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Show I MAYOR QUALIFIES AS A COOK I i Descendants of Mayor - Carter Harrison Har-rison will be able to boast reminiscent-Iy reminiscent-Iy of the "biscuits father used to make" and no one shall say them nay for his honor the mayor is a culinary culin-ary expert. He does not have to prove it; he admits it himself. Mayor Harrison's skill with the skillet skil-let runs through a wide repertory from boiled eggs to reflector oven biscuits bis-cuits in fact, there is no end to (his man's cleverness until he essays jolly, then he meets the fate of all overly ambitious persons, disaster. Airs. Harrison is responsible for the statement that the moyoral jelly is not all that could be desired. The question as to Mayor Harrison's qualifications as a cook arose the other oth-er day during a lull in the city hall routine In which Mayor Gaynor's unhappy un-happy experience in criticising the cooking in New York's public schools ; was under discussion. The question ' of the Tonkins' teachers nf trm mptrnn- I olis' schools as to "what could any mere man kno wabout cooking?" brought forth the mayoral ire, and with it the mayoral statement as to the mayoral ability. "I have cooked for "20 years on hunting expeditions, and I think I can get away with it in gTeat style. My biscuits are great. I have made them in a reflector oven in camp, and any one who can make biscuits In such an oven is all right." Later Mrs. Harrison, the official Harrison cook, and the maid In the Harrison Har-rison household all corroborated the mayor's official edict as to his ability with the pots and pans and gas range, but said he was "not there" when it came to making jelly. |