Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-01
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapersof Other Lands

| spreading villas with ample porticoes ana
porches. where those seeking shade and
comfort can still survey the perspiring
enterprise of their confreres yet upon
the plain.
Dublin Business Girl
Advocates Shorter Dresses.
Irish Independent, Dublin II onJ
dresses are returning, but will the tri-
umph be short-lived?" asks a Dublin
business girl Answering her own ques-
, ton, she continued: s"They are being
| frowned upon quite as severely as their
abbreviated, displaying substitutes
would have been so years ago. Even
grandmothers are inclined to agree, re.
luctantly, that long dresses really are
an unhygienic nuisance. The sooner
women bring Fashion to its knees again
quite literally as well as metaphors.
cally-the better for all of us!'
AjinomOto DistinctiveIy a
Japanese Food Invention.
Japan Advertiser, Tokio.-At least
one japanese food product has received
international recognition and accorded
the right to be called an original in
vention. Many things have been writ
ten about this product, which is called
aJnomoto, and many peculiar state
ments have been made as to the in
gradients used in its preparation. The
literal meaning of the word in the
Japanese language is origin of taste"
1t was discovered about 20 years ago
and was finally brought down to the
concentrated form in which 1t now
appears.
According to the originator of aim
omoto, DR.. K. Ikeda, he first became
interested in food taste research when
he noticed that in addition to the four
basic reactions of salty, sweet, bitter
and pepper hot, each kind of fish, vege-
table or meat had its own particular
haVor which could not be definitely
classified. To find substance which
would bring out this natural flavor was
the object of many years of research
by DR.. Ikeda. After tedious experiments
he finally developed an acid known
chemically as critamin natorium, and it
Is now used extensively in many Jap
anese foods and in particular to bring
out the delicate flavor of the clear
soups so much admired by foreigners.
The first export trade was established
with China, and afterward to Europe,
and OF late even to the United States.
However, its first use abroad was con-
nned to a few of the large hotels and
restaurant chefs, who were quick to
utilize the new appetizer, while in
Japan IL Is employed in almost every
household to improve soups, sauces,
stews and sherbets
Ajinomoto is made principally from
the carbohydrates of wheat and beans,
as 1t was found that these two cereals
were excellent sources of the basic ele-
ment. AS marketed, the product is very
concentrated and can be detected even
when diluted with 200 parts of water
Sugar cannot be tasted If diluted by
more than 200 parts and salt if by more
than 400 parts.
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Keeping House Most
Dangerous American Work.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna
Keeping house is about the most dan.
gerous of all American occupations. &C.
cording to statistics compiled by the
Government of the United States, espe-
clally for women. In the course of
the average year no less than $4,000
housewives meet with fatal accidents
in their homes. About 40 per cent of
those sustaining fatal injuries fell from
stepladders, porches, or downstairs. In
other words. falls were the principal
causes Of the fatalities.