Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-01-01

large Sne Will lay IN yaIo Vi preao.
You can find bread in rolls as long as
broomstick. which you see piled like cord
wood in the bakers shop. With these
few vegetables and bits Of meat that wo-
man will get up agallan of rich and
nourishing soup. Bread is literally the
staff of life On Sundays--pcrhAps twice
during the week--she will have . ragoat.
in ench.cookery sort Of stew. Once
in while she ventures on outlet The
bones which every day are thrown to the
pigs in America would be sufficient to
keep French family Of fvo persons in
good heart.
What would the people in New Eng.
land think they were coming to if every
drop of blood at the slaughter houses was
saved for the market? Coagulated blood
is q staple article Also ROSTERS combs
Sparrows. which. when stripped Of their
feathers, are but little larger than your
thumb, are consumed by the thousand.
HorscHesh is becoming regular article Of
food, and just now it has been discovered
that the flesh Of asses is mach superior to
beef or horse. Great are the mysteries of
European cooking. Not only is the cook
cry mysterious in variety and compost
ton. but in its cheapness. Strange to
say, they know nothing Of baked beans.
You sometimes may see stcwed beans, but
beans are looked upon by portion Of the
community as fit only for horses and
sheep.
| have been sixteen months abroad, but
have not yet learned to love French cook
cry. So far as taste is concerned, there
is more enjoyment in such a dinner as
you can 6ud iu the farm houses of New
England than at the Grand Hotel in Pa
ris. But on the score Of economy Ameri-
cans have something to learn from the
people Of Europe.
These are close times with many Amer.
lean families. Flour aud meat command
high prices; but there are some New
England housewives who might make the
beef bones, the odds and ends of to-day,
90 far toward to morrow's dinner by ma
king soups and ragouts after the French
fashion. Every particle Of marrow and
gclatinc is boiled from the bones and
served in some way for food | do not
think. however that the people Of the
United States are quite ready to sit down
to meal Of boiled blood or ROSTERS
combs
{f" o BELGIUM. a..
The kingdom Of Belgium is very little
larger in area than the State Of New
Hampshire. The southern portion toward
Luxembourg is somewhat elevated and
has hills like those Of Vermont. but the
country is generally undulating. sinking
down to plain as you 60 nsrthward to
the sea.
The land is marshy along the river and
is protected from overflow by dykes. 1t
is the ancient Flandsrs--the scene Of ma.
ny bloody battles--the greatest that Of
Waterloo. In productive industry the
Belgians are the most advanced of any
European nation There is q population
of nearly FIVE million. New Hampshire
has a population Of three hundred and
fifteen thousand. Think of fifteen inhab-
itants iu that State where there is one at
the present time, and you will have the
relative population of the two countries.
1t has dcnser population than any other
country in Europe--oue hundred and six
ty.seven to the square mile. g
There are great contrasts in life here.
Ten years ago, in the year 1857. there
were nine hundred and eight thousand
families 10 the kingdom. and Of these only
eighty.nine thousand were in easy circum-
stances in life; three hundred and seven
ty-three thousand were in straitened cir
sumstances, while the remainder, four
hundred and forty-six thousand, were in
povertyl Wealth has increased enorm-
onaly, the rich have become richer, while
there has been no amelioration in the
condition of the poor About one hundred
thousand are beggars. Here is problem
for future solution, multiplication Of
| population. increase of wealth in the hands
Of the few. increase Of poverty among the
many. II is free coustry. one Of the
! frecst In the world There is no dcspo.
tism Of law to grind the people down.
rhc people are nearly all Romanists. only
fifteen thousand Protestants aud two thou
sand Jews out of the five million, Yet the
Protestants and Jews are on an equality
in religion and In the right to hold civil
Office. II is q free communisy and the
main antagouism is between labor and