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7 D IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1P13. S T Variants of Many Old Highland Songs Are Retained by the 0 Mountain Folk. CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 24.— Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, professor of English at the University of Virginia, is systematically searching for bal lads in the South. He believes that the mountain fastnesses oil Virginia and North Carolina especial* furnish the greatest unexplored field for this work in America. His chief aim now is to interest students in the normal schools, par ticularly those young men and wo men who are going out into the far corners of the State to teach. They will come into contact with the na tives of the mountains more intimate ly than any one else will be able to do. and to them he is looking for help in running down the ballads ./ which he is convinced are being sung - to-day by the illiterate descendants of the earliest English settlers of this region. Such ballads as may be found, of course, will be variants of the stand ard English and Scotch ballads, be cause ballad making, except to some extent among the negroes, is no doubt a dead art. Important Find. Tremendous impetus was given Professor Smith’s ballad hunting a few weeks ago when one of his stu dents—W. E. Gilbert, of Russell County, Ya.—produced a variant of the famous ballad called “Barbara Al len.” Mr. Gilbert heard it sung by an illiterate old woman in the moun tains of Buchanan County, Va., near a point in the extreme southwestern part of the State where it hits against Kentucky and West Virginia. Pepys speaks of this ballad in his diary, and Goldsmith, too, refers to it in several places. 4 After making a number of visits to the old woman’s cabin, and after re peated failures, Mr. Gilbert at last succeeded in getting her to sing the ballad as it had been sung to her by her mother and grandmother and as she had sung it to her children and grandchildren. This variant has proved to be, in the opinion of Professor Smith, a not able discovery indeed. Other vari ants of ‘ Barbara Allen,” one of the most famous ballads in the world, by the way, have been found in New’ England. All of them, how’ever, are obviously incomplete in one particu lar. 1 Notable Difference. In the ballad as it has been handed down from generation to generation — that is, in the form in which it is generally known to-day—Barbara Al len is made to be deeply grieved at the death of her lover, but in none of the known versions is any explana tion made of the cause of her grief. The verses in point are as follows: r "Do you remember the other day ' When we were at the tavern drink ing? You drank a health to the ladies all And you slighted Barbara Ellen.” “Yes, I remember the other day When we were at the tavern drink ing; I drank a health to the ladies all And three to Barbara Ellen.” “Do you remember the other night When we were at the ballroom danc ing? You gave your hand to the ladies all And slighted Barbara Ellen.” “Yes. 1 remember the other night When we were at the ballroom danc ing; 1 gave my hand to the ladies all And my heart to Barbara Ellen.” New Truer Version. The-e four additional verses. Dr. Smith is i onvinced. tend to show that beyond question this new variant is a truer version of the original ballad than any other known one because they make the story complete by giv ing a motive for the poignant grief of Barbara over the death of her lover. In all other versions the reason for Barbara’s grief is in the dark. In them she accuses her lover as in this new one, but he makes no defense as he does here. The new variant furthermore is called “Barbara Ellen,” not “Allen.” Dr. Smith thinks this is another evi dence that Mr. Gilbert’s discovery is nearer the original than previously ^discovered variants because Ellen fthroughout the ballad makes better rhyme than does Allen. Speaking of this phase of the ques tion to-day, he said: ’ Professor Child, the greatest ballad collector of the English-speaking world—the greatest collector who ever lived, in fact—refers frequently to ballad variants found in New Eng land and rarely to variants found in the. South. There is so little refer ence to the interesting variants in the I South chiefly because the South has never realized the richness of the field. North Carolina Ballad. “Prpfessor Child does give one va riant found in the mountains of North Carolina. It is the ballad of ‘.The Wife of Usher’s Well.’ The va riant in question was sent him from Polk County, North Carolina, where it is still sung by men and women who can not read or write and whose forefathers could not read or write. This is an example of what may be done if one should go at the search with vigor. “I believe that in many parts of the South may be found most inter esting variants of the 305 standard English and Scotch ballads which Professor Child has collected.’’ Still another undeveloped field for the future collector is to be found among the Southern negroes. A for mer student of the University of Vir ginia, George P. Waller, Jr., recently sent Professor Smith a negro version of one of the most famous pure Eng lish ballads, "Sir Hugh, or the Jew’s Daughter.’’ Learned From Negro Mammy. It was learned from a negro •‘mam my” near Montgomery. Ala. Profes sor Smith says this is the first ex ample, so far as he knows, of a negro variant of one of the 305 ballads rec ognized by Professor Child. It is be lieved that there must be many of these variants scattered among the colored people of the South. To if round them up would add not only to the world’s knowledge of ballad sur vivals on American soil, but also, says Professor Smith, to the knowledge of primitive syntax and vocabulary in the attempt to reproduce European traditions. Real Southern Shortcake Rare and Toothsome Morsel •!•••;• •!•«•!• v • +•+ •!•••!• Atlanta Women Chronicle a Fast Disappearing Art Delicious Recipes Used by Prominent House- keepers That Are Promised to Give Per fect Results and Please Any Epicure. Ml RS. GEORGE FORRESTER hard at work making one of >r justly famous shortcakes. If you want one just as good follow her recipe and enjoy the result as you never have any other dessert. By MIGNON HALL. When you were a little girl and wore red shoes with a black tassel, your old negro mammy used to make strawberry short-cake for you, didn’t she? It was the delicious, pie-crusty Port with the inside filled up with crushed strawberries that would melt in your mouth, wasn't it?. It would have two or three layers and plenty of juice, and oceans of whipped cream all over it? And your infant soul would ex pand as you sat up on your high stool in the kitchen and watched the in finitely slow process* of its making to the point when you were allowed to use a spoon? If you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them now. The old-fashioned Southern short cake Is going by the board—and it has almost got by. That’s the sad word that was broken to me to-day by Mrs. George Forrester and a number of other so ciety matrons in Atlanta, as well as the chefs of the Atlanta Athletic Club and the Piedmont Hotel. Old-Fashioned Kind Rare. They said that occasionally you see the old-fashioned short-cake, but it’s as rare as the poet’s June day. It has ceased to be a prominent figure at places where parties are going on Home dinners and luncheons or other meals see it no more, and it has bade adieux to the hotels. The ancient pfr crust variety has ben supplanted by the kind of short cake that is made with cake. In other words, instead of spreading crushed strawberries between layers of pie crust, folks nowadays put It on cake and eat it that way. For strawberry connoisseurs here are some recipes made out by several Atlanta matrons and other folks fa mous for their short-cake. To get Mrs. George Forrester’s reci pe. I took the car to her home, on Peachtree Road, and when 1 got there I found Mrs. Forrester preparing to make a short-cake. “Come right in.” laughed the host ess. over a big kitchen apron, “you’re just in time. “The main thing to remember about this cake is the sifting.” smiled M'TS. Forrester. “You sift both the flour and the sugar separately nine times each. Mrs. Forrester's Cake. “You need 1 cup of flour, 1 1-2 cups of sugar. 