Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-02
JOHN BULLS DINNER.
OnIike the American, He Refrains from
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The average Briton's dinner is not as varied meal as tho American's. Soup, q joint, some caulifower or cab hage. rhubarb tart and custard. and he is through. Caulifowers are grown in untold quantities, and are tender and de- licious, cutting like butter and melting in the mouth like cream It seems to be the favorite vegetable. Geoseberries are grown to an astonishing size, and il is common to see them three-quarters of an inch in diameter. They are served with custard and arc made into tarts, always delightfully."- palatable. l think gooseber and custard or gooseber- ry tarts are the fayerite British dessert in summer They deserve the estima- tion in which they are held.
 In America we seem only to be in our infancy on strawberries. I never saw any strawberries until l came here. They are as large as Georgia peaches. hardly believed my eyes when I saw some fine ones first. I faneied they were wax It is now in the midst of the straw berry season, and the emagnifeentfruitis as cheap as it is delicious
 1 The average Briton has bit of cold meat for tea sometimes, and sometimes he does not But he will have an abun- dance of bread and cake and jam; while the evening hour is the great time for 1 drinking tea, which is swallowed with out stint This is also the hour of jam generally raspberry. Jam, butter, bread and tea is considered enough for the ordinary soul here before retiring. Naturally jam making bus grown to be q fine art, and it is of a superior quality.
 Drinking is universal. Ales and stouts nre the great beverages among beers, while Scotch whisky leads by many lengths among the stronger liquors. The Germans send over their lager, which is deemed better than the local brew. Men and women drink together in the saloons and London is the great est growler-rushing community on earth In the East side about all the children do is to carry mugs of ale to their parents. The climate is so damp that the people can stand large quanti- ties Of spirits. Whisky is always drunk mixed liberally with water and it is not gniped down, as with us. Time is taken in drinking, and you seldom see men rushing in, showing down a glass of stuff and running out. They halt, think about it, discuss if, and accumu= late their jags with the greatest delib- eration.
 Drunkenness is seen about as often, notwithstanding this great ease-tak- ing. as with us. l think America has in- herited the habit of getting full on Sat urday night The East end is some what crowded with jags on that day of the week.
 Comparatively few cigars are smoked 4 good cigar is higher in price than at home. The pipe tobacco is generally good, Pipes are used nearly altogether, and the coster, wherever you see him, has a little white clay one stuck in his mug. It frequently has I tin cover, and he smokes it with the mouth up or down, 1t makes no difference. Tobacco is not chewed here, and they look upon this great American habit with disgust.
 The big hotels are steadily becoming Americanzed, but inc English will have to improve considerably before their hostelries are as comfortable or as convenient as those in America. The majority of the hotels look on a room as place 10 sleep-nothing more. The lifts" the servants, the clerks-every- thing-is so slow that it makes an American wild with impatience. The servants are we'll trained and polite, thanking you for everything on earth. When you tell the chambermaid to bring you towel, she says; .Thank you.a The greater the number of tasks imposed on them the more grateful they claim to be for it. If you told Boots" to go to the devil and kicked him down stairs, he would say hank you at every bump, and would bow profoundly when he reached the bottom London Cor | AtIanfa Tournal