Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-18


New York, June II. 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 tit
for lovely woman. A woman looks
pretty eating Strawberries Tho white
ness and shapeliness OF her hand shows
to perfection as she lifts each straw
berry by it's stem to her lips, and then
proceeds to eat it in the dainty way
that well-bred woman always does,
which, between you and me, is some-
thing after the fashion of polite kit.
ten. AL the good things that we have,
strawberries, asparagus green corn are
dainty to eat, and tend to make one
healthful, which means, Of course,
beautiful The trouble is, that we
don't appreciate our blessings We see
wagon load of pineapples go by and
think nothing more of it; in England,
a pine, as they insist on calling it,
costs guinea; the first night it is put
upon the table to do duty as decora-
tion, and then, on the second night, is
carefully cut by the hostess, each guest
getting tiny littlO piece. So il is
with melona. The English melon is
cross between cantaloupe and
watermelon, is dealt out as II it were
gold, and is particularly tasteess and
dreadfully expensive.
Then there is ice You and /, who
are housekeepers, growl dreadfuly
about the ice men, but il We were in
England and asked for some ice at
dinner, a piece the size OF a small
apple would be brought and that would
be expected to answer for everybody at
the table. | tell you, We don I appre-
ciate our mercies. About the only good
thing in the fruit line that England
offers is the goosebeIry Here, we
know it is sour, hard berry, seldom
served in its natural state aud not over
good when made into pie or tart
Over there it is pink of color and las
an exquisite taste, swet tncss with
tinge OF sourness best describing it,
/ like TO see an English woman's face
preferably an English houseKeeper'
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
peaches, such peaches as she only gets
from hot-house, can be bought for
few pennies by the working mans
wife, and that great, big, sweet, juicy
melons are, in season, almost given
away. 1t gives her IN opportunity to
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 10 tho fore. ia
quite common, is an Englishman eating
his first clam and French woman
her first green corn. The difference
in nationalities stands out plainly. The
Partisan ia determined to be pleased
the Englishman is determined to bo
displeased, and yet equally determined
to taste the little beast, ''for fear he
might be thought coward. He first
says the clam is too fishy; then be an
nounces that it is neither as bitter nor
as salt as those miserable things that
IN England are called natives, and
which compare with our oysters as
stage pineapples does to real one.
But in time the Englishman and the
clam grow very friendly, an when he
goes back home, the Englishman takes
with him a chating dish, and he hopes
10 be able to teach the wife Of his
bosom how to prepare on il Just such
dainties as he has had from the chafipg
dish here. Deluded man He f,rrets
that clans la Schenck would be i'm.
possible where clans do not exist. that
lobsters a la Nowburg will not please
the English palate, and that terrapin,
well-to tell the truth, he never got
quite accustomed to terrapin himself,
Nowadays he has better opinion Of
American cooking than dc used 10
nave. y Is curious how little tho we'll.
bred English people know about our
country, and it must be confessed that.
after visiting, not the sct that is writ.
ten about, not the set into which
American girls have married, but the
real English people who are shyly
hospitablo, well mannerod, well.reaa
and interesting, oHe's vanity reta a
tumble Tho truth is discovered, II
ls this; they are not interested IN
us What we go and what we saw ia d
matter Of 20 Importance to them. and
sometimes ! don't blame them They
have got the finest ships in tho world
they have got the finest army III the
world, and they have cot tie best
government in the world ana why
should they be Interested in a lot ii
nan halt civilized savages like ourselves:
They need only read one of our news.
iapers II they desire to prove that va
are savagea.
An English woman who had been Ia
India several times, who Coos 10 E,Yynt
avery spring, who has Travelled MI nys,
the continent, WAS sururised that IN.
70 white, since Americans IiyFfl N
nothing but salt pork Ana this has
only been tive Years ago She said shf
was afraid to CONS to this country IL.
cause she understood ynchibg VA.
common, and ahe thought II sha saW !
man hung. as 4he might ia n the
street at any time, ii would unset M,
nerves, We think that we arc A 6reat
people but We are not that ia ~ nrt
not III the eyea of the great mass az n,
English people while I'D arc loalyel d.
a. semi harhariana by mast az Nj,
French. Probably there 4 IN be n,o,,
respect shown Us when ~ have
Gerent government, but n loE9 a4 IL,
haven't even an attractive fie1rabeaf
We cannot EXPECT the shiu If fafe /,
be particularly aiBilptl. Wp arG ripb
n Thinking great deai uf 0Irp3lree
b4t we must get away from tbq jde,
iltist other natiuna arc much tr6nbIa,
il'ubt us. am afraid That III ii canf,
i9a naval display we c6uldnif + M III,
aos1 business, and ! am also afraid i
= came e an army display, ven war
haye brought out sndd lighters, IN
our army is not narticllafly large, -
docs Vt have proper attention SHOWN /
bf the powers thar bp.
'farl"ti4 goodness must sion d
ela' a@mehody will conclude that
GaNe serious apiRiens, ana tbe4r an
47t 29@l things to haHe They tfo46f
ynt ia the night. All nais4 IN as.,
eei9hs n something Hst w9rrlaa van
Nhat n n Heart n ean&eiangr 4
.yltHt Conscirnef IL q tFdGldee5r
tilR5' ~ warm we&tHOr Httia .Gntty
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