The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-29

ice ana proper lopu, theIt
about nine months Of the year, that you
have to pay Il guinea for q pineapple,
when oranges bring outrageous prices
and are sour. and even when fruit i
10 the fore it costs an awful lot, and
you get gUoseberry tart. steve goose
berries and fresh goOSebrrries.
You smile in your sleeve at the VIE
Of a clerk on $1,000 Il year III America
offer;g a visitor such fruit. Which IS
the best the woman with Il great deal Of
money can get in the LAND governed By
the Queen. In both France and Eng
land the oysters are a grcen1Sh yellow
in color. smell rather like ammonia,
and taste. oh, We gods. the taste must
be cultivated. and during the cultivation
the agouies of Dante's fifth hell would
be endured.
Last week an Enslishman who knows
how | appreciate good things to eat sent
me Il delightful pair of pheasants, some
wonderfully good fish and three dozen
,ysters from the river Mcrsey. Those
:, oysters were put in Il wash boiler and
kept alive for four days on a diet Of
cOrnmcal and water. The fifth Gay
they were to make their appearance 1T
Il dinner party. On the moTnIn OF the
| fifth day it was noticed that they ;lte
no breakfast. Later they went to the
fishmOnger to be opened, and III less
time than it takes to tell it the fish
monger's assistant appeared on the
scene with SORROW on his face and no
coat on. He said he thought L Wo7llo
scarcely like to have the oysters on the
table, as they were not quite nice. lie
is n modest Young man, and that was
the way he put it. | said to him: Per
haIs YOU never met an English oyster
Inforo onl itc ~ t111-ll oJpnp1J11cp 1I16
odor, being strange to you. seem I'M
nice. Brig them to me and let me be
the Judge of their condition"
In a little while he appeared with a
scarf tied around ibis face and a tray III
Wis hands. He got just as far as the
Kitchen door, when the united voice OF
the family begged him to depart and
take the oysters with him. lie went
with rapidity and presumably pleasure
and | gave my guests good Amerlcain
oysters. for (which / always give thanks,
We used to talk about Scotch muttC
Nowadays there is mutton browsing or
the Virginia drills that goes across THE
waiter and comes back marked as from
tire Scotch moors, and we, deluded souls
pay Il higher price for it than if it were
stamped American, WllIcl ut lis.
I'm London the best and most eXpen-
sivc beef is that labeled Prom AmeriC
ca and English h~olrsekeepers, w1Icr
they see the mount of fruit and tho
variety of vegetables and the GOOD
Things that are so plentiful and Sc
cheap in this land of dreedom, claSl
their hands and say: "Wllat an easy tim,
the American ~housckecpCr must have.
And yet the American woman does moi
appreciate the condition of affairs. BaC
food has made more trouble than any,
thing else in this world. 1t inas driver
mon to drink and, WORSE than ttat, t
dyspepsia, while lit has ruined the look
Of many II pretty woman OverdOn,
ment. expressive butter, Wcighty brca'
and badly set tables have made mel
murderers mentally, if not i'll actuality
1t hoes not cost II cent more to have
| decent dinner than to have Il bad onc
1t is true lit may take a little more tim,
and Thought, but that time and tha
I Thought a1e well expended. The ay
erage woman belonging to the pTopc
sort of society, (which is the one | Sug
gcSt should be started. would tax
: proper pride in her dinner table. wOult
get to know the delights of llospitalit.
/ and would make her home the creates
/ enemy to the bar-rooms and all the I'm
! desirable and wicked haunts that al
2 tract men.
: BY the bye, if YOU are feminine, an
{ the chances arc ten to one that YOU arc
: you VIII be Interested i'll three drcsse
: that arc absolutely new, Of which
llcloSe You the pictures. The girl III th
: walking dress has on Il stain cloth {
( the new shade of gray, trimmed wit
q black braid and black silk. Her par:
sol is gray chiffon and her hat gra
straw, trimmed with white ga1lze an
Z black wings. Isn't that white dres
Il darling? | mean the one that
made entirely OF lace insertion and do
ted muslin. The other gown is Il din
= her dress of beads, with accordio
plaited chiffon on the shoulders. Nh
hat, which makes it certain that til
) dinner is at some fashionable restal
rant. is of ccrise velvet, embroidered i
pearls, with Il bunch of cerise chiffo
= on one side and a Write ostrich Tip jus
! behind it. How well those French w
men pose. How careful they are to e
the right sort of background. The
know how to have the harmOnics i
life. But there is nothing after all Ill
being i'll harmony with your backgronn
! with yourself and with your fellow
> man. There are some things we a
all IN harmony about.
y We are all in harmony about til
smart little French bow that looks S
effective under Il dimpled chin.
We are all in harmony as to the va
lie of the typewriter. What would tt
= editor do with those who do not writ
carefully if it were not for her?
! We are all in harmony about til
beauty of the clOse-fitting cloth su
if worn by the right Woman who's
"a curves are caught on to even by tt
lrIcvcrcnt messenger boy.
We are all in harmony about the va
IL ne of the telegraph, though we fail
cs see why the ordinary operator canine
O. spell correctly and If our name is Kat
to crime with Il Il insists on spelling
!. with u G.
" We are all in harmony about the va
Z ne of the telephone, but sometimes "
III get tired of saying hello and long to L
3 verse it and say what would better
left unSaid.
~ We are all in harmony as to the bea-
ty of Il new bonnet, even if its value
to rated by you and me be different fro
that as rated by me m%illiner.