14 eggs( whites only) 1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar, 1-2 teaspoon vanilla and a pinch e/ salt. After sifting the flour and sugar you must beat the eggs very stiff—” she turned the platter upside down to illustrate that she had followed the advice she was giving—the eggs not falling out—“and add your cream of tartar—only add it as soon ap the eggs begin to foam well, as I have already done.” She poured the eggs into a mixing pan. ‘‘Now’, you fold in very lightly the sugar first, then the flour, vanilla and salt, taking care to fold—not beat —for it makes a difference in the lightness of the cake—and bake in an angel food pan in a gas oven with the lights turned very low. It re quires about 45 minutes to bake.” The servant put the cake in the stove while Mrs*. Forrester got ready to make the custard to go with it. She measured out a pint of sweet milk, 3-4 cup of sugar and took the yolks of 4 eggs "First, scald the milk, then add the sugar and eggs,” she declared, mak ing good, “and put the mixture in a double boiler. Cook it until rather thick and add a little corn starch, if needed, stirring occasionally. Berries Must Be Ready. "Have your berries ready to go on as soon as the cake is done. Prepare them two hours before you make the cake by splitting them and sweeten ing them and allowing them to stand till the sugar soaks into them.” In preparing the cake after it was done Mrs. Forrester took a sharp knife, split it in half, put on a layer of the berries and covered It with custard. Over this she laid the top layer of cake, more berries and cus tard, and covered the top with rich whipped cream, ornamented here and there with whole berries. (It was at this juncture that I also came into my ow"n. It was good, too.) Here’s the much-talked-about old- fashioned way of making short-cakes. Mrs. Thornbury Stovall furnished me the recipe. Mrs. Stovall's fame has gone abroad as a perfect specimen of an ideal short-cake maker. Cut a quart of strawberries and sweeten with 3 tablespoons of sugar. Make a pastry with 1 heaping table spoonful of butter and 3 of lard. 1-2 cup of ice water and 1-2 teaspoon of salt. Roll the pastry thin and rid fh three pieces the size of a break fast plate. ‘‘Don’t forget to crimp that pastry on the edge.” Mrs. Stovall cautioned here, laughing. Baked a Light Brown. Bake the dough a light brown and when very hot. butter generously with fresh butter. Put berries* between the layers and cover top with stiff whip ped cream, slightly sweetened and flavored with sherry. Garnish with whole berries. Mrs Carrie Robinson Stewart, also known for her short-cake, gave me this recipe and hoped that I would be as successful with it as .“he had been. (I’ve been told there are mighty few folks in Atlanta can beat her making short-cake.) Half a cup of butter and 2 eggs; 1-2 cup sweet milk and 4 evel tea spoons baking powder; 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of flour. Bake in two lay ers in aluminum pans. Use 1 quart of berries and whip 1 pint or 1 quart of rich cream, which must be beaten very stiff, to go on top of *ake. Put c*piit, sweetened berries between lay ers. Mrs. Luther Rosser was reluctant to gl\e her recipe as she said she wasn’t any cook to speak of. but somebody liked her strawberry shorl-cake so well they had asked for it. But it took persuasion to it. Take 1 l 1-2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of flour. 2 teaspoons of belting powder, 1 cur ol sweet milk and 1-2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and mix. Roll out dough, bake and cut into two layers. Let* crushed strawber ries-stand in sugar for two hours r more and put between layers. Also spread whipped cream between, and bank top layer with it. Mrs. Floyd McRae gave these di rections for the way she prepares short-cake: She makes a good rich sponge »f light proportions, and bakes it in 3 or 4 layers. She Strikes a different key-note in preparing her strawber ries by stewing them in sugar until they are soft. She pours the juic^ over the short-cake,‘and covers with whipped cream. Sometimes she makes the old-fashioned kind, but not frequently. Here is Mrs. Philip Alston’s way of making short-cake, whipped cream being used on top. To 1 egg, 1-2 cup of sugar, and 2 cups of flour add 1 teaspoon of bak ing powder and 1 tablespoon of but ter. Mix well and bake in two lay ers or in one and cut it in half. Spread crushed berries between. Likes Old-Fashioned Variety. Mrs. Alex Smith. Jr., is a patriotic follow’er of the old-fashioned short cake method: She said; “I make a very crisp pie crust dough, roll It very thin and bake. When done. I add cut. sweet berries which have soaked in sugar and put between the layers, I also cover with bits of butter. I leave the top bare, and bank the aiders only with whipped cream.” ■ Mrs. Nellie Peters Black gave me these short-cake -• eciflcatlons: Make a pie crust—three layers— typical Southern style, and add the crushed sweet berries, leaving top