. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . There were two dishesin the kitchen for everything. Fromone the culprit had taken the perfectportions for host and hostess, fromthe other he had ladled decoctionswhose combinations had never beendreamed of outside an insane asylumfor cooks and scullery maids. Half a bottle of tabasco sauce tosix plates of soup was enough tostrangle any savant and send an au-thoress groping, half-blinded, for Apol-linaris. The filet of sole a la Cardinalmust have had a tablespoonful of saltrubbed into each portion. Quininesprinkle
. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . There were two dishesin the kitchen for everything. Fromone the culprit had taken the perfectportions for host and hostess, fromthe other he had ladled decoctionswhose combinations had never beendreamed of outside an insane asylumfor cooks and scullery maids. Half a bottle of tabasco sauce tosix plates of soup was enough tostrangle any savant and send an au-thoress groping, half-blinded, for Apol-linaris. The filet of sole a la Cardinalmust have had a tablespoonful of saltrubbed into each portion. Quininesprinkled over the pattie-cups and inthe wine-glasses had made their con-tents as bitter as the wormwood ofSyria; and, as for the salad, the chef-doeuvre of this feast of wretchedness,its dressing was a mixture of vinegarand machine oil. In this menu ofmisery the clams and roast aloneescaped. And yet in the heart of tangle-hairedKismet, she of the ragged French andwinning ways, there still remains onespot of gracious memory, kept eternallygreen, for Msieur Louie who will Deliver the Goods By Kate Gannett Wells JT makes little difference whetherone says Deliver the Goods orcalls for a Square Deal. Theinsistence on something for somethingis the same in either case. Yet somepeople seem to lack the mental abilityto fulfil a promise, while others acquirea ready knack in crawling out of abargain, and still others pose beforethemselves as really keeping theirword when they are just humbuggingtheir consciousness. The doctrine of equivalents in sociallife is largely a question of ability,which again is chiefly a matter of con-centration. But it is such hard workto get concentrated and so disagree-able to keep at it. We are suchnuisances on committees if we aretoo much in earnest, and we get soavoided at afternoon teas lest we bringup the mornings debate. Of coursewe know in a general way that all greatwork has been done through concen-tration, and we should like to achievein turn,
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