New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 10

HISTORIC STREET SIGNS IN LONDON Represent Golorful and Pictur- esque English Lie London, Nov. 9 (#—The American visitor to England who walks along | the streets with head held high and | eves looking up sees one of the most colorful and picturesque bits of | English. lite. | Some few feet over Yis head, rank upon rank of them, the visitor spies the bright signs of inns and taverns spelling out in pictures rather than in lutters the name of the house. | There's the Bear and the Lion, the | Jolly Friar, the Duke of Cumber- land, the Unicorn, the Three Coaches the Boar's Head, tire Whife Rabbitt, and a wide variety of others. | The writer even had the privilege 1ast sumiver, ~ when covering the story of the total solar eclipse at Giggleswick, in the Pennine moun- tains of western Yorkshire, of sce- ing a tavern named Ye Olde N Man. And true cnough, there was a sign of an ancient, sans clothing hanging from the inn. | Many of the London i have artistic merit. American vis- | itors to Flect strect usually notice | the gilded metal cock out al tavern, of which the original s said | to have been carved by Grinling Gibbons, Another house in the| neighborhood attracts notice for its representation of @ gigantic episco- pal head-dress, There are many quaint signs in| Chelsea, London’s Bohemian quar- ter, such as that of a goat wearing ! a pair of Cromwellian boots, and | The Man in the Moon. | Here and theye in London the | American visitor may feel a bit | homesick. in seeing an Indian chief | outside an old-fashioned cigar store | | 1 of the w France's serious drinkers. ing cight of the choi inn signs i of cach without an crror. (Ily MINOTT SAUNDERS) : rious drinking ous consequences. This ris does not mean what it i 1 in Americ such as blindness and sudden death, but ont | stomach trouble. And cven at tha your favorite hootlegger might not get the inner meaning. The wine tippers of Paris have been meeting in august convention, and many of these men rank among 's greatest serious drink- Sommelic A sommelier is a man who presides over a wine cellar and 2 R 2PN Here's a job lots ot folks would il cellar at the Restaurant Fouquet, He is shown here in the difficult task of tast- | st Burgundies, belong to the Union of | he is responsible to the patron for | N “SERIOUS DRINKERS” IN | PARIS GET PAY FOR IT, BUT THEY CAN'T SWALLOW/ | teels it coming. | cuters the mouth of & sommelier his | | stoma EW BRITAI This likewise gocs with wine, Not at all coacerned with the principles of prombition, Dr. Meunier pointed cut that if wine is merely tasted and not swallowed it may ruin a man's stomach. Dr. Meunier lias been a popular consultant among sommeliers and he has discovered that 1o sip good wine and then eject it from the mouth plays all sorts of “tricks with the stom 1t causes an excess of gas- tric secretioks very ruinous to diges- tion The stomuacn. it would appear trom Dr, Meunicr's tearned diagno- knows a good thing when it When a sip of wine sis, h immediately knows alout | it and gets ready to receive the li- | ach actually i Paris, is champion of He named the vintage and year | Meunier | lick of | restaurant. He takes his drink so | seriously that he only sips it, rolis | | his eyes, opens his mouth, pi | | slight inhalation over his educated |tongue, closes his eyes, sighs o miles and shakes his head one wa r the other. n(if he is a good serious drinker, he will eject the |liquid. An cxpert wine taster can- | not afford to swallow what he sips, |such indulgence just ruins the | palate. | | But the “Concurs de Degustation, as the convention was called, got an | unexpected kick this year out of a | paper written oy Dr. Leon Meunier. who quoted the oid proverb that one to have! Leon Schultz. Chief |2 enjoyment. In other gastric juices flow. But ss of a sommelier is to and not to drink it, so cjeets it without swallow- suffer and eventuall d. The stom E Dr. Meunier Tasters' Stomach seriously warns and no quid with words, th the bu: fest wine 1en e his g ome s Wi he much sipping calls this Ache” and against too e Concours de Degus- ated on ways 1y, the has not ong the general public. vet spread e Labit of sipping may even be turned to profif, according to Dr. 1Por those who suffer from appetite, caused by insuffi- cient g secretion, t of sipping without swallo z 3 best of appetizers, he says. It starts s flow of the juices and arouses It is an exeellent teaser stomi but the only that the patient is liable ind swallow the liquid, thus offsctting all the benefi- cial effects. tric appetite lazy ek i HAINE FISHERMEN - STFSHCATCH {Cod and Pollock Are - Put Down lor Winter Harpsu]cll. Me., Nov. 9§ C&Nov |is the ‘ime of year that the older | fishermen along Maine's seacoast religiously carry qut the annual | salting down of cod and pollock, This is the genuine salt fish that cannot be bought in stores — for it iis prepared for the fisher families” own use. The old-timers have & | knack when it comes to preparing | the winter's supply of salt fish, ; In October or early November {the fishermen save 300 or 400 | pounds’ of selected cod or poliock |from their catches. Some prefer [the pollock for salting. The fish of heads and tails, lare trimmed | cleaned and the backbones removed. | Next they are spread open, skin | side down, and sprinkled with a | fine grade of rock salt. Experts fusually will use only a certain |grade of the rock variety, | After 24 hours this free salt ‘s thoroughly washed off and the fish are spread on blakes, flesh side up to the “cure” in the wind and sun, None but skilled hands touch the | fish from this point. At least twice |a day the fish must be turned. The | experienced fish curer can tell to |a nicety what they need—so much unshine, so much west or north- west wind. so much dry air and so much cooling shade. | Not can - ~nt must properly | cured sait fish be touched by rains, DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923, fogs, or damp east winds. Jn un- favorable weather the flakes are taken indoors for protection. At the end of 10 days or a fortnight, it everything has gone well, the fish will have been properly cured. In the process the fish will have become almost as hard as boards. But storing in a cellar or other cool place soon restares to them a mel. lowness that they retain all through the cold months, A It would seem to be a fussy job But, as some gourmets say, there is salt fish and salt fishi. And those privileged to - sit down at a feast of creamed salt fish and b, tatoes as served in_ the home of a veteran Maine coast fisherman will find the repast of truly delicious tlayor. PROTECTS GUANOES Peru Forbids Fishing Roats Néar Birds’ Habltats new government decree prohibits fishing boats - from approaching within two miles of the coastal is- lands which shelter guano birds, un. der penalty of confiscation. All ships are forbidden to blow LAXATIVE o rid the Lima, Peru, Nov. 9.—(UP)—A | v the wine that s served in any good man's meut is another man's poison. The long, full-size biscuits of crisp, oven-baked whole wheat hiere. The more usual sign tod: a wooden tobacco roll suspe outside the shop, and sometir wooden Highlander has superseded | the Indian chicf. | Signs of all'kinds were in general | use hy tradesmen of all classes in | the days when the greater part of | the population could not read or write, -Some of these may still be found in odd corners of London, such ag the throe sugar loaves, indi- cating a grocer's shop, and the brass dog with his bead in a pot, indica; ing a hardware storc, or ironmot ger's, as it is called here. In the days beiore house num- bers, which did not come into use in England until the eighteenth cen- tury, most houses were designated by signs. Sometimes a man indi- cated his own name in the sign, as for instance, two cocks represented a man named Cox. Tradesmen in- dicated their shops by signs depict- ing the tools of their trade. Others | honored the neighboring nobleman hy putting his coat-of-arms or face | on thelr sizns. 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