The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-13

| uuflng the titanic European struggle,
it is, probably, a bit selfish to review
The lesser sacrifices which we will be
called upon to make. Especially, is
this true, as out of our sacrifices We
may extract many valuable lessons
and, ultimately, many great adyan,
tages.
| One thing the war will certainly ac-
complish for this country if carried
on for any length of time, and that is
to bring our independence of Europe
to it's full maturity. It will serve TO
teach the native American of New
York, Philadelphia and San Francisco
that the Chicago sausage tastes just
as good with a Chicago trade mark
as 1t does when labe ed from Vienna.
There are, however, a number of
things only, or mostly, or only proper
| ly made abroad of which this country
consumes great quantities, and many
of these things pertain to the Injuries
and graces of life. AS the wild de
struction goes on, these trifles will
entirely disappear from our market
as good but lacking in the true tone
of the accustomed foreign imports.
For example, pearl, glass and dress
buttons are made nowhere so well as
They are abroad. and along about next
winter American women will begin to
fret over matchless shades of jet and
ivory, over pearl that is too obvious.
tly pearly and over jet that is too
deadly shiny black. Last year this
country took lS55. S43 worth of these
buttons from the European factories
Many of these articles are made in
German factories, and this supply will
entirely fall away
Then the wonderful ware in porce-
lain with which the young wife be,
| guile away the serious cares ct
housekeeping are turned out in the
German works at Meissen. Dresden
china mostly comes from Meissen
Here it is turned and nodded in the
lhands of artists. operatives who have
grown up in an atmosphere of tno
possibilities of clay for appealing to
Jour sense of the beautiful, and who
lcome of families of painters and
fabricators of these things snuous
| articles in all menner of designs, cups
saucers and other table ware so
fragile that the translucence of their
thin shells almost merges into the
transparency of glass.
Nielsen and Limoges, in France.
produce the thousand imported knick-
nacks in porcelain which brighten up
the mantel and deep panel shelves of
countless 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 proce-
lain.
Perfumes, that is the quiet, unob-
trusive, ingratiating perfumes, are
products of French genius and the
blends Of scent, which are mere
edhoes of natures sweetest odors and
which appeal more by stirring mem
DRY than by actual force of presence.
will run low in my lady's atomizer be.
fore the war is over. serious ques.
ton that may now be pertinent is ::
VIII the places of these pleasant dis
guises be taken by those powerful
preparations which overcome one in
the street cars, suffocate one in the
enclosed room and warn one OF their
lapproach 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
ihave perpetrated upon the world
which will turn up temporarily among
the missing, A total value of $1,S73,-
5S5 was taken by the United States
last year in perfumes, cosmetics and
other toilet preparations.
Il Among the lesser things which we
will miss the the picture post cards
that are ground out by the countless
millions by German presses. 1t was
la German who invented the idea of
the picture post card and it is the
IbeIH1duS WHO nave Deell the mOSt III
dustrious developers of this idea ever
since. The idea grew out of the last
i war between Germany and France in
! 1901, and has spread through this
country until all mail matter may be
roughly divided into two classes, that
of business communication and that
of communication by picture cards
and emblazoned canned script. OF
lsouvenir postcards we imported about
100000 worth in 1918.
: There are further any number Of
, table delieacies and beverages which
| the war will cause us to forego. A
greater part of the goods of the deli
eatessen shops will be cut off by the
war The famous German sausages,
the Kalteaufschnitt. which were just
beginning to find a wider favor among
people here of other than Teutonic
ancestry: the Blutwurst, Mettwurst,
lLeberwurst, Cevelatwurst, Kopfkaeso
lMuenchener weiss wuerstchen. and a