And we think tremendous things might be accomplished by attention to individual members of Congress, Take, for instance, the persuasive and mellowing powers that lie in a savory chdteaubriant aux pommes paillées, There was for many years in Paris a restaurant that exhibited as its street sign a picture of Thackeray in his student days eating chdteaubriant aux pommes paillées at its board. We have always thought that Thackeray's! genius as a writer derived from that diet, and we suspect that if similar fare were smuggled to the table of Senator Borah for a fortnight we should see him introducing a resolution calling for ar offensive andi defensive alliance with France on any terms that she might choose to name.
But the substitution of cooks for politicians as ambassadors should not be limited to France. It would give her too great an advantage. America, too, should make the change, for she has cooks of great Subtlety, capable of winning far more affection and esteem for her abroad than she enjoys now. We would nominate for Paris an old-fashioned Negro mammy from
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