The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1903, Page 15

ee Won LDS THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1903. MA % WHAT TO EAT AND \ i, WHAT NOT TO EAT WHEN AT A DINNER. BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. HAVE been asked by a perplexed reader whether or not it is in good | form for an invalid to refuse or leave untasted certain of the courses served when one is “dining out.” Also as to the correct way to break An egg at table. Both of these are interesting points of table etiquette. As the latter Is the more easily disposed of, I shall answer it before taking up the other. Some good Americans insist on breaking their egg into a cup or tum- bler. The English way, and the socially correct way, is to strike off the end while the egg rests in the egg-cup, drop salt and pepper in Nghtly, and then eat the egg directly from the shell with the ald of a small silver egg- spoon. Now, as to the first and more impprtant query: There is certainly no law compelling a guest to partake of every dish yassed to bim. It is considered impolite, however, to refuse more than one yourse. In the case of an invalid it would only be necessary to make some playfully polite remark to the hostess about the pain it gives you to deny yourself a pleasure, and then leave the dish untasted while you talk with your neighbors at the dinner table. There is, however, another side to the subject. Several other sides, In fact. If you are dining with persons of wealth, where there are many ‘courses and many guests, the foregoing advice will serve. But if your hosts -@re not particularly well-to-do and have but one important course, which perves.as the “piece de resistance” (or principal dish), it is the height of mudeness to refuse it. By doing so you hurt your hosts’ feelings and give ‘the impression of not liking the fare they have provided for your pleasure. Mo leave the dish untasted causes the same idea. If you are too much of an fmvalid to eat the ordinary food served at a dinner, elther refuse dinner in- witations, or, if you are on terms of sufficient intimacy with your ‘hostess, ‘warn her long enough beforehand thet there are certain articles of diet which, though you enjoy them, your physician has forbidden them. If it is impossible to give such warning in advance take occasion to ex- plain the matter quietly to the hostess after the meal. Do not make this explanation publicly. There is nothing so ill-bred as bo discuss or refer to one's physical infirmities in public, most of all at a Mies Conversations on disease and other bodily afictions are not con- lwcive to good appetite, nor are they of interest to any one except the per- bon thus affiicted. It is possible, by ‘playing with with your food,” to preserve the appear- ‘ance of eating it; and thus warding off attention from the fact that you are mot really enjoying it. At large dinners, one course may be allowed to pass by untasted; but no more than one, The more present, of course, the less notice will persons be taken that one of the number is not eating. In ordinary cases, however, “Hat whet {s set before you, asking no ques- tions.” That maxim was coined nearly 2,000 years ago and has not re deen [Saproved upon, ‘THE SENTRY OF CALOOCAN, 8Y A. BOYLE. Love and Life Against a Soldier’s Duty. (opsright, 1903, by Dally Story Publishing Co.) I was night in the forest of Caloocan, [The rain fell with dreary monotony. Not a single star shone out of the wlouded sky to cast one ray of cheering Might upon the night. ‘A sentry in @ rain-soaked khak! uni-J form paced back and forth along a sogsy j ath of oozy mud just within the shadow ‘of the trees at the edge of the Luzon igungle. The young sentry glanced up at the jPlack sky that he felt rather than s: “She sald she'd come, rain or shine,” he said happily to ‘himself. ‘Too bad for her to come,out on such a night. But she wished to come. She even eug- gested it herself, She knows the mean- ‘ing of the word love, In another month the regiment will be homeward bound, and she goes with me. What, 1 wonder, will father say when I tell him I found my wife in whe beautiful daughter of @ne of the Spaniards we came to con- quer? When he sees Wriene, though, he will forgive me." |) suddenly the rain ceased, A rift ap- peared in the black canopy that hung over the forest. Arlene will not get « drenching after all, bless her,” the sol diver sald, aloud, ‘She ts my queen, \Ah, how 1 love her!” “Are you sure, quite sure, my hand- some Americanos?” asked a voice close behind him, A girl hooded and yelled, and with a long cloak dropping to her feet, stepped from behind the trunk of great’ tree, and, running to the rtled sentry, threw hergelf into his pressed her lips to his, he cried, ‘tMy darling, my you startled me! I did not hear you come. 1 had no idea you were here until you spoke.” He caught her up in his arma and carried her across the muddy ground and set her down gently by the tree he threw back her hood and veil, Her bound hair dropped about her shoul- "Yo.i are the most beautiful of ait Pomen, adored ‘one, he whispered, gently stroking her hatr, “You know I would ' he continued, with you al- my | “Wihat's that?’ he cried, turning sud- @enly. “I heard a dootetep behind me.” He caught up bis rifle and peerdd out Into the darkness in the direction trom mane a eee, at eee, ‘The girl) tie ol is don't, ite nothing, nothing,” be cried. ‘I heard nothing.” They lis- ened a moment; all was still. “E must return to my sentry duty, lt- ome," be mbt, “I could swear I one and yet I must be yes, yes, you are wrong,” dhe Pear oie ons. Don't go yet. } my eweetheart. You me false to my duty, are there or here? Stay here with me,” she pleaded. The aimgularity of her manner and words at last impressed itself upon him. “You are not like yourself to-night,” he sald, watching her closely, “I don't understand you to-night." In an instant her manner changed. She drew his head down to hers, kissed him and clung to his neck. “My love, my soldier, my Americano,” she whispered. “It ts because I love you so, I fear that eoon when your reg!- Ment goes across the seas to your America you will forget your promise to take me with you and will go back to love some woman of your own race, Tell me, will you?" “Never while I live will I." ‘The moon, which for an instant had been hidden behind @ cloud, shone forth suddenly and lt the forest with a bright Ught. In that light the sentry saw two men scurrying through the trees toward the American camp, “Halt!” he orled, bringing his rifle to his shoulder, “Touch that trigger and you die!" cried some one behtnd him, ‘The sentry wheeled like a’fiash. A couple ot yards from him stood an off- cer in the uniform of the Bilipino army. revolvers he held in each hand levelled at thé tricked soldier. Make one move and you die!" officer said in a half whisper. ‘The whole of the fearful situation flashed through the sentry’a brain. He saw the result of his neglect of duty. While he had been ddiing with a love affair an attagking party was crossing the Iines and preparing to surround tho | unprotected camp where his comrades lay sleeping, Death would be thelr portion if that skulking band took them by surprise, One shot from the rifle upon whose the trigger his finger rested would arouse the camp. There was yet time to save the sleeping men——but, The sentry looked into the. eyes of the Pilipino officer. He saw desperate Getermination there, The penalty for firing that shot was death, ewift and certain, “Drop that rifle, quick,” came trom the Filipino officer, With a cry of defiance the sentry a rang out through the forest, ¢, carissima, guick, Bute, 0 We must ny’ or that whole pack * rie on us," the ok Into a rested tor shelter of a hut sure ya “secmingly ugh nerve, such Lr, red that new I'd i he, eeBpailard in. the jane have it, curse part well, a and words of love eehind ihe a mere #0 fea “plaved your part al ou Scam ‘sce braveryt gureed warn eu dg" ind i led, qr Wises ina New Book, “Lovey Mary,”’ and .fome of Her New Philosophy. Alice Hegan Rice's Latest Book Is Pull of-the Homely Sayings and Humorous Situations Which Have Made ‘‘The Cabbage Patch’ Famous, COUNTLESS persons who have read, re-read and quoted the quaint philosophy of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” rejoice at meeting their old friend, Mre. Wiggs, once more in the old familiar guise, but between the covers of another book, This new book, by Alice Hegan Rice, is “Lovey Mary,” and though it has another heroine, interest settles as usual about the relict of the late unlamenied Mr. Wiggs. In this second book, Mrs. Wiggs, as usual, goes about smoothing down the troubles of every one within reach, healing bruises