white with whipped cream. Mrs. Charles H. Sisson also likes the old-fashioned short-cake, she said. She seasons her pie crust dough with butter and rolls it thin enough to make three layers, adding strawberries In the usual way. John Gonder, pastry chef of the Piedmont, was up to his eyes in work when after being ushered through the large underground kitchen by Edward Fischel, the steward. I finally found him. Rut he stopped long enough to give me the Southern way of making short-cake as he comprehended it. as well as the Piedmont way. He said he could vouch for both. Here they are: Southern Style. To 2 cups of soft wheat flour add 2 teaspoons baking powder, and sift well. Rub in 4 1-2 teaspoons butter, the same as for pie dough and add 4 tablespoons granulated sugar. Add 2 eggs stirred in with the sugar and sufficient milk to make a firm dough. Roll out about 1-4 inch thick sweetened strawberries This is thq Piedmont style, which is very rich: Take 6 whole ^egs and 6 yolks and add 1-4 teat up sugar. Beat over a fire in double boiler until warm anu THE PASSING OF THE SHORTCAKE E. L. Thornton, steward of the Atlanta Athletic Club, recommends a city bureau of strawberry short cake and pie, with inspectors to preserve these typical southern institutions. Mr. Thornton says, "Cooking is fast becoming a lost art. It is im possible to find berry or cherry pie that is not adulterated, and strawberry shortcake worthy of the name is as extinct as the buf falo in Atlanta. His statement inspired a youth ful poet to the following effort; The herds of romping buffalo, That trampled o'er th< plain. Arc gone, before*the railroad and the town. So more, the gelling red man, ('tinging to his mustang's mane. With an arrow brings his noble quarry down. The good old daps are passing fast, They slip away and die; • Rut some things they must never, never take— With our heart's blood ire'll defend them; They must leave the good old pie, And we'll never give up straw berry shortcake! chef and typical Southern darkey came beamingly down in white linen. He said he had looked upon the faces of four Presidents and cooked for them— Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, and McKinley. For old Virginia short-cake he said, make pastry like pie crust—1 pound of lard and 1 pound of flour mixed into a dough with water, a pinch of salt being added. Roll thin and bake, putting crushed strawberries on top s and between. Use 11-2 pounds of sugar to 2 quarts of strawberries (unstemmed.) The way he makes short-cake at the club is with sponge cake: Take 6 cups of flour, 1 pound but ter, 12 eggs. 1 1-2 cups of milk, 1-2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix with 11-2 cups sugar and a teaspoon of baking powder. Prepare and put strawber ries between layers in usual way, and cut into squares for serving. thoroughly mixed and continue to beat ! when you tak<- off until mixture is] again cold. Then add 2 cups hard | wheat flour to beaten eggs. Add a | fraction less than 1-2 cup warm melt ed butter, mixed in lightly, and 1-2 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in .pan cov- hake. Fill center with crushed and" Vied with greased paper. Cut int > two layers. Cover first with whole strawberries, sprinkled with enough sugar to sweeten, the tor* layer being set on and decorated with whipped cream. At the Athletic Club Leonard Brazel Quickest Relief Known For all Sore Feet The following is absolutely the sur- ' est and quickest cure known to ! science for all foot ailmonts: ‘‘Dis- • solve two tablespoonfuls of Calocide ’ compound in a basin of warm water. ' Soak the feet in this for full fifteen , minutes, gently rub- hing the sore parts.” 4W* The effect is really jjPssk4 wonderful. All sore- HSI ness goes instantly; fittg the feet feel so good y.