The bachelor and the chafing dish

you’d been a little quicker, I would have shown you how to boil water as it ought to be boiled. If you want to know how to make coffee, you must begin at the very beginning. Do you suppose Booth played ‘ Hamlet ’ without studying all the stage rudiments ?” Of course, I didn’t realize the value of all this sage advice at the time.- I do now. Well, I did learn to boil on that trip, and one day fried some perch so thoroughly that now among the trophies of the past I believe Ed has the pan with the fish still clinging to it. As I have said, those were halcyon days, when cracked wheat, served hot on the little camp table with some New Orleans molasses, a cup of Ed’s coffee, and some berries gotten •on a foraging expedition, made a feast that was enjoyed with more healthy zest than any I have since had. We used to get great pieces of cheese from pretty farmers’ daughters ; but it never occurred to us to make Welsh rabbits out of it. In fact, at that time such a mixture would have been looked upon as a patent recipe for a nightmare. No. I fancy the pretty farmers’ daughters’ smiles made that cheese more palatable and digestible than any considerable amount of paprika. £>3 bit!: oi v l ■ ' I One thing I at least learned to do in those old catnping-out days, and that was to make a good cup Camping out with “ Ed. of coffee. I do not think it was very good then. Ed said it wasn't; but it was the experience I got that was so tremendously valuable — don't you know. We were talking it over the other night. Ed was smoking his old meerschaum pipe and telling me that I didn't know beans about cooking, or even catching fish, in those days. I said that even if I didn't I got pretty good milk when I went for it. Then we discussed coffee, and came to the conclusion that there were two good ways of making it, and in the long run, unless it was for a demi tasse at the end of a dinner, the oldfashioned way of boiling it was the most satisfactory. But we hatched out three good recipes, and here they are : First. — See that you get good coffee, one part Mocha and two parts Java, ground fine. Fill a good-sized cup with it and mix well into this a raw egg and the shell. Now let your water — say a quart — come to the boiling point, then add to this the mixture. Let it stand for at least ten minutes and keep at the boiling point — at least let it boil up twice — then pour in a cup of cold water. Let stand for five minutes longer, then serve with cream or hot milk. This ought to make a cup of delicious coffee. 3° The Bachelor and the Chafing-dish. Second. — To make French coffee : Simply pour hot water on well-ground coffee through the top strainer. If chicory is added it will help flavor and color. Delmonico and all best restaurants use it. Third. — Same as first, except when putting into it a cup of cold water add rich milk. This will bring a perfect golden color to your coffee and also saves extra serving. This is known on the menus as cafe au lait. DINNER IN A SLOT James Clarence Harvey, the “ poet with a voice of his own,” as the London Academy put it, once confided to me something Jlif'111111 about a nine-course dinner he had