"It means the elimination of the dyspeptic and the 'autocrat of the
breakfast table,' who frowns coldly upon the efforts of his young wife
in the culinary line and carries off her biscuits to serve as paper
weights. The scoffer at occidental table manners will cease to cavil
at the genial westerner who eats vegetables with a knife, pie with
a spoon, and drinks his coffee from the saucer, a napkin tucked in
graceful folds beneath his ample chin.
"The picturesque phraseology of the Bowery-waiter will fade from
view when he ceases to hustle 'stacks of whites,' 'plainers,' and
'straight-ups' to waiting customers, or bawl a hoarse-voiced 'draw
one,' to the white-capped cook.
"The grafter will lack his usual excuse for making a 'touch;' the
after-dinner speech will no more pave the politician's ways to fame,
and the portrait of the baby that thrived on Malter's Malted Milk,
which now embellishes the pages of newspaper and magazine, will become
naught but a lingering memory of the past."
DELIGHTS OF FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.
"See those hands?" said the Observer, holding up two "bunches of
fives," whose digits were stained near the ends with some dark brown
substance, "that's pyrogallic acid--and that burn near my thumb was
made by Blitz Pulver.
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