and solving difficulties with the same unique, ever ready scraps of philosophy. The “Cabbage Patch” is not a cabbage patch at all, but a group of shanties onthe outskirts of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Wiggs dominates the very inexclusive society of the Cabbage Patch, and is its uncrowned queen, recelving her subjects’ loving homage and squandering her scanty means and her never-exhausted benevolence in their behalf. The nominal heroine of the new book is Lovey Mary, an eccentric, warm-hearted orphan girl, who is the inmate of a “home.” Placed in her charge is a baby boy, Tommy Rider, who mother—an unconventional ‘woman, to say the least—has practically deserted him. Upon Tommy the girl lavishes all the care his own mother disdained to give. At the end of two years the mother suddenly returns. She has “bold black eyes” and “hard red ips” and “wipes the powders off her compleshun.” She demands the custody of her child. Lovey Mary is heart-broken, knowing vaguely to what sort.of fate the child is to be assigned. Lovey Mary kidnaps Tommy, and the two steal away from the “home.” After long wanderings they reach a collection of shanties, beside a railroad @ track, This is the Cabbage Patch, and its simple inhabitants, Mrs. Wiggs at their head, welcome the runaways like long-lost friends, Nearly all the action of the story, from this point on, revalves about the Cabbage Patch. Mary secures good work in a factory; Tommy thrives. Mrs. Wiggs guidés the lives of her neighbors as usual, but makes one sad and serious mistake. This error she rectifies in her own original way. The blunder arises from a love affair of Mise Hazy's-—~Miss Hayy being the ‘‘sub- merged tenth” of the settlement, “The submersion was mainly one of dirt and disorder, but Miss Hazy was such a meek, inefficient little body that the Cabbage Patch withheld its blame and patiently tried to furnish a prop for the clinging vine, Miss Hazy, it is true, had Chris” (her nephew); “but Chris unstable, not} only beoause he had lost one leg, but also because he was the wildest, noisiest, most thoughtless youngster that ever shied a rock at a lamp- ‘post. Miss Hazy had ‘raised’ Chris, and the nelghbors bad raised Miss “ ‘There ain't no hole so deep can’t somebody pull you out,’ ‘The docidin’ time was the time fer worryin’,’”’ (Copyright. 1908, oy the Century Co.) Haz, |e Hazy consults an “astrologieal” matrimonial agency which, for 25 cents, sends her a photograph of her future husband, Mrs, Wiggs com- ments thus on the unknown’s picture: “Looks like he might be a little tall to his size, but J like statute men better'n dumpy ones. I bet he's got a lot of nice manners,” She urges Mias Hazy to wed this heaven-sent woer, even dictating her love letters, The prospective bridegroom (who rejoiced, by the way, in the romantic name of ‘Stubbing’) ar- rives and is the cynosure of all Ca bage Patch eyes. He is not as hand- some as his picture, but It le decided that he will “do.” The marriage is performed with great ceremony, the honeymoon begins, and then, alas! Mr, Stubbins gets hopelessly, wildly, surlily, helplessly drunk. As he is “sleeping it off,” after throwing the settlement into paroxysms of horror, © Mrs. Wiggs is appealed to by Lovey Mary to find a way out of the dilemma (Copyright, 1908, by the Century Co) “When Mary had finished her story Mra, Wiggs burst forth: “If you want to be cheerful, Jes set yer mind on it and do it, “I've made it a practise to put all my worries down in the bottom of my heart, then set on the lid an’ smile,’ "’ (Copyright, 1908, by the Century Co.) THE INFLUENCE OF HOT AIR UPON PRIZE-FIGHTING. ; area T ought to be a-great fight between Corbett and Jeffries,” the Cigar-Store Man. “It ought to be some kind ofa fight,” replied The Man Up. “I read in one of the papers the other day that Jeffries is¥ hard as an oak tree and has a fist like a keg of nails, while toughens himself by letting a railroad train use him for right of way. is no doubt that both of them are hard. They have to be to withstand hot air pressure within. Sometimes I think that if they took the’ valve off Jim Corbett it would take the undertakers three days to pick pleces off the buildings in the vicinity. “Next to selling shares in discretionary pools or collecting for wind guised as gas the prize-fighting game is the easiest graft that