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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[December, 



BEEFSTEAKS AND PIES. 



Everybody e.Kcepl cannibals and the Ashan- 

 tee consumers of steaks from the living kine, 

 prefers well prepared food to the other kind. 

 There is no farmer's boy who eats a greasy 

 lump of shoe leather fried in a pan and called 

 a' beefsteak, who would not prefer a well- 

 broiled porter-house from the hands of a good 

 cook. Here, then, dear madame, is a point of 

 departure. Well cooked food is not only more 

 toothsome, but it is more nutritious. Your 

 grandmother would have scorned a fried steak. 

 Pork fried in its own juice is another thing. 

 Yet the American beefsteak, the national dish 

 for breakfast, is generally fried. It is often of 

 a pale measly complexion. Its dry and hard 

 surface is vainly irrigated with lukewarm 

 grease, in which lumps of soft butter float — 

 pardon, madame, the unsavory details which 

 imperious truth imposes. Is that proper food 

 for a human being ? Yet the average Ameri- 

 can human being is subjected to it in the great 

 multitude of honest homes. Can you do 

 nothing about it ? 



Then pies. Even that dismayed French- 

 man could not deny that " we have as many 

 pies as religions, and he would be a bohl 

 Frenchman, also, if he asserted that we are 

 as fond of our religions as of our pies. Pies, 

 indeed, there must be. They are as ancient 

 as Thanksgiving, and the pie on the table of 

 that great day was as constituent a part of it 

 as the minister in the pulpit. Nay, what is 

 the festival itself but a humble and pious offer- 

 ing of thanks for the copious harvest of pie — 

 in its original material? Indeed, the more 

 metapliysical inquirer might justly ask, as he 

 surveys the autumn fields, gorgeous with the 

 massive pumpkin, what is it there for except to 

 make pie? It is as manna fallen upon the 

 earth. It is a celestial hint of pie. It is a 

 heavenly command of pie. There is a time in 

 the life of the contemplative American when 

 he perceives in himself nascent doubts of pie. 

 He may even go so far as to protest that 

 heavy white dough, " shortened'' with heaven 

 and the lard pot know what, is not wholesome 

 food. But what said the learned and elo- 

 quent Rufus Choate, when his mouth fairly 

 watered at the luxury of the forecastle and 

 galley of a half-starved coasting smack? "On 

 Monday, gentlemen, the wholesome and tooth- 

 some duff'; on Tuesday the nutritious and 

 delicious dundy-funk ;" and in the climax his 

 rapt eye beheld the vision,the very transfigured 

 material of pie, although he called it by a 

 kindred name, when he exclaimed, "and on 

 Wednesday, gentlemen, with his own hand, 

 with his own paternal hand, the captain dealt 

 out to them squash ; not the cold and shriv- 

 eled vegetable of our northern clime, but the 

 gorgeous, the luxuriant, the exuberant squash 

 of the tropics." 



Think, madame, that you deal with this 

 esculent— squash or pumpkin, it is all the 

 same ; concede that the German will surrender 

 his sauer-kraut, the Scotchman his oatmeal 

 "parritch" the Irishman his potato, the 

 Italian his macaroni, the Frenchman his frog, 

 as soon as the American his pie ; waive all 

 the arguments against pie as pie ,• yet are you 

 not morally bound to consider the nature of 

 crust, and can you, as a friend of truth, assert 

 that the white, soggly slab of "duff" that 

 underlies your pie is either wholesome or 

 toothsome ? The question that comes to you 

 is, can't you brown it ? Can't you make it 

 dry and crisp without too much reference to 

 the lard pot ? When it is apple with which 

 you are concerned, the responsibility is 

 greater, for, so to speak, your apple-pie wears 

 a full suit; it has acoatand trowsers, an upper 

 and a lower garment ; and, dear madame, 

 since " it is not always May," why should the 

 innocent fruit be always clad in white ? Brown 

 it, madame, brown it ! 



These are simple hints, but they involve 

 health, comfort, and progress. Let us regard 

 what has been said as a first lesson — studies, 

 if you please, for beginners. Devote your 

 energy to securing a juicy broiled steak, dry 

 and mealy potatoes, brown and not buttery 

 pastry, and light, thoroughly baked bread— 



•'only these and nothing more" — and not 

 your children only, madame, but all wearied 

 souls who have been long watching for the 

 dawn, will rise up and call you blessed I 



EXHIBITION NOTES. 

