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IN THE SHOPS OF PARIS.
Book French Is a Bad Thing to Take
Along on a Shopping Tour Patience of
the Great Artists "Who Cater to Ameri
can Trade Surprising Trices.
C0P.BI.SF05DI2.CE Or THE DISPATCH.
PjLBISs, Sept. 14. There really seems
nothing more to happen now, everything
hat been seen and all is over, for we have
reached Paris, otherwise Paradise. My
traveling companion and I have each
agreed that if we can be spared to get the
wear out of our new French gowns then we,
are willing to die and be buried n them.
"We "fought, bled and died" for this finery
fought with onr modiste, who could not
understand either good English or bad
French, burst a blood vessel in frantio
gesticulations, and finally died.ln despair of
ever getting what we wanted.
Just here a word of warning against
bringing your gilt-edged book-Frenoh
into Paris expecting to have it understood.
Ton may exactly as well come with Choo
taw on your tongue. It will not so much
as buy you a dinner when yon ars hungry.
"We know whereof we speak. However,
we can do without dinner in Paris better
than without pretty clothes.
The change from the dowdlness of En
glish styles to the tastefulness of Parisian
styles is greater than you can imagine.
There is a daintiness, a womanliness about
the toilets of most women that is inde
scribably attractive. Many colors, and very
high colors, they wear, from oldest to
youngest, and yet the young women do not
look loud, nor the elder women as if they
were trying not to be left in the race by
those younger than themselves. Esch of
us for a long while bacfc has avoided high
colors at home as we would a petilence,
actually find ourselves dipping into red,
tihite and blue toggery along with the
giddiest. But, as I intimated before, to get
it was to earn it.
Buying Clothes by Pantomime.
"We met some young ladies from Philadel
phia and Rochester, X. 1"., who had gotten
some charming clothes, and at prices we
could afford to pay, which was contrary to
all expectations, since this is Paris,
and we had always heard fabulous
prices put upon gowns coming from
here. "We secured the address of this
surprise in the way of a reasonable French
dressmaker,, and with expectations at fever
beat presented ourselves for measurement.
But alast Onr friends had forgotten to tell
us madame had no English-speaking sales
lady in her establishment and our school
French would not work when applied to
the fearful and wonderful terms now em
ployed to designate "the latest" In cut,
finish and material in the world of clothes.
Eo after much pantomiming and unintelli
gible jabbering in two languages we man
aged to beat a retreat amid many "so
sorrys" on both sides.
So now instead of telling you what
Madame Bray did for us I must tell what
she did lor those who could make her under
stand what they wanted, and I am sure the
prices will be a revelation to you.
Jfirst, a gown of Eussiau velvet, which is
an imitation only and comes in all colors.
It is one ol the newest materials out and
quite the prettiest we have had lor
some seasons. The material is all
wool, plain surface with a little cord
in white or a contrasting color
thrown up in stripes every fifth of an inch.
The velvety appearance is purely a trick of
the loom, and a most successful one. One
such gown was gray with a blue cord; this
made with a plain skirt demi-train. The
waist was very short basque in front and
little coat-tailed back. High and full
sleeves of blue faille silk; high neck-band of
the same. A pretty arrangement of the
blue on the front of the bodice which
showed no buttons. Large bows of the blue
faille sat upon the shoulders and another
rested upon the left hip. These were pretty
touches of art that cave aFrenchquaintness
to the costume. Of course the entire gar
ment was lined with silk, blue silk In this
case, and just under the hem were two nar
row pinked out ruffles of the silk, and all for
120 francs, or 24 American dollars.
Think of it!
A aiarvel of Beauty for 870.
Another young woman has a gown from
the same cloth, only in one of those soft
wood-brown colors with a pink cord. This
was made with silk lining of pink, a
full niching of the material around
the bottom, -nhich had quite
the effect of fur. The waist was
made round, with full sleeves of the dress
material that had elbow cuffs striped closely
with baby velvet the color or the cord
shown on the fabric, A vest was simulated
by means of tms narrow velvet striped in
chevrons like a soldier's coat sleeve. The
effect was very pretty and the color combi
nation exquisite. This gown, bv reason of
the velvet trimming, came 52 higher than
the other.
