Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-03
CITROUS MELANGE.

MUAhVUCs
War to the Teeth w.ged Between Mankind
and the Orange as to Which VIII BE
Master-Many Men Have Many Methods
of Attack.
Oranges are as tantalizing as lovely
woman! And in q struggle with them you
are dead certain to come out of IL covered
with orange Juice and ignominious defeat.
There may be an atom Of conceit left in q
man after he tries his weapons, argumenta-
tive and otherwise, upon a woman, but let
him endeavor to cope with his wit against
the meanest and rustiest of oranges, and il
he is not willing to be sold as doormat, at
least, he ought to be. The more you know
OF oranges the moro in awe you will hold
them and the less you will have to do with
them. Above all, never, let the occasion be
what it may. think you can get an advantage
by seizing a dark occasion.
Oranges are like dogs, there is always one
eve open after twilight. IT the Lord in
vented the fruit, and He generally gets the
credit of 1t, though the Californians and the
Floridians may have vastly improved 1t
since the days of the Garden OF Eden, that
Satan had a hand in the matter is a charita-
Dle construction to put on the explanation
of its makeup. There is a theory that
the Ancient Gentleman went into n bit of
sulks upon tasting an orange for the nist
time. When he came to himself he filled 1t
full OF seed. separated the juice by numer.
GUS partitions, put an extra layer of mucil.
age between the skin and the fruit and
then declared that the road to hades would
yet be by way of an orange grove. He
institution of marriage failures, there is no
greater cause of profalkty in the world than
oranges.
A young lady said the other day that she
hated oranges, because one had come be-
tween her and her lover. He had called on
her one evening, and after sitting awhile
had produced couple of bright Florida
oranges out of his pocket, and suggested
that each eat one. She now says she cannot
drive out of her mind the sight of his nose,
checks and chin dripping with juice, and he
has been whispering something horribly
similar about her Evidently you cannot
love girl and a citrus aurantium at the
same time. ,
Attacked by the Spoon.
One of the best remedies for an orange-a
sort of whipping the devil arounda 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
spoon can slip in readily. The special or
ange spoon ON the market, at present, has
long, tapering bowl, which you insert
easily into the center of the juicy part of
the meat, where it rapidly overnows. You
can thus exhaust every drop from the
orange, and in the cleanest and most salts.
factory fashion known to-day. A little skill
will prevent the pressure of the spoon from
sending the Juice squirting over your shirt
bosom, and, If thesspoon does not make sound
something like q cross between u kiss and
slap, you needn't blush; for there isn't one
man in q hundred that can do otherwise.
Some people cut lid off the top of the
provement in cutting in halves and, besides,
the risk Is run of soiling the fingers.
When Burr Mcintosh played here in
Alabama" lie displayed a method largely
practiced in orange growing countries and
which those who know declare to give the
supremest enjoyment to be found in this i'm
perfect state. He made an iDcIsion in the
skin round the middle OF the orange, and
coat from the interior, leaving 1t fastened ut
the top and bottom only. After this the skin
was gently turned inside out, until each
half OF the orange stood upon an inverted
cup-like base. The edge Of this WAS again
turned up, so that rim was formed outside
the fruit, making receptacle for the juice:
The orange is then eaten like an apple. and
any juice that escapes finds its way to the
saucer while tile fingers and face are freed
from its annoyance. People in the North
think this is barbarous, upholdfng the spoon
as the only proper and civilized way of COM
batting with the difficulty.
Traditional. but Asgravatin..
The old nursery traditional use of
oranges was to peel them-itself an
aggravation-and tearing the sections
apart to put them in pieces
in the mouth. Confessedly this is a most
unsatisfactory way to use the divine fruit,
and, moreover, there is either an unsightly
lump of pulp to be got rid of. or the prospect
of an unsightly stomach produced by swai-
lowing very indigestib1e substance. To
eat an orange this way reminds me of
click and a promise" You mover seem to
get any nearer to it. At the same time it is
one of the favorite modes OF serving the
fruit in fashionable metropolitan hotels, the
skin being cut in an ornamental fashion;
sometimes as ring binding the sections to-
ge.her, and again, in scallops with the
1oosened sections reposing within like the
petals of q huge flower. But however orna-
mental, the orange in sections is very dis
satisfying affair, and is not to be recon-
mended excepting rs last resort.
A gentleman who has lived for years in
the American countries in which the orange
grows is wagfn2 war against the slOvenly
manner of cutting the orange up and serv-
ing it on the table. In such case he recon-
mends that a very sharp knife, one as keen
as razor, be used, and the fruit cut into
slices inf1nitesimally thin, and built layer
about, with pulverized sugar. Since the
spoon has been relegated out of modern din
ner civilization almost, fork is used to eat
it with. In Southern Europe the peasant
always eat any fruit in its natural state ana
never think of treating it to doses of sugar,
in Malaga, the people bite q hole in the
orange. suck out the juice, and then throw
the orange away. Small American people
often do the same, but. of course, the Amer
lean must try his hand at improving nature;
so he puts lump of sugar in it. An orange
planter thinks such thing desecration.
Methods Of the Travellers.
On board ship unique way is always O
popular way to do anything. There they
take an orange and, with very sharp
knife, cut Off a 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 peel
ing, 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 of the cases on rec
ord where a knife enters the mouth by COM
mon consent of the fashionable world. The
small quantity of juice that flows down falls
on 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 untidi-
ness.
Another plan is recommended. Without
the skin the orange is halved,
then quartered and finally cut into 10 or Il
parts. These are raised by the fingers to the
mouth. when the skin Is torn away from the
pulp. But this leaves the pulp in the mouth:
one OF the most unpleasant features OF
orange eating. 1t can be removed. but still
we are strongly inclined to think that what
is in the mouth ought to stay there.
Again, some people squeeze the juice OF
the orange into q cup. This Is orangeade,
and very delicious A not infrequent fashion
among engaged people is for the gentleman