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Show )UprU f Crnll Ci;t f Artot twr lxtt Humkl VsUbt'a . Vain PMd. - -'rf'i LoTr of wbbagt wU welcome th VronoHDeini of tk. erpwpta at Cor-hell'a Cor-hell'a Collev of Af rlcultur, acclaim. ng th merits of thli tocculent tk-table. tk-table. Gnbbare Is a rjbjsct th fll-cusstoo fll-cusstoo of which . Is not considered good social usage. For some Inscrutable Inscrut-able reason to acknowledge a fondness for It does not raise one in the estimation esti-mation of professing epicures, writes il. Young In the Providence Journal. ; Cabbage Is rich In Iron and 'other mineral salts, it contains, a moderate amount of growth-promoting substance and the American people should eat more of it than Is their habit, accord, lng to the ' Cornell propagandists. Have we not heard, too,that It contains con-tains these precious,' if as yet unidentified uniden-tified elements called vl tannines? This cabbage report suggests that - Americans Ameri-cans do not cook It properly, as a rule, and that may explain why appreciation apprecia-tion of It Is not more general. It should be "plunged into boiling salted water and left there for 20 minutes, no longer, uncovered" Instead of being be-ing confined to a tightly-covered receptacle re-ceptacle for an Indefinite period. The practice of covering the dish has grown up because of a conventional convention-al disinclination to having the house filled with the perfume of boiling cabbage. cab-bage. But to a hungry cabbage lover this fragrance is one of the vegetable's charms. It exercises, as one may say, an agreeable psychological Influence. There are, of course, divers ways of serving cabbage, all of them good. And since our tastes are often ruled by the Judgment of authority, It may be believed that a widening circle of confessing con-fessing cabbage eaters will be the consequence con-sequence of Cornell's approving verdict. ver-dict. . , , . |