Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-02-01
What Cinnamon Eat.

Every day in New York you can
see "a score of piStailed gentlemen IN
the neighborhood of Mott street each
carrying huge brown paper bag.
Ii you could open thes, mysterious
packages you would find desiccated
shrimps and prawns, picked Annoy
cabbage, delicats little tubers known
as ''ma-ta,n bitter cucumbers, dried
devil fish, Awabi clans from japan,
sucked oysters, preserved SHARKS
fins, pots of sweetmests, funny look
iug sausages and lots Of dalntles FOR
which there is no name i'll English.
4 poor lauudryman will spend
quarter or "a third OF his income upon
these luXuries, aud will devote hail
day of his precious time TO cooking
them in approved MongoIian style.
The table is queer work ot art.
The China aud porcelain are superb,
50 beautiful Uuat in this land OF col
lectors they would be placed IN
forks. The celestial mind regards
cutting aud carving a labor unworthy
of Il guest, aud relegates it TO The
cook. La lieu of forks are chopstlcks
long slender bars OF ivory, tipped
with silver or gold. The spoons are
tims of porceialn; the wine glasses,
cups Ike those in cuiidren's doll
houses. Your plate il saucer, aud
YOUR napkin u silk towel held by
servant. The table Is handsome,
nevertheless. 1t is nearly covered
with dainty plates containing hors
muvres pied up in slender pyra-
mlds one pile consists OF peeled
bananas, cut into little drums; an
other OF pineapple, carved into tiny
bars, like miniatures of laundry soap;
a third of crystalihed dwarf oranges,
mulsteued IN honey; fourth OF hne
onion sprouts aud Al lifth oil preserved
eggs, dark green aud suggesting sliced
cucum6ers. Other plates contain
sliced sausage, picked cocks combs
hard boiled pigeons eggs, sweet
picked sur, ddrd ginger, sliced water
chestuuts, dried lisa seSments, des
located prawus, smoked iish roe, aud
eqdally iucOugruous GainIies.
You help yourself to any OF these
botn before aud during the banquet
In Uu- meantime the waiter or sing
song girl has filed your tea cup
with fragrant Oolong aud your wine
cup win boiling wine. From this
point neither cup Il permitted to re-
main empty nor TO grow old. IL
stands longer tuau the Tiine allotted
by Aongollan etiquette, il l. removed
and replaced b hot one. After
few minutes Of nIbbhuS aud sippln[
the courses begin 10 arrive aud con
tiuue 10 arrive as long "a there II d
soul at the board. Soups aud stew7,
omelettes and entries, rOasts aud
boiled, ragouIs aud fricassees, Gro.
quettes and voiau vents, sweet size,
aud sour follow one another without
auparent rhyme or reason. AT tnF
eud of every half hour you take d
recess OF from five to fifteen minutes
Every body lights cigarette or pulls
a water pipe. \ feS retire TO one OF
the buuks aud smoke Il pipe OF OPIUM
The sing song giris perform II brlei
concert. vocal aud Instrumental, aud
again the meal proceeds. Ii il poor
diuner that has less than twenty
courses. Some have forty and fifty,
and a few pass he hundred marx.
You eat what you please aud a. Inuch
a. YOU please. Scarcely any dish Is
simple: some contain twenty ingredl
cuts. Tue averag7 banquet uses
pork. fresh, salt aud smoked; pigs
brain, liver and kidney, chicken, duck
pigeon. quail aud goose, fish, fresh
dried. salt aud smoked; eggs Of at
least four kinds, rice, pastry. beans,
pease, cabbage, mIliet, lentiis, onions.
garlic. leek, cucumber, squash. melon,
gourd, potatoes, white aud sweet;
vam. natal. b-an, sprouts. spinach,
turnip. parsnip, carrot, devil nsh'
dragon fish, fish roe, clams. oysters,
crabs. sea weed. mushroom, and tree
mushrooms, birds nests, sharks tns,
chilliss, orang peel, ginger, cocoanut.
macarouI, aud heaven knows what
not.-Nep York Herald.