Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — GIVES PRAISE TO POSSUM MEAT [ARTICLE]

GIVES PRAISE TO POSSUM MEAT

Missouri Editor Takes Issue with Arkansas Newspaperman. The notorious and alleged of baked possum is bunc, pure and simple. Few of the men who write paragraphs about possum have never tasted a bit of possum, and many of those who have, never will taste it again. We took a bite of possum once and then went into the kitchen and gnawed on a bar of soap to put a better taste in our mouth.— Little Rock Gazette. It becomes the duty of the Missourian to again come to the defense of Mr. Possum, the prince of peace in animaldom, the king of four-legged optimists, the meek marsupial smiling through the storm, the good-humored and the sunnynatured, far fairer figure for the slick silver dollar than the carrioncraving, bald-headed and awkward eagle of coindom and counterfeitery! Missouri possum meat, killed in the cool of the year, hung up to chill three nights through, then rubbed in with salt and pepper paste, thbn strung on two wires and broiled over hickory coals till done, done—then, with raw onions and corn bread eaten in the open, as you sit on a log or rock free from the pinch of the wind, you have a feast fit and fairer than kings secure in these warring days of imperialism! Wonderful meat—Mistah Possum! Possum grease is the peace panacea of all time —if King George, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser William, King Emanuel, Emperor Joseph and the sultan of Turkey coulc? be induced to meet at a possum feast and get good and greasy with that peace grease they would stop the sleepless nights of Brother Henqr Ford in a short time.—Jewel Mayes in Richmond Missourian.