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VANILLA AND IT'S USEA,

Some Points About an Interesting vsxstabls
Flavoring OF semi-rropicai Origin.
In the window Of q great confectioner's shop
on Broadway, New York city, is . statue Of the
Venus OF Milo. II is of colossal size, like ths
original-in fact q cast-but the remarkable
thing about it 10 that il is composed entirely Of
chocolate. A most appetizing female this ID,
but she would not be really good to eat - she
stands because she lacks vanilla.
Chocolate is not verygood without,vanilla for
havorins. There are plenty of other delicious
things which would not be 90 at all without tts
aid. 1t enters into the manufacture OF candy,
pastry, ices, liqueurs, cordials and even per-
fumery.
The bean is Of Mexican origin, although
found In almost every tropical country. 1t is Q
vine OF the orchid kind, with sea-green foliage,
thriving best in dense forests, where its
branches climb and interlace with the trees.
That il when it grows wild. but it Is cultivated
with profit The plant begins to yield in its
third year and continues to bear until its
thirtieth year, the beans being gathered in Q
green state before they have n,atured.
There are two ways Of curing vanilla. One
is to lay the beans on cloths spread upon the
ground and expose to the sun. Thus treated
they attain dark brown color at the end Of
two months, when they are punched in bundles
and packed in tin boxes for exporting. The
second method consists in immersing the
beans in boiling water until they become white.
They are then exposed for few hours to the
sun. after which they are covered with oil of
the cashew nut.
There are four qualities Of vanilla and these
are determined by the length and size Of the
bean, ii being found that the flavor and per-
fume are in direct ratio to the weight aud
measurements The best and largest beans
exude sort Of crystal frosting, which covers
hair VT ThAan Il, r.. a
almost pure benzoic acid.
When one buys chocolate il is found OF
varying prices. If you go to q first-rate
confectioner's you will find it at so cents a
pound, IS cents, 81. and even higher. How
ever, the quality Of the chocolate is about the
same. The difference 10 in the amount Of va
nilla. This difference is not sufficient to be of
any importance in the cost Of production, but
the flavor is improved proportionately and the
price is put on with a due respect for the
imagination of the consumer. All the
same the Venus Of Milo in the candy
makers window would be Havorless indeed
without the aid of this humble bean from
the south. 1t is said that when a confec-
toner employs new hand, usually woman,
he turns her loose among the candies and re-
quests that she help herself. Thus her ape.
tite becomes immediately cloyed by surfeit.
IL the most avid devourer of sweetmeats were
asked to consume in her lifetime Venus OF
Milo containing like the one described, ]. 925
pounds of chocolate and deliciously favored
with vanilla, IL is likely that she would lose of.
hand and forever her appetite for all such
del;cacies.
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wore vss Tie color q tara cotta. Il vas
adorned with three little black buttons on .
horizontal line in front The doctor could not
ind ont what the buttons signihed, but he aid
he was sure they meant something. The Mon-
tenegrin's fex was Of black velvet with circle
Of decorated red In the middle of the top. Mon
tenegrins are % scarce at the barge office - to
be almost curioeitiss.
Il will not b long before Immigrant from
all lands viii como 10 M clothed not unlike our
own people. Peculiar costumes are becoming
rarer every year. Hundreds OF immigranSs
who have landed within the last Eix months on.
changed their old world garments ct the city
whence they sailed for clothes that they we're
told, would not attract attention on this side Of
the ocean. You can tell these immigrantsr readily,
because they look and feel uncomfortable in
their new suits. Those who come in strangely
garmented are soon forced, by the ridicule Of
their friends who were once dressed in the same
fashion. to put on American attire. Another
reason why some immigrants are impelled to
doff the apparel of their native places is be-
cause their friends In America write to them
that they will be stared At if they do not wear
more cosmopolitan dress.
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Their Quarrel Made Up It Last.

