Show OUR CHICAGO LETTERS owen meredith fit his dreamy languorous yet sententious romance ilucile 15 has one bit of pure prose though couched in numbers rhythmical harmonious and well balanced owen says we may live without poetry music and art we may live without conscience and live without heart we way may live without mends friends we may live without books but civilized man cannot live without ife he may live without books booke what Is knowledge but grieving he may live without hope what irk IB hope but deceiving he go may live without love what is love but repining but where is the man that can live without dining yes that is the question who can live without dining after all there Is but a sup step between poetry and potatoes between prosody and popper pepper between sweetness and soup realizing the stem philosophy of mr meredith chicago has never attempted to live on prairie blizzards or on lake breezes chicago has in fact a training school of domestic science this institution is managed by some of our best and most worthy matrons matrona mat rons though it has a formidable name it is simply a school of bashery ha shery or cookery it boards young women out of place and teaches them the arts of housewifery its mission is j that housekeeping shall not become a failure whatever marriage may do one saturday not long ago eight ung ladies seniors from the iVest est division high school visited the domestic science temple for the purpose of taking a lesson in cook cooking mrs swan the vice president of the bashery ha shery undertook the task of teaching the young ladies she drew up a bill of fare for a dinner which the ladies themselves were to cook and eat miss sill of the astronomy class was appointed to the pie department she was placed in charge of a cold chicken with instructions to mix the white meat judiciously with the brown and await the making of the crust miss mae sin sill proceeded to her work and thought over that accomplished person mentioned by dickens who was said to be equal to anything from the contemplation of a star to the consumption of a potatoe pot atoe miss may chandler and miss jessie chandler both from the latin elms class and whose f favorite author was waa virgil were appointed to the salad department As miss may took up a la large r cabbage she could not help paral paraphrasing pasing her favorite author and while chopping she kept repeating pea ting I 1 who have lately sung heroic ballads am now engaged in making cabotage salads adieu for ever evermore moire to fleshly sonnet my goal is now a husband and a bonnet miss blanche pattison from the greek class wag appointed wa to su superintend ker r the stuffing of a turkey her favorite author is homer she can repeat a book of the odyssey backwards As she proceeded to her work how she wished that some forlorn ulysses would woul d wander hr her way and then she thought of how ulysses appeared to his hia own herdsman eureus and begged a meal and how eureus went out as pope has it straight to the lodgments of his hia herd he ran where the fat porkers corkers slept beneath the sun of two his hia cutlass launched the spouting blood I 1 these quartered singed and fixed on forks of wood all hasty on the hissing coals be threw and smoking back the tasteful viands drew and all then on the board displayed the ready meat meal before ulysses laid all this miss Patt pattison loon spoke in homeric greek and then interpreted it in chicago anglo saxon for her friends though miss pattison proved very awkward at manip elating the interior department of A turkey yet she could enlighten th the boss cook with a very learned rhapsody on cookery of the anclee greeks she went so far as to td prove that the greek t tramp P was but bat an old edition of the american tramp and then she recited what eureus said to ulysses when the latter expressed a desire to visit the queen to ask assistance said small is the faith the prince and queen V M scribe replied cumens to the wandering tribe for needy strangers still to flattery fly and want too oft betrays the tongue to ue lle each vagrant traveler that touches here deludes with fallacies the royal ear miss pattison proved roved by the theao lines in the orl original greek that tramping is a very ancient institution she wished in her heart that some one of the tribe would present himself so that she could see ahja eat miss alice mcclure of the english literature class clase was deputed buted to make cranberry sauce miss pass mcclure is sentimental poetic and indeed altruistic her favorite author is thomas campbell a and her favorite poem is pleasures w of hope the lady named re repeated whole pages of the poem and finally rested on that passage where the tramp looks wistfully over the garden gate and sees a smiling cottage and well tended beds of flowery and wishes that for himself conle sona such place may exist in the dim future there he is the poor man she says and she quotes campbell you friendless man at whose dejute dejnow de jete eye the unfeeling proud one looks aud aad paw by condemned on pen barren path to 10 roam ream scorned by the world and left without a home the sweet miss mcclure ran to the door to meet this poor man and give him warm welcome shewa she waa disappointed the visitor was wag neither a cam Campb ellic tramp nor a homeric one tut