Life — January 2, 1908 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A FITTING FINALE TOA GooD DINNER A FITTING FINALE TOA Goop DINNER { LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— This famous cordial, now made at Tarragona, Spain, was for centuries distilled by the Carthustaa, Monks. (Peres Chartreux) at the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, France, and Known throughout the world as Char: treuse. The above cut represents the bottle and label employed in the putting up, of the article since the Monks’ expul ion from France, and it is now known as Liqueur Peres Char- treux (the Monks, however, still retain the right to use the old bottle and label as weil), distilled by the same order of Monks, who have securely aarded the secret of its manufacture for jundeeds of years, taking it with them at the time they left the Monastery of La Gra Chartreuse, and who, therefore, alone possess a knowledge of the elements of this delicious nectar. No Liqueur associated with the name of the Carthustan Monks (Péres Chartreux) and made since their expukion from France is genuine except that made by them at Tarra- gona, Spain. Atfrstclass Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafes, Bitjer & Co.,45 Broadway, New York, N. Sole Agents for United States, Wen O72 h Ou Atle <s ayo AAV per < RS. ATHERTON, moreover, has the journalistic instinct—which is not surprising in the great-grandniece of Ben- jamin Franklin and the daughter of The Golden Era’s editor, who published the first newspaper in San Francisco. The late Joseph B. McCullagh, of St. Louis (Eu- gene Field's “Little Mack”), defined the newspaper tinct as the intuitive knowl- edge of where hell is going to break loose, and having a correspondent there to put the news on the wire. Mrs. Atherton ful- filled that ideal by being on the spot when the San Francisco earthquake came, but she reserved her impressions of it for a novel. * * * UT to return to our muttons—which, in this case, happens to be hens. It is to Mrs, Atherton’s partner in commercial en- terprise—Mr. Poultney (we were about to say Poultry) Bigelow—that we owe the success of our search. Mr. Bigelow— (widely, and to some persons favorably, known as the author of “Idle Hours in Panama,” “At College with the Kaiser,” “Kings Who Have Met Me,” “The German Silver Question,” etc., etc.)—himself holds abrief forthe hen. ‘‘Comeand findme,” he answered, hospitably, upon our request for information. “Of course, there can be no literature without hens—for no story can be well told save ab ove, no man can reach the heart of his fellows unless he talks the tongue of nature—of pastures— of the furrow—of sunlight on the hills of the HEART! Gertrude Atherton is great because she loves nature; of course, she is the soul of the great chicken-farm of Mal- den-on-Hudson. You say it was a goose that saved Rome. I answer that none but a goose would have done it. Show me a sin- gle Roman that has a word to say in favor of his city, and I will show you that every real Roman sang the praise of life beyond municipal microbes. What sings the no- blest Roman of them all—the magnificent rustic, Horace of Tibur: Vivere nature si convenienter oportet, Ponendaque domo quarenda est area primum, Novistine locum potiorem rure beato? “Horace knew his metropolitan salon, and he chose the life of the hen-yard.” * * * LL of which seems to us like special pleading by one commercially com- mitted to the hen. When it comes to Horace, we confess to being a little rusty. (We know our Roosevelt better.) But did Horace raise chickens on his Sabine farm? 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