FROM the ST. Louis Glooe-Democrat.
Mrs Josephine Lashier, accompanied by her
daughter, left Atchison, Kan, on the 9Th instant
for Spokane Falls, WASH, to join her husband,
after separation Of nineteen years. They
were married in Atchison twenty lone years ago.
They had some little jars incident to married
life, and one day. when their child was six
months old, the husband left without warning,
going TO California. In short time he wrote
asking his wife to join him. but she disliked to
leave her aged parents and declined. Later
she was willing to 60 to him, but then he was in
milf, and she did not 60. Meanwhile he kept
sending her money for the support of herself
and child. Recently they made up and a few
dEs ago he telegraphed her money to get
ready to come to him. There is much quiet
rejoicing in Atchison that the foolish quarrel
has been made up, for both the parties to il are
highly respected. Mr.. Lashier was formerly Q
travelling man out of Atchison, and il said to
be rich. Their child is now . young lady and
has no recollection Of her father.
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AFGHAN.
HINDOo.

An Afghan, who brought trunk filed with
inferior garnets to this country under the i'm
preston they were rubies. was rugged aloft like
the man on the left of the foregoing cut. His
turban-like headdress was gorgeous. Only q
woman used to unraveling the prismatic mys-
teries OF Easter bOnnets could describe it. It
WAS nightmare in yellow. gold, red and white
The Afghan wore it one day on the street and
then laid it sadly away il his trunk with the
garnets that the American public wouldn't buy
Tor rubies. museum man who read about
the Afghan invited him to exhibit himself for
go week. but he was q self-respecting person
II he didn't know garnets from rubies, and he
wouldn't make q show Of himself. Tho copper
colored man on the right was an East Indian
The tower OF light muslin he wore attracted SO
much attention in the first ward when he
strolled ont into Battery Park that he fed back
into the barge Office. He and the Afghan after
ward appeared on the streets with gold-em-
broideried rimless hats that the Parsee mer-
chants sometimes wear. The young man whose
face 10 partly pictured on the left below wore
such hat. The commercial Hindoo seldom
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A Painters Secret

Paris Letter n chicAeo Herald.
The han =. death has been busy again this
week. The last victim in the artistic world 70
answer 10 the unrelenting call is Narcisse Bcr-
chere, the famous painter Of oriental subjects,
who was born at Etampes in 1873 and died in
this city few days ago. Few painters have
ever approached Berchere in the mastery style
and execution Of his works. The warmth Of
color his magic brush impaired 10 his
pictures stamp him a. one Of the most
famous artists Of the century. His subjects
all seem TO be walking out OF their canvas
and the longer they are regarded the
more animate they seem TO become. Strange
TO say, he never impaired the secret Of his art
When putting the finishing touches TO . pic
ture he invariably shut himself in his atelier,
TO which access could only be obtained through
q door which he locked on the inside. Taking
food and drink with him sufficient TO last two
or three days he disappeared from the world,
as il were, and never re-entered Il until his
work was ready TO be taken from the easel and
exhibited TO an admiring people The light and
shades from the figure to the background were
the speciality Of his secret, and what pigments
he employed and how he applied them w
forever now remain mystery.
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Lowell Defends His Americsn,sm.


The Century for November prints new por-
trait of Lowell, review Of hts works by Prof
Woodbury., the poet, and letter from Lowell,
written in 1876. in which he explains privately
his motive in writing his historical patriotic
poems OF "The Worlds Fair, 1876" and Ten
pora Mutantur." In that letter Mr.. Lowell
says: 81 had just come home from two years
stay In Europe. so it was discovered that had
been corrupted by association with foreign
aristocracies! l need not say to you that the
society frequented in Europe was what it is
At nome. that OF my wife, nv studies and the
pest nature and art within my reach. But
confess that was embittered by my experience.
wherever went was put on the defensive.
told OF some new fraud or defalcation, public
or private. 1t was sixteen years since my last
VISIT abroad, and found . very striking change
in the feeling toward America and Americans.
An Engiishman was everywhere treated
with certain Difference; Americans were
at best tolerated. The example Of Amer
ica was everywhere urged in France as
an argument against republican forms Of
government. II was fruitless to say that the
people were still sound when the body polite
wnlcn draws Its life from them showed such
oiotches and sores. came homo and instead
OF wrath at such nominations found banter.
was profoundly shocked, for I had received
my earliest impressions in q community the
nioss 'Htuous, peneve, tnat ever ex1sted.
In the commonwealth that built the first free
school and the first college heard culture
openly derided. I suppose ! like to be liked
a. well as other men. Certainly would rather
be left to my studies than NEEDLE with politics.
But had attained to some consideration and
my duty was plain. wrote what did in the
plainest way, that he who ran might read, and
that hit the mark I aimed at il proved by the
attacks against which you so generously defend
me. These fellows have no notion what love
no IN 10 e. Av<x.l n
bones. II I am not an American, who ever
vasY"
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A Song for All scasons

