St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-09-12

Il>Iltu also WIN Il sell acting SWING.
which struck me oD my arrival as IL
sure evidence of the philoprogenitive-
ness of the landlord. and | was right.
for he has no children of his own. His
customers have. As the custom is. on
entering the hotel. You subscribe your
name and residence in the hotel book
or register of GUESTS. which is alwaNS an
object of close study to the household
and the other visitors: and in the office.
OF general receiving hall. are the means
of ahlution. with the hairbrIlSh and
comb lin common for the whole world. J
and thc newspaper table. Here. too
the IdlclS. %oS>ipS. and customers of the
house congrcgate, sit and smoke. and
talk. ANA have business interviews. i'll
which those around join if they have
the opportunity and they are mostly
safe To find the opportunity. The huge
stove which warns this apartment is
irresistible to the ioatcIS in the winter
time and they troop i'll. and loll and
lounge i'll the chairs. ;is if they were the
best and choicest patrons that the land
lord could select. As the spring comes
on: they throng the piazza. and will sun
themselves and rock i'll tEeir chairs. for
all the time they can snatch from their
several aVOcatiOnS. The meals in the
hotel daily brought me new experience.
Breakfast at half-past seven \. NJ. din
ner at twelve OF halt-past twelve. and
tea at six. confused one seriously. All
are taken ut the public table with the
other guests. Tea was the only >ulacc
ut dinner till it WAS understood that
beer or wine WaS regarded hN me as Il
positive necessity. The protu>ion of
vegetables at the dinner table is some
what hcwildering: potatoes. tomatoes.
hcct-root, SrICcotash. Indian corn. on
IONS. squash. rice. tIlrnipS. helped by
all the %rowths of the season. as well as
three different sorts of bread. garniSh
the table. Beef. pork. and poultry the
turkey attended by cranberry or black
berry preScrvc-aud sometimes fish. are
the viamdS that commonly await YOUR
call. Soups are not much in vogue !;
the native delight is in oyster stew ot
milk and oysters III prnfu>iou. and hak-
ed beans. The huge Saddlcrock oyster
from New lork-tour of them will GOV
er a large sized plate-i> highly eS-
tccmcd. The walters are girls of Irish
extraction. civil, intelligent. far before
their country men a> servants. and to
my taste. superior To the negro waiter.
who mikes Il supreme audacity with his
familiar oh>cIuiousncSS. The female
servants at the hotel where | am re>ld-
ing are tir>t-claSs dnmcStirs. clean.
quick. and patient
\ lively writer. Grace Greenwood.
lady for some time employed ON the
New York TrjbUHc. writes from the
pA.l-N NA,,,,t.,i,
of vegetables" OF real grandeur j.
down III Colorado. the Switzerland of
America: Think of early POTATOES.
sound and sweet to the core. weigh
ing six pounds apiece, Consider tur-
nip weighing twenty-five pounds,
Shuddcr before an awful blood beet OF
sixteen pounds. and make ohciSancc be
fore Il pumpkin actually Weighing one
hundred ~ Il thirty pounds - Il real
w." continues Miss c.. with tall com
mrntarN. ''rcvcrrncc that pllmkin. that
mountain avalanche of summer SIM
shine. | would make Il pulpit of it tol
the platform of Il wOmanS rights c"u-
ventiOn. or put il to some other sacred
~ li@nitird USE Think of spanish GU
cumhcr> hy the ward. and wheat. oats.
and barley. more than six feet tall. l"u
need not Ice surprised to have Il Colo
RADIO friend write to YOU from his rancho.
sitting in the cool shade of stalk of
barley growing hy my door. May il not
he said without the smallest inprupri-
city that the sap has risen in that Green
wood ! Yet probably there iN not Il
grain of fiction in an, one of hcl facts.
tor CulnIad" has been the land of Goshen
to agricultural cmlgrautS.
Pickles and rtl>hr~ are very popular
here. Ladies eat pickles with bread
and butter. and there is q large green
ghrrIlin that i Il universal taV"lit",
Driving with the Mai"i from - farm
house. where We had stopped t" Pn-
chase Il vast jan of these pickles t"i
home consumption. he gray ely Pulivr
up about Il couple of miles from his own
house. opened the .iaI and ate tw" mon
StrouS slices half thc lie of ones fist
He proiicrCd me It taste. hut i Wa> sat
i>iird to see him relish his ah~trartI"'I>
with all the hcartint~> of I farmer = ho!
Pastry. cakes. and confectionery are
I household ncCcS~iiir>. All the lloIINc-
I wives or servants are skilled IN making
cakes. PuddimgS with It Hour crust al,
seldom seen. hut creams and pies. fruit,
cIl<turd. and minCc, are present 1T cN-
erv hotel dinner meal. Plum pudding
or fruit pudding as they term ii. l. a
much more digcStihlc compound than
at the English table. but it TASTES strong
" of mola>>cS. 1t would exhaust hall
ii page of this paper to cnuneIate lht
cakes and preserves that are sent up III
tea time. Stcwed prunes. fruit com
poteS. pears. peaches. cherries. apples
| Ia. ,.st
frequent. Maple sugar syrup is Il deli
cate relish. Meats or hash are served
with every meal: and the griddle cake
or cake consisting of four pancakes. one
atop of the other, soaked in butter and
sugar. is in frequent acceptance. Only
in the town hotels is Il list of ediblc>
visible. In the country the waitress
enumerates the dishes from which you
have to make your choice, though Il,
has been told above, the vegetables
sauces. and preserves lie before You on
the table. To board ut Il country hotel
seldom costs more than ten dollars (t2'
per week.
The temperance laws of the state ot
Vermont are very stringent. and are
therefore universally evaded. The
public sale of liquor is crime, and the
crime is committed everywhere. There
is bar. but the public is only i'll ap-
pearance barred out. The liquor is fire.
qucntly sold in private room. in which
he who drinks is locked in; OF You fol
low the landlord into his own sanctum
and take your hasty gulp in a half gull.
tv fashion, without word or question
There is il loud complaint about drunk
epncss all over the state. The frs
breach of the law by the landlord i:
nnnishahle hN a fine of ten dollars lnenr