ivory-handles

Updated: May 17, 2025

"'Please, ma'am, said she, 'I read in the Young Woman's Vademecum of Instructive Information, page 150, that there was nothing in the world so strengthening and wholesome as dissolved bones, and ivory- dust; and so, ma'am, I always make a point of throwing in a few knives into every soup I have the charge of, for the sake of the handles ivory-handles for white soups, ma'am, and black-handles for the browns!"

Mrs. Alfred Gatty - Aunt Judy's Tales