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Show Skinning Came Natural. "Fardon me," said the army eoolc, for military chefs are prone to address ad-dress their - underlings courteously, "but I prithee tell me where you learned to peel potatoes so artistically? artis-tically? I observe that you do not cut off the cuticle in great hunks, as, alas, too many do, but loosen a hit of the skin of the tuber and then deftly strip it all off. You must have had much experience iu skinnings e'er entering upon a soldier's life?" 'T did, thank you, sir," replied the-accomplished the-accomplished member of the kitchen police. "Before I decided to make the world 5 safe for democracy I was a banker." Kansas City Star. |