Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-24

berry tart, stewed gooaeberries and fresh
gooscherriss. a..-
You smile in your sleeve at the wife
Of clerk on 81, GOO a year in America
offering a visitor Buch fruit, VIII len is
tho best the woman with great deal
of money can get in the land governed
by the Queen. In both France and
England the oysters are greenish
yellow IN color smell rather like am
mnnia and taste, on, ye gods The taste
must he cultivated, and during the
cultivation the aaonias of DAnte's fifth
hell would be endured.
Last week an Englishman who knows
how | appreciate good things to sat
sent inc delightful pair OF pheasants,
some wonderfully good fish and three
dozen oysters from the river Mersey.
Those oysters were put in wash boiler
aud kept alive for four days on diet
Of cornmeal and water. The fifth day
they we're to make their appearance at
a dinner party. On the morning of the
fifth day it was noticed that they ate
no breakfast. Later they went 10 the
tishmonger to he opened, and III less
time than it takes 10 tell it tbs fish
m0ngerH assistant appeared on the
sceno with sorrow on his face and no
coat ON. He said he thought would
scarcely like to have the oysters on the
table, as they were not quite nice. lie
ID modest young man, and that was
the way he put it. | said to him:
Perhaps you never met an English
oyster before, and its natural appear
anue and odor, being strange 10 you,
seem unniGe. Bring them TO me and
let me he the Judge of their condition. "
In little while he appeared with
scarf tied around his face and tray 10
his hands. He got lust as far as the
kitchen door, when the united voice OF
tins family begged him to depart and
take the oysters with him. lie went
with rapidity and presumably pleasure,
and gave my guests good American
oysters, for which l always give thanks.
We used to talk about Scotch mutton,
| Nowadays there 10 mutton browsing on
the Virginia hills that goe8 across the
water and comes back marked as from
| the Scotch moore, and we, deluded
souls, pay higher price for it than il
| it were stamped American, which IL is.
In London the best and most ex-
peusive beef is that labeled "From
| America, and English housekeepers.
when they see tine amount of fruit and
the variety of vegetables and the good
things that are 30 plentiful and so cheap
in this land Of freedom, clasp their
bands and say, "What an easy time
the American housekeeper must have !"
And yet the American woman does no!
appreciate the condition of affairs. Bad
food has made more trouble than any
thing else in this world. It has driven
men to drink and, worse than that. to
dyspepsia, whils it hos ruined the looks
of many pretty woman. Overdone
meat, expressive butter, weighty bread
and badly set tables have MAIDS men
murderers mentally il not in actually.
1t does not cost cent more to have
a decent dinner than to have bad ons.
1t is true it may take little more time
aud thought, but that time and that
thought arc we'll expended. The average
woman belonging to the proper sort o.
society, which is the one / suggest
should be started, would take proper
pride in her dinner table, would get tt
know the delights Of hospitality anC
would make her home the creates
enemy to the barrooms and all thu
undesirable and wicked haunts tina
attract men.
BY -the-by if you are feminine, ant
the chance are ten TO one that you are
you will be interested in three dresse
that are absolutely new, of which in
close you the pictures. The girl 10 thu
walking dress has on a satin cloth o
the new shade Of gray, trimmed will
black braid and black silk. Her para
sol is gray chiffon and her hat gra.
straw, trimmed with white gauze ant
black wings. Isu't thBt white dres
darling? | mean the one that i
mads entirely of lace insertion ant
dotted muslin. The other gown is
dinner uresH of chiffon. embroidere.
with white pearl beads, with accordion
plated chiffon on the shoulders Tn
hat, which makes il certain that tn
dinner ia at come fashionable restaurant
is OF cerise velvet, embroidered il
pearls, with bunch OF cerise chiffol
on one side and white ostrich tip JUS
behind it. How well those Frencl
women pose bow careful they are t
get the right sort OF background! Tho.
know how TO have the harmonies il
life. But there is nothing after all lik
being in harmony with your back
ground, with yourself and with you
fellow man. There are some Things "
aare II in harmony about.
We are all in harmony about tn
smart little French bow that looks 8
effective under dimpled chin.
! We are all in harmony as to the valu
of the Typewriter. What would tn
editor do with those who do not writ
carefully il it were not for her?
We are all in harmony about tn
beauty of ths close fitting cloth suit
worn Dy the right woman, whuse curve
are caught on to even by the irreverer
messenger boy.
We are all in harmony about th
value of the telegraph, though we fa
to see why the ordinary operator canne
spell correctly, and if our name
Katherine with X insists on spellin
il with q.
We are all in harmony about til
: value of the Telephone, but sometime
we get tired of saying hello and long
reverse it and say what would bette
I DO loft unsad.
! We are all in harmony as to the heaut
of a new bonnet, even il its value a
: rated by you and me he different froI
! that as rated by the miliner.
, We are pretty harmonious lot, tax
us all in all, for nobody is anxious
/ 20 to war, but if war does come we wi
meet the people who want to fight an
: show them Just how valuable We are in
3 fight, won't we. or course We viii
r Your neighbor thinks SO, and so doe
: her Neighbour, who is next door neigh
, Dor to Bah.
, willed n Building to a Church.