chicago Post, imagination played a large and important part in the matter. Mr. Harvey, the famous chef, was once visiting New York, where gome men arranged a contest between him and several other chefs, with a view to determining who could make the best 3alad dressing. *■' - The jolly, fat judges watched the preparation carefully, and observed that Mr. Harvey, as a finishing touch, took from his pocket a tiny vial, carefully uncorked it, poured a few drops into the finishing, and set it before the arbiters. They tasted the dressing in turn, smacked their lips and puckered their brows. Then they declared that all the dressings were fine, the most delectable that they had ever put to palate, but that about Mr. Harvey’s dressing there was “an—ah—lndefln. able something” which caused them to award it the prize. “George, what was it you put into that dressing?” asked one of his friends later, “Only water,” he replied.