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ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. 121
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avidity it was devoured by domestic animals , that its nutritious properties were brought into notice and made available for higher purposes .
We are introduced too to new friends , furnished with credentials to show how desirable it is that we should become better acquainted
with them . The tuberous chervil bears a certificate from a French chemist , showing that it is superior in quality to even the potato ;
and this passport to our good opinion is vise by the Paris marketgardeners , whose careful culture it has so well repaid that its yield
is now nearly equal in quantity to that of its Irish rival . The mangold wurzel informs uswith ingenuous blushthat he is not so very
much inferior to his rosy , cousin the beet , , but that in times of scarcity he might be welcomed by the poor if duly introduced to
them . Our -wild purple goat ' s beard claims to be better than the parsnip , a claim endorsed by Continental cultivators ; and its very
common relative , the yellow variety , needs but a little attention to become nearly as good , while even in its wild state its spring shoots
form a palatable article of diet . The edible snail too asks a share of the favour accorded to his marine brother the periwinkle , and
sundry sea-weeds plead for a . more honourable fate than to remain ungathered on the shore save in some few spots where their dietetic
qualities have found recognition . This slight sketch of a few of the objects exhibited will , we hope ,
suffice to show that this little section is no less worthy of careful inspection than the more prominently attractive halls and galleries
of the Kensington Museum ; but we have a further object in view in thus calling attention to it . We would fain make known , far as our
influence may extend , the general invitation that has been sent forth ( addressed , too , " especially to ladies " ) by its zealous and
benevolent founders to co-operate with -them in its extension and development , and invoke all who may have it in their power to do
so , to assist in so useful and patriotic a work . This is not a demand upon the purse : what is required is Time and Labour , Thought and
Skill , treasures of which many a woman possesses a _sujDerabundance , and would be glad to know of some worthy object on which they might
be expended . Here is large scope for them , and an unusual opportunity afforded for applying the most elegant accomplishments to
purposes of the greatest utility . Ample pictorial illustrations would be one of the most attractive features in a museum of this kind , as
among the surest means of drawing observation to what might be otherwise passed unnoticed ; but at present the supply of these is
very scanty . Miss Twining , being an amateur artist , has presented a series of coloured drawings of useful plants , and there are a few
prints here and there , showing for instance the cultivation of wheat , rice , and other grains ; _Neapolitan L / azzaroni eating Maccaroni ;
Hebrews preparing unleavened bread for the Passover , & c , & o . ; but many more such illustrations are required , and any would be found
acceptable which might represent the localities where the various articles exhibited are produced , the processes they undergo , the vol . i _, k "
Illustrations Of Every-Day Life. 121
_ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE . 121
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/49/
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