St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-08-29
JOHN BULLS DINNER.
Unlike the American, He Refrains frona
Variety.


Unlike the American, He Refrains frum
Variety.
The average Briton's dinner is not
as varied d meal as the Americans.
Soup, joint, some caulihower or cab-
bage, rhubarb tart and custard, and he
is through. Cau1ifowers are grown in
untold quantities, and are tenderand de-
icious, cutting like butter and melting
ia the mouth like cream 1t seems to be
the favorite vegetable. Gooseberries
are grown to an astonishing size, and it i
is common to see them three-q quarters
of an inch in diameter. They are served
with custard and are made into tarts,
always delightfully."- palafable. / think
gooseberries and custard or gooseber-
ny tarts are the favorite British dessert
in summer. They deserve the estima-
ton in which they are held.
In America we seem only to be in our
infancy on strawberries. | never saw
any strawberries until came here.i
They are as large as Georgia peaches.
I hardly believed my eyes when saw
some fine ones first. / fancied they were
wax. 1t is now in the midst of the straw
berry season, and the agnifieentfruitis
as cheap as it is delicious.
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
drinking tea, which is swallowed with
out stint. This isalso the hour Of jam
generally raspberry Jam, butter,
bread and tea is considered enough for
the ordinary soul here before retiring.
Naturally Jam making hus grown tc be
a fine art, and it isof a superior quality.
Drinking is universal. Ales and stouts
are 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 literally with water, and it is
not gulped 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 it, and aceumu-
late their jags with the greatest delib-
GRAFTON.
Drunkenness is seen about as often.
notwithstanding this great ease-tak-
ing, as with us. 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.
A 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. 1t frequently has q tin cover,
and ne smokes it with the mouth up or
down, it makes no difference. Tobacco
is not chewed here, and they look upon
this great American habit with disgust.
The big hotels are steadily becoming
Americanized, but the 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 to sleep nothing more. The
cliffs" !" the servants, the clerks every
thing--is SO slow that it makes az
American wild with impatience. The
servants are well trained and polite,
thanking you for everything on earth.
When you tell the charnberniaid to
bring you towel, she says: IT hank
you" The greater the number Of tasks
imposed on them the more grateful they
claim to be for 1t. II you told Boots
TO go to the devil and kicked Rundown
stairs, he would say hank you at every
bump, and would bow profoundly when
he reached the bottom. London Cor.
Atlanta Journal.