The United States are being observed just now. Hordes of writers from Europe. with apparently little else to do, are touring America and observing, and the latest addition to their ranks is V. Blaseo Ibanez. the Spanish novelist. He finds that an Am ican smokes his cigars wastefully and lives on sugar. He say: "Sooner or later some pedant is going to read a novel that I have in mind about the United States.
And he will annotate at the bottom of the page The Arerican cuisine is something frivolous.'"" Those eho have eaten many American dishes will not agree with the observer's observations in this reenect. There are many dishes which are not frivolers and Boston haked beans is one. Whether they were originally made in Roston. or whether the name was chosen for its alliterative analities, we really do not know. but could anything he less frivolous? Tu one respect, however. we anarrel with American cooks and that is in the names they
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