The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1901, Page 6

THE SUNDAY CALL IRIDE SCENT SHADE- AMPS ore ar grandmother's coming mto 1, fashioned bru on the stowed away In the attic ¢ where it W ght, filtered through delic gives a wonderful charm to the compie: fon. More time is being devoted to colors nowadays, as it means so much There are lamps and iamps. The con- servato » and the shade are an in- themselves. Then there is the drawing-room lamp, which is covered, and the lbrary » with its green shade There are amps and lamps for dens and lamps for reception-reoms, and, in fact, lamps for every conceivable corner of the house The shades ‘handsome as the lamps has only a p! are as numerous and as Any woman who n porcelain shade can dress in such a fashion that it will not remind eve: of the ark One can dingle-dangle metal fringe and slip hody it over the 2 nk, green or white and hardly recognize the underneath The newest lamps, made of Damascus ca sticks or of beaten brass, have shades of metal lined with various colored muslin. The color shows faintly through the metal and gives exactly the same the metal fringe does. The Tiffany iridescent colo effect that glass shades are dreams of On account of the price they often remain dreams, too. Fortu- rately they are heavy enough to stand rather rough -handling, and their numer- ous colors blend beautifully with any room. Metal globes set with great pieces ss are very striking, al- though they are apt to suggest a cathedral window with the sun struggling to get through Or isaq by lon heads &h h a Roman procession m ching a in a soft yellow. Another fancy metal bowl possesses a lily globe. The two colors are a soft red for a background and When' that com- a very light k flower. bination of colors is pretty, it is very pretty, and in a globe it sheds a ros cheerful light Ik shades are always more heautiful an more g reful th any metal porcelain or painted cardbeard that can be imagined. "EXTRACRDINRRY EASTER NE of the most valuable of Easter eggs is said to be received by Pope every year. The shell formed of two pleces of the most ul ivory. is made magnificent ruby ling diamonds His H ent In the center c of the finest more remarkabie egg. was made and forwarded to him by devout Catholic peasant in Switzerla The outer « 11, which is made of beau- tiful polished cedar wood, divides into two pieces. They form but the covering for another egg, on the outside of which is carved the word “Pax,” signifying peace. This inner ‘egg also opems, disclosing to bearing a Latin Inserip- “Ife Is Risen.” That like- only to reveal a fourth egg, cribed with an appropriate otation Altosether there are seven eggs, on the l2st of which is inscribed, in very minute a full account of the resur- view yet another. tior menrn ot An anonymous admirer once sent a for- mer President of the French republic a scmewhat curious Easter egg. It was de- Jivered carefully packed, and being | marked “private” the package was | ed by the President himself. | it an ominous sound of ticking inside conjured up visions of infernal machines, | and as speedily as possible the alarming peckage was placed, just as it was, in a | bucket full of water. After it had re- | mained submerged for some time it was | taken in hand by an expert of the Police Department. On proceeding to open the €gg this oflitial found inside it nothing in | the nature of an explosive, but a very handsome gold watch. | Several years ago a New York lady re- ceived thro the post 2 beautiful choco- | late Easter She was actually going 1o eat §t when her sweetheart, a young | doctor, was announced. She showed him | the egg and inquired if he had sent it, | which ke denicd. Not liking the look of | the egg he asked to be allowed to take | it away with him. A few hours later he | returned with the startling information that it contained sufficient poison to kill | half a dozen people! An Easter egg of a very different type ‘was presented 1o another American dam- | EGGES | She was e ged to the on! son of | g0 millionaire, who wished to her a present, novel as well a He therefore instructed hic jewels ers to m: ® an egz of the finest gold, on which a figure of Cupid wa chased, as well as the init tended recinient The in formed »eautifully | of the in- charming little | jewel case, and ingenionsly fitted in it | were a lovely diamond ring, a tiara set | with diamonds and.other precious stones | and a bracelet in two pieces, glistening | with equally costly gems. The egg and | coutents cost between three and four | thousand pounds, so the maiden might | well go into rantures over it, | But the record egg—at any rate in point | of size—was made by Messrs. *Buszard, | the famous confectifners of Oxford street. It w made to the order of a South Afri- car: mill ve, andl was composed entire- Iy of choe This coloseal egg was 9 feet high and \‘ { | consequently 18 feet round at its greatest circumference. It w: s as much as seven men could comfortably lift, and one-half | of it afforded more than sufficlent space for a man to stand upright in. |in a