Then there was a lonp dress of uncut silk
velvet in one of those indescribable shades
that may b green or blue or gray, but you
can t be certain which. This was princess
cut and without other trimming than a
chiffon, shirred and ruffled small vest This
chiffon trough had in its meshes all the
glory of a summer sunset showing in
changeable colors, green, pink, gold and
violet something right new in this always
pretty and generally becoming material.
This robe that could not be gotten at home
for J100 had cost but fTO here, and its per
fection of fit was worth one-half the price of
the gown.
Everything in French cutting runs into
long lines. Paris should be a Mecca for
dumpy women. The majority of French
women a'ter middle age are too Btout, too
short-waited and too full in the back be
tween the shoulders, yet so perfect is their
system of cutting that they are still
shapely. I find it is a great ambition
among the swell establishments here to
create a style that will distinguish their
productions from any other. To-day we
were down to Monsieur Doucet s, one of
"Worth's rivals and one -very well known
among Americans, it would seem, judging
from the number there, being fitted and
bargaining for almost priceless things.
Doncet Pats Oat Plain Skirts.
Doncet effects perfectly plain skirts, not
one for anv occasion that was the least
trimmed did he have shown to us. These
skirts are bell-shaped, out on the bias, of
course, but as unlike the bell-shapes, of last
season as if known by another name.
Take down one ol your oldest
Todey's Lady Books or some other
journal dating baok to the days of "tilter"
hoop-skirts and notice the width of the
skirts in those days and you can get a good
idea of the skirt M. Doncet is trying to in
duce hU customers to buy, and successfully,
tnn. Sereral tnat I know of are coine to
New York and that means this style will
make its way to Pittsburg, but if there Is
an alternative oflered by Mr. Worth or
Felix, then I prophesy ft will not find
favor.
The waists to this style of skirt are
varied, no two exactly alike. Creative
genius seemed to be exhaustless here.
Frequently their would be several colors in
troduced upon one waist, even where the
dress material was black, and these colors
were always those it would never occur to
an American to combine. Everything in
black whether coat or gown had colors with
it. Sleeves commonly are of a different
material from the waist
This is to be another fur season, so I have
been told everywhere, and yet M. Doucet
was not making a point of it, rather more of
jet'and heavy embroidery. M. Doucet is him
self always to the fore in his establishment
and pays particular attention to his Ameri
can customers. He is a dapper little
Frenchman, wearing at this season a light
gray suit, and always a buttonhole bouquet
He keeps his place lull of English-speaking
French girls of fine figures and pretty
faces.
Displayed on Living Models.
The business of these girls is to don the
charming things exhibited and to parade
up and down the large salle for onr inspec
tion. In this way you see a gown on all
sides, especially the "hang" of the skirt
and the efiect of the trimming. This exhi
bition goes on every hour in the day at all
the competing establishments and in the ut
most good humor. The pretty girls enjoy
the admiration they receive and seem never
to grow tired of exhibiting themselves; and
the heads of the plac never allow you to
feel that they expecc you to buy. Of
course, everything is done in a very polite
way to induce you to buy, but you are not
urged.
"Does not madam think she would like
this?" or, "Well, I see this does not exact
ly please madam. "We will show her an
other," etc. So it goes on until you might
reasonably expect to be thrown out of the
v.indow, but instead, when you are trying to
make a graceful exit quite ashamed since
you knew you had no intention of buying
from the first, you hear it good humoredly
said that, It madam will kindly come in
to-morrow J think we can show her some
thing that will please her."
Madam can go to-morrow and the next
day and still not purchase and be treated in
the same courteous and painstaking way. I
am sure I know of no place at home where
such patience would be shown to you.
"We have cards from Morin Blossier invit
ing us to see a wardrobe gotten up for
Sarah Bernhardt's next European tour and
also from Bedfern to see soiue gowns made
for Mrs. Brown-Potter's appearance in
America the coming season, to be worn in
"La Dame aux Camelias." I suppose the
hotel lists are consulted for American visit
ors to Paris and then these cards sent out
"We are expecting a great treat in seeing
these pattern gowns.
Mary Temple Batabo.
A CHILD'S LUNCH BASKET.
