Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1911 — Satisfied Ignorance. [ARTICLE]

Satisfied Ignorance.

At the recent French cooks’ show jin Duluth Armand Guillen ant, a veteran who once cooked for Baron Rothschild, said: “American cooking would be bettter j if American cooks would take lessons I from France. But many American i cooks are very independent They i rather remind me Jfi their Independence, of the Senegalese, who visited iParig^f-'.^" “These men, on their return to Senegal, recounted, at a gathering of the tribe, what they had seen. An old woman said: “ 'But chiefs, were ye not embarrassed by your ignorance of the language?' “The head chief frowfied and answered haughtily: “‘lt’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.’ ”