All! little one, II is merry world:
Say 30 and be not thus forlornI
IT'S all in say-so
Dare the sharp thistle and the prickly thorn,
And make thy lay so:
Uis merry tco5ld, teIlf
wiz pluck the thorn, and trhtstle though crv
Thou, youth, since life Is all in love, thou too
Say SO, and be not thus cast down;
Tis all In say-so.
And II on thee maid doth nought but froWu,
Yet make thy lay 90:
Since life is stu Ia IouinO, T.
Whsea. my ioce rrouns, srfu uhfsle though 4
sigh.
Nay, man, Q kindly and merry world
Say 30, when thou art near thine end:
Ills all In say-so.
Murmur goodbye 10 life, as thy best friend.
And make thy lay SO:
Best fJe, " must leave thee, I
wa speak thee .Jufr aud Whistle thouoh de
The Century. JAMES HHRBRRr NoRsR
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Il Was q Woman.

From the Detroit Free Press.
man was standing on the curbstone looking
at a street vendors sale yesterday afternoon,
when q horses head appeared over his shoulder.
''Shoo. there" he said, catching the animal
by the neck rein. I'm bet 9 jewsharp that .
woman is driving you"
Get upl Let 60 my horse I'll call the
police J" screamed an excited woman's voice.
81 don't want your horse" said the man,
an don't want 10 be driv over, eyetber.
Why don't you take to the sidewalk and give
folks in the street q chance for their livesl'
Then he Jumped back as q whip struck the
horse. and as he looked after the retreating
vehicle he chuckled:
That's right Mash 'emi Run 'em down.
Drive over theml There ought TO be q Law 10
compel folks TO stay in the house when women
90 out driving. ltd save lots OF lives"
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The Old Fight On Again.

From the Philace,phia Preaa
"Been travelling far?" asked one passenger Of
another oman east-bound Chesapeake and Ohio
train the other day.
"From the west
'The far west?''
mississippi river region"
est Louis?''
''Sir do look like st. Louis MANI"
"Well, really. don't know Just how Q st.
Louis man looks."
II thought not. accept your apology"
Further up the river, suppose?"
Certainly: I'm from Minneapolis sir"
I'm trade9''
"Wheat"
"Good churches out there?'
"The best in the country"
"What question il exciting them the most
nowY'
"well, sir, the woman business has got d, by
the ears"
"How sop
"well, I'm in favor of woman taking an act
i've part in church msttters"
"Quite right"
ing" " '''A''A-
MOP What changed your ideas9"
"Weii, sir, strange minister spoke In our
church one day and went through : great rie-
maroie about how St. Paul was opposed 70
women IN the churches, and I'm too LOYAL q
minneapolis man 70 knuckls 70 any St Paul
dictation.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

Probably less than thousand people from
the sunny land where the originals of the two
sketches above were born come to this coun-
try in year. They are Portuguese, and no
class of immigrants are handsOmer or more
picturesque. They usually arrive in the spring,
carrying gayly beribboned guitars and very
little hand baggage. They wear light, brightly
colored clothes The hat Of the man in the pic
ture was not, as might be conjectured at first
sight, OF the kind popular in the French revo-
luton. 1t was circled with stripes of red, blue
and yellow, and was much too gaudy even for
the semi-tropical taste Of some of its wearer' g
companions. He probably put it away in his
trunk for use in the house as q smoking cap
when he got to Fall River the day after he
landed ct the barge office. His wife wore as a
headdress q gauzy olive-tinted shawl. All the
Portuguese seem to be dreamy, indolent and
happy.
Atrio Of heads that are often seen are pre-
sented below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

