Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-18

table societies have found this out bv
the women always asking for q certain
number Of pounds Of floor, Just enough
for one baking, in their grocery lists.
They make the flour into a number of
loaves, which, put into one pan, bake
into one great loaf The size of the
family seems to make no difference.
II the family is small the bread simply
lasts little longer and gets a little
dryer. The bread is very good when
fresh. They do not use as much yeast
as American cooks and the bread is
very crusty, something on the ordeA
Of French bread. The poorest family
also uses a great deal of "polenta."
This is merely flour stirred into boil
ing water after the manner of old
fashioned American "hasty pudding"
only that flour is used instead of corn
meal. No people i'm the world are so
devoted to wheat flour as the Italians.
| Whether in the form of bread, polenta
or the omnipresent macaroni 1t forms
the bulk of their diet.
"old Iron" Street
In all changes in the character of New
York; streets Center street, between
Chambers and Broome, still continue
to be the "old iron" thoroughfare.
Chains lyon bars, iron boxes, iron
pipes, iron swivels, iron castings, iroh
weights, iron pillars-everything in
the iron line can be found along Cen
! ter street. The most curious thing,
perhaps, as to Center streets keeping
of this distinction Is that 1t is far
| from the water front, where usuallyn
the demand for old iron is largest
Indeed, the very name Center was be-
slowed upon this thoroughfare for the
| reason that it was the street near
est the center between the two rivers
| on each side of Manhattan Island
| Before that 1t had been Collect street
and 1t is just one century ago that the
COLLECT" deep pond of those days
through.
Dogs and Wardrobes
Women who own toy dogs are busy
getting ready the wardrobes these tiny
creatures need at the dog show in the
Waldorf The animals have
| lingerie, trimmed silk kimonos and
dainty silk boots to wear when they
are not on exhibition in the ring and
are reclining on their eiderdoWn pill
lows of embroidered satin or silk in
the rest room. Many of the dogs VIII
have maids to battle them every day
| in perfumed water, to brush their
teeth and to manicure their nails so
that they cannot disarrange their hair
| after 1t has been groomed AS q spe-
cial prize Is to be given for the hand
soonest basket or cage for these llttle
dogs society women are vieing with
one another in having expensive bas-
| ketS made by hand. Some of these
will be decorated with exquisite hand
embroidery.
Diamonds Popular Again
With the price of diamonds going
up it must be most distressing to So
ciety danes of Gotham to hear that
this is to be a season of intense rival
ry and strife as to the Jewels with
which fashionable society will deck
itself. 1t is asserted that Mrs. James
Henry Smith may wear $50O,OOO of dia-
monds which her new husband gave
her, which will mean that envious
| women will have a trying situation to
| face and must begin at once to have
| their precious necklaces overhauled
preparatory to the coming campaign.
| Once. it was a rivalry of gowns, but
| now there is a new standard by which
| the society queen is judged-the stan
| dard of dazzling diamonds.
Mourn the Marcel Wave
| Hair dressers are weeping bitter
tears at the report that the marcel
wave is ebbing on the shores of fash
| ION. VI course, lONe LOT llstl cOllIure
| is born wholly of artistic considera-
| ton. STILL the arguments they put
| forth against more natural style of
hair dressing sound weak One hair
| dresser goes so far DIS to say that
having ones tresses carefully "mar-
celed" is a moral uplift not to be de-
spised. She finds that view affirmed
/ by customers who feel that the marcel
wave is especially suited to their in
| dividual styles. "Why turn it off at
winters approach, when it has sur
vived the summer and many wet
day?" demands one woman, who is
loyal to old friends.
Rubbernecks Held Up to Scorn
When big bluecoat of the traffic
squad yesterday ordered Harry Green,
chauffeur of sightseeing auto in
Fifth avenue, to cross over to the other
side of the avenue Green, the police
man says, turned to the passengers
and said through his megaphone:
''There IS one of New York's officious
policemen" The passengers laughed
| and the cop jumped up on the machine
and arrested Green on charges of vio-
lating the rules of the road and dis
| orderly conduct The machine was
| left in the avenue and crowd of boys
jeered the passengers. Get horse"
| they said. Pipe the rubbernecks."
! THE GOTHAMITE.