Perplexing Problem That Came to the
Mothers "With the Opening of the
Schools Novel Things In Fancy "Work
New Ideas in Dress and Decoration
rwKrms tor Tnx dispatch. i
The reassembling of schools throughout
the country brings up anew the perplexing
question of the children's luncheon. The
writer once read a treatise on the "child's
lunch basket," with recipes for preparing
food for it The food was most elaborate
confections, which would take time,strength
and money to evolve, quite beyond the
average house mother, and the article was
laid down with a sigh that its promising'
title offered so little practical help. Lunch
boskets are not so common these days as
they used to be, and it is the luncheon
served fat home which now creates the
dilemma. As a rule children reach the
house after the morning's session at school
in a slate of starvation; anytbing that Is
ready is greedily eaten, it should be,
therefore, an easy matter to serve whole
some food, since the sauce of a good appetite
is so sure to be present although a small
daughter of 8 did say the other day: "I
wish wholesome things were as good as
good things."
It is the care given to many simple
dishes which makes them good as well as
wholesome. Boiled rice, for example, is
either very good and much liked by chil
dren or it is an uneatable, sticky, flavorless
mass that nobody welcomes. A tea cup
full of rice, carefully looked over and put
on in cold water and allowed to boil till
every kernel is separate but tender, is an
excellent luncheon dish for children,
served hot with consomme. Salt the rice
cs the water comes to the boiL The con
somme is easily prepared with beef extract
and hot water, and adds a reliable flavor.
What is left of the rice can be put away
while warm in small cups and served the
next day on a small platter with stewed
prunes poured around the little pyramids,
or a teaspoonful of jam on each cone and
eaten with rich milk. Tomato
toast, which is tomatoes stewed down
and poured over small squares of toast, is
liked bv most children. Spaghetti or mao
caronl boiled 20 minutes in salted water and
eaten with gravy, some warmed over clear
soup, or the beet extract again, is another
V-
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dish that never goes begging. Another way
is to boil xnaocaroni till tender in water,
pour that off and add milk, which heat
and serve. Fried bread is a palatable varia
tion of plain bread and butter. Dip slices
of slightly stale bread in salted milk, in
which the yolk of an egg has been beaten,
and fry in a hot skillet with as little lard
and butter mixed as possible. Poaohed eggs
on toast,reallyniea creamed codfish,chipped
beef with cream dressing and baked pota
toes. These are old dishes which are some
times forgotten, but which are useful to
vary the luncheon bill of fare with the
usual done-overs from the dinner of the day
before.
The fleur-de-lis fancy has attacked vases.
A beautiful gardeniere standing two feet
high was a massive fleur-de-lis in the plain
yellow glaze that is so much used for pots
and flower holders.
Some beautiful effects are being produced
in the new applique work as applied to tray
cloths, doilies, and the like. A set of
sheer linen finger bowl doilies seen with
appliqued designs was a most happy com
bination of the effect of the lace-like drawn
work and the richness of filled in em
broidery. Tiny leaves, squares, shells,
crescents, eta, of lace are bought and
appliqued in white silk upon the linen,
which is afterwards carefully cut away from
beneath. The result is a beautiful one ob
tained at a minimum of time, effort and
still, as compared with drawing the threads
or filling in embroidery.
'it Is odd that in our appropriation of
"five o clock tea from onr English cousins
an absolute copy of its belongings as it is
served on its native heath has not also re
sulted. But as we took the tea-gown idea
and then prooeeded to elaborate it out of all
semblance to the original, so with that most
simple of ceremonies, tea and wafers, at five
o'clock tea in England. In English houses
this pretty service is merely a short halt
between the social pleasures of the day,
finisned, and those of the evening, just be
ginning; a slight informal refreshment mid
way between the luncheon at 2 and the late
elaborate dinner at 8. A cup of tea and a
plate of thin, delicate wafers, or biscuit, as
they are called, is all that is offered or de
sired, and their serving is as unpretentious as
themselves. The tea service is arranged in
one of the lesser apartments, that is, not in
the state drawing room, and when the
hostess comes in from her drive the spirit
lamp beneath the kettle is lighted and she
brews the tea, which the few or several get
for themselves, sans servant and sans cere
mony. The tea cloth Is usually a simple fine
square of linen hemstitched and with per
haps a sentence embroidered across one cor
ner the riot of elegance and elaboration
which American women put on theirs be
ing conspicuously absent the simplest
china is used, though always dainty and
delicate, and the whole function lacking in
any sort of show. Englishwomen wonder
on coming to Fifth avenue drawing rooms
to have sandwiches, caviare, chicken or
sardines, lobster or chicken salad, oysters
pickled or fried, and tea and chocolate
served with more or less pomp of attend
ance and accessories at 5 o'clock tea. The
sketch is of a genuine English tea table
which a New York woman rejoices in, with
the inevitable mitre-shaped cosy, that is as
much a part of the English tea service as
the tea itself.
