Judge, 1912-05-18 · page 17 of 24
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This article satirizes Kansas's regulatory overreach by mocking the state's health board for imposing strict standardized recipes on restaurants—specifically for hash. The humor lies in the absurdity: Kansas, historically known for progressive reforms, is now micromanaging something as humble and variable as hash through "arbitrary formulas" and enforcement. The satire targets bureaucratic solution-seeking. Judge ridicules the image of state chemists disguising themselves as ordinary diners to inspect restaurant hash for compliance—treating a simple dish with comical seriousness. The piece acknowledges homemade hash's natural variability and family pride, then contrasts this with government attempting to legislate culinary standardization for commercial establishments. The broader joke: Kansas, a state born from reform impulses, now exemplifies intrusive government regulation over minor matters. It's both affectionate mockery of Kansas progressivism and critique of bureaucratic overreach into everyday life.
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A Kansas Idea. Hass: that disappointment of the hungry and stand-by of the jester, is coming under official cognizance in Kansas. To Kansas the country—and perhaps the race—owes many a reform that had birth in what at first was regarded as pare eccentricity. But there is some- thing in the atmosphere of Kansas—al- though the typical cyclone does not, per- haps, typify it—that seems to work toward human regeneration. Home-made hash is generally unim- peachable as an article of food. In its original form it involved simply meat and potatoes that had been once cooked. The conscientious housewife, proud of all her achievements, takes pride in her hash, and at times slightly elaborates the original receipt. Some hash involves a degree of doubt, and outside of the home circle it is never wholly above sus- picion. But the housewife's hash is al- ways beyond controversy, and usually there is not enough of it. She takes a pride in gustatory surprise, and by sim- Knows Now DOCTOR WAS FOOLED BY HIS OWN CASE FOR A TIME. It’s easy to understand how ordinary people get fooled by coffee when doctors themsel sometimes forget the facts. A physician speaks of his own expe- rience: “T had used coffee for years and really did not exactly believe it was injuring me, although I had palpitation of the heart every day. (Tea contains caffeine —the same drug found in coffee—and is jast as harmful as coffee.) “Finally one day a severe and almost fatal attack of heart trouble frightened meand I gave up both tea and coffee, using Postum instead, and since that time I have had absolutely no heart pal- Pitation except on one or two occasions when [ tried a small quantity of coffee which caused severe irritation and proved to me I must let it alone. “When we began using Postum it seemed weak—that was because we did not make it according to directions—but how we put a little bit of butter in the pot when boiling and allow the Postum to boil full 15 minutes, which gives it the proper rich flavour and the deep brown color. “I have advised a great many of my friends and patients to leave off coffee and drink Postum; in fact, I daily give this advice." Name given by Postum o., Battle Creek, Mich. ny thousands of physicians use Postum in place of tea and coffee in their own homes and prescribe it to Patients. “There’s a reason,"’ and it is ex- plained in the little book, ‘‘The Road to Wellville,”’ in packages. Ever read the above letter? A Rewone appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full ot human interest. ple addition performs a miracle. A lit- tle onion may be insinuated by her to provoke: appetite, or a few slivers of green pepper to excite imagination and promote digestion. So much for purely domestic endeavor. In Kansas, no doubt, hash is still hash within the family circle. The trouble in that State, however, seems to be that base fabrications masquerading under the name are served in hotels and board- ing houses. Thus the Kansas State board of health has promulgated an ar- bitrary formula which cooks for the common public must observe, under pains and penalties for ignoring it. The receipt, it is said, returns to primitive simplicity, and the new order will tend to allay suspicion if its results do not satisfy appetite. The spectacle of analytical chemists of the Kansas board of health, disguised for their duty, ordering hash in various eating places from unsuspecting wait- ers, who can give the cooks no tip to re- form their product for the occasion, ap- peals to the imagination. Of course these chemists must partake of some portion of the hash set before them and be skillful in secreting enough of it upon which they may pass judg- ment at leisure and with scientific aids. But their lot is not a happy one. Their reward, however, will be dual, for, while they are destroying their own digestion, they are earning their sal- aries and saving the digestion of thou- sands of their fellow-citizens, who otherwise might be fed to the point of permanent misery by unscrupulous per- sons who earn a very good liv where in the trade of furnishing food for the hungry. J. A, Waldron Addled Adages. OU NEVER kiss the daughter till the lights go out. Never stay dry. Rage before duty. Loves labor costs. Eat, drink and be sorry. Wine, women and wrong. All's well that lends well. Honesty’s the best fallacy. The wages of gin is breath. All is not clam that fritters. Love thy neighbor for his pelf. When in doubt, walk on tiptoe. Spare the tub and soil the child. A soft powder turneth away rash. What is hume without a mortgage? Gluttony is the mother of distention. The weigh of the porkpacker is lard. There’s many a drip ’twixt cup and lip. None is so kind as he who will not see. Where there’s a scale, there’s a weigh. 1” Armand Debris ; Dept. Underwood Bullding Extra D: ‘Champag me When you buy a rib roast you pay for the bone and the “trim” (which you can’t eat) as well as the meat, which you can eat. 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