Show i PUYlPKiN PIE IN ENGLAND An American Guest Adroitly Gives Her Judgment Upon It This extract from a private letter Is so amualng that the one to whom it was written thinks It would be selfish to keep It for her own use alone so tho Boston Transcript publishes It I It was not a big dinner as dinners I go In England but It was a bit formal on account of the few American guests Our host had a slip of paper which ho consulted surreptitiously and announced an-nounced In stage whispers who was to take whom to the diningroom I fell to Cs lot POOL man and after he had laboriously talked down to the unknown un-known American he was consoled by amore a-more congenial companion on his other sideWo Wo had met before but he had forgotten I for-gotten mo entirely and aa I stand In I awe of him we did not get on very well together Jesides I was rather distressed dis-tressed by I l the glasses and tumblers and was absurdly wondering which were mine and which my neighbor and whether I could ever thread tho mazes of tho multitudinous forks and spoons disposed around me The card motto when In doubt play trumps doesnt hell nt all when you do not know what trumps urc but I remoni hoied another When you dont know what to do do It1 and It worked to n t charm Fortunately Icllll not ilt where i had to do things first io I followed example of the anulcnl TComan and let 1 tho foe begin the fray It wits an ab Horblng business Doubtless It would have been easier had I been an accomplished accom-plished dliieroul In my own land but 1 have the Impression that there wcrp twice as many things on the table to begin with as there would be with us It seemed crowded and cojifufcOU Things tnoniHelves were beautiful hut they Mcrcnt put on to look nice Lhe centerpiece wan an elaborately cm broldeied affair but It was nearly covered cov-ered with things stuck i omul on It a pineapple In a tall glass dish with four littld ferns liv four little polx In four lltilo glass dishes all Just alike and four Misses of chrysanthemums I also just alike set at i I regular intervals did not furnish tlie variety I caio to see seeThe 1 real English part of the dinner was nice hUt I Uilulc I never ate so little I I or IL Thanksgiving fapicad But iy > ottO itemed to observe llfitJ I I was comfortable Our host said he had set his hcirlm having a piunklu Ipll for I his i American guents and a good deal was salt Lii0tlt It while preparations i weie being nuulo for Its entree AL las jit came on An enoimouK plaller wusset before our hostoss H 1 I bore a llu I pae collapaedclooklng dish I and 1 suddenly ii i occurred to I me what it I war I was In an awful predicament Vhut If should I laugh looked away and thought haul of something else so when our hostess said very Impress ively This is the pumpkin pie I wua able to icply quite calmly that I recognized re-cognized it She seemed gratified I wondered how HIO would serve It It was still hotJust slipped QU tor the baking dish and cracked In the process pro-cess If you will believe me she cut It with a big spoon I am not sure that she could have managed It any other way pIIi begJtn 1 to eat Ginger was the only seasoning There was neither salt nor w t sugar I thought I tasted apple Now does It taste at all like the real article ar-ticle said our hostess I own that I did no hasten to reply I hesitated Perhaps my face betrayed my dilll culty It Is I not exactly like anything I ever tasted before I said at last But they Insisted on knowing all the details of difference Now Just exactly what ails It they said It was In vain for me to disclaim Implying that anything ailed It I tried describe the golden triangles so common to New England and wound up by saying say-Ing It was wonderful how any one who had never seen the real article could make anything so near like It Since that dinner 1 am more than ever I confirmed In the notion that It Is better bet-ter iot to try to do what you do n < jf know how to do for others who do know how F > |