The "barefoot cure" is evidently the
coming craze in panaceas. "We have had
the rest cure, the athletic cure, the Delsarte
cure, the faith cure, et al, and now the bare
foot cure. Returning travelers from Ger
many and Austria are bringing the idea
over with them, and as it is vastly less
harmful than the cholera bacilli, which
which they might have brought, it is as well
to be lenient with the lesser folly. The bare
foot treatment is a phase of more than one
process of cure; under one authority it is
carried on on a sunny beach and the patients
race through the hot sands bareheaded, bare
armed and with legs and feet bare to the
knees. This is to permit the sun and heat,
with their health giving properties, free
access to the skin, under another curist, to
coin a word, it is a part of the hardening
course, and though you begin walking bare
footed over smooth turf, you advance by
running through wet meadows, and later,
meadows heavy with hoar frost, to the
climax of being able to endure tramping in
cold water. As most of the cures effected
at present have outlived their novelty, at
least we may expect to find this brand new
barefoot cure eagerly seized upon.
Among florists the newest decorative
scheme is the use of foilage exclusively.
Many tables at recent handsome dinners and
supper parties have shown not a single
bloom but leaves, tendrils and feathery
fronds, in the various tones of color pos
sible, green, brown, yellow, olive and red.
The scheme has been carried out in hanging
balls of verdure, similar to the floral balls
which have been employed for some time.
These green globes, however, are much
more lasting as they are arranged in a wire
basket, ball-shaped, packed with earth and
moss In which ferns are growing, the green
sheets conseuting to be trained up, down,
and out on every side to preserve the
sphere. Entertainers, however, need not
fancy that this flowerless season means
smaller bills, for the demand for foliage ef
fects has at once develonod a scarcity of
such material whlon is putting a lancy
price on every fern and trail and smllax.
The cultivated asparagus vine being much
desired and really very rare as yet, takes
the lead in cost
A pretty hall btnch recently seen was one
of the short wooden benches, the duplicate
of the old-fashioned wash bench of our
grandmothers, straight, stiff and uncom
promising. The one seen was of mahogany
and a plush tufted cushion of a soft old
rose shade wastied on by broad ribbons of
the same hue passed around the ends, out
side the supports, to be tied in a large flat
bow on the top. The model can be copied
in any of the numerous stains of enameled
paints and varied indefinitely, as the plain
benches can be got at any housefurnishlng
establishment
Children and persons with dyspeptio
tendencies often need warm drinks, in the
winter especially, and a difficulty is found
to provide them when neither tea, coffee
nor the various preparations of cocoa and
chocolate are liked. In this dilemma 'rice
coffee is very palatable and nutritious. It
should be browned as coffee is and ground.
Tt two tablespoonsful of rice add a pint of
fraKmOTXTRa dispStoh,
boiling; water, cover and keep In a hot plaee
with sugar and cream or boiled milk as
coffee or tea. In this connection it Is well
A- . 1 - Al.. 4U- - 11- J V.:.. tmm
fed to many children possesses no nutrition
miaicYer us uduiuiv preparea. J- UUK
nearly iuu m iiu icr is wnuencu mi.u
milk and sweetened; if enough milk is used
w reaiiy nounsu it cuius ine water hi u
unpalatable degfee, and as all nurses and
many mothers are careless in its prepara
tion, this fault or its opposite is usually
present If you give the child "cambrio
tea" see that oream is added to heated, not
scalded, milk and a very little boiling
water.
