Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Cooks. [ARTICLE]

Cooks.

The most precious sauce, for a young cook, is impudence. Boast away, and never be tired of it. A modest cook must be looked on as a contradiction in nature. If he be quiet and modest, he will be held as a pitiful cook. It is related of a famous cook that he prepared fish so exquisitely that they returned him admiring and grateful looks from the frying pan. It was doubtless the same cook who declared that he had discovered the principle of immortality, and that the odor of his dishes would recall life into the nostrils of the very dead. It was Bechamel who said that, with the sauce he had invented, a man would experience nothing but delight in eating his own grandfather. —The Caterer. A good deal of the barbarous still continues to crop out in human nature. A dog fight will draw a crowd most anywhere quicker than a fakir with a banjo. • The best way to secure downright horse-shoe luck is to keep your eyes, open and grasp the opportunity before" t turns the comer.