Show This Woman Was as Not of a Genit Geni s HY X C. SCUM They say a that all aU geniuses are arc conceited conceited con con- that modesty one of oC the tho greatest greatest great great- est st of or the virtues Is lamentably absent ab nh- sent in the breasts of ot the great men and women who have achieved ence Cluck Gluck Meyerbeer Han al Beethoven nearly nearh all the musicians were conceited conceited con con- If not not notto to sa say egotistical Nearly Near Near- ly e cr every writer actor lecturer and public public public pub pub- lic man we are told carries about him tn II exaggerated jf hn own Importance T slow How refreshing then it Is to to sib cb some Homo om one who I It is perfectly perfectly- content to be a n vloet violot h by the mossy brink mod mod- eat eat unassuming unassuming- willing willing- willingto to Keep on with the work vork that life points out with with- of or their greatness to time the whole world Down In New Orleans not long ago died I e 1 Madame mc Begue e soen seventy five t 1 ye years oa rs old ohI who until six months before her heath had been a cook Just a plain ordinary cook cook no no not ordinary either r but a n cook cool Just a square from the statute of oC Jackson In the quaint old picturesque part of New Orleans stands H a plain plait two- two stor story dwelling which was was was' Madame Begues Begue's home for tor the seventy five years she the lived upon this earth On a corner near her nor home stand groups of or In Indian Indians Indians In- In dian who sell curios and who for Cor a copper penny will direct rest vl visitors to Madame De Begues Begue's ucH establishment Here with the chimes of oC the old cathedral of St. St lJ Louts Louis chiming in th their lr ears cars nl night ht an and 1 morning Madame Begue Bogue Be- Be gue ue and her husband 1 kept a for forty years or more and for Cort forty years p past st the country's most famous men and women have ha breakfasted at Intervals at Madame Begues Begue's won wonderful place Ilac Just breakfast that IB Is all nn for forthe forthe forthe the old woman knew how to do but one 01 thing but this she did well She he could cook coole a good breakfast a a breakfast brel that once tasted would never be forgotten forgotten for for- gotten a breakfast that had 1 power to call men and women back from Cram foreign n lands lands breakfast breakfast that was an ounce o of poem and comforter The dining room and kitchen adjoined adjoined ad ad- joined and always standing upun upon ute threshold hold to bid one ono welcome stood Madame Begue plainly dressed In n clack alpaca her Tier lace Ince collar fastened 1 with an nn ol old fashioned 1 gold ol 1 breastpin her black hair plainly parted and braided braid braid- e ed 1 In a a. neat coil coll on top tOIl of or her lead head 1 a quaint pair vall of to match the br And Anti this In Is n. n of ot 1 1 Her table was not laid with a a. guttering gut glit array of oC silver sliver and anil cut glass there were wre no softly shaded lights aiu anti satin satiny textured napkins and table table- clothes and ancI liveried waiters nn and water boys Madame Madam Begue and nud her husband waited upon their table themselves and the room was Just large enough to hold thirty persons And If Ie one wanted 1 to eat bl breakfast at Madame Begues Begue's Degues Degue's Bc- Bc gues gue's one had to engage ago a meal two weeks In ht ad advance onee Th The quaint windows were filled ClUed with pray gay ay flowers and curtained d with chintz The old-fashioned old round table was teas covered covered covered cov cov- ered with snow white linen lInn Heavy delft plates and horn handled knives and antI forks a queer old castor and pIa led d spoons spoons' went to make up the thc table Nothing very ery attractive in this one sa says s Oh pei perhaps haps noL not It W was S the breakfast and end nd Madame Begue that Formed the attraction In the old oldIs Is 15 1 register some sonic of or the best known names nameN in the United States the owners own own- owners 1 ers rs of or which during their stay stav in New New Newl J i J Orleans sought nought Madame radame n g cs c's table arc are contained 1 r Every not noted d actor lecturer traveler politician that has thrilled the country for tor fort forty years past has at one time or another had breakfast there there there-If If he could Madame nc Begue ue has gone and with her has faded the memory of or those break break- fasts CaNts This plain mo modest st little French Frenchwoman Frenchwoman woman who laid no claim to being a I. I genius did the one ono thing she knew how hoe to do co and did dill It just t as aR well as ac she could so well that people came from hundreds of or miles to eat cat at that plain table in her old-fashioned old dining dining- room If sh she had been n a a. genius she Bhe- might also have o died famous but I 1 dare dar say there are more more- people W were rf rf and truly grieved to hear nr of or Mad Madame am o Dee uc's death than would have been wore sho site a n. conceited genius Doing Doing- tho the best ono one can even If Ie It Ig Is but to servo time the best breakfast t In n the countr country is better after aCtor all than b being being- n 1 conceited genius I |