Education in a New York private school
of high clan is expensive and elastic. It
costs about $1,000 from October to early
June, and for this sum a young woman is
housed In an elegant home in fashionable
locality, is fed on choice fare, served by
well trained maids, and looked after moral
ly, socially and physically by refined and
well-bred women. This in addition to a
more or less elaborate course of study, of
which the sine qua non is the modern
languages. In addition there are plenty of
extras, such as singing, painting, dancing
etc., making It easy to spend two or three
more hundred. Collegiate education is
considerably cheaper as at Vassar,
"Welleslev, Smith and other women's col
leges 600 to $800 will Include a full course
and as many extras as a girl is capable or.
The old word "finishing" school has been
tabooed at these orlvate Institutions, pupils
entering the kindergarten attached to many
of them and graduating later from the
upper class. It is still true, however, that
many pupils come from outside cities to
get the "finish" supposably obtained no
where else as well as from a year at a New
York private school.
Frenchwomen have resuscitated the old
fashioned "stock" on the Louis Philippe
cravate1 which they wear with their natty
vest and shirt front costumes. A bias fold
of satin or silk is brought around the neck
from the front, crossed behind and tied in
front in a small flat stifTbow.
Dinner knives with handles of blue
Ivory are new.
In selecting a chatelaine bag, which by
the way it is every woman's duty to insist
shall remain in fashion, at least so long as
the sex is pockctless, those with one flat
side to hang against tho dress are prefer
able. The rounded sides, as soon as any
thing is put in them bulge out untidily.
The long silk or cloth bag of black is still
in evidence and is especially dear to the
heart of the suburban shopper.
Among the beautiful new things in a
high-class shop, where decorative articles
are sold, was a square table cover of a pea
cock blue art serge, upon which was em
broidered at each corner in gold thread the
accompanying design, which is a model of
one of the pods of the Hindus. Its claim
to beauty lies. in its grotesqueness alone,
but it has a value of suggestion to any em
broiderers who choose to adapt it to scarfs or
hangings, particularly as it is announced
that the fancy for Chinese and Japanese'
effects is waning before the rising favor of
Indian, Turkish and Moorish belongings.
A simple gown of gray ladles' cloth lately
seen was a plain princesse, which just
cleared the pavement The slight fullness,
which was arranged from the neck similar
to a wrapper, was held in at the waist by a
soft sash of gray silk, which was passed
around from the front, crossed over and
bronght back to be tied in a snug knot with
very short fringed ends directly ia front
Gray gloves and a velvet turban of gray
straw and velvet completed this shopping
gown, which was really charming in its
simplicity. Margabex H. "Welch.
DEVOTED 10 HES SI8IBES,
The "Woman "Who Stands at the EC-ad or
the Intornatlonal Union.
The woman's movement is making great
strides in modern France, notwithstanding
that a great deal of ridicule is cast upon it
Mme. CheligaLoevy,although not a French
woman by birth, started the present move
ment, and she works unceasingly to amelio
rate the lot of her poorer sisters under the
existing laws and regulations. She is the
President of the International Union of
"Women, which has its headquarters in
Paris. She lives with her husband, who is
an artist, in a flat in the older quarter of
Paris.
The only daughter of a wealthy Polish no
bleman, shejearncd when a child to speak
and write French fluently. At the age of
16 she wrote and published her first novel
About ten years ago she settled in Paris,
and while there met and married her hus
band, who shares all her Ideas, moral, politi
cal and social. It was not until after the
Congress in 1889 that Mme. Cheliga-Loevy
made up her mind to found the Union TJm
verselle des Femmes, which won' the ap
proval of Simon and Kenan. In connection
with this association she started the Bulletin
da Fcmmcs, a tiny magazine devoted to all
that concerns women's work. She acts as
correspondent of a number of foreign peri
odicals, and has at times lectured. She
claims absolute equality with men, neither
more nor less, and is by conviction a Social
ist .
THE SPEEAD CEH1DEIES OLD.
Guest "Who Ate and Drank Stuff That "Was
Made by tho Ancients.
