Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — The Forgotten Science of Caning. [ARTICLE]

The Forgotten Science of Caning.

The Detroit Free Press says: In thik lazy-man’s century the delightful occupation of carving is almost a forgotten art. It used to be such a pleasure for a gang of hungry children to sit and watch “pa” sharpen the carving knife, give it that preliminary flourish, and then insert its delicate point under the wing of the brown and odorous turkey. To see pinions and second joints, slices of white meat, crown drumsticks, the pope’s nose, all showering in symmetrical portions from the noble bird, and to wonder why turkeys didn’t have four legs and a double* row of wings’ A good carver seems to give away all the turkey and go without any himself. But when everybody is helped he picks out pieces of tenderloin, morsels of brown and juicy meat, odds ; and ends, that, as everybody knows, I are the tid-bits of the feast. It would be as dangerous an experiment to ask j a young man of the present time to ; carve a turkey as it would be tore- ■ quire him to ask a blessing on the 1 food. He would either sprain Ins wrist i or fire the turkey through the window in an attempt to cut it in two.