River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-05
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Waste not, want not" saws the
proverb. Alasi as we Americans de
much wasting we must want much.
There is the canvas-back duck, for
example-the most delicious gustatory
morsel which the new world has re-
vealed to the jaded palates of the old.
When we come to it we waste almost a
half. And il was not the worst half
1t is, in some respects, the best. The
wings and the legs are indeed in them
selves comparatively fiavorless- But
just where they join to the body re-
side the sweetest juices. And the
body itself. after the breast has been
carved off and only a portion of the
real sueculence has been captured-the
body itself is thrown away.
In Paris, in Monte Carlo and else
where in Europe they have changed all
this. They have press. rather
clumsy, unwieldy engine built aud
operated on much the same principle
as a cider press, which they bring to
your table. Within is inserted the
dainty refuse with all its potential
wealth of juices. That potential wealth
is turned into actual affiuence by re-
volving the wheel-lile handle, just
such handle as the one on your letter
copying press. The duck is converted
into a mass of pulp and the juices
stream through perforated receptacle
on to your plate.
Fate can not harm you; you have
dined to-day. Inquiries made at all
our leading restaurants reveal the fact
that The press is in use at none of these
places save only the Hoffman house.
There il is declared to be a success.
Why is it not used elsewhere? The
steward thinks this is due to a con-
servative disregard for even useful in
novation. Philippe. the head waiter
at Delnonico's cafe, has another ex-
PLANTATION. The French press, he says,
is clumsy, unwieldy instrument. IL
has been tried at Delm onicos and else
where and found waiting. He himself
once set his brains to work to devise a
more convenient substitute. He had
actually devised one. The plan was
simple enough. Imagine large pair
of pincers, yet none too large to be
worked by hand.
The jaws are each fashioned into five
claws which dovetail into each other
(much as your fingers do when you
clasp them when the handles are
closed together. A lever attachment
quadruples the power of the handles.
The refuse portion of the duck isplaced
between the claws. You grasp the
handles. one in each hand, and slowly
bring them together. Then the cruel
claws squeeze the ducks remains into
pulp and the juices run out. The pro-
cess, you will see, is simpler and easier
than that of the French, and the in
strument is handler one.
Philippe actually went so far as TO
consult a patent lawyer on the sub
patent were larger than he cared TO
meet without some promised patronage
from the leading restaurants. He
failed to make the proprietors see the
advantage of his process, and though
he still believes in il he has reluctant
~ abandoned the project for the time
being.
1t is worthy of mention that Phil
hppe was the ingenious gentleman
who first devised the stands now al
ways provided for ginger and soda
bottles. Formerly the practice was to
bring them in in ordinary tumblers.
But the tumblers were continually
broken. The breakage entailed a
large and continuous annual loss in
places which sold much of these case
Gus fluids. Then Philippe hit upon
the idea of metal stand such as is
in univ .rsal use to-day. He never
thought of patching his invention.
And the fortune which he might have
made visits him today as a remorseful
iridescent dream. Is there another
fortune lying latent in his canvas-back
press?-N " World