Show fe T nr il y 4 k 11 A 7 7 at 1 1 1 t t aki 11 N atoo arst net for to you eh h 5 9 0 xo o im just as good as when I 1 started but I 1 dont post pose to rain mill a to 0 racing snit with dust and dirt tor for the bako of winning a 12 cadillo why soe oe choel EOW TO TELL A many vanities G grow in this country that ars are safa to eat but others are roi 3 acus another story of mushroom lou poisoning has recently ly beau pub li Elied and as it is ie every summer the question is again wised as to the difference between mushrooms that are edible and those that it is death to eat what complicates the question is the enormous difference of authorities ties they contradict each other ou on every hand to judge from the rules laid down by one mau man it is a certain and speedy baj of ofus uslie heiing ling ones odes self out of the orld to go by the card of any ally one else added besides to the host ol of late scientific lif statements statement there pre are the hie old ivea lupei ions and charms of an all era long loija since parsed nhen v hen venerable dames ames niel e bont to drop salt on a mushroom to see if it turned black or yellow if it did eithel it was poisonous they abo used to stir the mixture once in a pot with a coin spoon when liy by peering n within v alin they nere jule aide to to ounce ar pronounce upon up its edi edibleness blenes I 1 another old wivel judgment was I 1 that any mushroom which is rown upon wood ifould be ith thrown away it is no modern question though modern scientists and naturalists natura lists shei shed more and more light upon it all the while mushrooms vere inere high llad mighty dainties lung long before rome roine fell they even antedated the imperial cites gilded age seneca i the shrewd and craft crafty sage called mushrooms voluptuous poison and it is wn that not even brillat ever brought greater ciance to the reparation preparation of then them than did the old roman cooks cooke mushrooms were poison alu v when it is id coni considered dered thit no less ea than four imperial personages met their death from eating eating them claudius of rome died in great agony after eating adick a cibit ofin of morel orel a mushroom in which is conc vale I 1 one of the most deadly of i poisons it had bad beail carefully fur for him by queen agrippina who ibo had learned the nature of the vegetable fron a celebrated celebia ted female of the d daiy diy ty and had anade ina e use of it in ordea to wt her eon nero rill in the throne fiona poisonous poi bonous died also the emperor tiberiu rope pope clement VII and chaile VI of france to say nothing of the long list hit of pea peasants salts and waking people on the continent in the british ables and america who wandering anderia ande rim forth into the fields picked ana and ate A better froia ledge of mushrooms ii now spiced over oner europe in prance france aud and its italy particularly ticul arly and the women of the french provinces and the italian states scour the fields and meadows for the dainty so highly priel and seldom breer make a mistake the importance of mus blooms can be seen from the fact that chemists and gastronomists ba lae e pronounced them practically animal food for the reason that their flesh is almost identical in its with meat and has precisely the same nour nourishing i shing qualities I 1 on paper it is well nigh impossible to set ett down an any v I 1 ule lule for forthe the guidance of the man r boman ii nho he will go forth into the fields and gather carelessly there is this to bay that unless one has a full fill scientific e of the many diffrient species t the he collecting of them for food is a dangerous matter though to naturalists natura lists each decies has its own marked poin points ts 0 of afe difference di ff e r ef c e t li es e points will pass t the a attention ft e n t i 0 n 0 of f t the he casual seeker and he will go astray if one must gather in the mead oe the safest way is to saxo bano some scientific friend point out a perfectly safe species alii idine this carefully in all its details have hare its minutest points fied fi ed firm firmly jr in your mind and never gather anything a else if one will not follow these instructions three bits of advice should be taken into account be sure that the mushrooms picked or are e 1 perfectly fresh and have not t the e slightest signs of decay if they have they will act precisely pie ciely isely the bame on the bysted as does doe s putrid meat only far name moie alarmingly in this connection remember to cook them immediate N secondly cook in tin the simplest way broiling is the best b es t method and va fat or butter fat or butter will disguise the taste that the mushroom