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Show A3 OTI1ER8 SEE US. Foolish Ideas of American 8oclety Held In England. That Borne KBglish peoplo bollovo Americans capablo of any sort of freakish notion under tho gulso of en-tortalnmtut en-tortalnmtut Is attested by a paragraph In a recent lssuo of nn English weekly. Tho writer, a woman, says that an American friend tills her that "a now Yankeo notion Is a 'crnzy social,' at which tho Idea Is Uiat everybody and everything should took and act as Insanely In-sanely as might h. Tho costumes, the women and moi should bo cccon-trlclty cccon-trlclty personified, awl tho food served should be arranged to match." According Ac-cording to this chronicler at a recent "crazy social" tho meats wero sorvod In Jelly molds, Jam pot or dust pans; tho vegetables in cake baskets, tho blancmange In a flro shovel, tho Ico cream In a stew pnn, tin wlno glasses were filled with mustnfet, tho Jellies trembled In a saucepan ltd, tho cream was In n plcklo bottlo, the lugar In tho salt cellars and tho salt in tho sugar basins. Tho things whlfth ought to havtt been roasted wero boiled, and salt flavored food which 1h usually sweet. Attempts wero mrtdo to cat clear soup with desert fork and Ice cream with tablo knives.-Grooklyn Kaglo. |