reception-rom fitted up | all kinds of shapes. A DULL BRONZE WiT LILES FOR RELIEF A’ shade made of overlapping rows of silken petals is most lively in rooms fur- nished in pale colors. One of vellow es In a room done up in creamy tints with now and then a touch of crimson and green, and another of rose color should be after the Louis Quinze period. This year the rose petal shades are as big as a good-sized balloon, and are ever so much prettier than the old styled um- brella shapes of a few years ago. 8kill and judgment are called for in ths selection of some of the new and freakish shades. The easiest made is the chimney- pot shape and it is still very much ad- mired. A conventional pattern is painted on it and gives a charming effect, It doesn’t eternally remind one of hours of tofl with a needle, silk and patience. And thet is reminigcent of something else. Half the dainty lamps are painted china with globes that match to a nicety in design and color.. They are built in They scoop in here and bulge out there; some gre stout and others can hardly hold themselves up; but all manage to give the soft, mellow H PUND . THE LATEST TYLE, THE jhydE BEING LARGER THAN THE HADE OF —’ light that 1s tne craze of the moment. One’s faney -may run riot in choosing the colors and the patterns, for there is S THE ROMAN PROCE§ 510N ; THE SPIRAL LAMP WITH HANDLE everything that anybody could at their wildest ~ moments imagine. Great sprawly roses - in' pink and blues; N . | Letter Office. { [ | | of the order, only white in color. N -l THE USEruL LgRARY laMp chrysanthemums In a dozen different shades, figures and heads and even pro- cessions. There are all kinds of candlesticks and swinging lanterns that come in wrought fron, in 'bra china and bronze. All sorts of fancy candles are mad respond. but they are merely an exct for a light. he lanterns inc quite as often nything else, and spended from all sorts of unexy aces. And then there are out and out freak chades that make novelty hunters go i The leather ones over colored and raptures. silk are the prettiest, quite so much attention as the hat or the tinted cardboards. Only undressed kid is used, and the most popular shades are a Havana m and gray, although all guede colors are used more or A don’t attract bro less. lLamps™ From — Erhporium LAMP PAINTED WITH - fringe of the kid makes a pretty finish, but keeps one guessing as to its safety. But the funnlest looking of all are the When one gets over the sur- P eing a garden hat topping off a lamp, the spinal column suddenly gets weak, for they are the worst kind of fire- traps. They are made in various styles, but yellow and red are the nobbiest. A yellow straw, with a big bow on one side and a garland of popples trailing over the rivals a white straw with pink forming a cascade all around the with a bow of pink h t shades. e at brim, T edge, and finished satin ribbon The lamps which hold these queer look- ing shades are all tall and graceful and a collection looks very much like a garden party. Nobody looking at them would be the least bit surprised to see them all begin to bow amiably at nothing and no- body in particular. HAT becomes of all the money orders which are never present- ed for payment?” asked a Was ington business man of a postal official. “Every few days we receive let- ters from our customers sayving that they have forwarded orders for goods, but the orders have mever reached our hands. nd th s true of a very large mail or- der house in Was appear in various ways,” was “Some are burned or torn up ad of the receipts and this is particu- larly true of international money orders where the receipts are of the same size Some are sent in letters which are not ad- dressed at all or are incorrectly addressed, and these, together with thousands of other orders, find their way to the Dead Ultimately most of these letters find their way back to the rem)t- ters or duplicates are applied for. “The British Government utilizes as a source of postal revenue all of the money in its hands which is not paid out to meet money ‘orders upon presentation and de- rives about $50,000 annually therefrom. Our Government does not attempt to derive any profit from this source and the money Dainty and Appetizing Ways of Cooking Spring HIS is the period of the spring veg- etable, and few persons realize how much the delights of the season may be increased by additional care in the preparation of those foods, which are never quite so good as they are just at this period. Possibly the peas now in the market have a greater delicacy of taste than any other springtime product, and they are at least regarded along with the spring lamb as the gastronomlc symbol of the carly summer months. The French, who are proverbially cap- able of adding a delicate foreign taste to vegetables without destroying their own flavor, cook peas in a manner that has never been generally adopted here. The averzge American housewife would shud- der at the thought of combining onlons with the savory spring peas, but the Franch cooks do that, and the result is better than the American