The Washington times., 1901-12-08
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

there was to be cooking class for
boys in the new Manual Training School.
and now General Boynton wants the High
| School Cadets taught camp cooking" said
| an old army officer. Sensible idea. But
! the teaching should be held rigidly down
to the use OF the fewest utensils possi-
BILE. A skillet and coffee pot should be
the limit No pianos and cooking ranges.
such as General Kitchener has been COM
planning about. Teach the boys to bake
potatoes in the ashes OF a camp fire. to
build a fire in 4 hole in the ground so
that It will show neither smoke nor flame
Teach them how to make a fire with flint
| and steel and to nurse a spark into flame.
Teach them how TO dress live meat. and
how to catch. dress and cook fish. That
is the sort OF culinary education TO give
the High School Cadets. OF this the more
the better. Then when war comes they
will be independent Of the commissariat
as the Beers are"
Il counted in the window of a fruit
store today" said a well known Con-
gresham. ten kinds Of fruit which had
never eaten until | was a man grown.
Three Of them I don't know the names OF
even now. Apples. pears and late plums
were all We had at this season. II had
an orange three times year l was lucky.
and my people were thriving Yor: State
farmers at that. within six miles of a
city Of 10000 people. Once in while |
had banana, one of the red skinned sort,
and we bought sweet potatoes by the
pound. Now all kinds of fruit are abund-
ant and cheap Bananas are the cheapest
food obtainable. Just go down on Louisi-
ana Avenue and buy them for about dol
lar n bunch. There will be from 125 to
$50 on bunch. Don't eat them raw Bake
them twenty minutes in their jackets in
hot oven. Then peel and eat hot, with
strained cranberry sauce. Good? Well.
was taught the trick by a Porto Rican
Indian ten years ago-Only he used lemon
juice; the cranberry is my discovery-and
I've had them twice 2 week ever since
They Will put fat on your ribs faster than
anything else. Just remember that the
banana feeds over 200. 900 900 of the
worlds population every day in the year.
and more can be raised to the acre than
OF any other human food crop"
Nearly all the new flats remarked
an F street real estate agent. rent from
$40 to S15 a month. They take their ten
ants from houses which have been rent
ing at from S55 to 800 a month. As over
300 apartments OF this class have been
built this year, at least 200 houses of the
better class are now vacant and | look
for a considerable shading of rent among
them in the future. The fiat will grow in
popularity. not so much from its economy
OF ground as from its numerous and su-
perior conyeniences over the ordinary
three story house. The demand for houses
which viii rent for S25 and sell for $500
to $500 is away ahead of the supply"
The entire disappearance of the long
heavy cars from the Washington Traction
and Electric lines and the return to the
well-knOwn trailers meets the public view
and favor. Washington street car pa
irons are divided into two classes-those
who like warm cars and those who ride
in an open car In any weather short of a
blizzard-and the trailers give the latter
their opportunity. The trailers may oc-
casionally bring on a case of pneumonia,
but the closed ear is the home of the
microbe. The trailers are easier to enter
and leave, and that saves time The car
lines are doing a big business though the
tremendous summer suburban traffic has
dwindled. Ten years AGO it was predicted
that the bicycle would knock street car
profits sky high. but tha underground troll
ley seems to have cut down the bicycle
profits. The bicycle is still ridden but
not materially for pleasure. II has
changed from the rich mans vehicle to
the poor mans carriage. II anyone is
curious 10 get up at o'clock and 20 on
watch until I O'Clock in the morning on
any ell-trayeled street. he will see hun
dreds OF biSvsies ridden by laborers on
their way to work. Nearly all Of the COL
ored hodcarTiers on the new buildings in
course OF erection in the northwest sec
tion go to and from their work on ma
chimes OF more or less ancient date They
pick them up at from s. TO 80 apiece sec
ond-h Can anyone tell why over
half the cash fares collected on the street
cars are paid by colored people? There
is a general opinion that they don't like
to tie up so much capital in tickets.
The dairy lunchroooms, which are pc
culiar to Washington, nearly all make
money. One of them has enabled it's pro-
prietor. an enterprising young German
American, to build up a fortune which
yields him an income outside of the
lunchroom itself of over $1,000 a year.
They all keep a high standard of sup
plies. The finances are simply handled.
A weekly settlement for all supplies and
cash business over the counter. So much
milk and so much coffee. so many sand
wiches. biscuits and pies should bring in
so much cash.
People can walk in here at the crowd
ed hour. help themselves, and knock OFF
from 10 to Is cents in settling. What can
you do to prevent it, was asked Of the
proprietor OF one of the largest rooms.
Il don't believe we lose cents day
that way" was the reply. Most men
are honest anyway, and when they are
on their honor to pay for what they get
they will do II, no matter how much they
might cheat in outside affairs. That prin-
ciple may not extend TO other businesses.
but 1t holds good in the lUnchToOm busi-
ness. and that is where We bank
Which recalls that a dairy lunchroom
on Fifteenth Street stands where Jay
Cookies bank was located when the great
war loans we're financed.
The new Howard University reservoir.
now filled to the brim. lis an object of
keen interest. From morning till night
hundreds of persons visit it and walk
around its edeges. inspecting with great
care the massive gates of the new bu.
uncOmpleted filtration plant In time a
splendid boulevard will eucirCle the whole
lake. aud il will be favorlte part OF the
drive to the Soldiers Home IL Is not
generally known but the reservoir is re-
puted to be the largest artificial enclosed
body OF water within a hundred miles OF
the Capital. In time fish will find their
way into its depths. though the lack OF
shadows will make II but poor breeding
ground. The little sticklehack will be the
best one to introduce. as il will keep out
the larvae OF mosquitoes which will find
breeding places in the rocky walls OF the
slopes At present the small boys are