He Longs For Pie

I must protest with great vehemence against the prejudice- a cqnsequence of Ignorance - sustalned here by the chefs of first-class restaurants agrainst the pie of pumpkin and the pie of minee. It is onlj on rare occasions that you may order and get a section of either pumpkin :r minee pie at Delmonico's, the Pt. James, the Waidorf or the Brunswick. Every sort of fruit or cream pie makes lts appearance from time to time on the oartes du jcur of these restaurants, bjt that beautiful sunflower of pastry, the "punkin," and that bewlldering apetheosis of American independence, the minee pie, seldom form a part of the Gallio collections, I trust that I shall always be able to eat and value the splendors of French cookery without peptic accompR.niment or subsequent grets, but, as an American citizen, I demand that the national discs of deliiïht, the minee and pumpkin pies, be retained upon their pedestal? and flashed under our eager eyes whenever our souls send forth a cry for them. I should make it a iiiisdemeanor on the part of a restaurant keeper not to include these pies in his dally menu, punishable with a fine and imprisonment. I have lately called for "punkin" pie at Delmonico's and the St. Jamos, and at both places I was told they had only plum and cue- tard. What a deadly insult to offer 4n American! We can dispense with all the truffld intricaeies known to the Srench cullnary art before we can part with thê props and buttresses of our constitution, the pie of beautiful pumpkin and its cousin of magnificent minee -Town Topics.