"I have eaten apples that ripened more
than 1,800 years ago, bread made from wheat
grown before the children of Israel passed
through the Eed Sea, spread it with butter
that was made when Elizabeth was Queen of
Enlgand, and washed downed the repast
with wine that was old when Columbus was
playing barefoot with the boys of Genoa,"
was the remarkable statement made by
Amazlah Dukes, a New York broker, to a
reporter of the St Louis Globe-Danocrat.
"The remarkable 'spread' was given by
an antiquarian named Goebel in the city of
Brussels in 187L The apples were from an
earthen, jar taken from the ruins of Pom
peii, that buried city to whoso people we
owe our knowledge of canning fruit The
wheat was taken from a ohamber in one of
the smaller pyamids, the bntter from a
stone shelf in an old well in Scotland, whe're
for centuries it had lain in an earthen crock
in icy water, and the wine was recovered
from an old vault in the city of Corinth.
There were six guests at the table, and
each had a mouthful of the bread and a
teasnoonful of the wine, but was permitted
to help himself liberally to the butter, there
being several pounds of it The apple jar
held about two-thirds of a gallon, and the
fruit was as sweet and the flavor u fine as
-though pat up yesterday,"
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Mine. ChellgaLomy.
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FOOD IN SMALL BULK.
Almost Anything the Cook Needs Is
flow Put Up in Condensed Form.
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Coffee-nd Jelly In Block! and Cider
Boiled Into Email Space.
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vwiuTTXjr roa thx dispatch.I
"When Uncle Sam next goes to war the
soldiers who fight under the starry flag will
be supplied with coffee in a shape so highly
condensed that one 4-ounce package will
serve as a month's ration for each man. The
ooncentrated preparation will be given out
perhaps as a dry powder, but more probably
in the form of small lozenges, resembling
cough drops In size and shape. These loz
enges will be enclosed in tin boxes of 100,
each of them weighing a gramme and repre
senting one cup of coffee. For preparing
the beverage no coffee-pot will be required,
it being necessary merely to put a coffee
tablet Into the cup and pour boiling water
upon it, when the coffee is instantly made.
In France such ooffee lozenges of compara
tively large size have been recently intro
duced, being made bulky by the addition of
sugar for aweeteningj but everybody does
not care for sugar, and therefore those
which have lately begun to be manufac
tured in this country have been made plain.
The processes by whioh coffee is thus con
centrated are very interesting. To begin
with, the beans are roasted In an enormous
oven and ground In a huge will. Then
they are put into a great iron vessel, whioh
is nothing more nor less than a gigantio
coffee pot, holding 210 pounds at a time.
Hundreds of gallons of filtered water are
pumped into the coffee pot, which aots on
the "drip" principle, and the infusion is
drawn off to an evaporating tank.
Coffee as Thick as Molasses.
A steam pump keeps the air exhausted
from this tank, so that the coffee is in
vacuo, being heated meanwhile to a high
temperature by steampipes. The water it
contains rapidly passes off, and the coffee is
of about the consistency of molasses when
it is taken out It is poured into trays of
enameled ware, and these trays are placed
on shelves in another evaporator. "When
the travs are removed a short time later,
the cofl'eeis a dry solid, which Is scraped
of! the trays, ground to powder and molded
into lozenges.
There is no reason why the Government
should not prepare coffee in this way on a
large scale, in the event of war, at a very
great saving. By the processes described
one pound of the beans can be made to pro
duce more than 100 cups. By inquiry It has
been ascertained that hotels and restaurants
only get from 15 to 36 cups from the same
quantity, the minimum being reported by
the most expensive establishments and the
maximum by the cheapest eating houses.
The reason fo'r this is that the usual plan is
to make the infusion and throw away the
"grounds," which still contain two-thirds
or more of the original strength of the
coffee. Of course, for commercial purposes
the lozenges can be made of Bio, Mocha or
any other variety ol tne bean to suit tne
taste.
Experiments have recently been made
with success in the treatment of tea by sim
ilar methods, and before long a dry soluble
essence, produced from the leaves, will be
offered in the market, a tiny drachm bottle
holding 20 tablets, each representing one
cup.
Eggs That Iiook TAJce Sawdust
Eggs are now sold on the market in a
shape resembling sawdust The chief center
for the manufacture of this product is St
Louis, where great quantities of eggs are
bought up in summer, when the price of them
goes down to almost nothing. They are
broken into pans, the whites and yelks sep
arated and evaporated to perfect dryness.
