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Show p BEST ROYAL HOUSEKEEPER. Kmpreti or Austria ltoats All of Ilor lle-cal lle-cal Competitor. A person can eat, drink, Bleep and be served better in tho hobsehold of the empress of Austria than in any other in Europe, says the New York Recorder. Record-er. Tho reason is that she is tho best , royal housekeeper in tho world. She receives personally, reads and acts upou reports from cooks, butlers, keepers of the plate and keepers of the linun. New methods of preparing or serving1 serv-ing1 food are adopted only at her suggestion. sug-gestion. Cooldng devices which have become inconvenient or antiquated are abolished only at her suggestion. Changes in the personnel of tho establishment estab-lishment are made, for the most part, j only in obedience to her orders. ; The kitchen in which the food for ' the bluest blood of Austria is cooked . is a huge one, with all the arrange- I monts at caoh end for preparing1 fish, ilcsh and fowl- for the table. Fifty I chickens can be cooked at once on one of the big, whirling spits. The broiling ami baking and frying occupy a small regiment of servants. rwcut3'-five male cooks spit, season and stuff the meats. As many women cooks prepare tuc vegetables, the puddings and the salads. A dozen or more boys carry the birds, fish and joints from tho kitchen . to the carving room, where loug lines ( of carvers slico everything laid before hem. aai ,- s&tiii. |