The herald., 1895-08-04

penses with exactituje and pay for moth
ing you do not get. And marketing in
Jersey is rather good fun. You equip
yourself with few pennies, hapennies
ana slXpence or two and you can buy
'haporth'' OF this and tuppence OF that,
have basket full, which. promptly de-
livered at your house while you so on to
the coiffeur's and get shaved for thrip-
| pence. and thence proceed to tobaccon-
| ISL and get most excellent cigar fol
tuppence. Bot sometimes one makes a
in the ths window of pretty little shop.
and naturally thought | should like to
see how they compared with California
grapes. ! would go in and buy pound
for tuppence and taste them. l said:
give me pound, She weighed a
Of a mound, will you take another
bunch?'' Then it occurred 10 me to ask:
How do you sell them?' Three shil-
lings bunch" the maiden replied. |
| nearly tainted. but found strength to re-
mark that believed l would not take any
three grapes, which were all could
1t may not pe without interest to Los
| Angeles epicures to learn what Jerseymen
| consider appetizing, and | therefore IN
terpolate the following remarks upon that
subject, written by lady OF my acquaint-
ance:
''On Sunday morning every orthodox
Jerseyman sits down to a breakfast of
baked pork and beans. dish when has
small resemblance to the Boston articls of
that name. The Jersey dainty is served
| In mysterious brown stone jar in which
large kidney beans and slices OF PORK lie
hidden as deeply as truth in we'll. An
unpleasant brown liquid fills the remain
| ing space. For dinner conger eel soup is
considered a delicaoy and very good it
| is, its best feature, in my judgment, be-
| ing that the conger "a large. coarse ell
caught herea bouts) is not in evidence to
beans and parsley are few OF the nu-
merous ingredients Of this soup. Jersey
has many cakes which she considers her
| own inventions, but in which one recog-
| nizes oldtimers under new name. In
the Jersey wonder one finds an old
and 'simnals' are simply variety vi
cracknel, about the size and something
| the shape of a soup plate. The fashion,
| able cake at present is known as the
"tennis cake" and is delicious COM
pound of old-fashioned pound cake and
| almond paste. with conventional decor
| alton of candied cherries and angeleque.
| Even the baker here is a conventona! and
| conservative man, and one cake differeth
little from another IN glory. One partic-
ula. form OF decoration is consecrated to
each variety. Periwinkles and limpets
are among the shelfish eaten here; the
former is a variety of sea snail and the
latter very like the California owl shell.
They taste something between tripe and
old boots. Gratis of every variety. from
the monster Guernsey crab (Which Is
worse than a white elephant when pur
chased by a small family. to the wee
things that sell at hapenny apiece. BY
the way, it is a surprise wnen the maid
| who waits upon your apartments suggests
| politely that she will step round the
corEer and buy haportn of milk or
three 'aporths of milk. 1t sounds like
| joke at first, but the purchasing power
of a hapenny is continual wonder.
One of the diversions of st. Heller folk
is sea bathing, but the matter is very
decorously conducted The two sexes do
not intermingle upon the beach or in the
water. You go down and hire bathing
machine-a little shanty on wheels which
is drawn out into the water, attached to
a horse. When nobody is looking you
cautiously emerge from your small house
and plunge into the sea. AS a conse-
quence of this extreme Q privacy in bath
ing. it is impossible for me to furnish
any pointers to fair bathers at santa
Monica to enhance the charms Of their
bathing suits. patterned after those OF
the Jersey bellies.
A few days ago my friend and ] were
shown through the multitudinous rooms
of an old manor house. On window
pane in one of the rooms we found in
scribed with diamond the name of
young man and young woman and the
date "June II. 1882, below. evidently the
record OF two lovers upon happy day
more than a century ago. And then we
were told that the manor house was an
old. old house wlen that inscription was
made. The granite house. with walls
five feet thick. showed 10 signs OF sur
render to devourng Time. and | be
thought me OF that fine description of
Fan old English residence, with old tim
ber gfouped round it. and something IN
its aspect OF the quaint old times and
bygone merrymakings, saying sadly. but
genially, Come IN, | bid you welcome.
For two hundred years or more have |
been the home OF this beloved old family,
whose generations | have seen in the
cradle and in the coffin. and whose mirth
and sorrows and hospitalities remem-
ber. All their friends, like you. were
welcome; and you. like them. will here
enjoy the warm illusions that cheat tho
sad conditions of mortality; and like
them. You will go your way and others
succeed you. tai. at last l. too. shall
yield to the general law of decay, and
disappear. CREIGHTON.
One of the busiest of women is Mrs.
Howard Townsend who has lust been