[There has been some correspondence lately about
Bouillabaisse, and a writer in the _Evening News_ (who
misquotes THACKERAY) actually gives a recipe without oil!]
Our THACKERAY in ancient days,
Wrote of a very famous dish,
And said in stanzas in its praise,
'Twas made of several kinds of fish.
A savoury stew it is indeed,
And he's "in comfortable case"
Who finds before him at his need
A smoking dish of Bouillabaisse.
And now folks laud that dish again,
And o'er it raise a pretty coil,
While one rash man we see with pain,
Would dare to make it minus oil.
Oh! shade of TERRÉ, you no doubt
Would make once more the "droll grimace,"
At such a savage, who left out
The olive oil, in Bouillabaisse.
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"THOUGHT-WAVES." (_By an Un-Esoteric._)--The Theosophists talk mistily
about "the concentration of mind-force on a thought-wave"--which seems
only another way of saying that such minds are, at the time, "quite at
sea."
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[Illustration: "WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?"
STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANT. "IS NONE OF THAT FOR _ME_, 'LITTLE
FATHER'?"]
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[Illustration: FANCY PORTRAIT.