Finally they are scraped from the pans and
granulated by grinding, when they are
ready for shipment in bulk. Bakers, con
fectioners and hotels use eggs in this form,
which is an important saving at seasons
when they are dear in the shell. It is
without doubt a fact that most of the eggs
sold in cities during the winter have been
kept over from the previous summer by
pickling them in brine or limewater, so
that people should be thankful for a dessl
cated substitute.
A manufactured product of a similar
description, called "etrg albumen," Is 1m-
fiorted from abroad. It looks very much
ike a fine quality of glue, broken into
small bits, golden yellow, transparent and
decidedly pretty. The eegs of wild fowls
of various species are largely employed in
making it the whites, that is to say, the
yelks being utilized in Europe for tanning
leather. This "egg albumen" is used by
bakers for glazing prints. It costs 55 cents
a pound retail
Jellies Made Into Bricks.
Condensed jellies are becoming an impor
tant commercial article. They are made in
the shape of little bricks, each weighing
eight ounces and with an inside wrapper of
oiled paper. According to the directions
the brick is to be put into one pint of boil
ing water and stirred until it is dissolved.
The mixture is then poured into a mould or
other vessel, and put in a cool place. In a
few hours the jelly is "set" and ready to
use, a pint and a half of it It never fails
to ''jtl," which is the cause of so much
anxiety to amateur jelly-makers. The
bricks are flavored with various fruits, cur
rant, raspberry, grape, etc., and some are
of pure calves-foot jelly, to which wine may
be added for wine-Jelly, preferably Sicily
madeira. Fifteen cents a brick is the retail
price.
Concentrated ice cream is put up in- tin
cans of eight ounces each. Tne contents of
the can are to be put in three pints of boil
ing milk, stirred well, permitted to cool,
and then frozen, producing two quarts of Ice
cream. Condensed desserts are prepared
and sold in cans similarly, such as blanc
mange.
When condensed milk was first intro
duced, 30 years ago, the idea was laughed
at The inventor carried the entire daily
supply for Hew York City in a ten-quart
pall, delivering it personally to patrons.
He died worth $7,000,000, made out of the
business, which has proven tb be a gigantlo
industry.
Qow Condensed Milk Is Made.
The processes employed are very simple,
the fresh milk being put into a great cop
per tank with a steam-jacket "While it is
beings heated sugar is added and the mix
ture is then drawn off into a vacuum tank,
where evaporation is produced by heat
The vacuum tank will hold perhaps 9,000
quarts. It hat a glass window at the top,
through which the operator in charge looks
from time to time. He can tell by the ap
pearance of the milk when the time has
arrived to shut of! the steam, and this must
be done at just the right moment else the
batch will be spoiled. Next the condensed
milk is drawn into 40-auart cans, which are
set in very cold spring water, where they
are made to revolve ranidly by a mechan
ical contrivance in order that their contents
may cool evenly.
"When the- water does not happen to be
cold enough, ice is put in to bring it down
to the proper temperature. Finally the tin
cans of market size are filled with the milk
by a machine, which pours into each one
exactly 16 ounces automatically, one girl
shoving the cans beneath the spout, while
another removes them as last as they are
filled. PeoDle in eitiei nowidavi inn con
densed milk largely in preference to thai
unconuenseo, regarding It as more desira
ble because of the careful supervision main
tained by the companies over the dairies
from which they get their supplies. For
their consumption the product is delivered
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two or three times as long as
ordinary milk by reason of toe boiling to 1
which it has been subjected. Milk fresh
from the cow contains 88 per cent of water,
condensed milk 28 per cent The latter is
fed to a great many babies, partly on ac
count of the difficulty found in obtaining
pure milk from the average milkman.
Mixed Milk Said to Be the Better.
It may be as well to mention here that
the one-cow's milk business is a 'swindle
and a delusion. To supply milk to cus
tomers regularly from the cow is not possi
ble in practice, though perhapsitmight pay
to serve a single family in this way at the
rate of 50 cents a quart Experts assert
that mixed milk is more wholesome
for the consumer than milk from
one cow, inasmuch as the yield of
a single beast varies from day to day.
