Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-27
EATING ORANGES.
A Young Man should Never Do It in the
 Presence of His Sweetheart.


 Presence of His Sweetheart.
 young lady said that she hated oranges because one had come between her and her lover. He had called On her one evening, and, after sitting awhile, had produced a couple of bright Florida oranges out of his peck ct and suggested that each eat one. She now says that she can not drive. out of her mind the sight of his nose, cheeks and chin dripping with juice, and he has been whispering something horribly similar about her. Evidently you can not love a girl and a citrus aurantium at the same time.
 One of the best remedies for an orange-a sort of whipping the devil around a stump-is to use a spoon. The directions advise you to cut the orange carefully into halves, taking care to do so across the grain, so that a spoon can slip in readily.
 A gentleman who has lived for years | in the American countries in which the orange grows, is waging a war against | the slovenly manner of cutting the orange up and serving it on the table. In such case he recommends that a very sharp knife, one as keen as razor, be used. and the fruit cut into slices infinitesimaIy thin, and built, | layer about, with pulverized sugar. Since the spoon has been relegated out of modern dinner civilization almost a | fork is used to eat it with. In southern 1 Europe the peasants always eat fruit 1 in its natural shape, and never think of treating it to doses of sugar, salt, or l other seasoning. Around Naples and in Malaga the people bite hole in the orange, suck out the juice and throw the orange away. South American people often do the same, but of course the American must try his hand at improving nature, so he puts lump of sugar in it. An orange planter thinks such a thing dissertation.
 On board ship a unique way is al- ways popular way to do anything. There they take an orange, and, with a very sharp knife, cut off slice of skin across the top. This is placed below the orange and skewered by fork into position. Holding the fork in the left hand, the knife cuts down the peeling, which indifferently falls off or hangs down. Then the same knife cuts the juicy meat thus left exposed into small portions, which are conveyed on the point of the blade to the mouth-one o1 the cases on record where the knife enters the mouth by common consent of the fashionable world. The small quantity of juice that flows down falls into the false bottom of the orange, and
 thus the hand is protected. The orange
 never eats better than in this way, and , it is also, as may be observed, freed
 from all untidiness.
 The trick with the orange called the ''sea sick passenger" is played the first
 thing on the voyager whose stomach is 7 suspected of uncertainty. The eyes nose and mouth of man are cut or the side of the orange, the eyes ant nose being made by slight removal O.
 the skin, while the mouth is a deep in
 cision. The orange is then put on toI 2 of strong tumbler, md pressing on it. edge is rolled about to initiate the heav
 ing of vessel. The juice is thus forced , out of the mouth incision and yer, , miserable passenger portrayed. If thi t | sight doesn't at the same time force f good many people to seek their cabin
 hurriedly the result is considered to b'
 very disappointing. - Pittsburgh Dis patch.
 -Inc greatest praise of the lat l Lady Waterfords artistic gifts ha v been given by Mir. Watts. In an inter
 view the celebrated painter said: 'Ou s time has only produced some twent. .- real artists, and Lady Waterford wa - one of the greatest among them. Il A cOloring she is a Tintoretto, and in tn grace and ease with which she threy
 her figures on the canvas she equals tn U greatest masters. 1 am as a child com 1 pared to her, though I have painted al my life"