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Show PEPPERS MAY BE U8ED TO DECORATE Would you recognlzo tho common or Garden rod popper If it was Introduced Intro-duced to you as a chill? JI&vo you over thought, of it save In Its utilitarian utilitar-ian and culinary aspect ,as an India-pensablo India-pensablo adjunct to piquant sauces hind stows? It appears that Its decorative possibilities pos-sibilities wore loft to be discovered by nn American hostess In Paris, who tiring of tho vivid polnsetta, scored a great success by massing in her drawing room towering bunches of red chillis, screening the ungainly Btalks by r. profusion of smllax. Tho effect of this brilliant colorlns among am-ong tho electric light appliances was both novel and striking. Even more novel, to us, Is the Jdca of calling them chillis. This scorns to be so perfect a misnomer as to spell an English joke. m i |