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Logan Republican | 1914-09-12 | Page 7 | Worthy, but Denied Honor

Type issue
Date 1914-09-12
Paper Logan Republican
Language eng
City Logan
County Cache
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Article Title Worthy, but Denied Honor
Type article
Date 1914-09-12
Paper Logan Republican
Language eng
City Logan
County Cache
Page 7
OCR Text WORTHY, BUT 'DENIED HONOR" Public Benefactors Who Made Discoveries Dis-coveries In Their Kitchens Are . Unknown to Fame. ' Among the sublime Bum of human Ignorance may bo mentioned tho general gen-eral Indifference to our domestic he-, roes, the men who havo made or marred our famous dishes. Keen to honor with trumpet and song tho man who dares greatly with sword and pistol, pis-tol, yet are we forgetful of the worthy who first discovered, say, the Irish stew, says a writer In the Seattle Post Intelllgenoer. Surely a nation Is forgetful ot Its great when this name la unknown and unhonored by worldwldo festtvl-Hob. festtvl-Hob. And what ot him who first braved the onion and detected Its culinary cu-linary qualities? His memory has perished. per-ished. Would It not bo a beautiful thing If wo could medltato with grateful grate-ful regard upon the man who ate the first oyster? Wo aro Inclined to harp too much upon tho spectacular and aro prono to slight tho great ones, whoso self-sacrifice has mado posslblo ' our domestic supper Joys. When man first mixed his mulligan did not tho whole trlbo put on sackcloth and ashes and wait with dismal foreboding for' news of his demlso by explosion or expansion or deadly poisoning or Eomcthtng? Things that aro simple Joys to us must havo been historic landmarks to tho ago of their Inventors. Why Is' nothing dono to keep green tho memory mem-ory of tho doughty zinc-stomached stalwarts? There Bhould bo a fitting chronicle, thus revealing to us of later days exactly what moved them to their ungrateful tasks; why, presuming presum-ing them to be happy men, they should havo felt called to place their lite In Jeopardy for the cause of the epicurean? epi-curean? Possibly It Is something that comes to a chosen few, spirits otherwise cast, down and scarred with losing battles; porhaps the stew came to Its originator in a vision during the night watches,, and ho aroso and mixed up everything he could find and took It, thinking he would commit suicide, and instead It made him fat and happy. But at best we can only speculate, for of records there Is none.
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