Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-09
A Splendid Kitchen.

There resides in the Rue de la Chaussee d,Ant;n
In Paris, worthy lady who makes single apart.
ment In her house more elegant than all the rest
combined. This grand apartment is-the kitchen.
Whenever this lady receives company. all sorts of
ingenious plans are formed and every description
OF little artifces employed to induce her guests
without actually asking thom, to have peep at
tnls den generally kept as much as possible in
the back ground, for obvious reasons. NOTHING Il
80 disgusting to true epicure as the smell Of
cookery In most houses therefore, the Kitchen
is as far distant from the drawing room as possible
In this instance, on the contrary the local topo-
graphy is SO arranged that many persons wishing
to go out mistake the door, and, just as they are
about hastily backing out, are accosted by the
most dazzling OF cooks who cries, with smiling
ar" lis the kitchen, Monsieur, Tor Madame. -
There's no harm Walk in, If you please |" By
this time the glance of the visiter has taken in ali
sorts OF unexpected things, hung around the DOM,
and he IS induced to enter this curious boudoir-
kitchen. The walls and the floor are composed of
mosaic bricks of numerous colors the prevailing
being blue and white. Gas burners issue from
rare and beautiful china saucers or burn through
the artificial wcks of antique lamps
The dressers and closets are covered with bur-
nished copper, and contain the thousand and one
utensils of the cuisine, all shining with dazzling
polish; the kitchen girl being Holland lass, who
spares neither brick dust muscle in keeping up
the proud reputation for cleanliness of her coun-
try What is moat surprising in this model kitch-
en-, is to see the sauce pans and gridirons bright
az so many new matches, hung up with rose-color-
ed ribbons. Evidently these utensils consume more
ribbon than even Madame's bonnetl A short time
ago the friends of the proprietress of this unane
establishment begged her to give breakfast in
this elegant kitchen. She consented, on one con.
dition, the guests should themselves cook the
breakfast they were to eat, and afterwards they
must wash the dishes and put everything back in
the same order In which they found it. The stip-
ulation was stoically accepted. Two ladies', who
have four or five hundred thousand francs year
to spend, the lady of an admiral, duchess, and
the wives OF two foreign ministers, were present
on the occasion, and took part In the novel pro-
ceedings The dish-washing efforts Of these fash
ionabe butterflies must have been amusing
EXPLORATION OF CENTRAL AFRIcA--A meeting
OF gentlemen, ministers, merchants, and others,
to aid in organizing society for exploring West
eru Central Africp, was held yesterday at the AS
tor House, New York, under the superintendence
Of Rev. j. Morris Pease. Among those present
we noticed ex-President Roberts, of Liberia, Rev.
j. B. Pinney, President of the Colbnizaton Socie-
ty, Rev Dr. Wiley, and others. Owing to the
storm, the attendance was not large Ex-Presi
dent Roberts promised 70 furnish his views on the
exploration Of Africa in writing as soon as posi-
blo The subject was important, and he was not
at present prepared to enter upon It. Itwas his
impression that the interior Of Africa, at least in
the regions OF the high tsble-land, which com