Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-04

arros is potatoes cooked with rice, and
| there are several other queer COM
binations of potatoes and other things.
| one of the chief dishes found on every
! Peruvian table is a soup called SAN
| choohow This Is made by cooking to-
| gether nearly every kind Of vegetable
and goodly portion of meat. The
| soup is drained off and served clear and
| the vegetables and the meat brought
| IN on separate plate to be eaten after
the soup. This dish forms the chief
| meal of many of the poorer classes. The
| rich live here as well as In any city OF
| the world Meals are usually served
| In courses, one dish being brought on
| the table at n time and the plates
| changed with every course.
| THE PARADISE OF THE HOUSE
KEEPER,
Peru is, It seems to me, the paradise
| of the housekeeper There are few
| places where 1t is easier to manage II
house than here. There are no long
stairs to climb. In many cases the
| whole house is on one floor, and l have
| visited Lima families who had houses
| containing twenty large rooms, all on
the first floor. The cooks do all the
marketing of Lima. A lady seldom
| goes out of the house except to shop
or visit. The way the marketing Is
| managed is to allow the cook SO much
n day. according to your pocket and
| style of living, say 81 a day or more.
| and for this he is expected to supply
! the meals and see that the table is
| completely furnished with food. In
! other words, you board with your cook.
| III you have a good cook you will be
| better and more cheaply served than IL
| you tried to manage It all yourself, and
| at the same time save all of the wear
| and tear. Many of tn: cooks are
I nv IN IA 10 n
| off of the marketing in addition to
= their wages. Servants are cheap here.
I / give the usual prices in our money,
having reduced them from the silver
paid here. Cooks get about Sc month;
| housemaids. So; chief buffers 80, and
the second buffers, about S.. These are
the prices paid by foreigners. The
| native Peruvian families pay less, and
| In the country districts there are many
| house servants who do not get much
/ more than their board and clothes.
| Seamstresses who come to the house
to sew receive from 30 to 40 cents n day,
and washerwomen 20 cents for wash
| ing and about so cents for ironing pei
| day.
DID NOT UNDERSTAND CHAM
PAGNE.
The chief servant Of the house is the
| first butler or chief major domo, as he
| keeps things in order and waits upon
the table. Sometimes he is good, ana
sometimes not. l heard last night of q
major-domo who created something OF
a sensation at n dinner given TO w. r.
Grace and James Gordon Bennett some
years ago. Messrs. Bennett and Grace
We're visiting Lima. and Mr.. Eyre, the
head of the house of Grace here, gave
them the dinner. He had, however. a
new butler, who was not used to for
eign ways, and who when he came TO
open the champagne was astonished to
see the cork fly out with a crack like
pistol, He had never handled such
an article before, and he was so scared
that he threw the bottle out of the
window and then dropped down upon
the floor and howled. l do not know
how Mr.. Eyre was able to alay his
fears so that he could proceed with
serving the dinner. but | am told that
the man came to his master after
breakfast the next morning and begged
to be allowed to leave. Said he: Il
like you and the sonora very much, but
| cannot remain in II house where they
drink such explosive materials" The
PeruYians, however. drink about as
strong liquors as any people. The
places where beer is sold In the coun-
try towns are marked by red flags. and
in some villages nearly every other
house is n saloon. The smile" Peru
Wan is quite as common as the smile"
American, and drunkenness Is the
great vice of the poor,
OUR PERUVIAN DIPLOMATS.
But let me tell you how our American
minister lives at the Peruvian capital.
His house, which is one of the best in
the city, faces a beautiful garden filed
with palm trees and a rich growth or
tropical plants. There are winding
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the trees among flowers more gorgeous
than any We have at home. The house,
like all of the houses in Lima, Is built
of mud. but 1t looks as though it was
made of pressed brick, and 1t would be
considered a mansion In any American
city. Its rooms are large and the cell
ings are about fifteen feet high There
is n swimming bath in It, ard the min
lister can play the mermaid, or, rather
the norman, as one of the diplomatic
diversions. I find our minister very
popular here. He Is. you know, from
San Diego. California. He Is an Ohioan
by birth. having been born in Ben
Wade's town of Jefferson, on the west
ern reserve, about thirty-seven years
ago. He is n college-b bred man,
lawyer by profession and diplomat by
instinct and intuition. He has some
knowledge of Spanish. and his popular
ity here is added to by that of his wife.
who speakes the language fuently and
has thereby made many friends among
the native Peruvians.
Just next to the legation Is the home
of the secretary of the legation. Mr..
Richard II. Neal, of Philadelphia.
former officer of the United States
navy who has been here as secretary
for years and who thoroughly under
stands the Peruvian ways. Then there.
Is a young Ohioan, Mr.. Harlan, the at
tache of the legation, and over at Cal
lao. within a half hours ride, Is the
American consul Col. W. b. Dickey.
a Maine man. who halls from New Or
leans. and who has come out here on
his wedding tour to uphold American
interests In Peru Col, Dlckey keeps
house at Callao. While lunching with
him the other day / happened to re-
mark that the spring chickens which
we were eating were very fine. "They
ought to be fine" replied the colonel,
'for / raisd them myself on my farm
here" After the lunch was over the
colonel took me out To show me his
farm. IT was the roof Of his house. |
Wen went up stairs md there found |
two large coops oiled with chickens, |
turkeys and pigeons. On other roofs alt |
about us We're other coops. and the |
cackllng of hens all around showed |
that large part of the eggs eaten at |
Callao must be laid on the roofs.
WHERE LIFE is EASY.
Speaking of the cost of living In |