People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — The Yule Feast. [ARTICLE]

The Yule Feast.

Let England have her plum pudding, and let us have our own particular American dishes on Christmas Day. A comment was made by an Englishwoman upon Americans in general yesterday. When asked what she had noticed specially about Americans I during her two years’ 'visit to this ; country, she smiled at first and said nothing. But when the request was repeated and emphasized by the question- “Now what are you going to say ' | about us when you return to England—■in fact, what are you going to say behind our backs?" she replied. “I shall probably say in criticism that you disfigure the streets of New York !by having an ejevated railroad, and j that all Americans are trying to be as much like the English as possible, and I do not see why this is. I should think you x would want your American individuality preserved.” For a Christmas dinner this year let us have 1 some dishes that belong to our own country, and which not even Merry England nor chivalrous France can furnish. The dishes ttre-not expensive, and oflcourse additions may be made. I