. American cookery. Home Ideas and« Contributions to this department will be gladly received. Accepted items will bepaid for at reasonable rates. Luxuries, Necessities and FoodConservation A GLIMPSE into the windows ofour best fruit shops in winterreveals such a profusion of fine thingsthat mid-winter seems impossible, werethe snow not covering the ground andthe icicles hanging from the cornicesand window frames. For instance, in one window lastwinter there were French artichokesresembling great green hop blossoms,hot house English cucumbers, brightred tomatoes, a basket of fresh
. American cookery. Home Ideas and« Contributions to this department will be gladly received. Accepted items will bepaid for at reasonable rates. Luxuries, Necessities and FoodConservation A GLIMPSE into the windows ofour best fruit shops in winterreveals such a profusion of fine thingsthat mid-winter seems impossible, werethe snow not covering the ground andthe icicles hanging from the cornicesand window frames. For instance, in one window lastwinter there were French artichokesresembling great green hop blossoms,hot house English cucumbers, brightred tomatoes, a basket of fresh mush-rooms, large clusters of Black Hamburggrapes bedded deep in green tissuepaper, white California grapes, richlycolored Japanese persimmons grown inour southern states, with plenty ofgolden oranges, tiny kumquats, palegrape fruit, red tangerines, pears ofthe palest green and others dark russetin color, Oregon apples, South Africanmelons, and oddest of all — fresh figs!three for a quarter of a dollar! Figsof the purple kind are not rare eve
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