Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-07
The Cuisine of Sweden

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The habit of lnnching in the very pres
ence of dinner. Of going to o side table
and eating your fill of anchovies, raw her
rings. smoked beef and cold eel pie while
dinner is on the very table. still prevails,
and Is hard. y conducive to health. Il Is
said that the habit of taking "a sup. as
the Swedes call it, arose from the scarci-
ty Of delicaciea Ii was hard to get
enough of any one nice thing to make Q
meal OF, so you were first delicately innu-
endoed of TO the brandy table (as IL is
called. and then allowed to sit down, to
dinner
The practice is universal in Sweden.
Private houses, hotels and boarding.
houses all feed you on preliminary scraps,
and woe be to you II you innocently turn
away from the proffered luncheoni You
fare like an ascetic, and feed yourself on
odors The ordinary routine Of dining
seems In Sweden to be in wild confusion.
Soup sometimes ends instead of begin
ming the dinner. Iced soups and cold flsb
are dainties TO the Scandinavian palsts
Much of the soup is nauseously sweet
favored with cherries, raspberries an I
gooseberries. often with macaroon cakes
and spikes Of cinnamon floating wildly
about in It This Is eaten as q sort Vt
dessert, and Is cold and often beautifully
clear.
II Heine bitterly reviled the English
for bringing vegetables on the table au
naturel. there Is no such complaint TO be
made here Heaven. earth. and hell are
eaten with sauce-sauces red. white. and
blue, green. yellow. and black-saucsa
celestial and sauces internal Strange
combinations OF ice-cream heaped over
delicious apple tarts. or strange dishes of
berry juice boiled down and mixed up
with farina, sugar. and almonds, then
cooled. nodded. and turned out into basins
of cream, to be eaten with crushed sugar
and wine, appear at the end Of dinner.
The Swedes share with the Danes and
Arabs a passionate fondness for sweet
meats. Everything Is slightly sweet: even
green peas are sugared. ss wen - the In
Vulnerable tea and coffee cakes % that
long before the unhappy tourist has
finished his tour be is q hopeless dyspsp-
tic or raging Swedophobe
Condition Of the Blood In Fever cea.trsss.
New Orleans Times-Democratl
The last number of The New Orleans
Medical Journal contains q remarkable
article by DR.. Rudolph Mstas on long.
OontiuuCu sCfGIo tubt Ec3l1l QuiulD6. Dr.
Matas has had very considerable sx-
perience with this class of fevers not onIy
here but in Mexico and In Cuba; and his
formation Ii would appear that the
nearer We approach the tropics the more
intense become the conditions which be-
get febrile disease; there would seem, In
short, to be q sort of welldefined pyro-
genie belt within whose limits remarka
Bile changes take place in the blood
In tropical countries the general COM
plexion of the people is thai Of ouvalesc-
ing from fever; the swarthy pallor Or
olivaceous colorlessness of the creole is
really that of one whose blood has been %
modified by febrile conditions Is to be ne
longer susceptible to their in uence. The
number Of red corpuscles which warm and
thicken northern blood and often gives
TO the faces of those dwelling in temperate
climates beautiful rosy Lush, becomes
more and more diminished toward the
equator. The scclimsted Iouisianian,
although not actually suffering from. and
not even particularly liable to attacks of
malaria are nevertheless living In the
physiological condition Of persons habitu.
ated to ong-continued fever, and con-
pared. for example, with Canadians, we
are decidedly an nemic.
This fact accounts for the rapid loss of
high color which northern men or women
undergo after having settled In New Or-
leans or Louisiana oui state, like
Florida: being peculiarly ryrogenic re-
gion- 1t must not be supposed, however,
that as rule we are In snywise Q less
healthy or less long-lived people than
our northern kindred. but healthy exist
ence in any pyrogenic region would Be
out of the question were our blood con.
stituted precisely like that of the inhabit-
ants Of cold countrieA