The Republican journal., 1902-12-04

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xiness and sick headache.
face here, much less her maAnish ways
and costumes, without creating sensa-
ton and perhaps getting into serious
| trouble.
The crusine of this Hotel of Ambas-
sailors, which is judicious modifica-
ton of the French proprietors' ideas to
suit Spanish tastes, is said to be about
on par with several other comfortable
hotels in Caracas. A servant enters
your room with almuerzo, first break
fast, at a preposterously early hour in
the morning. The suns charioteer
has not yet waked;s parrots free and
numerous as chickens in Northern
farm yard, are shrieking to the universe
that dawn is near, and herd of don
keys in the inevitable neighboping cor
raj are vociferously answering back
that they are aware of the fact. Fur
Their sleep is impossible, and would be
nuwise, no matter what your lazy habits
may have been elsewhere, if you have
sightseeing or anything else to do.
Not only is the early morning the most
delightful. portion of the day, it is the
only time to do business in Venezuela,
the local world being all asleep during
the middle of the day when North
Americans are most actively engaged
The almuerZo consists of a big golden
orange, as rich in perfume as in tint
and almost bursting with delicious
juice; hard loaf of crusty bread about
the size Of your fist; three small square
cubes of sugar; a tiny pitcher of hot
milk, generally goat milk and cup of
strong bitter black coffee. Much of the
coffee used here is kept with the bulls
on until it is roasted as wanted and is
decidedly richer in aroma than that
which has been cleaned for export.
Sometimes you are favored with dirty
looking dab of pale, tallow-like grease,
which masquerades as butter brought
all the way from Denmark and eagerly
bought in Caracas by those who are
rich enough, at dollar and upwards
per pound. Since this is an ideal graz
ing country and vast herds of cattle are
known to roam the central Llanas, you
wonder why the scarcity of butter; I'M
til somebody explains that if cows tame
enough for dairy-purposes were kept
they would inevitably furnish beef for
revolutionists.
The real breakfast, served between
II a. m. and l o'clock is a substantial
meal, hardly distinguishable from din
ner except in the absence of soups and
dulcies, and perhaps little less wine.
Water is never drunk at any meal in
South America, being looked upon as a
blessing provided by the gods for ablu-
lions only but entirely unsuited to the
''inner-man." Claret is freely imbibed,
at both breakfast and dinner, and with
the latter meal more expensive wines
abound. Cognac is frequently mixed
with the after-dinner coffee, by ladies
as we'll as gentlemen, the weaker sex
also evincing a finely cultivated taste
for the "cigarrito con cafe" Strange
to say, all wine used here is imported
every drop of it, even the imitation
sorts. Yet the mountain slopes of
Venezuela are better adapted to Vine
culture than the sunny hills of France
and Spain. Centuries ago, when this
was colony of the mother country,
Spain forbade the growing of vines;
and through her undutiful sons rebel
led and set up for themselves some
eighty years ago, nobody has tried
grape culture-perhaps because the
peoples energies have mostly been ex-
pended in the congenial pastime of ere
voluting." AS to the Venezuelan din
ner: 1t is plentiful enough, and tolera-
BILE we'll cooked, but the style in which
it is served is barbaric. The meat is
always undistinguishable as to cut. and
often as to kind, tough, stringy and I'M
pleasant to the taste. Cattle are never
properly fattened for the market. aud
the manner of slaughtering is simply
infamous. The animals are lassoed in
a corral and dragged out to posts.
where they are made fast for killing.
Their horns are often broken in the
struggle, eyes knocked out by stones
and their thighs chewed by dogs. Mad
with terror, agony and rage and suffer-
ing tortures from thirst, they are left
standing ten or twelve hours, before
their threats are cut in time for the
early morning market 1t is an actual
fact that their flesh goes into the pot
or the oven while still warm with the
animal heat. In this climate each
DAYS aunnlY of meat muaf ho .froshlu