Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-11

bark for sore mouth or throat, red peppers for
the stomach $ sake, tallow root, otherwise known
as adam and Eve, for headache catnip to quiet
the baby and snake root and hosrhound for
colds, with lots of others besides. Together
with the indictments is usually to be found on
these apothecary stalls leaf tobacco in rolls for
smoking or putting away in clothing 10 keep
the moths out.
q great extent Of territory in neighboring
Maryland and Virginia. it being part of their
business to know the places where experience
and tradition tell that such curative agents
grow plentifully. Usually they go out in par
ties ofstw or three or more. travelling far
afield-perhaps as much as ten miles away from
home-in their search for the merchandise.
Each one carries a knife. a hoe and basket
and the hunt is an all-day one. Nearly all of
the medicaments are given in the shape of
tea.
BUTCHERS AT BREAKFAST.
One Of the most interesting spectacles to be
beheld at the market is the butchers at break
fast. tits to be seen at about a. m. in various
small eating houses in that immediate neigh
borhood. There is certainly nobody who eats
more breakfast than butcher, and his morn
ing meal almost invariably consists of coffee
and sausage. The fact may be properly con-
sldered as vind;cation of this much-abused
comestib!e, the mysterious makeup of which
Is the subject of much vulgar news
paper joking. Apart from bologna, which
Is made so cheap nowadays that it can only be
probably manufactured from offal and old
cigar stumps, sausages may be regarded as rep
resenting the highest expression of all that is
pure and good in the edible line. So far the
nostrils are able to detect chain of them
never becomes stronger than its weakest link.
II they were not altogether to be approved OF
they would not be the favorite diet Of butchers,
whose business it is to make them.
ALAS FOR WASHINGTON PIE
Alas that another beloved dietetic mystery,
once intimately associate ted with the market
should have SO nearly disappeared. These tears
are shed for Washington pie" How familiar
once was the meat-pan big and deep, filled with
luscious mixture of pretty nearly everything
imaginable and covered over with a nice
brown crust. Five cents WIS the price
Tor generous rectangular hunk;
and was it not all the more delicious because i;
was composed Of all that was left over at the
bakery, including the broken odds and ends
the mlnce, the apple, the custard, the squash,
the huckleberry, &c, all mixed together in the
pan and a jolly crust spread on top! 1t COM
bined In itself all the elements of the most
varied deliclousnesses and was therefore a
thing Incompatible But now it is almost never
seen. Another landmark gone. Boo-hoo!
There is plenty that is interesting TO see along
the block of Louisiana avenue adjoining the
market square, where the wholesale dealers in
produce of all sorts do business. You can buy
pound OF meat or a small quantity of pretty
much anything else there if you will do it slyly,
Notwithstanding the strict rules against retail
ing. 1t hurts a storekeeper's feelings to
refuse to make u sale, even though it be a
tritiinS one. in this quarter you will
see .piggy-wig and piggy-wee squealing i'll
small pens and of an age to roast, though mos,
of them are actually intended for sale to farm
ers, who buy them for from Sl.50 to 81 apiece
and take them to the country for rearing to fat
and profitable porkerhood. There are calves
too. for a similar purpose or less happily des-
tined to the butcher knife. Also live poultry
and other beasts and birds. If you want reed
birds there are always lots of them in the mid
die of the street, ready to be shot for the pot.
Some call them sparrows. When the Italians
capture Washington they will find great for
aging on Louisiana avenue and in it's neighbor-
hood.