The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-07
BoNBoNS AND CONNECTIONS.
THE MAN MILLINER MAKES ANNA
HOLD HATS OF SUGAR.

| From the New YORK llmes.
1t Is easy to make candy.
There are receipts in every cookbook,
| and the veriest novice in cooking will
have at her tongues end dozen or more
ways of making the most delicious confec-
tons, and they are all warranted not to
fail
The home manufacturer, however, does
not usually say CONNECTIONS Candy is a
good home word. Bonbons come from the
shops There are bonbons and bonbons.
and there is candy and candy. Some of
the candy is very good and some of the
bonbons are very much better. There is
candy that finds it's way from the hands
of home cooks, sometimes to church fairs
and the like, which reminds the kind
hearted purchaser strongly Of youthful
days when there was nothing so delicious
as homemade ice cream. The snow was
not fine grained and there was occasionally
a lump into which neither favoring nor
sugar had penetrated. But then the next
mouthful tasted better by contrast. But
snow ice cream belongs to youthful days,
when novelty breeds healthy appetite.
Homemade candy is not now so much in
favor.
In the basement below a big Fifth ave-
| nue. establishment is the department
| where CONNECTIONS of all kinds are made,
and a visit TO 1t gives an idea of how the
work is done Mr. Sherry took a reporter
for the New York Times down into this
| region of sweets the other day. There
was feeling of expectancy on the way
| down the stairs and through the hallway
toward closed door. What would be
| seen when the door should be opened?
| Would there be a crystal palace of candy,
| translucent towers, rainbow-coored walls
| and transparent window panes, all of
sugar. like the buildings in the fairy
| tales? Then the door opened and there
was mat.er-of-fact engine room. That
was what it looked to an uninitiated
stranger. Nothing but machinery, appar-
! entity, and i'm place where everything
is made by hand.
That was the first glance. The second
showed, further along, the man milliner
said to be one of the best artists in
town-trimming Anna Held hats. The ar
tihcial flower artist is following in the
wake of the man milliner, making artih-
cial roses-not for the hat-and further
on were men and women engaged in the
more ordinary occupation of dipping choc-
olates and sugaring cherries.
A half dozen different things run into
each other in a bonbon establishment.
| Anna Held will never wear the pretty
little pink hat with plumes that the man
milliner was making, though il was dainty
enough to fit the locks of a more ethereal
damsel than the etoie de Paris.
There were a number of hats, nearly
life-size, made of the most exquisite shade
of pink, of the most delicate apple green,
and of the pink and green combined.
! There was a high, deep crown to each
hat, with rolling brim, a narrow flut-
ing of pink or green around the crown,
and then the big plume. They We're
| spring hats, and the candy straws of
which they were made were put in place,
one after the other, around the hat until
it had attained its proper dimensions.
That artistically dropping rim troubled
the man milliner at first. How can
| that be done?" he asked in French for
these hats are Partisan.
Put it on a big piece of tin with cor
responding rolls" came the answer, then
let 1t stand in the hot room, and it will
fall into shape and remain there. That
settled the matter, for candy hats are
in some ways easier to make than the
genuine article Their component parts
remain securely in place without thread
or pins when once placed.
The crimped ruching which trims the
crowns of the hat is delicately shaped by
hand and laid in place, and the plume is
the last thing to go on and the most deli
| cate piece of workmanship 1t is on one
side of the hat, and the trimmer, with a
| little mass of deep pink candy before him.
pulls il out into enthusiastically narrow
strips, daintily puts it together into half
a dozen little loops, and puts these in
| place on the hat. This he keeps repeat
ing, carrying his loops down an undulat-
| ing line until a whole plume is formed
of them. The work has to be quickly
DONE for the candy cools in a few mo-
| ments, and it must be carefully done,
for if the candy is pulled out too much or
| not enough the color will be too delicate
or too deep and the plume be shaded, in
stead of being, according to the prevail
ing mode. all one tint
The workman who does the work is a
! flne-looking man, with a pointed black
beard and face that looks thoughtful and
pale against his white cap and apron.
He was taken in to wash the pots, and
now, il is said, that there is not better
artist of his kind in New York.
Hats are only one variety of the many
things he makes. There is a little sleigh
standing near, which is to appear on some
table, filled with ice-cream snowballs, that
Is his handiwork, and there are other
things of all kinds to suit different occa-
sions The hats will be filled with cream,
and there are cream-tilled parasols among
other designs.
The flower make is a developing artist
He is learning, and in case of an emer-
gency will be able to take the other man s
place. He takes the same material Of
| ptIHdpSs a Nttptf Sitduti anu Shapes tne
rose petals, holds the end of one as he
completes Il, as II il was a piece of putty,
to the blaze of a little light which stands
on the table beside him, softens IL suf-
iciently for his purpose, and puts IL in
place on the rose he is making. That may
be a wide-open rose. a receptacle for an in
dividual service of cream.
In any case. IL will be the exact shade Of
the real flowers which give the color tone
to the table decorations The flowers may
be Jacqueminot roses, they may be roses
OF the most delicate shade of pink. yellow
jonquils-anything in the wide variety Of
flowers used for that purpose-and the
CONNECTIONS will be made to match them.
The coloring matter used for the confec-
lions stands on the tables. There was a
small jar of a acknowledging paste, bot
tie that looked as II II might contain n
deep-colored red wine. and another bottle
was full of deep-green colored liquid not
so pleasant 10 look at.
They are all vegetable products, II is
said. one can eat enough of the coloring
matter TO color a quart or two of the
candy mixture a deep shade. or take