The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-04
HOW TO EAT ORANGES.
The Most Difficult Thing in the
World May Be Done With Neat
ness and Grace.

gracefully TO nit upon the pest way 10
eat an orange. The thick, easily
broken skin of the Spanish and Italian
oranges admitted of but little varia-
ton in method. The skin was care
fully removed and the fruit separated
in its natural sections, and eaten piece
by piece. With the thin, tough peel
and tender interior skin of the Florida
orange this was a matter o fgreater diff
iiculty. Fastidious people objected to
the style which is the delight of child
hood, viz, punchingaholein the orange
with the forefinger and extricating the
juice by pressure and suction, and
soon the fashion was set of dividing
the orange in hall at the equator, If
the expression may be permitted, and
digging out the pulp with a teaspoon.
Some genius improved upon this by
cutting off only a small slice of the top
of the orange. at about the Arctic
circle, so to speak, then with a sharp
knife cutting out the core, a second
circular cut just inside the skin separ-
ates the pulp, and If the operation is
dexterously performed the fruit can
be eaten with a spoon without spill
ing a drop of the juice, a recommended
tion which has made it o popular
than any other method. The
native SiciIian who does not care
if he does get a little of the
juice smeared upon his counte-
nance, takes his long sharp knife
every Sicilian carries a long, sharp
knife for family purposes, as he gen
orally has a vendetta or two on hand
and cuts the orange spirally around
20 that it becomes a long strip of peel
- sole i x.r,oI h. -ht, -L..- "a
either end and draws it rapidly across
his mouth, absorbing the juice as it
passes. 1t is not pretty, but it re-
of this. style is practiced in the United
Orleans fashion, 1t consists in di-
viding the orange diagonally into four
sections, cutting across the core. 1t
is not, however, considered good form
by orange experts.
Another fashion of eating an orange
which is considerable trouble and
has but little to recommend it on
of elegance, is to cut just through the
skin at the equator, and by carefully
turning the peel back, form a cup of
the skin at each pole of the orange
The pulp is then bitten off around and
around, as a school boy eats an apple.
While this style keeps the hands com
paratively clean, it smears the face
most unpleasantly. The same objec-
ton may be urged against the fashion
OF peeling the orange on q fork and
holding it in that way while eating it.
Some people thrust a fork into the
core of an orange, peel the fruit and
then slice it as one would an apple,
losing thereby a large quantity of the
juice. At a dinner table, if the orange
knives are very sharp-a circumstance
which rarely happens, by the way
this is perhaps as good a way as auy.
1t is simple and makes no fuss, and
there is an air of refinement about
touching the fruit only with the knife
and fork, If it be gracefully done,
which recommends it to many people.
Ladies' Home Journal.
where tine Girls WOO.
In the Ukraine, Russia, the maiden
is the one that does all the counting.
When she falls in love with the man
she goes to his house and tells
him the state of her feelings. If he
r~eciprocates all is well, and a formal
marriage is duly arranged. If, how
ever, he is unwilling, she remains
there, hoping to coax him into a bet
ter mind. The poor fellow cannot
treat her with the least discourtesy,
or turn her out, for her friends would
be sure to avenge the insult. His best
chance, therefore, if he is really de-
termined that he wont, is to leave his
home and stay away as long as she is
in 1t. This is certainly a peculiar way
of turning a mar out of house and
home. On the Isthmus of Darien
either sex can do the counting, with
the Aatural result that almost every.
body gets married. There is not quite
the same chance where a girl has to
bide the notion of a h~esitating or
bashfui swain.
Scene in a Restaurant.
Woman alone at a table. Enter two
men. One of them III possession of a
stare accompanied by that sort of i'm
pertinence which, strange to say, ome
men palm off, or think they do. as
wit. The woinan's order is served,
soup and bread. The man described
stares at the woman and says to his
companion
Did you ever notice that a woman
always orders soup when she comes
into q re~staurantgn
The woman's face is red clear
through the cosmetic. just then her
companion, another woman, comes in.
The man has finished his first course
and ordered pie.
The woman who had blushed, still
smerting under the mans imperti-
nence, turns to her companion and
observes: ibid you ever notice that
when a mar I'M into a restaurant
he always orders ple?n
A strict observance of the code of
etiquette would not have required the
woman to say anything. One breach
of propriety does not call for another
in return. The woman no doubt felt
better. The man, probably, never
felt the sting. The point in this story
is that the PIN uttered a truism.
Men invariably order pie in a restau-
rant, although they never eat it at
home.-ChScago Tribune.
Angiomania in New York.
Certainly there is a fresh outbreak
of Anglomania in the speech OF mod
ish New York girls, says a letter from
| Gotham to the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The new influx of actors and actresses
from London has caused il. The
worst symptom is a lengthening and
broadening of the letter A.
Pm sorry to part with you, Polly"