The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-03

additional passengers and then headed
for New York and landed US there in
seven days and nine hours from the time
she sailed from Southampton. Among
the passengers were many nice people,
but no former acquaintance except ex-
United States Senator Smith of New Jer-
sey. who is an interesting travelling COM
panion and clever gentleman. We had
smooth voyage with one exception. A
considerable storm prevailed for about
twelve hours and made all the passengers
except myself and a half-dozen others,
seasick, but that never kills anyone.
observations and Suggestions.
l travelled through the different coun-
tries of Europe to see and to learn. and
l believe / did learn a few things which
would benefit our people IL adopted BY
them. There is a great similarity in
the customs and habits of living in all the
European countries In which have ever
travelled Our people eat too much meat.
We have meat three times day. Meat
and bread are the main foods Of our
country people. In Europe they have
for early breakfast, coffee, tea, chocolate
or milk and bread and butter. Some
times little honey or marmalade, but no
meat at all. One not accustomed to a
breakfast without meat would think that
hunger would PROSTATE him befofe noon.
That is the way Americans view 1t at
first. Try it and you will soon find that
you do not hunger, but are simply in
good condition to enjoy your midday
meal. Over there at II or o'clock they
have dejernier or midday breakfast or
what our country people call dinner. That
is good meal at which meats, vegeta-
bles and fruits are freely eaten. Then
when the days work is done at about
sunset or o'clock, the dinner or third
meal is taken by Europeans While at
this third meal or supper as we call It,
some meat may be eaten, but usually
very little and frequently none at all by
the common people. Such a method Of
living and dieting is more healthful than
ours. They pay close attention to the
rearing and utilizing all kinds OF vegeta-
bles and fruits. Ours Is a more southern
and warmer climate and for this reason
our people should live more on vetegables
and fruits and not eat meat and rich
food more than once a day. Our people
like those over there should abstain from
the use of whiskey, brandy and heating
drinks, and If they must have liquor
drink beer and domestic wine. Our soil
will produce hops and grapes in great
abundance from which can be MADE
cheaply an abundance of good beer and
wine. 1 never saw but few drunken peo-
pie in Europe and they were small
group of English women in London.
Cooking schools are necessary In our
country. Our fine young ladies are too
often raised and educated to entertain
company in the parlor and play the piano
but to know nothing about kitchen WORK
and utterly ignorant of the art of COOK
ing. 1t is the most important part OF
domestic education. How often does
health depend upon tit No man can en-
10Y life If he has to live on half cooked
food. 1t has soured many kindly dispo-
sitions and many people are mace 10
groan and despair of happiness by dis
pepsia superinduced by having to subsist
upon improperly cooked rations. Young
man when you are looking for a wife
with whom you will be healthy ana
happy you find one who knows
how to cook-how to have 1t done II she
don't do 1t herself. 1t is worth more to
you than pretty face or parlor accom-
nlishments. Let her have all these but If
any be lacking let it not be the culinary
art. In Europe they have better cooks
than we have. Our American girls are
infinitely prettier than those of Europe.
and the girls and women Of the Southern
States are the most charmingly beautiful
of any in the world, but too many or
them don't know how to cook. The
French are notorious for their good
cooking Their dishes are made richer
than you generally find, but good COOK
ing Is the rule everywhere in Europe
The rule is that everything is we'll cook
ed and tender. I never thought that Gu
cumbers were fit to eat until travelling in
Europe this time. Cook them and they
are a tender and delicious vegetable.
They cook plums, pears. peaches, apples
and all kinds OF fruits as well as vege-
tables Lettuce is eaten raw but nicely
prepared at at least two meals day
when in season. The habits of those peo-
pie make them healthier than ours.
l observed many farms where rows of
fruit trees are all over(it. about fifty feet
apart and grain growing all in between
the rows and a grape vine planted up
against the tree on the south side 80 that
the manure at the root OF the tree en-
riches the grape vine and the tree to-
gether Not weed nor sprig of grass is
allowed to grow nearer than three feet
of the tree and vine The vine is not al
lowed to grow and climb up into the
branches of that tree. A rope or small
pole is extended from one tree to the
next in the row about fifteen feet and
tied about four feet above the ground.
The vine as it grows is trelliced or train
ed along the pole and from tree to tree
high enough so that a laborer can pass
under 1t and it Is no trouble to gather
them when the grapes are ripe.
The horses and COWS of the small FARM
er are kept so gentle and well trained
that one person can guard them to Craze
ON one or two acres of grounds and they
are generally fat. There are no mules-one
is seldom seen. There are but few parti-
ton fences, and what there are are usu-
ally made of brush or barbed wire with
one rail or pole at the top. There is no
timber to make rails out of. When a
treeIs cut down for any purpose they pre-
serve the brush. putting it in shapely
| bundles and using them or selling them
to make fence. They use them by setting
them on end in a little ditch and with
the ground packed around them, they
| stand upright and make a fence such as
1t is.
Nearly all the houses are built OF stone
or brick and covered with thing. There
are no single roof houses. There is no
timber out of which to make shingles nor
out of which to make houses except in
rare instances. While the stone and
brick houses covered with thing are more
expensive than wooden houses, one of
them will last longer than four such
houses as we build in this coun-
try, are warmer in winter and
cooler in summer. Our people-our farm
ers and land owners are cruelty reckless
in the waste of the timber on their
lands. They waste it in every conceivable
way. Thousands and thousands of acres
of the finest pine timber have been leased
at nominal sum for turpentime. When
the pine is drained of its gum If it be
NOT cut and sawed into humber very soon