Many artificial baby foods are manufact
ured and sold in concentrated form. For
example, products advertised as "substi
tutes for mother's milk" are made from
cow's milk, to which is added, a sufficient
quantity of sugar to correspond with the
constituents oi mother's milk. The water
is removed from the mixture in vacuo, leav
ing a fine white powder, which is put up in
packages. Finely powdered wheat flour
and other nutritious vegetable elements are
added in moro elaborate preparations.
Another commercial article is condensed
cider, which is made by evapoiatlng the
juice of apples. One gallon of it, costing 80
cents, will furnish 15 or 20 gallons of cider
that is sufficiently strong for bottling, by
the addition of 15 pounds of sugar and the
requisite quantity of water. Peaoh, grape,
cherry and apricot ciders, similarly concen
trated, are sold for $1 a gallon. Boot beer
is put up in the same manner, half a pint of
it making enough to fill 16 half-pint bottles.
Condensing Joice of the Lime.
During the last year 9,282 gallons of oon-..
densed lime juice were imported to the
United States from Jamaica. For manu
facturing this product, the limes are put
through a squeezing machine, and the juice
is strained and filtered, so that all'seeds
aud pulp shall be removed. Then it is
boiled down to the utmost possible point of
concentration in copper vessels, great care
being taken that it shall not be in the
slightest degree scorched or burned, which
would .spoil it by causing the acid to un
dergo a ohemical change. Finally it is put
up in bottles. Jamaica dnring 1891 shipped
44,492 gallons of this limejuice to Great
Britain. During the same period it ex
ported to this country its entire commer
cial output of sour orange juice, 1,102 gal
lons, similarly concentrated. This state
ment is taken from a report of the United
States Consul at Jamaica, Jnst received by
the Department of State at Washington.
Concentrated cocoanut is now sold in
cans. It is a preparation made by chopping
the Kernels fine, drying them and extract
ing the flavoring elements. Ttiese latter
are made into a syrup with sugar. Vanilla
flavoring for ice cream and other pur
poses is precipitated from the vanilla beans
in the shape or a solid. Extracts of meats
have grown enormously in popular favor
during the last few years, and vast quanti
ties of them are put up at present in Chi
cago. They contain little more than the
flavoring portion of the substances they
represent, being merely stimulating and
only nutritrious in a very small degree, so
that, It is said, a dog will starve on an un
limited supply ol them. The tendency
nowadays seems to bs to condense every
kind of food, both animal and vegetable.
Compressed salt is even provided for horses
and other beasts, a brick of it being put in
a frame above the water trough, where the
four-footed creature can lick it
It would be interesting to know what
results would be obtained by rearing a hu
man being from infancy to adult age on
condensed forms of aliment exclusively. If
the normal digestive powers could not as
similate all that was offered, they might be
given artificial assistance in the shape of
that substance obtained from the stomachs
of pigs which is called "pepsin," adminis
tered, as is usual, in compressed lozenges.
S.ESE Bache.
HIS HCTTJBE3 TOO LAEOS.
The Main Reason "Why Terestchagln
Found Xo Market for His "Works.
Chicago Tlmes.l
Yasili Yerestchagln has lost his dollars
but recovered his mind. He lost both in
New York, and he holds that city in no
liking. He intends hereafter to live in
Moscow, where he will paint a series of
monster canvases illustrating the princi
pal events of the Napoleonic invasion of
1812.
The size of Yerestchagin's pictures made
them unsalable. When auctioned off not
long ago they went lor prioes which, in pro
portion to their size, were less than n ot
overgood fire-boards and tea-trays would
bring. Bystanders were amazed to see some
of these immense paintings going at $200 or
$300 each, but no one dared bid on them to
"hold for a rise," fo where could the buy
er put thera? The private collector cannot
afford to throw two stories of his house into
one to make room for a picture 15 feet high
and broad in proportion, and the man with a
gallery doesn't want to crowd out a score
of paintings of ordinary size in order to
make room for one. Even the big bar
rooms, which advertise themselves by buy
ing big pictures, are too small to" make
room for canvases bo large that the holder
needs to stand out of doors to view them
properly.
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