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Show A Baked Potato. There aro said to be 1148 different varieties varie-ties of potatoes. Tho best kind, so far discovered, dis-covered, is tho baked potato.' Of course, the potato grows down in the chambers of the earth, away from tho sunshine, the jolly zephyrs and the songs of the birds. It is down there among tho worms and the creatures crea-tures of the dark, where the cold rains huddle about it. But, although its environment is dismal, and it holds no communion with tho lovely visions of the oir, dear old mother naturo takes good caro of it, and suffuses its humble being with many happy qualities, through the mystic chemistry of tne soil, which bursts into nil tho exuberance of a flower when gently baked end brokou open by a loving hand. Then, that snowy, bosom-liko tenderness exudes an aroma as delicate as a lily's, and whets the appetite like a dish of ambrosia. One wonders how it can bo so, that this soggy tuber develops itself into a concretion concre-tion of creamy spray, when Kubmitted to the friendly heat of- the oven. But thero it is, spread out in raptures on the plate, and annolnted with buttet and sprinkled with salt, tho fairest dish of health" and virtue and loving kindness in all the menus of delight. de-light. Thore are mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, boiled potatoes, creamed potatoes, Saratoga chips and divers other sorts of greasv. 'watery, woody concoclions of the humble tuber, but nowhoro resides the brooding ten-dorness ten-dorness of its loving mother ns when baked to the turn of an ' autumn leaf and breaking break-ing into a smile before you. But one must not bake a potato clumsily, dumping it into any kind of an old oven, and giving it no care, no patience, no kindly touch. Give it these, and of the 1148 different kinds of potatoes yon will lovo tho baked the bes-t. Columbus Journal |