Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-24

| furniture. All sorts Of foods made In
Europe are sold, and the country raises
vegetables and fruits OF every descrlp-
ton The place Is one where you get
lots for your money but where never
theless II costs lots To live. Every one
lives up 90 his income and a little be-
yond 1t. The Dutch gentlemen dress
better on the average than our people
at home. They are stlckers for oti-
quette, and one dare not accept an in
vltation 10 dinner without he has a
swallowtail suit
A NIGHT AT THE CONCORDIA
CLUB,
put on my store clothes the other
night and went to a concert at the Con-
cordla club. Batavia has two swell
clubs, each Of which has several hun
dred members Both have club houses
which would be considered fine In New
York or Washington, and the Concordia
has a great garden about II whore ey-
cry Saturday night its members give q
concert to their families and friends.
The music Is furnished by one OF the
military bands and II Is as good as any
you will hear in the great gardens Of
Europe.
Last Saturday night the band sat in
a stand In the open air, while the audi
ence were seated on chairs about the
tables IN the tropical garden In front
OF the club house The light was FUR
nished BY hundreds Of White-globed
lamps. which hung from the trees and
also by the RAYS Of the full moon, Ill
tered through the green palms
There were, | Judge, at least thous-
and ladies' and gentlemen present. and
as we sat there chatting and drinking.
stately native walters In tuTbans and
livery trotted about in their bare feet
and waited upon us. The people at the
table were as we'll dressed as any Euro
pean crowd and as fashionably dressed
as the average audience OF our con-
certs at home. With the exception OF
the military officers who were clad In
white duck, with gold lace and brass
buttons, the men wore black clothes
and the women wore bonnets and we'll
fitting dresses.
In the intervals | walked through the
club house. II was floored with Italian
marble, and parts OF It were walled
with great mirrors. II has a library
and newspaper room, q large billiard
room and halls for dancing and card
playing and all the convenelences OF
the best clubs all the world over. An
other night ] spent at the Harmonic
club where the concert was equally
good.
QUEER HOTELS, THESE.
I am stopping at the Hotel des Ind,
one of the largest In the far east and
by all odds the largest in the Dutch
East Indies.
II is situated on the right side Of the
canal on the edge of Welteyreden as
you come up from Batavia. It has
something like ten acres Of gardens
about IT, all shaded by magnificent
trees There Is a banyan tree cover
ing a good city lot in front Of the We
randa, and there are palms and other
trees In front OF my room. The house
consists Of two or more rows of rooms
opening out on arcades or cloisters on
each side Of the grounds, with a parlor
and dining room and Offices at the back.
/ don't know how many rooms there
are. but they must number hundreds.
and every one is on the first floor.
have two rooms opening into each
other, and | also use the pavement in
front Of my door II IA there | loaf IN
my pajamas and bare feet from day
break until or o'clock In the morn
ing, and also again after my afternoon
nap from until 6. / am by no means
the only barefooted, lightly clad guest
There Is woman next door who wears
only a thin mother hubbard and toe
slippers. without stockings, except
when she is dressed for the evening
| see her and her husband trotting by
every morning in their bare feet, each
carrying a towel, on their way to the
bath, and they eat beside me in much
the same costume.
HOW THE DUTCH EAT IN INDIA.
| don't know that l like the Dutch
manner Of eating. There Is plenty OF
food. but the way OF serving 1t is so
strange that fear for my liver. AS soon
as | awake In the morning my boy
brings me a cup Of coffee. This | am
expected to take In the room or on the
pavement outside. ! can have Il as early
as o'clock and even at that hour |
always find others drinking. The cof-
fee Is served from a vinegar cruet, be- |
ing absolutely cold as II Is poured out. |
1t is made by cold filtration, and Is |
merely the extract Of coffee. The boy /
puts a spoonful or two into my cup and
fills II up with hot milk, and the coffee
Is made. He gives me a couple OF
Jumps OF sugar but no bread nor toast |
nor anything solid
0NTBIJT AND R1JST-TAFEL.
The next meal is "ontbijt." You need !