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The spell of severe winter, January and February, ’99,
opened my eyes for the study of a branch of nature hitherto
almost entirely neglected. As it may be of some use in
opening up a new field, and is of most interesting and
fascinating nature, I will make a minute record of it.
It came about in this way: I was frequently taking my
meals at a German restaurant, southeast corner of Sixty-first
and State streets, Chicago, where I had observed some
ferns in the front window, and on Sunday January 29, ’99,
I observed that their contours were faithfully delineated
on an enlarged and elongated scale on the frosted front-window
pane, and that also an evidently dry specimen of
a geranium in the left corner was clearly depicted. Then
I observed that on each of the five dining tables, placed in
front of the four side windows, were glasses, or tumblers,
containing each a stalk or two of celery, and to my utter
astonishment, that at the bottom of each of these plate-glass
windows were most vividly depicted stalks of celery
with sprigs and leaves, and that each of these ice-portraitures
or ice photographs was exceedingly thick, quite bas-relief,
in complete accordance with the pulpy celery stems,
the majority of which, please observe, had already been
eaten, and thus only left as a reminiscence of themselves
these frosty tracings on the windows, as those remaining
in the tumblers were only thin and small and without
scarcely any leaves, mere tufts being suffered to remain, in
fact, the rejected ones left over from the dinner. I drew
the attention of my companion and of the two waitresses
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