VERSATILITY OF AMERICA.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 179, 20 October 1903, Page 2

VERSATILITY OF AMERICA.

Our Artists Paint "Old MaolePß" aisrt "Imparted" Soap, Wines, Etc., Are Made at Rome. There are some articles which seemingly cannot be produced in America, but we must remember that "Tlinc;s arc not always what they seem, ?!:iir> milk masquerades as cream," ns GilVtl snys. We are told that there are artists here in New York, who are making a good living painting some of "the old masters," which bring large prices at auction. Imported wines are now made in California, the labels nlone being French. It is a very com-mon-place soap factory that cannot turn out Castile soap, and Maine herring are shipped to France, and returned as French sardines, says "Vest Pocket Confidences," in Four-Track News. Up in northern New York they are making all manner of imported cheese, and down in Kentucky they aro turning out many successful brands m' Scotch whisky. Nor does this Yankee ingenuity cease in its endeavors to supply the demand for foreign goods, for western manufacturers are making 1 .maple sugar from' ingredients that never came within the shadow of a maple tree, and are actually buyincr Vermont newspapers in which to wrap the cakes so that the unsuspecting purchaser will think he is buying genuine Green Mountain maple sugar. The land of wooden nutmegs ie no longer a curiosity.