Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 October 1894 — Page 3

ABOUT CURED PORK.

THE HAM AND BACON OF COMMERCE. —r

Their Superiority Over the Home Prodoete, How freib Pork I* Transformed Into These Staple Articles In the Great Curia* Establishment*.

The United States is the greatest hog producing country. The home market increases one-third during the summer months, while the foreign demand almost doubles. About April the farmer's supply of home cured pork, ham and bacon is consumed. Then the great curing establishments supply oountry towns. The opening of summer resorts, the pionio epidemic, add another impetus to trade. That and apartment house living have greatly increased the demand for all sorts of preserved food. Despite the skill with which meat delioacies are now preserved, ham and bacon have a staple claim upon the American stomach.

A sketch showing the side of a carcass of pork is not without interest No. 1, neck pieoes No. 2, loin, or "spare rib No. 8, shoulderc Nos. 4, 4* breakfast bacon No. 5, ham. The ham, bacon strips and loin are all choice cuts. The others make only cheap meats.

Remarkable is the effect of smoke and the rest of the curing process on the pig. The process transforms it, especially the fat part. Bacon has come to be the rival of codliver oil as a cure for consumption. The home cured ham and bacon of the old time farmer And little favor with the modern housekeeper. They lack the flavor of the goods prepared by our great manufacturers.

Cut from the freshly slaughtered animal, hams arrive daily at the large canning bouses of the east and west. An even temperature of 40 degrees is required to cure all meats. This mild winter temperature is uniformly kept the year round in the curing rooms, which are generally 30 feet underground. Desired temperature is secured now by a wonderful refrigerating system, in which ammonia is expanded by the application of steam heat into a gas and then compressed again into liquid form. One of these changes develops a high degree of heat, which is carried off by a flood of running water. The second process liberates a balancing degree of cold, and this is used to chill a chemical

SIDE OF CARCASS OF PORK.

solution, practically unfreezable, to a zero temperature. This cold brine may be pumped through miles of pipe, chilling the rooms through which it passes by radiation, just as buildings are heated by steam. Throughout the process the same ammonia is used continuously without perceptible loss. Silently, save the slight click of the pistons of the steam pumn, this wonderful machine performs its Aladdin work.

In largo stone vats fresh hams undergo the "chilling" process. The gases, oommonly called animal heat, are extracted from the flesh. For weeks each joint of the ham lies in a solution of Bait, granulated sugar and other ingredients—a secret formula perfected by long experience and variously utilized by makers of different brands. When the moat is thoroughly impregnated with the salt, it is said to be "cured." Washed in cold wator, it is then ready for the process of 'smoking." "Cured" and "smok-.d," every ham, every bacon, has its own modiste. Tho yellow tesmeared muslin bag in which tho home cured product concealed its greasy countenance has given place to tho light burlap, made of jute, a plant of the Indies and woven in Scotland. The cutter, with huge shears, clothes the ham, lays it on the cloth and outlines it with great dexterity, while swift fingers sew it into tho shapes with which we are familiar.

Comparatively few housekeepers choose a ham intelligently. There are three cardinal points to be observed: 1. Avoid too lean a joint. Let it be well rounded and plump and see that the skin is thin and pliable. Remember that, while a little extra fat is a loss in weight, it is a gain in the superioi qualities of every other ounce of the meat. 2. Choose freshly cured hams. The modern process makes new cured hams possible every day in the year. The more reoently the joint has come from the curing cask the better it will taste, for hams do not improve with age. 8. The size of the ham has much to do with the way in which it should be served. A whole ham will boil more satisfactorily than apart of it For broiling or frying never use a ham of less than 14 pounds, and one weighing 15 or 18 pounds is preferable. Only the center of such a ham should be sliced.

The slices should never be cut more than one-fourth of an inoh thick. Oneeixth of an inch is better. A very sharp knife must bo used. Trim veiy closely the skin from the upper side of each alioe, and also out from the other edge the outer rim of both muscle and fat, that has been somewhat hardened by sjnoking. Soak the slices in cold water one hour before cooking then dry carefully with a napkin. Never use tepid or hot water. It will toughen the meat Cook briskly, turning the slioes every minute. Never allow sliced ham to be oooked until the moment it is to be eaten. When left by the fire to wait and "keep warm," it will speedily toughen, losing all its grateful juices, and only a species of leather will remain. LIDA ROSE MCCABB.

AUTUMN FASHIONS.

Up to Skate Styles, Some of Whleh May Jfot Uneer Loaf.

