San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-16
ARE YOU INSURED?
SIM HART,
Fir6, Life a1d'HGCidont
INSURANCE Rq0nt,
Il Alamo Plaza,
TELEPHONES: 2O1 and 45o.
IN A HAREM.
What a Visitor Saw and Ate at a
Ereakfast-Tnrkish Pastry.

"uSI 1SltOr saw anu Ate at q
Greakfast-TnrkishP Pastry.
4 plate of broth before each guest,
IN the middle big red tray, contain.
ing tumblers of water and syrup.
aud small plates filled with sweets.
caviare, ssrdines all kinds of hors
-t'Oe1vre, in fact. which'are plenti-
fully patrOniZed. am seated next to
the Psschs's daughter. A promIscu-
GUS rout of servants and slaves to
wait upon US. Some are whits, some
are very, very black. The latter wear
tbs most element ary of colored che
Nnlsos or night dresses, caught round
the waist with q string. After the
soup comes huge platter of little
hits of roasted mutton. In Difference
Ia-myprejudices am helped upon a
Sc parate plate, though 1 had come
prepared to act upon the principle of
8 whimsical old friend of my child
isS days whose paraphrastng of "a
Flsguerre CONNIE a la guerre" was
e III Turkey do as the turkeys do.
7 am bound to state that separate
pIsSes are likewise set before the la
diss of the hsrem. But this is TIE
nIersst matter OF form. By common
consent all the folks are dipped SIM
ult&n eOHsly into the central dish, and
shios sre PROCEED out and conveyed to
Il the lips without any unnecessary
. delay. Sometimes the good old max
in that fingers were made before
forks is acted upon. I am not sorry
now that ny prejudices have been
respected. The mutton being clear
gu sway, another great central dish
Of eggs and onions succeeds. The
sarpe scene as b9fOre is enacted.
\ nd now comes sweet dish of
turkish pastry, the greasiest, flakiest,
, highest, sweetest, most surfeiting
psAtry in the world. Then follow
arricnokes stuffed with mincemeat,
which are soon made real mincemeat
OF ay the crowd of folks and fingers
More pastry-meaty this time-and
Ehsn very curious dish, which is
ay1 aGked by dozen spoons at one
aUd the same time, that promptly re-
turn to the attack after leaving the
j. Gpg to which they have been directed
~ the interim. Once more 1 cannot
fiG6 it in my heart to regret that my
pTeiudices have led to my being help
ed upon a p ate to myself.
Tbis much esteemed dish is a kline
ct gap, with au unprOnOuncesbli
IN tkisn name, SpeiC cRVOuR-gueSsu
1T consists of chickens breasts
f1Sled down with milk until the
whole lie reduced to kind of swee
pQZip, very filling and clOying. Tn
pap is succeeded by kind otjelly
strongly impregnated with essence @
ross. Then comes "a huge dish c
suIb, and as a final and crownln
triumph a huge platter of plat wit
the rice boiled as it ought to be fo
Gu cry-in separate grains, and prop
eriy creased, Drowned and grsvied
Even the hunger eugendered by
conscientious adherence to the Ran
aZ1u has its limits.
After oranges had been distribute
t0 the company all around, the ia
dies of the harem repaired to the ad
Joining room. The servants an
slaves flocked into an adjoining 6
partment, where they and the child
rsa took their iftar with less of forb
and more of fingers than their mil
6resses, and I slipped my Turks
coffee and lighted my Turkish cigar
cite under the direct protection OF m
friend, the Pasha's daughter.
Ees0ple Bar.