but a chicago reporter who wanted to test practically the efficiency of the young lady iso cooks there were a full dozen report reporters erg present of course the city editors picked out reporters with lean jaws and capacious stomachs and assigned them to the bashery school A chicago woman would deem I 1 sacrilege not to invite the crefo ta any little movement of hers the young ladies of the high and the old ladles ladies of the domestic science business would deem theft work in vain if a column or two did not advert advertise ize them in the newsy pers rs A chicago woman would te bum u the temple of diana of ox the Ephe ephesians if she wore were sure of w two columns in the newspapers belt nea day but in this ease case journalism had bad its revenge the reporters ato at everything in sight eight miss Patti sOll of said that a branch packing house w armours was nothing CO compared to w what these quill drivers could coul do cooking cocking jer certainly a very iv department in the economy of life observers there are am who attribute to it many of the great alven in history in our own day w have bave seen what stress the late pta or william of prussia laid on it sia HU cook Dubois Dubols was a french arnall n when the war of 1870 commenced ced dubois resigned his place determined to come home and fight for r la belle prance france the emperor would not consent to this by any rumus after the war the cooks anve village was exempted from pam payment eat of any of the indemnity ret it t of respect for the cook and his devotion fotion to his native land that very interesting and observe wt correspondent of the mr ward says of the pic aares in the ruins of the italian bur lec od cities some of these paintings indicate the various kinds of food erkd sd the manner in which it was arved gy to these ancient inhabitants pictures cauree ct uree of oysters served in various fays adorn the walls of these ancient ng halls balls he then goes on to S that cookery was carried out ong the ancient romans much y th 11 same as it is in chicago today to day JUB Is very probable that if we had re domestic science in chica pa we would have less anarchy and socialism speaking ding of socialism I 1 may as f state ml my y experience of it here abt st sunday afternoon I 1 dropped into to waverley Wave hall where a meet S was in progress professor or adson W on was reading a paper on peculation or peculation he godit dmit severely with bankers and baard war of trade men the merchant who atto advertises adver a 10 coat to be sold for v is characterized as a com ga liar and thief the board of tra yo I 1 de einan man who gambles on mythical eat is ig denounced as worse than a U wisiana te iana lottery man the fsr re is a very mild looking person speaks beaks with an english aacen accent t s head is aggressively bald his 6 ia intellectual after his own style ve his discourse was waa well thought 04 and if reported in full would be worthy of perusal perusa mthr the reading of the paper a collection boti lection yec tion was taken up towards de doubt avi ll 11 hall all rent then en the re lie beable mrs parsons took the wor she repudiated the lecturer d hia socialistic scheme and said tw w anarchy was what we wanted i mrs 18 parsons was listened to though but 4 few accepted her views this ao wm man does not appear physically be oe the terror that she is common zu riL so i Posed to be she is slight ess frag fragile ile her voice is soft and az lodi ous one could imagine efat t trace of the negro in it t jah ugh really in mexico or in texas bt jk M P parsons am us would pass as a half wa indian lh ainan idaia named serrall next took 0 far he ai an old man manewith with giant ant lt ray gray whiskers and long stowing he avowed himself se pure and simple he everybody and and every hot aaa after a long ng struggle he was ass spoke off dynamite ducey next e his language was certainly and several arthist an is speakers had something to gi 11 a german named 2 hiBo ot t P fisl command of ur me zt buta go 0 english ag h W was not very good anat W t he did utter was emphatic he said it is time to sit on these anarchists their principles are not worthy of consideration their theory of government is that of fools to get rid of the bedbugs bed bugs they would burn the house this clinched anarchy buerk was applauded plau ded and it was settled there and then that anarchists should find a hall of their own in future prof replied to his critics critic sand and he did it well he defined the socialism which he represented as the direct opposite of anarchy though both he said were commonly accepted as identical he believed in state control of everything anarchism was nothing it had no parallel among organism or organizations of any kind even the wild hogs and horses had leaders and were governed by laws the hall was fuu full I 1 noticed many who were neither anarchists ts nor socialists and who seemed eager to understand what socialism really meant As I 1 came away from tide the place 1 I could not hel help thinking of what john ahn milton sait said about liberty liberty hath a sharp and doum double edge fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men benl neither is it completely obtained but batby by them who have the happy skill to know what laws are wanting and how to frame them substantially