Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — How to Eat an Orange. [ARTICLE]

How to Eat an Orange.

Always, on a Southern gentleman’s table, the dessert of oranges is furnished with small silver fruit knives and spoons. The orange is held in the napkin—just as you hold an egg—and with the slender point of the knife a circular incision is carefully made in the stem-end of the orange and the stem-core is nicely cut out, leaving an orifice large enough to admit an egg-spoon. The orange is held and eaten then, just as gourmands eat an egg, in its own shell; and the skill and grace with which this is done —that is, without soiling the fingers or napkin—are, as in the same process with an egg, a test of good breeding. I have known the most inexpert persons to master the few difficulties in the way after two or three efforts; and their satisfaction was an infinitely pleasant sight. To hostesses who like to have their tables preserve in some degree, at the close of an entertainment, the beauty which dazzled the guests upon entering, this method is most desirable. Servants —let me put in a plea for those silent ones whose interests are too seldom regarded—are spared the tedious duty of gathering up the fragments; and guests who look with dismay at this tempting apple of the Hesperides can thus enjoy it as they never did before. Ohly the delicious nectar of the fruit is eaten, with the more delicate pulp; the tough fiber—of which, indeed, there is very Tittle in an orange plucked from the tree under its own skies—being left in the shell.— Cor. Home Journal. Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, has issued a proclamation revoking the proclamation heretofore issued offering a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest of V. V. Smith and SSOO for the capture of Ed. Wheeler, Smith’s Secretary of State. A noose paper—A death warrant. .V' ’ ■ . -■ J.