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Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...
...early careers of Major General Crowder and General John J. Pershing were closely intertwined. Both were born in the same Congressional district in Missouri; both went to West Point, Chowder graduated 1881, Pershing 1886; both studied law; both saw service in the Apache and Sioux Indian wars, in Cuba, in the Philippines; both observed the Russo-Japanese War for the U. S. Government. Everyone knows the fireworks that attended the climax of General Pershing's history. But who knows what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things...
...shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales, and the codlings "waggle heir tails about," not in the praiseworthy intention of the hymn, but in agony and despair...
...story, "The Thing He Never Knew." A situation, not altogether unpromising as short story material, the denouement of which requires motivation, is disposed of in wholly inadequate space with consequent cheapening of effect,--and effect which the style, unfortunately, is too conventional to alleviate. Mr. Rodgers's "Chowder," the sprightly sketch which follows, is more pleasing...
...there is a noticeable lack of style in them, a defect surely worth remedying. Again, verse of a higher quality ought to be procurable in a college as well provided with poets as Harvard. This issue of the magazine is above all, lacking in stories of compelling interest, although "Chowder" is an approach to what might be done in this direction...