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A letter from abroad 10 TIE Chicago
Inter Oeean says: In japan, China and
the Eastern insular colonies. YOU eat
three meals per day: good substantial
meat breakfast, light tiffis of bread,
cheese and fruit at / o'clock, and a
heavy dinner at or 8. Tlse fruits OF
Singapore make tiffin the moek ENJOYABLE
meal Of the day there. Memories Of pine
apples, bananas, oranges, nsangosteens
pomolCes, cocoanuts. ETC.. make nv
mouth water even now. Ia India the
same rule holds, but think She tiffin il
nearly always referred to as lunch. When
you strike Egypt the abominable French
system: OF cafe au lait in the morning is
encountered, varied sometimes as a
special luxury by two soft boiled eggs ]
+. stopped at one Levantine hotel where
this most unsatisfactory breakfast was
charged extra. Even on che French
steamers to the Orient two regular meals
day is the rule. In the3 Himalayas
there are six meals day-hakree, chotie,
hazrees tiffin, lunch and dinner. Verify,
the ronnd- the-world stomach has TO en-.
dure everything.
Until Egypt was reacheds ] enjoyed
that distinctive Oriental disa. rice and
curry, at least once day, and usually
twice. Everything in the way Of meat
is curried in India, from shri4nps to wild
goose.
The butter and milk supplies were the
most unsatisfying. Timed SHUTTER and
condensed milk from Switzerland OF
California, prevail almost Exclusively
throughout the Orient. The local goat
and butfalo products are even worse. In
some places great stroke OF enterprise
has resulted In diaries, as at yokohama,
but the supplies are expensive and de-
cidedly inferior. The orthodox cow
does rot flourish where psInkahs are
swung. The butter is invariably white,
like lard, and unsalted. IL is a taste
less compromise between tallow and
axle grease, and most of the hotels do
not attempt to put it on the table more
than cnce day--at noon.-if they do
that often. Otherwise the resident for
eign people live we'll, and three or four
meat courses are enjoyed by those in the
most most moderate circumstances.
enjoyed genuine pumpkin pies at one or
two missionary tables in japan and
China. and other American delicacies
the hospitable boards of some Of our
representatives in Syria. Oatmeal, grid
die cakes, biscuits, genuine pies and Gus
tards are unknown out of kmesica, save
IN a few London and Pari& restaurants,
wherethey are sometimes ODunterfeited,
without the success that sight be de-
sired.
Papered rooms are unknown in the
East. Frescoes are know only in the
best hotels and public buildings. The
fort is to exclude the fier6e heat, and
to this end bare walls, veEtilators, win
dows without glass, lofty rooms. and all
sorts Of thermantidotes are provided.
The water supply is poor save where
the municipalities have bsen at enor-
nous expense TO construct swatcrworks,
as at Hong Kong. Singap1fe and Cal
cutta. Citizens of Canton buy water bys
the barrel, which. is brought from the
mountains bv natives or Zip the river
from Hong Kong on steamers. The local
wells contain only brackishEwater, which
may be used in washing clothes and
dishes In the principal Ihiiaa cities it
is no longer Necessary to drink boiled
water owing to the excellent supplies
furnished by the public waterworks. In
Jaffa the water is intolcrabay 'brackish.
In Roustchucl the muddv Ilanube is
filtered and sold TO the BulgariAns.
The Vienna waterworks are very extern
sive, and the water the best IIknow of,
being nearly ice cold on the hottest day.
In Alden and a few similar toFrid mum
dane remedies of the wicked men, the
public water supply is obtained by con-
densing and distilling common sea water
by mems Of large engines The un-
palatable product is then sold for as
high ns eighteen gallon. Rains are.
too rare to depend upon.
Filtered water is used ia Jerusalem,
and If you want enough fer bath you
must pay for il extra.
Drinking water seems to ke furnished
nearly everywhere outside OF America in
8 fiaring bottle with neck about an inch
and half in diameter, and long enough
TO be comfortably graspea. In India
these ewers are made Of pottery in order
TO keep the water cool, and Il IS wonder
sul how well they accomplish this, con-
siderine the climate. Elsewhere the
3Ottles are OF glass, varying somewhat in
shane.
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