Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
As OTHERS SEE Us
Bah Compares the Comforts Of Eng
land and America.

CARDS OUR F'RUIT-AN ENG
LISHMAN'S FIRST CLAM-SALT
PORK AFFECTING AMERICAN
PURITY = MADEMOISELLE AND
HER EYES - UNLUCKY AND
LUCKY STONDS-THE mODERN
LEGEND OF AN OPAL RING-TO
SMILE AND AT WHOM.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, June IL, 1S96.-There is no
doubt that big red strawberry framed
in its green leaves, kissed by the suns
warmth, is food fit for the gods, and,
more than that, it is food fit for lovely
woman. a woman looks pretty eating
strawberries. The whiteness and shape
Illness of her hand shows to perfection
as she lifts each strawberry by it's stem
to her lips, and then proceeds TO eat it
in the dainty way that well-bred wo-
man always does, which, between you
and me, is something after the fashion
of polite kitten. All the good things
that we strawberries, asparagus,
green corn-are dainty TO eat, and tend
10 make one healthful, which means, of
course, beautiful. The trouble is, that
we don't appreciate our blessings. We
see a wagon load of pineapples go by
and think nothing more of it; in Eng
land a pine, as they insist on calling it.,
costs a guinea; the first night it is put
upon the table TO do duty as a decora-
ton, and then, on the second night, is
carefully cut by the hostess, each guest
getting tiny little piece. So it is with
the melons. The English melon is a
cross between cantslope and a water
melon,is dealt out as if it were gold. and
is particularly tasteless and dreadfully
expensive.
Then there is ice. You and I. who
are houSekeepers, growl dreadfully
about the ice men, but if we were in
England and asked for some ice at din
ner a piece the size of a small apple
would be brought, and that would be ex-
pected TO answer for everybody at the
table. | tell you, we don't appreciate
our mercieS. About the only good
thing in the fruit line that England Of
fers is the gooseberTy. Here we know
1t as a sour, hard berry, seldom served
in its natural state, and not over good
when made into a pie or tart. Over
there it is pink of color and has an ex-
quisite taste, a sweetness with tinge
Of sourness best describing it. | like
TO see an English woman's face-pref-
erably an English housekeeper's face
when she hears that all the fruits that
cost so much money on the tight little
isle are within the reach of the very
poorest people in the States; that peach
es, such peaches as she only gets from a
hot house, can be bought for a few pen
MES by the working mans wife, and
that great, big, sweet, juicy melons are
season almost given away. 1t gives her
an opportunityto say
HOW EXTRAVAGANT WE ARE.
And truly, we are. A funny sight. and
one that, in New York in SUMMER.
when the globe-trotter is TO the fore. is
quite common, is an E1glishman eating
his first clam and a French woman her
first green corn. The difference in ma
tiOnalitisS stands out plainly. The Pa
rislan is determined to be pleased: the
Englishman is determined to be dis
pleased, and yet equally determined to
taste the little beast" for fear he
might be thought a coward. He first
says the clam is too fshy: then he an
nOuncss that it neither as bitter nor as
salty as those miserable things mat in
England are called natives" and which
compare with our oysters as stage pine
apple does to a real one.
But in time the Englishman end the
clam grow v5ry friendly, and when he
goes back home the Englishman takes
with him a chatting dish, and he hopes
TO be able TO teach the wife of his bosom
how to prepare On it just such dainties
as he has had from the chatting dish
here. D2luded man, He forgets that
clans a la Schenck would be impossible
where clans do not exist, that Holsters
a la Newburg will not please the Eng
lish palates, and that terrapin. well-to
tell the truth, he never got quite accus-
toned TO terrapin himself NOWADAYS
he has better opinion of American
cooking than he used to have. 1t is Gil
rious how little the well-bred English
people know about our country. and il
must be confessed that. after visiting
not the set that is written about moi
the set into which American girls have
married, but the real English people
who are shyly f1ospitable, weH-manner-
ed, well-r5ad and interesting ones van
ity get tumble. The truth is discov-
cred. 1t is this: they are not interested
IN us. What we do and what we say is
a matter of no importance to them. and
sometimes. I don't blame them. They
have got the finest ships in the world
they have got the finest army in the
world, and they have got the best gov
eminent in the world nit. and why
they be interested in lot of half
CIVILIZED SAVAGFS LIKE OTTR-
SELVES.
They need only read one OF our news
papers if they desire to prove that we are
savages
An EngliShwoman who had been 10
India several times. who goes to Egvpt
every spring, who has Travelled all over
the continent, was surprised that 7 was
so white, since Americans lived on
nothing but salt pork. And this has
only been five years ago. She said she
was afraid to come 10 this country. be-
cause she thought if she saw man
hung, as she might do on the street at
any time. it would upset her nerves.
We think that we are a great people. but
we are not; that is, we are not in the
eyssof the great mass of the English
people, while we are looked on as semi
barbarians by some of the French.
Probably there will be more respect
shown us when we have a decent gov
ernmsnt, but as long as we haven't even
an attractive figurehead. we cannot ex-
rlanf tho shin Of sfafa n no ;c,,1or ~.