%£r ‘■wSi you could sing for joy. TfS". * Corns and callouses ijh S\. wi can be peeled right off. 1 'M It gives immediate re- .S3 lief for sore bunions, sweaty, smelly and aching feet. A twenty- jrQn*'7 five cent box of Calo- ^eide is said to be suf ficient to cure the worst | feet Tt works through the pores and i removes the cause of the trouble. Don't waste time on uncertain rente- [ dies. Any druggist has Calocide i compound In stock or lie can get It in a few hours from his wholesale house It is not a patnet medicine. I hut is an ethical preparation. E I Too Much Politics and Petty Intrigue Connected With Place, She Declares. SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—Miss Clara Jess, the first woman ever ap pointed to a Judicial position in Cal ifornia, has resigned after a year in office. Her resignation as City Recorder of Daly City, which position in cities of the sixth class is equivalent to the office of Justice of the Peace, was given to the town trustees Monday night. Miss Jess is uncertain whether or not women are fundamentally unfit ted for the duties of judges, but she is very certain that "under present conditions" most of them are not. It seems to be the “conditions' which caused most of the trouble. Miss Jess found ramifications of poli tics, petty Intrigue, conspiracies to de feat justice and clashes of selfish in terests, which she never had sus pected. “I didn’t know what I was get ting into,” she said. Miss Jess sent only one man to jail, and he w’as sentenced for only one day. but he was the town mar shal. and he brought suit against her for $25,000 for false imprisonment. This, she admitted to-day, was the direct cause of her resignation, al though her formal withdrawal said she was leaving the office to give more time to other matters. Joseph P. Pankerwicz was town marshal of Daly City. Miss Jess is sued a warrant against Louis Rhine lander. the village baker, in which he was charged with having obtained $100 -.by false pretenses. Pankerwicz refused to serve the warrant, and Miss Jobs sentenced him to one day in jail for contempt. Broken Heart Worth $35,000 Man Charges Jilted by Woman He Loved and Gave Many Presents, J. H. Fort Sues. LA PORTE, INI).. May 24. -Aver ring that his heart has been torn asunder and that he can never recov er from the humiliation which has come to him, John H. Fort of this city’, has begun suit against Mrs. Bowers Williams for $32,850 damages for breach of promise. Fort avers that under the name of Mrs. Bow’ers. the latter’obtained his name through the medium of mat rimonial agency; that she pretended to fall desperately in love with him: that he spent $850 for presents for her, and that a few r weeks before their final engagement she met Aus tin Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio, and that they were married In Richmond, Ind., she having been previously di vorced from a man named Warren at Lebanon, Ind., receiving $4,000 ali mony. Fort wants judgment for $850. the value of his gifts, and $35,- 000 for a broken heart. Mrs. Williams is credited with be ing wealthy. She recently came to this city from Cleveland. Ex-Soldier Tries Fast Cure for Tuberculosis Invalid Has Taken Nothing but Water for Thirty-four Days Already. SAN FRANCISCO. May 24.—Fast ing as a cure for tuberculosis is be ing practiced by Nis Indrisen. a dis charged soldier of the United States Army, who has established a camp near Fish Ranch, in Contra Costa County. He has fasted thirty-four daj^s and expects to fast as many’ more. He has taken nothing except water, and declares he is certain of a cur^ Daily clinical notes of the condi tion of the patient are being taken, and at the end of the experiment will be submitted to the medical societies and medical magazines for general discussion. r Man Used as Ad by Theater Made to Take Off Service Clothes by U. S. Sailor. SAN FRANCISCO, May 24. ft. ». Crothers, able-bodied seaman on duty at the naval training station, lost the delight of the greater part of his shore leave last night, but he enforced a respect for the navy uni form and he is satisfied. Crothers came over from Goat Island, where he trains ambitious sailor recruits In the proper man ner of upholding the honor of the navy. He has served five years on board ship and is a loyal Jack tar. As he strolled up Market Street b j saw a crowd standing in front of a, moving picture theater and he in vestigated. Then his fighting spirit was aroused. Walking back and forth in front of the place advertising a stirring sea drama was an unkempt specimen of sailor, carrying a bundle of clothes .cad smoking a 'broken clay pipe. What peeved Crothers, however, was that he was dressed in regulation naval uniform. Crothers ifhmediately objected. The manager refused to take the sailor^ from the front of his place. Croth-* ers. knowing there was a FederaL law against using the uniform for: advertising purposes, appealed to the Police Department, and a sergeant and a plain-clothes man were senti from the Southern station to inves- ’ tigate. 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