The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-14

S'Si 5AoSHS anu pine branches, DISPLAY
newly imported German behring's.
Picked things are they, swimming in
prime and vinegar, covered with a
dozen different spices and condiments,
another German food that has won it's
way through Irish, Hungarian, Ital-
ian and Hebriac settlements They
are displayed temptingly, in clean, I'M
painted wooden barrels tilted to show
the bronze and gold of the half-sub-
merged fish.
smoked goose, glistening in transpar-
eht masses of fatty gelatine, pasties of
game and common meats, and tubs full
OF picked cabbage, are regular fea-
lures of every other window of shons
devoted to food.
Food and drink are the great Christ
mas features of the tenement district
me butcher shops, gaudy with paper
mowers, show venison and rabbits and
squirrels, besides immense beeyes and
miles or links of every kind of sausage
from the black and red "blutwurst' to
the white, rich, "leberwurst." all of
them delicious. The groceries. fenced
with Christmas trees and evergreens
display tubs full of nuts, oranges. and
ralslns. The raisin is a great fayorite.
ne bakeries are a-choke with good
doors. Sugared wreath-like cakes and
heavy yellow and brown raisin cakes
predominant.
Queer Delicatessen.
But the delicatessen stores remain
the true courts of Christmas in the
tenements. Cheap and high-priced
foods of strange kinds are piled I'D in
each of these curious establishments
from Russian caviar and smoked stur-
geon to queer German cheeses like the
pale and alarming "sinkers" that are
baked in full view of the public in
the coffee and cake establishments of
America.
The "lebkuchen" is truly German
lnsellutlon that has become a uni
Versal goody on the East and West
Sides. 1t is sugared honey cake. II
comes IN many grades and qualities.
all imported. Some of the finer kinds
are shipped in beautifully decorated
round boxes of embossed tin. Other
leDkuchen are shaped into reindeer and
saint Nlcks, ranging in size from tinv
cakes TO figures two and three feet
nlgn. Some of the better grades of leb-
huChen are several months in baking
ana preparing, for one part of the pro-
cess in Germany is to soak the cakes
IN money for weeks in glass jars.
Marzlpan" is even more EXPENSIVE
tnan leokuehen. 1t is a most delicious
almond paste, very heavy, so that one
gets discouragingly small quantity
In pound Marzipan comes in HIM
oreds of different forms, being shaned
10 make miniature carrots, potatoes.
strawberries, apples and other fruits
ana vegetables and animals. Each
piece is colored exquisitely with vepa-
taDle colorings, and besides being a.
oellgntful thing to eat the Christmas
narzlpan is decidedly ornamental and
decorative for the Christmas table
Inc tenement house district loves fbe
christmas tree. Only the very moor
families are content to do without one.
ana even they try to have at least a
Dranch'' which they hang with gilt and
Unset and set with as many coIorad
candies as they can afford.
Consequently the deep gorges of
streets are empowered with beau+v
now Tor there are few corners that
DO not show bundles OF trees on the
sidewalk. either before a shop or on
peddler's cart.
The open-Air Bazaar.
These recurrent bowers Of erao,,
form pretty settings for quaint and
pleasant characteristic OF the tenement
house city, and particularly OF the eaEt
side. That Is the open air holiday
market II Is like 4 country faty
Booths, push carts. sidewalk stands
ana baskets line the sidewalks. The
air IL full Of the piping and brayinr
ana juggling ~ music and nOise-nak-
ing toys, the thin, brave ciatfer Of lin
mechanisms. and the voices ~ the ped
aiers, yieiHg with each other in q mad
Joyous. amazing, stirring medley ~
noise, Do thousand notes, registers
and dialects
These street markeff are not eonere-
kefionE ~ mere Sidewalk hueksiers