Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-17

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rolled into a cube and grlled, and in
Imagination tastes much the same. II
one were in the states he would say
that the chief constituent was what is
left in the vat after the New Orleans
molasses was drawn off; but as no one
here has the faintest idea of the genu-
inc black cane molasses, and wouldn't
know golden syrup even if a glucose
IDENTIFY made of treacle-and leave you
to guess what that is.
Talking about things to eat, and
branching off the goose fair, every
guest at every hotel and every member
of every family Except the children,
who here house and eat with the serv-
coming on the table for every meal
Without going into particulars, it is
dead certainty that plain and unsalted
boiled potatoes will be served with the
meat course. On Sunday the meat will
be roast beef (and such beef is not
tasted in the states unless your butcher
is a philanthropist and knows beef
when he sees it and knows also how to
cut and cure ito; next day. one of Doc
kibbey's Irish stews; the next, mutton
introduced into Iowa it is we'll TO re-
mark that mutton doesn't simply grow;
it is made): then this bill is repeated in
order. Besides the boiled potatoes you
can generally be sure. if you are stop
ping at first class hotel, of small
mess of copperas colored and dyspep-
| tic beans, cooked in water and Favored
with London fog; also boiled cabbage
tt,,.t 4 IL, u,,Ita Ssatt IL,
wouldn't grow behind his back fence.
| This, of course, refers to dinner. You
will get vegetabl soup with French
name, fine fish perfectly cooked, a
bread pudding that will stay with you
for long time. and stewed Victoria
liplums with enough custard to make a
mice curdle. There are other things, in
Guiding cheese that must be caught be-
fore eating. all served with pomp
and splendor paralyzing to republic
can-but only one little triangular piece
| of bread, and no butter with that until
the cheese walks on, and then the but
| ter is unsalted and uncanny, even IT it
does come from the Duke of Devon
shire's ranch. After getting sufficiently
acquainted with the boiled potatoes
and the butler an American lady of my
acquaintance informed the latter that
she knew of sixty-one ways of cooking
potatoes. and that Maria Parloa knew
| of 422 He simply said: THANK you,
madam, but our potatoes are not grown
! here; they come from Lincolnshire
| The American lady did the faintlng.
I But when it comes to breakfast L
think the English have the edge. In
/ the first place your maid, If she Is We'll
trained will bring you cup of tea
4 when she comes to light the fire and
| wake you up. This is along about 10
io'clock-how Alb Click would enjoy
THAT After bath so cold that 1t makes
I you think of Sherlock, Benjamin, ABB
/ bolt. ct id omne, you wander down IN
4 a dressing gown to find that no one,
mot even the ever-present housemaid,
is paying particle of attention to you.
/ If your commercial instinct is suf-
1 ficiently acute you grab plate from
4 the sideboard and load it up with what
suits you-an egg that costs cents in
our money. but just poached to turn;
I toast from hot rack; a bit of bacon or
a grilled kidney; a mushroom as big
as your appetite-and carry it all off
while you kick for coffee. The English
idea of coffee is peculiar. If you don't
,Iput your grocer under bonds he Will
put in a third of chicory and grind the
whole into mass so impalpable that
iIcheese cloth is no salvation. What the
4 cook does with it | have never been
able to find out, but the product is not
coffee as we know it. They have an
4 extract which they put into cup of
hot water and call it French coffee. II
tastes like the Dreyfus trial. There
\ isn't decent coffee grinder in England,
lbut after assiduously cultivating and
educating your grocer, and with the aid
tof hammer and a flat rock, TO say
nothing of the oppressive prejudice OF
your own cook, you can get into con-
junction with the flavor of Mocha and
Java.
4 Eating Is the chief function of Eng
Ilish life and to go into a complete an
alyzation would take a letter by itself.
but it would be wholly inadequate not
to mention tea. Tea. as Your readers
know it, means light supper. Here it
means tea-tea before breakfast, tea
at H. tea at 4 and tea in the evening,
especially after the theater. The cook
4 general cooks tea for herself before she
thinks OF lighting the range: the house
maid must have 1t before she thinks of
her daily toll; the gardener and man
of ally work knocks off for an hour in
] the morning and another in the after
noon for his tea, and the genuine Eng
llish woman takes it before and after
3 she thinks of doing anything else. No
wonder that she has a compleXion-but
4 that is another story
In fact, there are so many stories that
/ find reasonable limit to this letter
prohibits the discussion of a great many
things Sloan, and the two Reiffs. and
"Skeets" Martin, and the peculiarities
of the English race track, Dom Paul
and the view of the British commoner;
/ the two first fizZies of the yacht race,
and very illustrative View of Sir
Thomas Upton by one of the nobility;
commercial and social jealousy of the
state matters of style, and the absence
/ of it, Johnny Bull. as he really is-all
these things and many more appeal to
the transient American for discussion,
and il the worries of travel do not take
too much time, and the readers of the
T.-R. want them, / shall be glad to give
them later. The cost of living here is a
prob!em to be approached in fear and
trembling that is, II you want to live
like an American. can here only touch
the edge of 1t. a few months ago Julian
Ralph contributed to Harpers an arti-
4 ale -, tho roGf af living i'm EnR1anl-a