Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05

such of the meals as are taken in the
rooms.
Each college has a common kitchen,
where all the cooking is done. and each
has a common dining room or banquet
hall. where all the students meet in the
evening for dinner. In the hall there is a
reading desk at which one of the profess
sors stands and asks grace, and plat
form with a special table for the dons or
professors. The dinners are served in
table d hote style, a a fixed charge wines
and liquors being extra
In a College Kitchen.
The kitchens of the college are among the
curiosities of Oxford That of Christ Church
has been in existence since the days of Car
dinal Wolsey. and In it hangs a great grid
iron which was used by the cooks of the
cardinal. In entering it you pass by the
cathedral, which Is the chapel of the col
lege You go down stone steps into the
basement, entering a great stone-walle ed
room, with ceiling at least sixty feet
high. AT one side of the room is a fireplace
large enough to roast an OK. before which
fowls and meats are still roasted on spits
The fireplace Is so arranged that a dozen
or more iron splts can be hung in front Of
1t at one time, and as many as sixty chick
ems can be thus roasted at once. In other
parts of the room there are large ranges,
steamers big enough to cook two sacks of
potatoes at time and all the accompani-
ihtiitS VI tlc hIlCHenS OIL a large Motel
Twenty-Five cooks are kept busy preparing
meals for the students. They dress in
white. with white caps, and have their
chiefs and subordinates.
What the College Boys Eat.
All the cooking for the 300 students Of
Christ Church College is done in this kitchen
and the kitchen accounts of the boys
are kept here. The kitchen clerk has a day
book and ledger. He keeps to the cent
what each student has and gives him
memorandum at the close of each week, al
though payment is not expected until the
term following the one for which the ac-
count is rendered.
AS 1 went through the kitchen stopped
at the clerks office and looked at the ac-
counts Food is given at cost price and
the charges seem to me very moderate. The
ordinary breakfast consists of fish or ba con
and eggs. The student ia served with three
boiled eggs and some bacon for about
twenty-five cents He gets a luncheon Of
cold meats for little more, and his dinner
IN the common banquesing hall costs him
about forty-five cents. / give you here the
menu for last nights dinner.
Baked Haddock,
PtQuante Sauce,
Roast Mutton
Steak and Kidney Pie
Minced Pastry,
Wine Jelly.
Extras: Asparagus, pence: new pota-
toes. pence; cream, pence; sweet omel-
cite. pence.
In addition to the charge for the regular
dinner are the buttery bills including the
wine. Most of the students drink wine beer
or whiskey with their meals The college
LSeit furnishes a variety of beer and a mild
claret, but most men keep their own stock
or wines and liquors. / asked some oues-
ions as to the drinking habits of the col
ieses and was told that the men as a rule
are temperate, although now and then one
oversteps his limit and becomes intoxicat-
ed. Without a disturbance is made. how.
ever such a matter would not be noticed
one or the most common forms of enter
tainInent In the college Is the giving of
iuncheons and wines. There were thirty
luncheon parties last Sunday in Christ
Cnurch alone. At such luncheons all the
ueNcacles or the season are provided. in
Guiding champagne and other LIQUORS. The
average kitchen expenses amount r. 81 nr
20 week. Many Of the students are higb
liVefS and the expenses of a number ~
Inose at Christ Church range from $40 To
80 per week each. Wv ~
In the Great Dining Rooms.
understand the students do not esne-
cfally like the dinners in the banouetinp
halls. This hall in Christ Church College
makes you think more of one of the aisles
OF cathedral than dining room IT has
beautiful windows Of stained glass It's
walls are paneled in old English oak and
Its ceiling Is about fifty feet high The room
Is 80 feet long and forty feet wide, and its
walls are hung with portraits of the great
men OF the college. / noticed a fine portraif
OF Gladstone, of John Wesley. John Locke
and OF Lewis Carroll, the author of "AIice