. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. e-cream was not yet in vogue at privateparties. There was no system in Boston forstoring the abundant products of New Englandwinters which Frederic Tudor was so heroicallyshipping south. And the age of essences wasyet to come. The single confectioner on New-bury (now Washington) Street who served thefrozen dainty to ladies and their escorts, aftera performance at the theatre, or in the courseof an afternoons shopping, was obliged toremind his customers, through the medium ofthe press, that the fruit-flavors
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. e-cream was not yet in vogue at privateparties. There was no system in Boston forstoring the abundant products of New Englandwinters which Frederic Tudor was so heroicallyshipping south. And the age of essences wasyet to come. The single confectioner on New-bury (now Washington) Street who served thefrozen dainty to ladies and their escorts, aftera performance at the theatre, or in the courseof an afternoons shopping, was obliged toremind his customers, through the medium ofthe press, that the fruit-flavors of raspberry,strawberry, currant and pineapple could befurnished only in the seasons of those produc-tions. For men who needed special refreshmentthere was more ample provision; they could goto Vilas, the Shakespeare Coffee House in 404 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS Water Street, or to the more aristocratic restau-rant of Julien. Julien had been a cook in thefamily of Dubuque, a refugee from the FrenchRevolution, who occupied, at one time, theShirley mansion in Roxbury. Wliile in this. juliens situation he saved enough to start the first Restorator * of which Boston could is to him that we owe the agreeable soupwhich bears his name and now graces menucards the country over. Wlien the trouble with England began toloom large on the horizon, early in the nineteenthcentury, Boston keenly felt its gloom. But the
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