prejudiced against the onion In nearly. every form would care to admit. This process of cooking peas combines also with the onion the outside leaves of a head of lettuce. The peas are inclosed in these, and into the center of them is put one small spring onion; when théy are served the com- bined flavor of the lettuce and the onion asserts itself delightfully, but in no way destroys the natural taste of the peas. That flavor seems, indeed, to be ‘empha- sized by the combination with the other vegetables. The Poles have a way of cooking aspar- agus that occasionally appears on the New York bills of fare, although the pro- cess rarely represents the genuine foreign method. Asparagus is boiled in the usual way, but sprinkled after it has been put on the plate with finely grated toast. The originators of this dish use a kind of toast that corresponds’ more accurately to/ the New York idea of zwichack. After*this has been grated on the green ends of the vegetable, the drawn butter is poured over it, and the flavor of the bread adds a spice to the natural taste of the vege- table. Another Polish peculiarity of serv- ing asparagus appears when it is eaten cold. Then,the French dressing is made, not with oil, but rich cream, and this is an agreeable variety when asparagus is served as a salad. Even the commonplace spinach Is capa- ble of a treatment that makes it very dif- ferent from the-mushy, gritty dish' com- monly served. The French and English are the two common terms in deseription of the ordirary way of serving spinach, but certainly either of tiiem is a libel on the hation. What is known as the French method produces a pulpy mass of chopped up green leaves. As that fashion is fol- lowed here, fiSThIng could more success- fully deprive the vegetable of all taste and flavor. The cook who prepares the-ieaves in this way regards it as a particular deli- cacy and a sign of uhusual facility in her occuvation. She is usually. so well satis- VeGetabiles. fled with this accomplishmeant that she rarely takes the precaution to wash the | sand and qust out of the leaves. Preten- tious bungling could not go further than this preparation of spinach, which de- stroys the real qualities of the food. The English-method is that which serves the leaves whole and in this way pre- serves more of the taste and really makes the vegetable worth eating. It of course requires the preliminary care in cleansing the leaves of all foreign substances which few cooks are willing to take. This method of cooking spinach can be made very much better by the addition of the inevitable spring onion, which asserts itself very modestly and seems, as in the case of the peas, to bring out the best quality of the original vegetable. " MONEY WITHOUT AN OWNER. K/ is turned into the treasury, where it is held In trust, as it were, to meet th obligations. The Government has no de- sire to claim or confiscate this money, and it will pay its obligations in the form of a money grder at any time upon presenta- tion upon satisfying itself in the instance of a long lapse of years that there has been ne previous payment by duplicate or otherwis In Great Britain, I bellev: this money becomes forfeited to the Gov- ernment after a certaln number of years— four, 1 think. The British Government evidently proceeds “upon the theory that if a holder of a money order or the sender does not seek to cash the order within a reasonable time the Government can put it to good advantage by applying the amount to its own use. Such a practice undoubtedly facilitates the business of the government’s end of the contract and is strictly. legal if authorized by law. In rearly all money transactions there is a Hmitation upon the validity of any voucher which represents cash as to its presentation. Even a note payable with- out date is barred by the statute of lim- itations in the various States. is to-day an accumulation of .000 in the treasury of these un- claimed money orders which has been gradually piling up year after year during the thirty-five years the Government has been conducting a money order busines: “The Government has issued $4,000,700,000 in Money orders, and has paid every cent of this great sum except the $2,500,000 I have mentioned. A single order may be | issued up to $100 in amount, and the aver- age is about 3730, the smaller offices issu- | ing the great bulk of orders and the larger offices cashing % per cent of them. “Traveling men, actors, ecircus men, raflroad employes and others, whose busi- ness requires them to move from place to plage, are very fond of buying orders pay- able to themselves. They cannot spend an order as a bill, and as no one but them- selves or the indorsees may secure the amount of the orders they are just that much ahead when they get into the next tewn, makirg themselves their own ban ers with the Government as a depository. Sometimes an actor or a cireus man will present a dozen orders at the close of the season which he has bought from time to time, and their amount represents savings which otherwise would have been spent.” A —Wasbington Star.