Here We have two ancestors of future Knick-
eerbockers, perhaps. The woman wore two
lace caps. the under one fitting close to the
head, being held in place partly by q gold band,
the ends OF which terminating just in front Of
the ears were adorned with square gold plates.
Sometimes the Holland housewife wears a
hemisphere Of gold under the cap next to the
head, allowing q cleaning crescent Of IL to
show. The husband wears the hat OF western
granger. He 10 a hard-working, frugal, indie
pendent soul, but he is not much imbued with
the spirit OF chivalry. He will think it all
right to let his spouse carry all the baggage
and the baby while he complacently joys be-
hind smoking his long pipe. He does not see
anything wrong in making his wife do the
drudgery Of travelling. His sentiments on the
subject Of chivalry are about the same as those
of the American Indian.
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The headdress on the right is familiar to all
New Workers who have been in the neighbor-
hood of the Bend" Very often the woman
who carries it, as she energies from the barge
office, also has several pieces of baggage in her
hands and brood Of toddlers clinging to her
skirts. The head of the family follows her,
carrying nothing except the burden Of his lazy
thoughts.
1t is not often that the ear-ringed, spruce
looking kind of Italian, whose head is pictured
below on the left, lands at the barge Office.
His hair is intensely black and brightly OLE
aginous, his greenish hat is adorned with
a peacock feather, and he holds himself
aloof from his brethren who wear the band
less basin-like hat Of the bearded Neapolitan on
the right.
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From the New York Sun. :
There is usually nothing particularly stirling
| about the dress Of cabin passengers Of foreign
era They are generally cosmopoltes, and the
attire Of one civilized person Of wealth and
fashion is pretty nearly the same - that Of
another. We must look in the steerage for nA-
tional characteristics in dress, manner and
speech. Some of the peasant immigrants bring
with them the simple-and sometimes resplend-
ent-dress, and a suggestion Of the local color
and atmosphere Of the PARKWAY places in which
they passed their lives up to the time the allure
ments of life in the western world tempt them
hither. A few Of the plebeian women Of Europe
yet weave their own headdress. There are
bonnets and caps that indicate nationality Just
as surely as faces and dialects. But they
are not SO numerous as they used to be.
Civilization is the deadly foe Of picturesque
ness. The clatter Of the sabot frequently
heard on the floors Of old Castle Garden isss
than twenty-five years ago, creates surprise
and remark when heard nowadays. The dress
OF most Of the immigrants is not very different
from that Of poor folks in nearly all civilized
lands. But there are exceptions to the rule
and that is what makes the barge Office interest
ing. DR.. Newborn. the assistant to DR.. Toner,
chief of the barge Office medical staff, probably
pays more attention to the quaint, peculiar
and pretty things that the immigrants wear
than any one else in the granite building.
That is because he is an artist as well as
physician. Sketching heads and their adorn-
ments is the doctors forte, and those that en-
bellish this article are from his facile pencil.
or all the immigrants that pass before the
doctors eyes the Italians probably are the most
interesting from the standpoint Of an artist.
This is especially true of the women. They
have the barbaric love for ornament and color.
and some OF them are almost prismatic enough
al k,IA H.. AZ
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The young man at the top of the group was a
Polish peasant He was bound for the Penn
sylvania coal mines. where hundreds of his
fellow countrymen are now toiling. The hat
he wore is worn by hundreds of immigrants
who land every day from eastern and central
Europe. The jaunty young fellow on the left
is, as is apparent from his cap, a Scot A
happy Hungarian-not poor and gloomy Slo-
with button on it. That is popular with a
large class of Hungarians
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Folks who have been In the market towns
within easy access OF Alsace have noted that the
peasant girls with the peculiar headdress are
Absurd ss it may seem to an American girl,
this fashion in colors is due entirely u the DIFF
ference in the religious belief Of the wearers Of
the skirts. The girls in the green skirts are
Protestants and those that wear the red are
catholics. Most Of the Alsatian matdens are
blondes Of decided beauty. Unlike the aver
age American girl, they think more Of thsif
religion than they do Of the esthetic necessity
Of making the color Of their dresses match
their compilations. They wear their colors
are ashamed TO b what their dr5es indi-
Gates they are. Over In Lorrsino
religious differences are mot marked
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By apparel Most Of the peasant girls there
wear pretty linen caps, something like those
anectSd By the nurse maids Of fashionable New
Yofkers The girl drawn BY DR.. Newborn wore
green skirt II IL safe to say that within .
month after she settled in the west with her
youne husband, pictured on the right, abe
dened her queer costume and donned plain
American clothes, Just a. he did. His hat, q
may be observed, suggests . Tam o'Shanter in
shape. II was Of soft blue felt. and vabbled
Whenever IT. yearer moved
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RUSSIAN HEBREWS,

