The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-31

/ go tIIOu5A Stages Oh sweet CifeE, ldTuGI
chef, vegetable chef, fish chef, and
sauce chef. The last is the most criti-
cal of all. The question is, have women
sufficient application to stand such an
exhaustive training?"
AS OTHERS SEE US.
Die Woche of Berlin in a two-page
article tells it's readers What Ameri-
cans Eat" taking as a type the aver
age New York business man. Hot
cakes, quick-lunch dishes, pie, Welsh
rabbit, ice cream, grape fruit, oyster
cocktails, pork and beans and many
other purely American dishes, and ice
water, are referred to as indigestion
promoters. ''All this says the writer
the American eats with relish. They
are the dishes of the city and of the
country. He balks at only four things:
Frankfurter sausages, sauerkraut, but
termilk and limburger cheese-these
he calls Dutch foods
FREE EATING HOUSES IN PARIS.
At certain places about the most
crowded quarters of Paris one may
notice, at meal-timeS, scores of poorly
clad women, with infants in their arms,
entering what appear to be small eat
ing houses. They are eating places, and
they are maintained by public charity
expressly for INDECENT mothers.
Seven such places are scattered
through the poorer sections of the city.
Last year they furnished $4,000 meals
to mothers who otherwise would doubt
less have Jared sadly for nutritious
food for themselves and their offspring.
Madame Henry Coullet led the move
ment which resulted in the establish
ment of these free eating houses. She
enlisted the sympathy and aid of cir
Gle of friends, and, as sympathy ex-
tended, aid came pouring in. Generous
merchant equipped the dining rooms
and Kitchens
Small are these restaurants for
mothers; modest in appearance, with
simple furnishings, but always scrupu~
lousy clean. Over the door is the
sign-"Free Restaurant for Mothers"
Nothing is charged for at any of these
cosy places. Shelter, comforts, food
all are free. No meal ticket, so repug-
nant to many unfortunate but high
spirited persons is required. No per-
sons but women can enjoy the hospital
ity, and the only requirement of a
woman is that she be a mother who
nurses her child. There are no inquir-
les as to where the women live; no in
vestigation as to their past or present
lives or their means of existence. They
are mothers. and they have little lives
besides their own to support-that is
sufficient
Not only are the mothers benefited
by the wholesome food, but
hundreds of little lives have undoubt-
eddy been saved. The women, too, are
taught how to care for their children,
50 that the little ones, instead of be-
ing burden and a terror, become real
blessings to poor homes.
SILVER POIsONS BRANDY.
In the London Lancet it is pointed
cut that there is considerable danger
in keeping brandy in silver TASKS, as SO
many people are in the habit of doing. /
Some brandy that had been kept in F.
such flask was recently analysed and /
was found to contain copper combined !
with tannin in the form of sediment. /
There was also a distinct amount of
copper in solution. The Lancet says: j
These results suggested few ex-
periments which ultimately proved that /
genuine old brandy dissolves in a quite /
short time 3 very distinct amount of
copper, the copper so dissolved ult- /
mately combining with the tannin TO
form a tannate of copper.
when a few shillings were placed in /
some old brandy and the spirit was ex-
amined after a day or So g distinct /
amount of copper was found in it. On /
adding a penny to the shiIlings in this /
experiment the dissolving effect was
increased, due. no doubt, .
to the stimulus set up by galvanic
action.
Spurious brandy. oddly enough. did {