Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1911 — Satisfied Ignorance. [ARTICLE]

Satisfied Ignorance.

At the recent French cooks’ show jin Duluth Armand Guillenant, a veteran who once cooked for Baron ; Rothschild, said: t “American cooking would be bettter If American cooks would take lessons [from France. But many American i cooks are very independent. They rather remind me 4n their independence, of the Senegalese, who visited i Paris. “These men, on their return to Senegal, recounted, fit a gathering of the tribe, what they, had seen. An old woman said: “ ‘But, chiefs, were ye hot embarrassed by your ignorance of the language?’ “The head chief frowned and answered haughtily: “It’s true, as ye say, woman, that we could make neither head nor tail of all their chatter. But what of that, what of that? They were as bad off with our tongue as we with theirs.’ ”