Anybody who has passed through the popu.
lous Jewish quarter on the east side of town
has probably seen the types outlined above
The tall, conical hat of the gray-bearded old
man on the left was made of wool He came
from cold district, and often saved his ears
and his hose from frost bite by pulling his hat
down over them 30 far that his head looked as
II 10 were all beard. The other old fellow wore
. military cap that is more frequently seen in
the barge office than any other except the
derby. THIS bearded pair left their country
because Of the persecution Of the Russian
government
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ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

APATRICIAN. ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The bandless hat is the cheapest made, and
the cheapest laborer who comes into the port
OF New York is the man who wears this hat
Even the poverty-stricken Slovaks from tho
north and northwest mountain district of
Hungary, accustomed to the most rigid econ
omy. cannot compete with the wearers Of the
bandless hat in their chosen field Of labor, the
railroads and in the mines of this country,
A type Of Irishman that may be seen only
at long intervals is presented on the left
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FYnFa m ERIN,

EX1LES OF ERIN.
He was a specimen Of the fine old Irish gen.
tleman. His bell-crowned beaver resembled
the one that made Benjamin Brewster famous
1t was white and fuzzy, and its possessor was
proud Of it. He carried the blackthorn indis-
pensable to true Irish gentility, and spoke
with delightful brogue. The old lady on
the right has been caricatured in thousand
theaters by variety artists. Everybody who
has ever visited an Irish settlement is familiar
with the grooming old creature.
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HEom tns Stncouvef 1olegfam-
John Bsrtram, ex-mayor Of Dundas. Ontario.
10 In the city. Mr.. Bsrtrsm Il shrevd, sharp
man, and his conversation b marked BY . WE'LL
defined vein Of dry humor. He Was paasing
down the street today With his friend, NJ. Dunn
Of Granville street. who knew him IN Dundas,
when they paassd the Rev. Robsrt q. Maitland,
who was speeding along On hi bieycis.
'sIhefs TIE way clergymon 10 around n
Vancouver" sid Mr.. Duna.
Mr.. BsrtEam looked 81 - speoding form,
and without smile replied: well hs can ave
solss that way for certainty"
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He Qoynlly) -"And you WIN be miner"
Re (surprised)E"why, Jon Just said you
would marry me-
She Sdosmatically)-'Thass diasrsnt"-
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ROUMANIAN.

The hat Of the Roumanian at the top OF the
picture was made of sheepskin with the woolly
side ont Like the hats Of all immigrants from
cold countries those OF the Fnlander and
Swede could be turned down to cover the ears
In frosty weather. The Roumanian 10 not
frequent visitor at the barge Office. He usu-
ally goes west and begins farming. Tho stall
wars and industrious Swede and the hardy Fin
lander are among the best of the immigrants
They generally add their muscle to the build
ing up Of future states in the west
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ANOTHER HrNDOo.

ANOFHER H1NDOo. TURK.
dwells long with us. He brings lot of Indian
goods in his trunk, disposes Of them at q hand
some profit and then returns to England, whence
he sails back to his native land.
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HEADS or TIE IMuIoRAxra /
ksechss From Life BY . Barge 00eo Rhy-
stefan.

PICTURESQUE HRADoRA1 YRoH Az QUA1rxns-
IT GETS ~ TA1 ~ THE BATrRRY, But MOST
THEN GIVE wAY TO THE BowIRY DR1BY AID
TIE MILLINKnY OF DIVISION sr1xxI. a.
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From Life.

Dr. ". c. HANsconE, Minneapolis. MINI ssve
81 nsed g 10 csse Of acute rheumatism, durfnr
conveleocence. the particular symptoms wished
20 relieve were sleeplessness and lcrvousnasA -
u resuln were 81 osa1Eoa"