This la the season of transitory fashions. What are known as "preliminary Btylea" are being tested and weighed in the balance of popular opinion. Soon will be recorded the passing away of many of these first corners and the arrival of other claimants for favor. Up to date the welcome news is given that dress skirts remain simple notwithstanding the efforts of modistes to in-

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troduce drapery, and from all one can hear and see the plain skirt will be good stylo during the coming season. Many of the new skirts are not lined through, but have some stiff material at the bottom. They are cut to clear the ground and have outside pockets placed on the nkirt and piped around, fiats grow more fanciful. Never wore ornaments in millinery so gorgeous nor flowers more abundant.

Striking effects produced by contrasts in oolor is a predominant feature in some of the newest importations. It seems hardly probable that these contrasts are of a nature to please in a way sufficiently lasting to become truly fashionable. Can the eye be sufficiently misled to ever tolerate a white taffeta skirt, with it a tobacco brown bodice over a straw colored vest, and to this roomy tobacco balloon sleeves? And yet this is a description of an autumn dress. While on the subject of colors it may be said that beige and brown are an oft recurring color that yellow, rose, blue, tan, suede and drab are very general also water green for ground color. Of all the colors preferred for the trimming of knickknacks and for accessory addi tions that convey smartness there are three shades of yellow, which are parched wheat, straw, and golden yellow bordering on Indian corn. These mix admirably with poppy red, with blue, cream and mauve.

For evening wear dotted laces over silk or satin furnish a popular style. Alpaca for traveling dresses is very much in vogue. Such dresses are made very plainly, the skirt having a deep hem and several rows of stitching. They are made of all shades—black, beige and carmalite. Waists and sleeves are so elaborate that it seems as if the whole attention and time of the modiste were taken up in their arrangement. The rage for tulle for cravats and jabots is extensive, and the colors are most brilliant. The bolero jacket still continues the fashion, and checks and stripes, both small and large, are tremendously fashionable. It is whispered that Irish poplins are to be in vogue.

An effective and novel garment for travelers is the new long coat The cutis almost entirely new, though something after the style of a man's newmarket coat. The fore parts and back are all cut ia one piece, and the lapped saams, coming just below the waist give the appearance of along back. The skirt part is split up behind, and the looso fronts arc double breasted, fastening with pearl buttons of abnormal size. Tho material is in a nondescript though charming abide of gray covert coating, with a large coat collar and cuffs of gray velvet and two useful pockets. Last but not least oomes a gorgeous lining of silk.

Women's Doings.

Ida Lew in, who has attained prominence through buing tho only woman lighthouse keeper, is at present in chargo of the Lime Rock lighthouse at the south end of Newport harbor. She owns to 50 years of age, but does not look it, being still strong and active. Her salary is reported as being |750 per year.

What a company of smoking queens there are! The queen of Italy smokes so does the queen regent of Spain so does the queen of Portugal, following the example of her mother, the Countess de Paris, who smoked long before the fashion set in so does the empress of Austria so does the ex-queen of Naples, her sister so does the czarina. It may be said in passing that no (me has ever accused the "majesty of Denmark" or that of England of a cigarette.

The Wellesley girls have anew boathouse, which cost |8,000. Each class owns its boat, and the crew reoeive training under Miss Hill, the head of the athletic department and the girls have discarded skirts when boating and wear gymnasium blouses and Turkish trousers. Float day, when they all appear on the lake, is one of the great festivities of the college. An athletic field, with a running track, is another acquisition to the college grounds. Tennis and bicycling are old stories to these athletic young women.

Anew outdoor sport for women that gained at certain paints some prominence the past summer is canoeing. It has been discovered that paddling a canoe is not nearly so fatiguing as Is rowing, and a very much more graceful exercise. Paddling is not difficult to learn. The most serious requirement Is that of properly balancing the oano&

ROYALTY AND THE LAW.

The Qnton of England and Her Son as Candidate* For the Criminal Dock.

The basmiv in aid of the fund for rebuildiuj the Crathle ohuroh, near Balmoral, was hold under the patronage o! the queen, who also gave two plaited straw baskets made by her own royftl hands. These precious presents were naturally made much of. and with the queen's approval were disposed of by raffle, although the gaming laws distinctly speoify raffling as illegal. The question arises, Has her majesty, by aiding and abetting it, made herself liable to prosecution before a magistrate? Lawyers have no doubt about it hut it does not follow that the law will be set in motion. The British constitution would soaroely survive the shook of the spectacle of the empress-queen in a criminal dock and possibly fined 40 shillings or a month at hard labor.

