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Show I I CZZIZZZZIZZZ!ZI3 Many Europeans go bnck home con- i ; vinced that you have nothing to eat in the ! 1 1. ' Fair United States that is lit for tho palate of IjljJ, ft cultivated person, and they do not hcai- f OrilOn 'n' ' express their opinion freely, iff" gt .j. Did not Count de Witto pine for the ill E vritlCISGS land of cabbage soup, salt herrings and l y Olir FjtlTld vodka when ho was over here, and publicly Hi'fr , express a belief that he would starvo to H I death if he remained here? And it takes SI ' D jenny BENN n 'ru' m1 mm ""ike n blunder like 81 tlmt! f ICZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZi Now I have found plenty to cat over I I J hero, and, except, for n few things, like j f p liaving a me68 of salt mixed up with your butter, I have found tho food , l f . excellent. But I should like to assist nt loading your blessed silver knives i i on a cargo boat, and help to dump them in the middle of tho Atlantic. ui At a dinner the other night u lady introduced me to a duck which mi you call tho "redhead" a duck that plays pirate and steals the celery filjfh from your much-praised canvasback, and is by many people considered Jfl superior to the latter. And 1 was supposed to c)it my portion with n " bI beautiful shiny' silver knife that was as dull as Washington without the .fir president. Cut? Why, the knife wouldn't cut cheese neatly, let alone Wtf the fibrous and somewhat stringy duck on my plate. 1 haggled it first J ; s! -with one side of that silver curio and then with tho other, but without ' P making any impression on it, and finally had to worry it with my fork i i 4 in order to get. a few bites to cat. ? j t 1 do not know how the others managed, but I fancy they must have H I ' eaten it in hunbs or swallowed it whole, for cut it thoy couldn't. I And it is tho same everywhere. I look in vain for a good steel knifo gl with a plain ivory handle, a knife that will enable me to cut my meat into IjW bits so that I can masticato it properly. But no one uses them, and I am tw r. told that "they went out years ago and are now only used in farm houses." II Your people give mo beefsteaks an inch thick, beautifully cooked and II sometimes tender, and sometimes tough. But always tho eternal silver JW knifo with which to cut them, and which won't cut anything. IE And everywhere in your cities your men eat hurriedly, whether V, snatching a lunch near their business offices or at home, or at tho rcstau- 2! rant, and you claim that it is the hurry that wears them out and makes u them seem old before they have fairly entered their prime. I Well, some of-tho trouble may be due to hurry, but still more is due to Ifl- the silver knife, that tears meat in chunks and does not cut it. :The f work that should' bo done by tho knife is left to the stomach, and after I a time nature rebels, and the thousand and one ills that are rooted in in- II digestion swooptdbwn on a man and spoil his health and consequently t- his temper. |