Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-10-27
CHICAGO CORRESf~SDENcE.
Chicago Press Ciub-Tbe EsfhefIcs of
Eating-Burley & TyrrelI-T-aGe
and MOney-POliticai Meetings
Amusement


Amusements.
CHIclGo, Oct. Is, 1863. A Press Club WA
organized here with about seventy members.
Wednesday evening, for tbs better mutual
acquaintance OF literary workers IN th CITY
and elsewhere, to cultivate friendly feelings
between members of the press, and to take
united aeu on any case of general
interest to Its members. The club
will hold stated meetings for busi-
ness and social purposes, and to avoid all
cause of discord, it is provide d that no
question relating to politics or the relations
between employer and employed shall ever
be discussed or acted on at meetings of The
club. The officers of the club are a presi-
dent, ylce-presldent, secretary and treasur, T.
and board of directors OF one from escI
daily paper and one from the non-da ailv press
Such an association is needed here. and if
rightly coRducted, win prove eminently use
ful. Meeting socially over good dinner tends
wonderfully to open the heart and promote
good feeling. And this suggests something
about
THE EsTHETICs OF EATING
"Show me how man eats, and will ten
you how he lives-that is his moral and so
clal status is truthful saying. So, too, his
table serylce-the dishes from which, and The
implements with which, he ca and drinks
is good test of the degree OF wealth. civil
zation and refinement to which he has AT.
tanned: The excavations OF Pompei and
Hercuanenm reveal the condition of the
culinary art in Italy eighteen hundred wears
ago. In the first settlement of new country
the simplest utensils are used What is nee
essary only to supply absolute wants usual
ly of coarse and cheap materials-naEeu uD
the furnishing of the household These
now living can remember the days of wooden
trenchers, when full service of brigh. pew
ter ware was symbol Of thrift and distinction,
and the possession of China set was a.
rare as gold service is to-day. But as peo-
pie progress IN wealth and refinement, they
surround themselves not only with the neces-
saries. but with the comforts and luxuries of
life. Rude and cheap utensils give place 10
artistic aud more expensive ones. Title cum
dblce-the useful with the agreeable-is tn.
rule of household appointments Ard when
once Oso and Beauty are welded in the poY,-
uar mind, there seenls to be no haitinp plare
IN the march OF improvement. What WAS
Injury Yesterday becomes a necessity to-day.
New and more graceful forms are devised To-
please the eye and crafty the taste. And the
degree of cultivation and retirement Of any
people can be best learned by knowledge OF
the materials and forms of the tools they Use
in practiclng the first art of life-the art oi
eating. Fortunately we have in this conf
mercial emporium what may be called ma
tional museums where everything pertaining
TO the culinary, and kindred arts, in everv
conceivable form and material is kept, both
for public inspection and private use. And
II Chicago should be overwhelmed, to-day.
by volcanic eruption, as Pompm was 1890
years ago, 1t would only be necessary to dig
down to the crockery store of
BURLEY & TYhRELL, As LAKE ST.,
importers. Jobbers and retail dealers of all
kinds of French china, crOckery and glass
ware, Bohemian vases, toilet sets, lava wares.
Parians silver plated goods and fine table
cutlery, to learn how Western people lived
Buying large quantities Of first hands in the
worlds best markets and doing a large bust
ness, they offer cash customers the best goods
of the latest styles at the lowest rates. Those
wishing 10 be sure OF their moneys worth
will find this the best place to purchase this
class OF goods in the Northwest.
O TRADE AND MONEY
continue moderately active, despite the low
price of grain, which makes collections frcn
country merchants slow. Money il still close.
but growing easier. The break in the Fri
Canal made grain dearer in New York, and
cheaper here, on account of the consequent
delay in shipments. But the price here has
improved in the last two days.
POLITICAL MEETINGS
are being held in the different wards bv the
friends of both tickets, and much patriotism
on both sides, By the candidates and their
hackers, but as yet little enthusiasm is man.
ifested by the mass of the people.
AMUsEMESTs
just now are pretty well patronized. Mr..
X. Rankin is the star at the Opera House and
still personatin6 Rip Van Wrinkle. On Mon
day next the Parepa-Rosa Opera Company be-
gin a season at the Opera House.
At Woods Museum "Tethered" has been
quite successful. The manager Frank J..
Aiken. brings out a new piece every week.
He IS improving the museum constantly by
making valuable additions and introducing
new curiosities. The first of November the
Chinese Giant will be on exhibition. To
strangers visiting Chicago the museum in an
attractive place of resort. The matinees on
We inesday and Saturday afternoons are al
ways crowded, ticket giving anyone the en-
trance into the museum Of BIRDS. beasts
aud natural curiositles and works OF art as
well as to the play.
Chicago has been without sensation fer
week and is consequently getting dull H.