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Show Pie of the Fathers. j , The fact that for the first time since! Buchanan's day, pie has been introduced in the White House, is used in some of i the ultra-fashionable circles of the East I to disparage the President and his amiable amia-ble sister. And why not pie, pray5.- In New England, pie is served for breakfast, and at least one of Massachusetts' famous fam-ous poets and philosophers has half confessed con-fessed that to pie be owes much of the inspiration in-spiration which others called genius. I n the Middle States, pie is still a tooth-'some tooth-'some dish on many a board whoso surroundings sur-roundings are not yet hopelessly Anglicized, Angli-cized, and in the West and far West, pie is regarded as a token of luxury never to be indulged ifl without thankfulness and always to be praised, whether soggy or not. " In restoring the pie of the fathers arid mothers to the Executive Mansion, Mr. Cleveland has done more than a simple patriotic duty. Hp has, in addition, addi-tion, thrown his adversaries into confusion. confu-sion. No wonder that the pudding-eaters of a would-be aristocracy are aghast or. that :the ice-si ppers of dudedom rave, j Two 3-eais ago it was little thought that a j Democrat would be in the White House '; at this time-r-and eating pie at that. I Chicago Herald. j |