 In the installation of the exhibits from the 

 various nations, numerous changes were nefces- 

 sarily made in the original allotment of spaces 

 in Uie five Exhibition buildings. The follow- 

 ing is a return of the amount of space actual- 

 ly occupied in each building, obtained from 

 the chiefs of bureaus, by permission of Direc- 

 tor General Goshorn. The figures are taken 

 from data compiled for the official reports 

 of the bureaus — the very comprehensive re- 

 port from the Main Building being prepared 

 by Mr. Henry Pettit, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Installation. The amounts in this, as in all 

 the other reports, are given in square feet. 

 Main Building and Annexes. 



C0UKTRIE9. 



Great Britain and Ireland. 



Canada 



India 



S: raits Set llements 



^oiun Anatralia 



QueenBland 



New South Wales 



Victoria 



TaBmania 



New Zealand 



British Guiana 



Oold Coast 



Archipelago of Seychelles. 



Trinidad 



Jamaica 



Bahamas 



Cape of Good Hope 



Bermudas 



Total United Kingdom 



Orange Free State 



France 



Germany 



Grand Duchy of Luxemburg 

 Austila and Hungary 



Russia 



Norway 



Sweden 



Denmark 



Netherlands 



Belgium 



•Switzerland 



Italy 



Spain 



Cuba 



Philippine Islands 



FortUf^al 



Turkey 



Egypt 



Tunis 



JaP;>n 



China 



Brazil 



Chili 



Argentine Republic 



Peru 



Hawaii 



Mexico 



U. S. of America. 



Alabama 



California 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Florida 



Georgia 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa , 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louis ana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



vlinuesota 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



Nebraska 



New Hampshire 



New .Jersey 



New York , 



North Carolina 



Ohio 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania , 



Rhode Island 



South Carolina 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Vermont 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



Bureau (Jffices 



Intermediate passageways.. 



bo 



a 3. 



3 

 oM 



64,155 



24,118 



3,208 



82 



1,636 



3,406 



4,213 



5,167 



1,372 



1,664 



344 



279 



282 



26T 



722 



472 



646 



494 



H 



4,130 

 1,016 



102,456 



1,068 



45,460 



29,625 



247 



24,727 



11,141 



6,9.59 



17,799 



2,662 



16.948 



15,698 



6,693 



8,943 



i:,263 



S, 



3,347 

 5,026 

 2,015 

 17.851 

 6,1528 

 6,899 

 3,424 

 2,861 

 1,462 

 1,575 

 6,567 



114 



449 



9,337 



154 



200 



48 



74 



3,26T 



1,871 



247 



13 



247 



80 



1,042 



1,320 



18,703 



l,a80 



14 



90 



1,069 



2 



600 



6,330 



34,187 



178 



6,228 



30 



47,185 



2,946 



21 



87 



19 



466 



289 



303 



235 



2,214 

 85,928 



Total United States 224,826 



Grand totals aU countries.. I 688,928 18,096 76,067 632,089 



63 



237 



164 

 672 



1,594 



339 

 223 



625 

 610 

 442 



1,074 



91 

 365 

 980 



337 

 1,819 



1,703 

 '5,556 



43 

 336 



676 

 61 

 138 

 220 



16,601 



404 

 1,915 

 2,205 



1.188 

 466 

 12 



5 



209 



164 



2,073 



614 



181 



""223 

 1,801 

 8,216 



1,705 



9,233 

 234 



3,013 

 35,016 



63,646 



Z SI 



o « 



,285 

 ,133 

 ,208 

 22 

 636 

 ,406 

 ,276 

 ,167 

 ,372 

 ,664 

 344 

 279 

 282 

 267 

 722 

 472 

 646 

 494 



107,674 



1,038 



45,460 



29,867 



247 



24,881 



11,813 



6,959 



17,799 



2,562 



15,948 



15,698 



6,693 



9,083 



11,253 



6,989 

 3,347 

 6,026 

 2,015 

 17,831 

 8,222 

 6,899 

 3,424 

 2,861 

 1,462 

 1,676 

 6,567 



B46 



8;)3 



11,691 



2,652 



200 



4S 



74 



5,010 



2,817 



1,389 



13 



701 



85 



1,251 



1,666 



21.201 



2,674 



14 



90 



1,774 



2 



823 



7,168 



44,192 



178 



8,106 



30 



61,968 



3,180 



21 



410 



19 



677 



65S 



318 



967 



61 



6,363 



121,164 



309,973 



Great Britain 33,298 



Russia 6,967?^ 



Brazil 5,056 



Belgium 9,375 



Denmark 585 



Sweden 3,186 



Spain 1,224 



Machinery Hall. 

