"Parting is such sweet sorrow"—this can be made literally true if you say goodbye with a box of M. Boyer' French chocolates. With Gallic wi dom he has provided a choice of most beautiful containers imported from Paris, So your present bought from him may cost a few dollars or many—just as you wish. Though either way it will be equally delicious. His chocolates are of the richest, his bonbons are in the likeness of every possible fruit and vegetable, his liqueur bottles have most well-chosen contents—peppermint, curacao, brandy, rhum. He has also cherries and strawberries in wine.
Boyer crystallized fruits are imported from Nice—a stately trayful of them adorned a shining glass counter. Dragées and gemmes come also from France. There are such uncommon delicacies as white "chocolates" made from the white cocoa bean, and coffee-flavoured chocolate beans, Nougats are a speciality.
Now all these would of their own sweet selves satisfy the soul of any normal woman—but if you want to gild the lily have them housed in a box of'which the lid is an old French print which will certainly be framed by its recipient, or one covered in Gobelin tapestry or lidded with a ship painted on glass. Or choose a glove box of siena-coloured ribbed silk with a huge bunch of brown grapes lying over the top. Or for a very young person let a gently absurd French doll carry the eatables.
And' while your purchase is being packed, Mademoiselle who serves you will talk of M. Boyer's ideas for new petits fours, and what he is doing for Cocktail "small chow" and how you can order French gáteaur for your dinners. And she will show you dark rich fruit cakes—"for the English. French people do not care so much for these" And you will go away feeling flattered that a master of his craft is taking thought for the strange likes.of the Anglo-Saxon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.