Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — The Cheeky Plainfield Cook. [ARTICLE]

The Cheeky Plainfield Cook.

9 / A Buckneli University professor was; talking about David Jayne Hill, the successor in tbe Berlin embassy Charlemagne Tower. .. 4 “Dr. »Hilp’ he said, .“impressed us here — know he Was our president 1 for a number of'years—no less with his wit than with his learning. He; had thought and .written on many subjects—psychology, rhetoric, socialism, finance—and to hear him discuss these subjects was a delight.- —— “I heard him take down one day ah ultra-socialistic student. “ ‘Young man,’ he said, 'you and your extravagant friends remind me,' In your attitude-toward- of a Plainfield cook's attitude toward her mistress. One Christmas time, when I lived, at Plainfield, a lady sent her cool: out to buy the Christinas turkey. But when the cook returned she had two chickens. “ ‘Martha,’ the indy said, ‘I told you to fk*t turkey, uot chicken.’ “‘I know, mum,’ Martha answered, ‘but I don’t like turkey.’ ”