Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1905 — Washington Pie. [ARTICLE]

Washington Pie.

A stranger in Boston was intares&d to discover, when dining with friends once, that the desert which, he wouM have classed as cream layer cake < home was known In Boston as “Washington pie." And the next time he ordered the same thing, but the waiter put before him a rather heavy looking square of cake covered with cho<xlate, Instead of the cream .cake tfio guest had made up his mlud to eujtWA puzzzled expression camo over lus face as he said reprovingly, "i ordered Washington pie, sir.” “That is Washington jjie, air.” “Well," expostulated the disappointed man, “I did not mean Booker Tz, I want George!"—Short Stories.