money to buy wine with. In the old times a couple of sluggers gether, agreed to a fight to a finish, went off in the country used training methods that were reminders of filling a coal bin and when! fight came off they tried their best to put each other out. The loser the small end of the purse and was glad of it. “The method of framing {t up now for the Inst piece of coin that fs. it was never better exposed than through the alleged match that and Jeffries made last Sunday. This match has been growing ever Jack Munroe kept away from Jeffries four rounds ont in Butte, “Jim Corbett was playing In the vaudeville theatres and Jeffries on the road with a show, sharing the centre of the stage with Pa Fitesia mons. Right off the reel Jim Corbett ups and challenges Jim Setpegieee struck the managers for a raise in salary. “Then came the long-distance talking contest. Oorbett made it sary ‘to’ hire extra telegraph operators In all the towns he played. took his signed statements to the telegraph offices in automobiles. On other end of the Mne Jeffries and Fitzsimmons divided the rag chewing’ between them, and the ticket-sellers in the theatres got paralysis of | the : arm counting up the recetpts. Jeffries came in from the West by easy stages and Corbett trouped Stubbine was so slick-tongued! He told me yesterday. he had to take liquor sometime fer his war enjury.’ “But, Mrs. Wiggs, what must we do?’ asked Lovey Mary, too ab- sorbed in the present to be interested in the past. “Dot Who, we got to get Miss Hazy out of this hole. It ain't no use consultin’ her; I alleys have said talkin’ to Miss Hazy was like pullin’ out bastin’-threads—you jes’ take out what you put in. Me an’ you has got to think out a plan right here an’ now; then go to work an’ carry it out.’ " Wouldn't we get the agency to take him back?’ suggested Mary. “No, indeed; they couldn't afford to do that. Lemme see, lemme see'—— For five minutes Mrs. Wiggs rocked meditatively, soothing Tommy to sleep as she rocked. When she again spoke it was with inspiration. “Tve got it. It looks sometime, Loved Mary, ‘se if I'd sorter caught some of Mr. Wiges'’s brains in thinkin’ things out. They ain't but one thing we'll do it this very night.’ “What, Mrs. Wiggs? What is it?’ asked Lovey Mary, eagerly. “Why, to lose him, of course! We'll wait till Mr, Stubbins te dead asleep; you know men allays have ‘to eleep off a jag like this. I've “When things first got to goin’ wrong with me, I says: ‘Oh, Lord, whatever comes, héep me from gittin’ sour,’ ” «Can't none of us help what traits we start out in life with, but we kin help what we end up with,’” (Copyright, 1908, by the Century Co.) Tatlroad.’ “Mrs. Wiggs's voice had sunk to @ hoarse whisper, and her eyes looked fierce in the twilight. “Lovey Mary shuddered. ‘You ain't going to let the train run over ‘him, are you?’ she asked. ‘Lor’, child, I ain't a ‘sassinator. No; we'll wait till the midnight ‘freight comes alon, an' when it stops for water we'll h’let Mr. Stubbins into one of them empty cars. The train goes 'way out West somewheres, an’ by the time Mr. Stubbins wakes up he'll be so far away from home he won't ‘have no money to git back.’ “At midnight, by the dark of the moon, the unconscious groom was borne out of the Hazy cottage. Mrs. Wiggs carried his head, while Billy Wiges and Mary and Asia and Chris officiated at his arms and legs. The bride surveyed the scene from the @- wm chinks of the upstairs shutters. “You can coax a' elephant “Silently the ttle group watted } with a little sugar, The worser until the lumbering freight train Mr, Wiggs used to act, the slowed up to take water; then with a i ; concerted effort they lifted the heavy } #arder I'd pat him on the ‘burden into an empty car. back, . . « As for the chil- “The engine whistled and the } dren, I always did use com- train moved thunderously away, bear- { pelments on them: ’stid of ing @n unconscious passenger, who, as far as the Cabbage Patch was con- cerned, was henceforth submerged in the darkness of oblivion,” Miss Hasy pleads in extenuation of her luckless marital venture thet “every woman sorter wants to try git- tin’ married oncet, anyways,” and that Mrs, Wiggs had “‘sicked her on.” Tommy's mother dies repentant, ¢a—ewrew Lovey Mary haying brought parent and child together at the last. 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