Smyrna times., 1882-06-21
Letter from PHILADELPHIA,
Tough Beet Made Electric Rails
for the Streets-FEae Fancies for
Tasteful LGdies--A Jolly Under
tdker.

The special botheratiOn of our house
keepers just now is about the price of
beef. For good cuts the rates have
gone up from fifty to seventy per cent.
above what they were. There are
many reasons for this, one of the chief
being that there are so many good
people who do not know how to cook.
do not mean to say that these folks
dwell in such besotted ignorance that
they have to eat their meat raw, but
that they have never mastered the
art of making any parts of the OK,
except the tenderloip steaks and the
roasting ribs acceptable for the table.
With the prevalence of improvement
in the art and science of cookery, there
will arise q new era in our Kitchen.
1t is II mystery not generally known,
that by the proper application of steam
which every housewife can make for
herself easily and with no expense, the
tougher pieces may be made delight
fully edible, and millions of pounds of
beef made acceptable for table use,
which are now despised.
AN ELECTRICAL RAILWAY.
Rumor which begins to take def
mite shape says that we are to have a
real electrical railway i'll Fairmount
Park. 1t is to cost about 100000 and
to be long and stong enough to serve
as a reliable experiment, throwing
| light on the question of the possibility
or impessibility of introducing this
means of transit along our streets.
/ The enterprise is in the hands of few
gentlemen who mean business and who
have money. We may reasonably
hope for something from it very soon.
Fact is, we must have some reliable
improvement on the wretched old bust
ness of dragging our cars by horses.
The horses are uncomfortable crea-
lures; they are costly, clumsy, slow
and ill-smelling. The sooner we have
something cleaner, swifter and neater
the happier we shall be.
THE JEWELERS. ART.
Nowadays everybody must have
some article of personal jewelry. 1t is
one of the evidences of true refinement
in civilization and in tho adornment OF
the person that art has taken so many
forms as in the designing and elabora-
ton of tasteful jewelry. From the
dainty little lace fringe costing but q
few dollars, to the rich pendent studded
with brilliant diamonds, the art of tht
jeweler has provided everything that
the most exacting fancy can demand
or the most critical taste desire re
look through the jewelry display o
Bailey, Banks & Biddle, is to regalt
the eye with rich devices of skilled
artists and cunning craftsmen in end
less wealth ofOriginality and ingenuity
at this season every lady who is gOins
out of town for the Summer want
some article of iewelry. One of tn,
consequences of this is that the grea
8 Bailey establishment at Twelfth {
Chestnut is now almost as busy as II
Christmas time.
A JOLLY UNDERTAKEN.
: An undertaken in this city recentl
invited a party of friends to a strangel
2 prepared dinner. The room was hun
in black and lighted with dim candles
+ The table was a catafalque. The BIZ
2 turkey had q white collar and blac
r neck-tie, and the dishes were In til
F.: shape of coflins. 1t was sort of
Hark from the tombs' affair. Posi-
bly, it was a good joke, but it was
Z CHASTITY one and the guests must hav
u suffered from indigestion the next day
: There is a good deal of sunshine to l
i had now, and people may as we'll wal
in it as not. SAMSON.
h PHILADELPHIA, June 10, 1882.