Word: sauerkraut
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...unexpected feature of a visit to the Exposition's Colonial Section. Sturdy French and middle-class visitors generally had about decided last week that the place to go for hearty food and sound wines was the Brasserie des Metiers. Also crowded were the Midway joints for Alsatian sauerkraut. Even so the majority of Europeans were bringing their own lunches and dinners to the Exposition last week, staying all day to get maximum money's worth for the admission charge of six francs (25?). Smart U. S. citizens just landed from the French Line's Normandie, jampacked last...
...owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven't made any sauerkraut this year, just five barrels in case of sickness." The collector laughed so uproariously the farmer refused to sell...
...took three years of German in college, and two years later they changed the name of sauerkraut to 'Liberty Cabbage' ! "I haven't read any books. . . . "No spik Engliss." Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished almost nothing. "Of course, "retorted Harvardman Benchley in The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, "any member of 1912 could have predicted this ... as early as 1909." Cracked he: "If I were a calamity-howler, I could show that 72% haven't got $3,-000,000 to their name...
...amuses us for some queer reason. It seems so silly, the French sitting in their great concrete bomb-shelters waiting for the war while the Germans quietly crawl under the forts and leave tons upon tons of T.N.T., after which they return to a lusty meal of frankfurts and sauerkraut, the enfants de la patrie firmly ensconced in the palm of their hand. The best-laid schemes, etc., etc., . . . . See you Friday...
...SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY--SAUERKRAUT per quart...