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Next I took stock of the window of a Greek fruit
dealer on Thirty-first street, and in company with another
companion was much delighted to find ice tracings of
various kinds of fruit foliage and of two distinct pineapples
on their stems. A candy store near by presented a
curious, very long, prickly, tapering stem, but otherwise
only enlarged crystals, thrown higgledly-piggledly
about—emanations of sugar, no doubt. On a small restaurant
window were thrown pell-mell enlarged specimens of various
cereals. This I have afterward found generally to be
the case on restaurant windows, as well as on those of
baker shops, private dining rooms, living rooms and bed
rooms, but like at the tobacconists these cereals or leaves
are never complete, but like chopped off.
In a small Swedish restaurant, 3205 Wentworth ave., I
observed a curious thing. The usual display of cereals and
vegetables were observable on the heavily frosted windows.
The little desk where the cash was received was, contrary
to custom, placed near the low side window of the inner
dining room. There I saw some vegetable leaves, but also
a perpendicular strip about eighteen inches long and two
inches wide, of the exact reproduction of lace, such as
waiting-maids occasionally display on their coquettish
aprons, the same pattern being continuous all through and
particularly heavy, as if crochet work, ice delineation of
cotton or worsted. I asked the girl if she had had such
an apron on, and she replied: “Yes, yesterday.” She,
like the others present, of course only laughed at these
curious freaks of “Jack Frost.” But there will be others
whom these discoveries will set prying into the secrets of
nature and who will be prone to clasp their hands, even
when trembling with cold, in adoration of the Creator and
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