naturally has and onti one may thus eat a considerable quantity or of a poisonous variety without n being aware adire of it while if the mushroom is cooked simply and is not smothered in fat it often gives out danger signals of its own by its ila strange bitter taste the symptoms toan af of mushroom mush rown poisoning pois onins are nausea extreme drowsiness heavy beavy stupor and M re pains i in a the joints the mot efficacious le medy is a good smart doseff dose of sibet oil which may be lull half and half with nh noisey isey lair half and half eiith ith lineger line i gir or else taken pure there is 13 something in in tweet sweet oil that seems to negative the poison in italy ca cases caes es of mushroom poisoning seldom occur for the reabon that mushrooms when eaten are invariably cooked iu in sweet oil and the interior economy of the italian nation anyway is fully and completely satur saturated aled with it the old theory used to be that edible mushrooms grew greff only in shelf grays and in aad and never in boggy marshy ground but recent scientific investigation has this to be quite false as on absolute rule the champignon for example the famous little mushroom of france which is not more than half the size of the english or american mushroom and is a standing card in french cookery coo Lery grows excellently in swampy places nearly all of the file other rules regarding a riling mushrooms that were taken as a gospel n truth ten tell years ago have been overturned it A used to be said eaid that thin capped ft nere ere poisonous onous but bill tho the tasteful champignon chim ebani pignon ib of ju t that bat vaile variety ty again it was the old eclief that milky with mith the exception of iha orange e milk mushroom I 1 nere ero recent K hale haie however ho never uever found a species specie i that they label ibel the brown milk mushroom that is very nery ex bitter taste AN was as also regarded as a hostile Nevertheless the honey acney colored has been found to be very line fine when cooked though exceedingly acrid when then raw another danger ebenal was the running ning speedily into a dark watery liquid the mushroom however exudes an inky fluid when punctured once more the turning of color biben bi used to bc be regarded as an evidence of polon pol poison on yet now in the category of edible mushrooms are leeral that turn red easily W IIii nillon gibson the illustrator and writer on plants and flowers in the course of an antei esting paper prepared last year said mid this dr auttis of south 1 auth carolina hal bai published a lister listo forer over one hundred edible american species the driler ariter has himself with about forty esculent varieties slid and other notably dr and capt charles mcilvaine include a hund led spec species es in their habitual bill of fare but there can be no general 1 ule laid dov n for the tion lion of an edible fungus kach each must be learned as EL a species or at least familiar as kind devenas relearn to recognize a flower a tree or a bird keeping tins his in mind therefore I 1 it c will be an excellent plan to give abrien a brief genearl classification of the various kinds of mushrooms to be met with in this country first there are the Agari cs or agar Agari cini which i resemble a series of thin plates set on abe ther r edges and running to a I 1 common centre as does a wheel the gills of the plant being the spokes and the stem the hub S secondly rou s or pore hearing bea riDs in which in the place of gills gilla tai re is a fine substance closely allied ich the do Y porous is the in which the stem is quite distinct and well defined and the file pores or tubes lubes are easily separated fioco each other then there is the teeth hearing bearing species in which the place ot of a sponge substance there are small points or spines lastly there are bluff bills balls which when inverted show no gills pores or teeth they are likely to be globular in shape shap c and if young the skin ski 11 is is filled with a substance th that at is either white yellow or black these ball mushrooms are the safest of all though there is is little danger with the badner variety the Alg agarics Agari arcs cs on the whole are the roost most deadly because there are many poisonous species that much re resemble enible them the harmless varieties ties can in fact only be told be expert taste and smell in paris the cultivation of mushrooms has dei developed eloped into a dukery and thebo thebe vegetables are grown in caves lio 0 to feet under the ground they are cultivated in beds or of manure and so EO extensive are some of these caves that anywhere from to 3 pounds a day are re gathered by certain proprietors prie tors world |