The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-27

ahOgIt mine months OF the year, pAIFhI you
have to pay a guinea for pineapple,
when oranges bring outrageous prices
and are sour, and even When frult is
To the fore lit costs AN awful lot, ana
Won get gooseberTy tart, stewed goose
berries and fresh goose'berries.
Yon smile in your sleeve at the wife
of n clerk on 81 900 a year in America
offer;g n visitor SUCH fruit, which is
the best the woman with a great deal of
money can get in the land governed by
the Queen In both France and Eng
| land the oysters are "a greeniSh yellow
in color. smell rather like ammonia,
and taste, oh, We gods, the taste must
be cultivated. and during the cultivation
the agonies of Dante's fifth he'll would
| he endured.
Last week AN Englishman who knows
| how appreciate good things TO eat sent
me a delightful pair of pheasamts, some
| wonderfully good fish and three dozen
oysters from the river Mersey. Those
! oysters were put in a wash boiler and
kept alive for four days on diet of
cornaneal and water. The fifth day
they were to make their appearance at
dinner party On THE morning of the
fifth day it was noticed that they ate
no breakfast Later they went to the
| fishmonger to he opened, and in less
time than it takes to tell it the fish
monger's assistant appeared on the
scene with sorrow on his face and mo
coat ON. He said he Thought 4 w0ulo
scarcely Hike to have THE oysters on the
table, as they were not quite nice. He
is a modest young man, and THAT was
the way he put it. i said to him: Per
hapS you never met an English oyster
before, and its natural appearance ana
od0r, being strange to you, seem un-
nice. Brig them TO me and let me be
the judge of their condition"
In little while he appeared with
scarf tied around his face and a tray i'll
his hands. He got just as far as thu
Kitchen door, when the united voice OF
the family begged HIM ITO depart and
take the oysters with him. He went
with rapidity and presumably pleasure.
and l gave my guests good American
oysters, for which | always give thanks.
We used to talk about Scotch mutton.
| Nowadays there is mutton browsing ON
the Virginia hills that goes across the
waiter and comes back marked as from.
the Scotch moors, and we, deluded souls
pay higher price for it than if it were
stamped American. which it is.
| In London the best and most eNpen-
sive beef is that labeled From Ameri(-
ca" and English houSekeepers, when
they see the amount of fruit and the
variety OF vegetables and the good
things that are 50 plentiful and so
cheap ON This land of freedom, clasp
their hands and say: What an easy timc
| the American houSekeeper must haye"'
/ And yet the American woman does not
appreciate the condition of affairs. Bad
| food has made more trouble than any
thing else in this world. 1T has driven
men to drink and, worse than tAat, to
/ dyspepsia, while It has ruined the looks
of many a pretty woman. Overdone
ment, expressive butter. weighty bread
and badly set tables have made men
mufderers mentally, il not In actualty.
| 1t does not cost cent more To have n
decent dinner than to have a bad one
| 1t is true lit may take a little more time
and Thought, but that time and that
Thought are well expended. The ay-
erage woman belonging to the proper
sort of society. (which is the one ! sug-
gest should he started. would take
proper pride i'm her dinner table, would
/ get to know the delights of hospitality
and would make her home the greatest
enemy to the bar-rooms and all the lln-
desirable and wicked haunts that at
! tract men.
By the bye, if you are feminine, and
the chances are ten to one that you are.
you Will be interested in three dresses
that are absolutely new, of which
inclose you the pictures. The girl in the
| walking dress has ON a stain cloth or
the new shade OF gray, trimmed with
black braid and black silk. Her para
sol is gray chiffon and her hat gray
straw, trimmed with white gauze ana
black wings. Isn't that white dress
a darling! / mean the one that is
made entirely of lace insertion and dot
ted muslin. The other gown is a din
ner dress of beads, with accordion
plaited chiffon ON the shoulders. The
| hat, which makes it certain that the
dinner is at some fashionable restau-
rant. is Of celtse velvet, embroidered in
pearls, with a bunch of cerise chiffon
on one side and a white ostrich Zip just
behind it. How well those French wo-
men pose! How careful they are to get
the right sort of background! They
know how TO have the harnonies in
i life. But there is nothing after all like
being in harmony with your background
with yourself and with your fellow
man. There are some things we are
all i'm harmony about.
We are all in harmony about the
smart little French bow that looks so
effective under dinpled chin.
/ We are all in harmony as to the val
ne of the typewriter What would the
editor do with those who do not write
carefully if it were not for her?
We are all in harmony about the
beauty of the clOse-ftting cloth suiu
If worn by the right woman, whose
curves are caught on to even by the
irreverent messenger boy.
We are all in harmony about the val
ne of the telegraph, though we fail to
see why the ordinary operator cannot
spell correctly and If our name as Kath-
crime with u X insists on spelling it
with a G.
! We are all in harmony about the val
ne of the telephone, but sometimes we
get tired of saying hello and long. to re-
verse at and say what would better be
! left unsaid.
We are all in harmony as to the beau
ty of a new bonnet, even ii its value as