The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-16

JANUARY 16, 1904
look like paintings all gold blue and white the
Whole beautiful creation looks fit to kept ur-
der glass than left to the mercy elements
QUITE the queerest sensation for American on his
first visit to London is to see signs everywhere
nounclng that American this that is for There
IS not medium price restaurant in that does
not advertise Iced American long drinks. sp" What
in the world is American long drink?' pretty
waitress was asked.
wy she said, "Hts water with cream, not
hice cream but coffee cream"
ugh!' we all said in concert It should think it
would be perfectly dreadful"
It was not until returned home that learned
that this same combination the
combination before some invented the ice
soda It before my day, for I never
of it,
Then there specaces, American style, one of
the few things American that have been translated
exactly they in their native foreigner
knows nothing of rmless glasses he them
glasses the bridge extends in straight line the
top of the glasses.
Everything in the store line in London is a shop
except two cooperative stores, candy
pies cakes, etc.. under the term Sweet"
confectionery store becomes "sweet shop Here
too, the Americanization has begun Americans
the greatest eaters Of candy in the world
very far behind in the chewing of gum, and hap
pens that sweet shops turning into candy
brave in the display of well known brands American
gum, marshmallows and chocolates
saratogas and grpsacks' in place of the boxes and
bags the names under which the things
IT HE amusing American straw of ALL however
I is the American Quick Lunch Room" especially
happen to run across it until one has been
in London long enough become accustomed to
the quiet conservative English ways doing business
First there is giant Very bic giant dressed in -
striking uniform, standing the
ton Next, in the window perfectly unheard of
thing in England-there is Installed sriddla on which
A alxaSD lie tho
wait, and English people look smile believe
both popular of advertising in America. Once
within the DOORS there signs telling the where
abouts of the "log cabin smoking room,' unknown
land to women, as only admitted and then,
OH oh, OH actually pitchers of water standing
around on the tables. In the sixty days spent
rope, this was the first and only time ice
and one of the few times when able to get even
by asking.
American walters their patrons with ice water
before they think of taking n Europe, ice
water hardly be obtained by of club
or fee It simply isn't, that is all. And there,
when thing like that isn't the average not
cocted.
they call the New York breakfast" happened to
be luncheon time when and after that one
trying never cared to rife with my Digestion since
have but and return what such a breakfast
might be- Probably pie forms part of it. Plain salad
is fourpence-eght cents in money but salad,
American STYLE is shilling, twenty-five cents
The great American club sandwich is shilling,
for wonder the that it costs in America,
tive home. Fruit and vegetables wonderfully lack
ing in the bill of fare English boarding
houses, ana strawberry ShOrtcake, American STYLE"
struck forcbly being something likely to allay
the chronic craving for genuine, average American
cooking that down it went my order. That short
cake When it came I did know whether to cry
or laugh 1t disappointing yet very. very
funny.
There kinds of shortcake made in
America Some are dry, the berries being merely set
between the layers without crushing Others-the kind
was brought on-are made of the tenderest baking
powder biscuit dough, split and buttered while hot,
with crushed berries and between top and
standing half inch deep in the DISH cake of this
Anglo-American shortcake between cup
cake and biscuit and possessed good quail
tiles of either. Perhaps it intended to be sponge
cake, but it was not success at that.
First there layer of the cake, then layer
OF uncrushed, unsweetened berries LAYER Of
moist granulated inch thick, really and truly
an inch by the most particular Above this
libel of the American shorcake filling successive
layers of cake, Strawberries and sugar dab of
whipped cream to finish off. It
tasted about like the
Arnar thin