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somewhat similar tropical displays, although none so
beautiful as particularly on saloons where they sell Swedish
punch, the favorite intoxicating drink of that nationality,
which is made from arrack, distilled from cocoanut, rice
and sugar cane, which the Swedes import from the West
Indies, and which may thus explain the tropical display
caused by the effluvium thereof. Sometimes in adulterated
state made from the saccharine of common licorice.
I have always thought the name of “sample room”
being an idiotic name for these places, but I verily
acknowledge its appropriateness, for these frosty tracings
evidently displayed samples of the various mysterious
distilled ingredients which had been uncorked at the bar, and
with which the air was surcharged, impressing their still
extant vitality on the moist plate glass.
The fancy bakeries and drug stores alone vie with the
saloons in their display, although not quite so gorgeous nor
so diversified.
The vital force of plants, as of everything else, is
invisible and imponderable and impalpable, and can therefore
not be annihilated, but in this instance makes its effect
visible in the icy tracings. I would feel inclined to hold
with the theosophists that it is the astral body or vital
force of the plant thus becoming visible, but I will defer
that opinion until later on, when further experiments,
cited in this paper, may enable me to make such a startling
assertion. But the all-pervading soul of the universe must
perforce permeate every plant as well.
Three tobacconists, and saloons with their tobacco
counters near the window, furnished a few tobacco leaves
in ice tracings, of which, however, none seemed complete,
but were cut in halves or thirds of the leaves in their
entirety.
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