The morning times., 1896-04-05
HARRISON'S GIANT WEDDING CAKE
1t Is Elaborate With FrOSting
and Artistic Ornaments and
Cost a Sum That Would
Furnish a Feast.

upon the center OF the dining table. In
the top or IT Is set silver or cut glass
vase, amt this Is filled with pink hothOuse
roses. This style is much admired by eveyy-
body, except the caterer who supplies tina
ornament. To his meFcenary eye tie vasa
OF PINK roses IS an unworthy substitute
for the sugar bell.
There bias ICr long time been a largo
import trade in wedding cake decorations
The very finest paste and sugar orna-
ments have come from abroad. Paris,
Berlin and Vienna sending them to this
country The foreign wedding cake dec
OratiOns are the work OF fine artists and
are worth preserving as a good piece OF
sugar sculpture.
The difference between the work at
home and that abroad is that the foreign
decorator makes his ornaments exquisitiveIy
ilne- You can examine them minutely
and not find a grain or sugar misplaced.
or a wipe OF paste too deep. This care
Is exercised throughout the making Of the
decorations until. when completed, they
are frail. but nIarvel1us works Of sugar art.
The home wedding cake artists strive
after effect. They model with the hands
quickly or cast it in a mold. Their
work is thousand times as pretty from
distance. And is more acceptable for
a roOmful OF people who must view it over
is too minute In wOrkma nship to be appre-
ciated. except by the select few OF the
bridal party. But these can forever pre-
serve the work as a wedding souvenir
Both kinds OF workmanship thus have their
own advantages.
The wedding cake industry is agrowing
now. Scarcely any one now but has q
maria ge cake. II you look over the Bure3U
of vital Statistics, until you come to the
marriage list, YOU can put down the result
as the number OF wedding cakes made dur
ing the year, so few are there who do not
have cake.
The groom's cake is a smaller one than
the brides. and may have any tiny decora-
ton upon IL. Few weddings have a groOm5
cake, but there are old settlers and
foreigners who preserve the independents
custom OF two cakes. The cuts from the
groom's cake are taken by bis relatives
Ito dream upon and the slices from the
brides cake by her relatives. The two
cakes are shared alike By friends.
The style ia wedding cakes changes a
little A few years ago there were many
square cakes. Now there are none bus
round ones. II a very large wedding
cake is to be made il is baked in quarters
and put together carefully. The four
pans that bake the four quarters are shaped
iTreguiarly as the quarter OF round cake
must be. In oIden days there would have
been several square ones baked and made
| into great square Cak but now the we'd
| ding cake must show the neveF-e endfng
| circle OF true love like the wedding ring
| The Harrison wedding cake will stand
| trusting the same reliable little chirper
| almost as tan as Benjamin himself-with
| the ornament counted in. And doubtless
| a piece Of it will travel to all political
| friends, whether they be Democrats or
rivals for honors upon the same field as
/ that upon which the groom may fight, bile
| the scent of the wedding cake is yet fresh
| in the house.