Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-07

away.
Then. the wonderful ware in porcelain,
with which the young wife beguiles away
the serious cares
Loss of Porcelain of housekeeping,
to the Housewife. in the German
works at Nielsen. Dresden china mostly
comes from Meissen. Here it is turned
and nodded in the hands of artists,
operatives who have grown up in an
atmosphere of the possibilities of clay
for appealing to our sense OF the beau
tiful and who come of families of paint
ers and fabricators of these things, sinu-
Gus articles in all manner Of designs,
cups saucers and other tableware so
fragile that the translucence of their
thin shells almost mergeS into the trans
parency of glass.
Meissen and Limoges, in France, pro-
duce the thousand imported knick- knacks
mantle and deep panel shelves of count
less American homes. They also make
and sell to us the wonderfully stained
and veined vases and the delicate groups
and figures in white and tinted clay
which represent the highest art of the
workers in porcelain.
Ferfumes-that is, the quiet. unobtru-
sive. ingratiating perfumes-are products
of French genius, and the blends of
scent which are mere echoes of natures
sweetest odors and which appeal more
by stirring memory than by actual force
of presence, will run low in my lady's
atomizer before the war is over. A
serious question that may now be per-
tinent is: Will the places of these pleas
ant DISCUSSES be taken by those powerful
preparations which overcome one in the
street cars. suffocate one in the inciosed
room and warn one of their approach
while yet half a city block away?
1t is not only the perfumes. however.
that will be missing from the dressing
tables because of the war. There are
countless varieties of other toilet articles
which French and German chemists and
beauty doctors have petpetrated upon
the world which will turn up tempo
rarily among the missing. A total value
of 1.S73,5S5 was taken by the United
States last year lin perfumes cosmetics
and other toilet preparations.
Among the lesser things which we will
miss are the picture postcards that are
ground u
Picture Post Cards byt e
Come From Germany. mi lions 1 by
German presses. It was German who
invented the idea of the picture post card,
and 1t is the Germans who have been the
most Industrious developers of this idea
ever since. The idea grew out of the last
war between Germany and France in
1S7O-1, and has spread through this
country until all mail matter may be
roughly divided into two classes, that of
business communication and that of COM
munication by picture cards and en-
blazoned. canned script. OF souvenir
post cards we imported about $4,000
| worth in 1913.
There are. further, any number of ia
1Nls
war will cause US to forego A great part
Of the goods Of the delicatessen shops
will be cut off by war. The famous Ger
man sausages, the Kalteaufschnitt which
was just beginning to find a wider favor
among people here of other than Teu-
| tonic ancestry; the, Blutwurst, Mettwurst,
Leberwurst, Ceyalatwurst. Kopfkaese,
Muenchener weiss wuerstchen and a host
of others Of their Tx and clan, which
made the post-theater supper at home a
lacking from the larders of those whose
,, incomes measure UP to the dignity of ap-
probation of products evolved abroad.
Moreover. the people of Europe possess
worlds most insistently fragrant cheeses.
To any one who has learned to overcome
his natural preoccupation with the ouor
of these rich foods and to eat them with
a degree Of sang froid and desire, their
absence from the menus of the land will
prove an annoying circumstance. In 1913
we took about $4,000. GOO worth of cheese.
| Favorite wines, too, will become scarce.
Although there Is a legend in certain
parts of Europe that the best dessert
wines-sherry. malaga, madeira. port
amontillado and others-come from the
! United States, from California, American
connOisseurs, those who are certain, will
be badly disappointed to find the home
made labels.
On the other hand, those who enjoy the
| sparkling, vivacious Rhine wines. the full
bordeaux and burgundy, nloselle, the
snappy, fermented products Of the grapes
of Hungary and the sharp fragrance OF
Italian wines. will have every reason to
| complain, for the like Of these beverages
I cannot be produced at home.
| Some few or us viii miss the Rug
sian caviar, an edible whose scarcity is
its only excuse
Russian Caviar for being dearer
Among Missing. Th sa 1 1ast v sae'
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