Judge — June 4, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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You are entirely too consetentious about your HERE is to be no improvement in the pea this year. I searched in vain among the seed catalogs, at the planting season, for a dependable pea, but found no announcement of the cubical pea which I have been advocating for years. 1 should think that in all the years that the scientific seedmen have been studying the pea, they could have developed at least a lopsided pea. But no, the pea is to be as round, and uncertain, and elusive as ever. Personally, I should never admit another round pea into our dining-room. My wife, however, is less nervous than I, and we shall no doubt have peas at many meals during the coming season. Early last winter I wrote to Luther Burbank suggesting a mossy pea, or a fuzzy pea—one that would stay put, or at least roll only a few fect and then lose momentum, He wrote back and told me that he was doing his best to domesticate the pea, and that he was just as inter- Let it go, of man. “Nor sone THAN 65 PERCENT OF A BATCH OR OF A CAN OF PEAS EVER GET TO THE CONSUMER.” The Perplexing Pea By Dox Hexroup Cubist Mlustration by the luthor of a batch or of a can of peas ever get to the consumer. This means a pure waste of at least 35 per cent. As the housewife fools with the peas in the kitchen, there is an initial loss of a large percentage of them; for weeks peas will appear from under the refrigerator, or from other remote areas of the eum. hen there is the loss en route from kitchen to dining-room; peas will leap out of the dish as the maid carries them through the butler’s pantry. And the dining-room loss is terrific, as the peas are transferred from the main or central dish to sub- sidiary individual dishes or plates, and thence to the mouths of the family and guests. Here we have, perhaps, the greatest loss of all, for while the housewife may learn to curtail the antics of the pea in the kitchen, ultimate consumers are never in such perfect practice. As 1 told my wife as she was ploughing the garden preparatory to planting peas I, forone. was infavorof abandon ested in tidy dining-rooms as I. Hesaid furthermore that he had been inter- ested in my advocacy of the cubical pea, but thought it utopian; he said that he thought that it might, on the other hand, be entirely possible to evolve a conical pea. Well, that would satisfy me; all that matters, as I sce it, is that the peas have a bottom to stand on. ‘The proposition has its economic as well as its aesthetic aspects Not only are neater dining-rooms more de- sirable, but a lower pea mortality is another pice by Narx Couns thing to be taken into consideration. Not more than 65 per cent. “T WANT To “Fry Parer T SOME FLY PAPER.” “Yeu, | want TO MAKE A KITE.” ing peas entirely until some change is wrought by the scientific seedmen. Go on and plant them if you wish,” I said. “But don’t e: pect me to take any in terest in them, or to hoe them or water them. Tam going to wait for cubical or conical peas Round, | abhor them They get on my nerves. I ha the damn things. And I walked off, and left her pushing the hand plough in our pretty little garden I shall not be one to say that man has mas tered the clements— not until he has done something about the pea. | 4