Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-09
VICTUALS AND DRINK,
As the Traveller Finds Them While
Sojourning Abroad.
EatabIc~ it fhc Ortcnt-EurOpcau
Butter and MiIk-Thc Water
supply. Generally speak,
.n.. Very Poor.


lF"r..l-.I Cor. Inter Ocean
IL Jal lit. Ci..'Ia, and the eastern insular
culuiii..-, .oa cat three meal, per day; e good
substantial meat breakfast, light tiffin Of
b,ea I. chcyse and fruit at ! O'Clock. and a
heavy di,li-r at : or s The fruits Of Singa-
fore make if.ir the most enjoyable meal Of
the day there Memories of ,ine-apples,
bananas oranges, mangosteenS, pomelOes.
cocoanuis etc, make my mouth water even
now Ia I.dia the same rule holds, bat /
think the tifiin Is nearly always referred to as
lunch. When You strike Egypt the abonnin-
able French system of cafe-au lait IN the
morning j. encountered, varied sometimes as
a special luNUr. hy two soft boiled eggs. 1
stopped at one Ievantine hJtei where this
mos, unsatisfactory breakfast WAS actually
charged extra. Even on the French steam
er- To- ;i'-- Orient two regular meals n day IS
tle rt.i- In the Himalayas there are six
meal iay-hazre", chotie, lazree, ti!iin,
lunch auI dinner Verify. the rouni-ibe-
world stomach has Ia endure everything.
Until Egypt Was reached | enjoyed that
distinctly. Oriental dish. rice ard curry,
NJ least once 'iay, and usually tsirc.
Ev, =, thing iu the WAY q: mca' i cUrIie.i IN
india, Fl ~ ziirimp- 10 Wild goose.
!ii,. butter aEi milk supplies were the
mo,t thanksgiving Timed butter and COR
den,e-i nlils from Switzerland or California
pres AL almost exclusively throughout tx
Orient The local c,at and buffalo products
are even w"r~e Ia some places great
stroke of enterprise has resulted in diaries,
a. at Yokohama. Int the supplies ar expen-
siye ani decidedly inferior The orthodox
COW doe, not flourish where PANEL, are
swun. The batter il iHyariab., white.
like lard. and ,u:S;,ite,i. II il a ttstcicss
compromise between taliow and axle
grea q AMI mas: - the hotels dc
not attempt To- put 1t on the table
more than pGc" dat-it nrou--if they de
tia. often plherwisa the resident foreign
people live well AMI three or four ment
courses ar enjoyed 10y those in III" most
moderate circumstances | ENJOYED genuine
pumpkin pies at one or two missionary ia les
i'll japan and China, an other American
6elicac:cS ,ervei without an ocean "t
cr7pck-ry1 n, tn. h"-pitable boards If some Of
our representative, ia SYRIA Oatmeal.
srdile cake. hDt biscuits. genuine pies, ard
custaTd are Unknown "It Of Ame:i "a. saye
in a few i..nd' n and Paris restaurants.
where they are >,m,tiinc countcrfcitci,
without the success That might lie desired.
Paperei rooms are unknown in the east.
FrescueS are found only il th- hest hotels and
public buildings. Til" effort s. 10 exclude the
fierce heat, and to this end bare walls, ven
tlators, windows without glass lofty rooms.
and all sorts Of thermantidotcs ara provided.
such as have described in former Letters.
The water supply is poor, save where mu-
, inequalities have been al enormous eNpenss
to construct waterwcrkS. as N Hong Kong,
Singapore and Calcutta. Citizens Of Canto.
buy water by the barrel, viii IN i, hrough,
from the mountains by natives or up the
river from Hong Kong on steamers The
local wells contain only brackish water
which may be used in washing clothes ard
dishes. In the principal Indian cities it is NJ
longer necessary to drink boiled water
owing to the excellent supplies furnished by
the public waterworks In Jatfa the water
is intolerably brackiSh. In Roustschuk tn,
muddy Danube is filtered and sold to the
native Bulgarians
In Vienna the water-worhs are very extern
sive and the water the best that | know Of
being nearly ice-cold on the hottest day. II
Alden and a few similarly tOrrid mundane
reminders OF tie doom of wicked men, the
public water supply is obtained by condensing
and distilling common sea water by means OF
large engines This mpalatable product is
then sold for as high rs cents a gallon
Rains are too rare to be depended upon.
Filtered rain wafer is used in Jerusalem
and If you want enough for ath YOU must
pay for IT extra.
Drinking water seems TO be furnished
Yearly everywhere outside of America in a
faring bottle with neck about an inch and
a half in diameter, and long enough TO b,
| mfortably grasped. In India these ever
are made of pottery i'll order to keep ia,
water cool, and it is wonderful how well they
accomplish this considering the climate
| Elsewhere the bottles are OF glass, varying
| ,oInew what in ,hape