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́ENGLISH FOOD

IS IT SO BAD? A DELICACY IN FRANCE

SILLY SNOBBISHNESS

THE CHINA MAIL,

trouble to bring to land. The re- putation which, thanks to Proven- cal boastfulness and to the "snob- bish, ealogies of English writers, from Thackeray down to the pro- sent day, this concoction has Low acquired in England and America is a striking example of the effect of publicity.

"Un-Genteel"

VEHME MURDERS

DRAMATIC SEQUEL IN

MEXICO

*ARREST AND ESCAPE

[By Douglas Goldring]-

Berlin.Details of a remarkable A favourite theme for English

and adventurous sequel to the so people newly returned from a few If our great writers would pen called Vahme murder trial have just weeks' holiday in France is the sonnets to the smoked haddock, come to band. excellence of all that they have had wax lyrical about the English kip- In one of the first trials of the to eat and drink compared with the par, give the Yarmouth bloater its persons accused of being implicated "awfulness" of the food. In their due, write essays in steward cels in the Vehme murders, which was own country. This silly snobbish- and pense pudding a la Bermond-held in Mecklenburg in the year ness is by no means confined to Mr.sey, or tripe and onions In the 1928, Lieutenant Boldt, with several and Mrs. Briggs, of Balham, but manner of the New Cut, on sausothers, was condemned to death for permeates all classes in England, ages and "mash," and other popu- the murder of a sergeant whom they and has inspired a whole literature.lar English delicacies, including no longer trusted, but was after The most elegant personsges, the despised bacon and eggs, Eng-wards pardoned. During the trin people who would not dream in lish. cooking would soon be "redis- the accused men asserted that the their own country of entèring", a | ĉovered,"

order to remove the Sergeant was "good pull-up for carmen," and eat-

given by Senior Lieutenant ing a plate of tripe and onions, or a pair of kippers, betake themselves,

The real English cooking has Eckermann, who commanded their to France and earn a reputation in been driven out of English hotels section, London as gourmets by writing and restaurants, both in London and The Public Prosecutor In pages about auch humble French the provinces, by our national snob- Schwerin instituted an elaborate dishes as bouillabaisse and tripes a bishness. The homely dishes which search for Eckermann, and, with In mode de Caen, which cannot com- the economical, French artisan's wife the aid of the International Police, pare with them for excellence. places before her husband are en-discovered, in February last, that Of the tens of thousands of dowed with all sorts of Imaginary he was working on a farm in the middle-class English people who virtues, while the far better. Eng neighbourhood of Mexico City. The troop to France every year, only a lish popular delicacies have been a German Foreign Office Immediate- fraction con afford the more long labelled "un-genteel" that even ly requested the Mexican Govera eleborate French cookery, and of our "good plain cooks" are ceasing ment to hand Eckermann over to the. that fraction not more than a small to learn how to prepare them, German authorities on the ground percentage.can really digest it and The old traditions of English that he was implicated in murder enjoy it. The food the majority of good living are, of course, still which could not be described as tourists eat is either what the preserved in the more conservative being political. French hotel-keeper imagines the English prefer-usually steak and

Wi. S. Culbertson, of Kansas, at present the American Ambas sador to Rumania, whis has bean appointed by President Coolidge.as the American' Ambassador to Chile, succeeding Wiliam M. Colller, who recently, resigned.

type of home throughout the coun- Eckermann was thereupon arreșt try. But for the foreigner, pared by the Mexican police and re ticularly the American, who appre

ciates good English food when he comes across it, it takes a lot of finding. The best English fare, except in private houses, obtainable in London is to be found in un pretentious" public-houses; and it is a welcome sign of the times that the "public-house lunch" has now obtained quite a vogue.

English people who think it smart to abuse the native food of their own country, and consider it a sign of superior toate to prulae, far beyond its merits, the food they eat nbroad, should try staying away from home not for three weeks but for three years. They would then learn to value much that they have previously despised."Evening Standard,"

Employer:"Well, what did Smith say when you called to ask him to pay my bill ??? < .

Office Boy "He said he'd break every bond in my body, and pitch me out of the window if I showed my face there again."

Employer:-"Then go back at once, ask him for the money, and tell him that he can't frighten me with his violence."

Mies Olga. Rudel Zeynck, of Abs" -tria, who has been elected President; of the 'Austrian Parliament by the Government Council, thereby be

· còming the first woman ever to kald; such a position in any country. She, is an author, lowyer and authority on government taxation.

A very fat man was travelling: in a train. A little girl and her mother, were sitting opposite, to him. The little girl was gazing with wonder at his generous pro-moved to prison in Mexico City.

"rosbif," even when the tempera-portions. ture, is tropical-or, else it is the

taste...

...

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928.

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"You musn't stare at the He was, however, a favourite. among FOOT EASE HOSIERY MILL ordinary cuisine bourgeoise of the gentleman," whispered her the German colony, and the latter district, modified to suit the English mother angrily.

not, only protested against his "But, mummy," protested the arrest, but succeeded in inducing child, there's n-nowhere else to the British and French Consuls to look."

subscribe to a protest on the ground that the arrest contravened the in- Mr. F. B. Varley, M.P., the Not-ternational agreement on the ex tinghamshire miners leader, has tradition of a person charged with arrayed himself with Mr. Cook and having committed, a crime. Mr. Maxton in opposition to the Mond peace in Industry negotiation.

Total Ignorance ...- The French differ from the Eng- Fah in that they love to boast about their food, and to surround it with a kind of poetic and romantic glamour. To all of this the Eng lish, particularly those who talk and read French, are peculiarly susceptible. Not content with taking it all in, with exaggerating and repeating the most extravagant French claims, they eagerly accept the French denunciations (based usually, or total ignorance) of theit food in their own country.

A cockle, a whelk, a, mussel, or a winkle, which would strike'a shud- der of horror through an English bosom if seen upon a stall In South London, becomes in France is "de" licacy endowed with unimaginable, virtues. On the Riviera a axlmon

mayonnaise, made from a brand of. tinned salmon..so inferior that a Bethnal Green housewife would re- Ject it la scorn for a tin of better quality, becomes wonderful French luxury, and is paid for se- cordingly.

The massestirig black draught, made from the world's worst coffee. beans, which is now prevalent throughout France tastes like nectar to the English tourist, 80 continuously, has it been disued into his cars that French coffee is ur Surpassed: So it is for nastiness:

The best French coffee I tasted since the war has bee London, cafer

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Diplomatic notes were exchanged, with the result that the Mexican Government delayed the extradition and decided to discuss the matter. with Berlin.

While the diplomatic representa » tives of the two countries were dealing with the cise several cars appeared one night before the prison, some thirty carefully dis. guised men, forced-their way into, the building, overpowered the guards, and broke open the door of Eckermann's cell, The flight; auc ceeded perfectly. Eckermann wan driven off in

fast car and... safely reached the other side of the Mexican frontier.. HO wandered, about, aimlessly during the early summer, end' finally 'found employment on a plantation in Guatemala,

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