But while nobody is disposed to take aotion against the queen for conniving at a mild form of gambling plenty of people would not be sorry to see her son, lieutenant general, his royal highness the Duke of Connaught, tried by oourt martial for risking the lives of the men under his command. The duke is oom mander in chief of the Aldershot dis* trict On Wednesday he and his wife went to tho military balloon ground in order to christen a new balloon to be named after the duchess. The weather had been threatening thunderstorms, and the atmosphere was heavily charged with eleotrioity. Nevertheless it would never do to disappoint the duohess. So, just as the storm was about to break, the balloon was sent up 800 feet and anchored by* a steel rope held by three sappers. The result, as might have been expeoted, was that the lightning struok the balloon, rushed down the steel con duotor and horribly mangled the unfortunate sappers. The question every one asked is why the oeretfl&ny was not postponed, seeing that danger was palpable to the meanest understanding. The demand for a court martial is very general and will probably be acceded to, but it may be safely predicted that the prisoner will not be the general oom manding, but some inferior officer.— London Cor. New York Sun.

BLASTING THE PALISADES.

Contractors Destroying Their Beauty to Get Out Granite Blocks. Until comparatively recently the Palisades escaped the ruthless hands of contractors and quarrymen, despite the fact that there are few spots in the country where richer deposits of granite are to be found. A few quarries within the last five years have sprung up at Fort Lee, but they have all been located away back from the Palisades, and the front of these beautiful hills have been unmolested. Now, however, a firm of contractors, by exploding dynamite, 8,000 pounds at a time, is gradually making huge excavations in front of the Palisades, which will in the course of a very few months transform the historio Palisades from things of beauty to ordinary stono quarries.

Nothing that the lovers of natural scenery can do will in anyway stop the destructive work from going on. The Palisades are private property, and that part of them which is at present being torn open by high explosives has been leased by the owners to contractors, whose love of the beautiful pales into insignificance beside their business instinct.

Aside from the destruction of the Palisades, the work going on in the quarries at Fort Lee is of moment on account of the enormous amount of dynamite whioh is being exploded there. People marveled at the explosion of 600 pounds of dynamite in a projeotile thrown by a pneamatio gun at Sandy Hook some weeks ago. Six times that much was exploded at' Fort Lee on Thursday at noon and again on Friday at the same hour, and although it was not thrown from a gun neither did it explode in the water, but in a solid bed of granite. Tho terrific force of these two explosions cannot be imagined by anybody who was not in Fort Lee to hear them, or who has not since visited the quarries to see their effect The little village of Fort Lee shook as though an earthquake had visited it, and stringers in the nlace who were unaware that blasting was going on in the vicinity were firmly convinced that some convulsion of nature had occurred.—New York Sun.

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The Prince and His Tailors.

I have seen the Prinoe of Wales several timee, but I oould detect very little difference between his attire and that of a well dressed New Yorker exoept that his garments did not fit as well His ooats are wrinkled in the back, and they do not set as well as formerly. The fact ie that the prinoe is getting vary stout, more and more like Henry VIII every day, and English tailors seem to have talent to fit only toll, lank, sinewy guardsmen. Short, stout persons cannot wear very loose, easy fitting clothes. —Vogue.

"''v Crased by the Baeet. The Rev. F. A. Miller, pastor of the Methodist ohuroh at Farley, reoently drove over to Cascade to witness the raoea there. He became so excited that his mind gave way, and he was taken to the residence of Richard Baker, where he is at present He /las a fancy for fast horses and owns severaL—Dubuque (la.) Dispatch.

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What Some Folks Call Generosity He Dcclare* Is a "Monstrous Job." 1

The queen's generosity in providing palaces and other residences for foreign princes and princesses at the expense of the British taxpayer is again rousing the ire of Radicals, says a London letter. Tho scandal has hardly subsided orer the thrifty pensioners of her majesty, v?ho have been turning Hampton Court palaco into a boarding house, when now it is announced that she has been pleased to grant the studhouse, also at Hampton Court, to Princess Frederica of Hanover and her husband, with the benefit of the survivorship. The prinoess is one of the wealthiest personages in Europe, and she only rarely comes to England for a brief visit. It is announced that the studhouse is to be extensively repaired and improved for her occasional occupation. This moves Mr.Labouchere to remark: this arrangement has really been rtiaLpI it is a most monstrous job, and one of a peculiarly objectionable kind, as during the reigns of George IV and William IV parliament protested so strongly against such reversionary grants that they were altogether discontinued of l^te years. However, the queen has privately revived the system of giving royal residences with survivorship, and I am informed that nearly every warrant whioh has recently been granted has oontained the obnoxious reversionary clause. The next sovereign of these realms will have to live a long time before he has either houses or apartments to give away. "I believe in at least one case the queen has signed a warrant granting what really was an official residence to the wife of the present occupant in case she survives her husband."

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