 Total square feet of occupied space : 



France 1,129 



Canada 4,300 



German Emj.ire 10,098 



Austria 1*248 



Switzerland 288 



Italy 283 



United States 308,210 



Memorial Hall and Annexes. 



R Relative space in square feet, covered by 

 each of the contributing nationalities on both 

 wall and floor of MemoriarHall and its two 

 annexes — Pothographic Hall and Art annex : 



Sculpture. 



Floor space. 



2,360 



339 



463 



493 



115 



95 



- 7,423 



Paintings. 



Wall space. 



United S'ates 46,829 



Great Britain 12,163 



France 18,115 



Germany 8,031 



Austria 4,646 



Spain 2,960 



Italy \ 4,500 



Pope Pius 



:::}. 



80 



320 



"'l7 

 76 

 26 

 75 

 28 

 77 

 74 



11.981 



Belgium 5,614 



Netherlands 4,956 



Denmark 638 



Sweden 3,637 



Norway 1,439 



Russia 2,162 



Canada 2,319 



Mexico 3,296 



Rrazil 1,496 



Argentine Kepublic 684 



Australia 126 



Japan liiS 



Total 123,619 



Horticultural Hall. 



Square feet of space occupied within the 

 Hall and in the grounds at either end of and 

 around the Building : 



In-doors. Out-doors. 



England 1,050 8.000 



Spain 1,840 8,500 



France 100 19,500 



Netherlands , 6,700 



Austria 800 



Victoria 330 



Jamaica \ 320 



Germany 120 



San Domingo 75 



Sandwich Islands 50 



New Zealand 60 



Bermuda ! 60 



Total* 3,985 



43,500 



• The balance of the occupied space, which has not been 

 definitely ascertained, is credited lo the United States, hav- 

 ing been improved under the general supervision of the 

 Centennial management. 



Argricultural Hall. 



Square feet of space occupied by the exhibi- 

 tors from nations represented : 



Liberia 1,536 



Argentine Republic 3,468 



Austria 2.392 



Brazil 4,668 



Canada 10,387 



Denmark 806 



France 15,743 



Germanv. 4,878 



Great Britain & Ireland. 12,224 



Italy 4,280 



Japan 1,665 



Netherlands 4,276 



Norway 3,090 



Poriugal 6,182 



Russia 6,893 



Spain 6,061 



Sweden 2,603 



Venezuela 1,220 



Total for. countries. ..92,372 



United States of America. 



New Hampshire 360 



New Jersey 912 



Ohio 360 



Oregon 691 



Washington Territory... 288 



Wisconsin 480 



Total 9,236 



Connecticut ' 480 



Delaware 286 



Illinois 601 



Indiana 601 



Iowa 1,566 



Massachusetts 760 



Michigan 1,235 



Missouri 601 



Nebraska 426 



Collective exhibits of Central Pacific Railroad (includ- 

 ing three States) 1,601 



Grand total of occupied space 103,209 



The exhibits of the United States, private 

 and collective, covered 157,315 square feet, 

 the whole area of the hall being 434,305. 



The above figures are, of course, exclusive 

 of the occupation by different Governments of 

 special buildings and their assignments in the 

 Shoe and Leather, Women's Pavilion and 

 other independent buildings. 



In order to prevent the presence of crowds, 

 while avoiding the importunities incident to a 

 free pass system, the Director General has de- 

 cided to continue the regular admission fee. 



A telegram was received by Col. H. B. 

 Sandford, Commissioner for the British dis- 

 play, directing him to present to the Pennsyl- 

 vania Museum and School of Industrial Art, 

 a napkin spun by her Majesty, Queen Vic- 

 toria, and a screen worked by her Eoyal 

 Highness, the Princess Beatrice. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of 

 the Permanent Exhibition Co., held in the 



