Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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58 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1911
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Fig. 2. # Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 2 —Bananas. The old Irishman taking his pig to market. Fig. 3.—The elephant is made from a big pear and a small apple skewered together and mounted on two pieces of banana. Fig. 4.—Banana pigs. The legs are matches, while the eyes are indicated in icing sugar. fruit be converted into a mysterious pair of porkers by the simple expedient of adding broken matches for legs, paper tails and ears, and eyes painted with Chinese white upon the yellow rinds, and it will be changed at once into an object of desire. Let the reader prepare a few such "banana animals" and arrange them upon plates with a little colored paper shaving, and she will be surprised at the wild delight which her handiwork will call forth. Bananas adapt themselves fav- orably to this kind of treatment, as several of the accompanying photographs bear witness. The old Irishman taking his pig to market "to pay the rint" is always a great favorite. The manner of rendering the pig has already been described. His master is simply a banana with a small portion sliced off one end so that it will stand erect. A little piece of colored tissue paper makes an admirable cloak, to which may be added a scrap of ribbon to play the part of scarf. The old gentleman's hat requires a word of special counsel. It is formed from a small cork, gummed upon a circle of cardboard for the brim, the whole being duly blackened. A top-hat is invaluable in the preparation of the Welsh woman and her cat, which together make an attractive dish. The lady's body is simply a banana appropri- ately garbed in colored tissue paper. Her head is a filbert nut, the crown of which is flattened by means of a penknife in order to support the hat. The cat is also formed of two filbert nuts joined together and supported by pieces of matches. Holes are carefully bored through the shells of the nuts in order that the

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