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The windows of laundries and of barber shops seemed
to have somewhat similar small patterns of frost, for
which I could find no better explanation and term than
frozen soap suds.
I found that large and fashionable stores or restaurants
were generally too well heated to allow “Jack Frost”
to draw any beautiful or interesting figures on their
windows, the small and poorly heated stores furnishing by far
the best examples.
Mrs. Charles Howard, 6558 Stewart ave., a very prominent
lady theosophist of Chicago, who after having heard
a portion of this paper read, looked in her own house to
see if she might discover any sign of ice palingenesis and
soon found an exemplar on a window pane, in front of
which had chanced to be left a small jar of preserved
grapes, in consequence of which a couple of large bunches
of grapes had developed on the frosted window.
At the grocery southeast corner of Thirty-first street
and Princeton ave., I again saw the phenomenon of the
celery thick bas relief stalks and thin foliage.
Now compare all these and other various trades and
occupations, and judge for yourself, always bearing in
mind that the celery at your green grocer will furnish the
finest specimens of undying energy and that “Jack Frost”
therefore seemingly most emphatically endorses celery as
a conserver and restorer of vitality resuscitating in itself.
Nearly thirty years ago I resided at a large farm in
Sweden, and I then often observed that our windows
during severe cold became frosted with beautiful pictures
of spruce firs, in long lines along the bottom of the window
panes. My friends suggested that it was caused by the
adjoining spruce fir forest, and so, no doubt, it was, but
not by photographic reflections from without, but as
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