The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-28

| Communications had heretofore been re-
garded as an Americanism, so seldom
are the houses of our cousins across
the water thus treated. The great
French salons and the prominent Lon
don drawing-rooms, where wealth
abides, are elegant through their sim
plicity. The homes of the working
class are simple and gaudy ornaments
are seldom seen
| Some women have absolutely false
ideas of economy This is nowhere
: more apparent than when they buy
| household furnishings.
J Everything in the house that does
not add something to the convenience.
happiness or education of the family
! or some member of the family is an
! extravaganza
The woman who would expect her
relations-in-law to fly at her with
| hammer and tongs if she We're to buy
| a Sc pair of curtains, would calmly
| and with no thought spend that
amount of money buying six cases at
! 81 each merely that she might have
something to set around to fill up the
| bare places and empty corners.
Don't fill up the bare places. Don't
try to fill up the empty corners. Homes
are too full of useless bits, unnecessary
filters.
These filters are not attractive; they
never mean anything to anyone in the
family; they make work, for they must
be busted and kept in place, and they
make a mess of the room that might.
without them, be tidy and restful to
sit down in. Besides, they do cost
money in the end, even though the
To be sure, every house needs a vase
or two for flowers, but So many of the
vases one sees are too fancy for uss
and are good for nothing but to stand
upon the mantel and be busted.
Often a really beautiful picture is not
noticed because it is surrounded by
number of cheap, unattractive prints
that have been hung on the wall as
filters
Many times the beauty of rare piece
of glass is unobserved because of the
filters that are grouped about it.
1t is not uncommon to see a hand
some piece of furniture pushed into
corner while the room is crowded with
commonplace rockers. The beauty OF
the good piece of furniture is lost sight
of because the filters conceal the good
points.
If there is anything good in a room
give it a chance. Don't spoil it with
filters.
The money spent for filters would in
time buy something really worth while,
something worth having. To save
money on little things to spend for big
things is economy, when a house is to
be furnished
SOCIETY Fats ANT-CAKES
Society people and others hunting odd
things to add a zeSt to the ordinary
routine of diet have found a Mecca in |
a shop conducted by Chinaman. The |
sign on the door reads, strange Food |
4Exotics,' and it is a BETTING insig- |
MIA for what is probably the oldest |
store in the world. Comestibles from !
all parts of the earth are sold here, and !
all of them are out of the usual.
One of his commodities are ant-cakes, |
and it will be surprising for some peo-
pie TO hear that these cakes, made from
insects. are to be found on many of the |
most stylish tables in New York The
fact may harbinger the day when
Americans will become insect eaters as
are many Asiatic and European races
at present. The ant-cakes are small
80 apiece. They are made of the
dried and compressed bodies OF African
white ants. Men who live a while in
Africa grow fond of ant-cakes as they
who live a while in Japan grow fond
of Japanese raw fish. The dealer sells,
he says about a hundred of these cakes
every month. New Workers who have
ACQUIRED taste for them declare them
delicious
Another of his edibles for which a
demand has been created is real ORR
entail chow-chow. This is not the cheap
pickle concoction that Americans call
..chow-chow." Il is the real chow
chow as eaten in China. the dish from
which the American relish acquired its
name. but which is a misnomer. This
is d compound of bruised
very odd and bitter in
taste. and very costly. The price is
81 so pint.
French families and others buy from
the Cinnamon large quantities Of edible
suails. When filed with the green but
ter that gives them succulence-escar-
got butter-they cost ten cents apiece
The Cinnamon sells betel nut which
in the Orient is chewed like tobacco
A box of ground betel weighing a half
oound costs dollar. Half d teaspoon
mi of the powdered nut is wrapped in
leaf and chewed with a pinch of
ime. Though it darkens the enamel, it
: said TO preserve the teeth.
one of the dealers most costly COM
no5ities is genuine Russian caviar A
tablespoonful of it costs 81 Twice as
nuch ordinary caviar can be bought
elsewhere for a quarter. but those who
nave once tasted the real thing never
ain return to the substitute
.+,reeon roe: for Russian caviar is as
4iffarent from sturgeon roe "a beef is
rom chicken.