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Show ORDER HARD TO UNDERSTAND Cutting Cruit from Bread for, 8nd wlchet Was New to Landlady. Your Ocrmnn docs not care for fane) food, writes Samuel G. Dlythe Id Evcjybody's. He wnntH "grub." Eat Ing to him Is a sacred ceremony, nol to be trilled with nor slighted. Wlior be eats ho wants to cat, to masticate to get a realizing sense that he h communing with something that hat substance In it. There was that or caslon when Frederick W. Cauldwell the American vice-consul general In Berlin, decided to give a reception to his friends. Ho went to his landlady and discussed the refreshments wltb her. They decided on sandwiches and some 'trifles of that character. In giving 'his parting instructions Caufd well said: "Be sure to cut the crusts off. the bread when you make the sandwiches." There was consternation at this. The landlady held a consultation with the servants. The master of the house was brought Into It. The point was debated for half an, hour. Cut the crusts oft the bread? Preposterous! .After the situation had been canvassed tin all Its details and the Judgment of everybody In the house had been passed on the proposition, the landlady went to Cauldwell. "Is It so," she asked, ."that we are to cut the crusts the bread off when the sandwiches we are making?" "Certainly," Cauldwell replied. "Ah!" she said, a great light breaking break-ing over her, "I comprehend at last. Your friends have no teeth." |