Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-28
BIT OF ITALIAN M
Scene in Connecticut Which ADDED
FlavOr 10 l.atiahes for the
EaaoIJCr.

"Those radishcs.' said the speai.er.
picking up M from a dish of the little
pink bulbs that Stood on the table be
fore him, remind ne Of some that l
saw on a very different table, and in
the midst of very different surround
ings, on a trip that 4 friend Of
mine and myself made in vacation
time last summcr.
Striking in from Long Island sound,
up a little river hat in on the
Connecticut shore, We found it to be a
picturesque stream enough. In some
places along it there were little bluffs,
Zen or IL feet high, ana at come places
trees, and along some stretches of it
there were grassy slopes coming down
to the waters edge.
1T was a pretty stream, running
through a pleasant country. And
padding on we came, at half a dozen
miles or so above its mouth, to moro Of
those little ten or u foot bluffs, quite
appropriate to the size Of the river, anG
over back of these bluffs We saw two
or three farmhouses.
1T was cor then, and the Cay YVES
hot and we wanted q drink. So we tied
up the canoe and climbed the bank,
coming out at the top upon a little ele-
waited plateau laid out as a truck gar
den.
Every inch Of it was cultivated, but
the ground had o been plowed
throughout in uniform straight fur
rows, as in one great field. 1t was laid
out in patches, in which the burrows
ran in various ways, giving variety to
the appearance of the whole; but in
every patch every inch was cultivated.
And over at the other side of this con-
siderable garden farm were the houses,
with barns and trees anc the well.
while everything about the place
gave evidence of constant care, there
was. when we started across for that
well, nobody in sight anywhere; but
when we had come to an old-fashioned
grape arbor that stood near n of the
houses, and had looked into that, the
absence of people from the fields was
instantly accounted for. For sitting
under this arbor there were 20 or more
persons, men, women ard children,
evidently all the people on the place,
eating their dinner comfortably in its
shade.
This was apparently their regular
custom. Running down the middle I'M
der this arbor there was a long fixed
table upon which the food was placed,
the people sitting along the arbor
benches on each side, and the dinner
that they were eating here in this cool
and leafy dining room, which the COM
pany pretty nearly filled consisted
wholly of bread and radishes-black
bread and radishes.
There we're quantities of the rad
ishes, which were contained in two
or three big wooden bowls, like chop
ping bowls, placed at intervals along
the table. and there was plenty Of
black bread; and of this simple but
abundant meal they were all eating
with every indication of wholesome
and hearty enjoyment.
They were Italians, and cookbook
ing and healthy looking people, all;
two or three families of them, appar-
emily, that had joined forces and set
tied down here in this rather out of the
way place to make their fortunes, and
living here in their accustomed man
ner.
And to come upon them thus, and
all so Unexpectedly, was running
across, in Connecticut, a little bit of
Italy; and" the speaker, relates the
New York Sun. concluded, as he helpeG
himself to another from the dish,
"radishes have always had an added
flavor for me since"