that good men may have the freedom which they merit and the bad the curb which they need one cannot realize thoroughly the force and truth of these words until he has heard some of these pothouse pot house orators and whiskey politicians there are men holding high office in this country who know just as little about liberty as M mrs n parsons doea every id idea ea of liberty here seems to be that one must push himself forwar dand once in power to disregard the rights of an all who are not his immediate friends and partisans an honest religion Is ie the only safeguard to an honest government without a religion to mould and chasten the wild and barbarous in mankind no amount of culture no amount of science can make a just and stable commonwealth CHICAGO feb 21 1899 the past week has been a very eventful one for Chlo chicago ago we had three conventions the tariff reform the national electric light and the grass widows the last named was held in a dime museum the firsts first though held in a theatre hall yet for the time being was better than a dime museum these tariff reformer samong whom henry george was ki king ng resolved that an american citizen should have the privilege of selling his labor or the product of his labor to the best beat advantage I 1 dont see why he should not have the privilege of giving away his labor if he so desires it henry george lauded president cleveland Cle d as a model american so did sackville west cleveland cleveland Clevel is I 1 all right 21 but he has had the misfortune to have more fool friends than any public man that ever america produced the electric light convention was a success prom from it we learned that fifty three electric roads were in actual operation in ih this country the grass widows were a homely lot they assembled at the museum and imparted bits of biography freely to visitors carlyle says in his life of goethe that outside of the new fate gate calendar there is nothing to be found I 1 so lugubrious so wretched as the biographies of authors and men of genius according to the reports furnished by a congress of grass gram widows in chicago the newgate calendar caJen dar the biographies of men of genius fall into insignificance beside the importunate women here mentioned visitors went to see them to have a laugh butin but in their presence it was like laughing at in carna ted misery woe wretchedness misfortune despair calamity and insanity we had three murders five deaths by gas asphyxiation fifteen attempts at murder burgl burglaries axles arsons ansons robberies and assaults innumerable in addition to all this we had ila la tosea tosca 11 a french play and verest ch chafins agins 1 iris russian pictures ae we had also a jew preacher in court for selling moonshine whiskey anglice and a chinese chin grocer named quong wong who de camped at night and beat his friends and debtors out of several hundred dollars he is gone to canada while an irish constable mounts guard over some dried herrings and birds birdsa nests and sugar cured rats left behind as articles not merchantable over the border we have the annie redmond case still on our hands a and nd it is likely to be with us for some time new york tries to get a hearing because a russian prince steals an overcoat brooklyn also because a portuguese marquis steals two coats baltimore because our new president gets a cinder in his eye st louis because mary andersons smothered venus beefsteak with onions was not cooked properly iowa with her governor in quod ad but what are these petty incidents inci compared with our chicago double breasted occurrences take the most serious of these that of the cinder and to us it to is not of one half as much concern aji as a jealous pang in the bosom of la tosca or a headache in one of mrs par sons children chicago is shead ahead angwill and will keep ahead wen even if lake michigan empties itself into the gulf or of mexico W E curtis washington correspondent of the chicago news tele graphs to his pr paper as follows at 8 graphs or thereabout there about general harrison was closed for repairs as one might say for when he went out upon the platform of the car at baltimore to witness his fellow citizens he begot got a large sized cinder in his 18 eye and it has been troubling him dm a good deal ever since all the family have been digging away at it t without success andia and if there is ii no relief in the morning a doctor is to be called probably mr curtis thought that this alarming intelligence would create a 9 sensation in chicago and possibly depreciate the value of real estate here it had no such effect A piece of real estate sold for per front foot the highest price paid for property of this kind anywhere in the united states outside of new york As to making a sensation here it might have done so if we had not on our hands something so horribly sensational that for the time we forgot all about washington the fact is five of our police officers were committed to the criminal court by judge altgeld just about the time the baltimore cinder sought a resting place in general harrisons eye our policemen are accused of falsely imprisoning julia perry perey and her three brothers john thomas and james if the charge against the police can be substantiated it win will 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