The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-01-28

1 bringing q large ola, or EdFLaenNGf e jar, of soup just of the fire. This first
 course at every WelI-regulated country
 breakfast in Colombia is made of hot i water. beaten eggs and plenty of grease i favored with parsley. fennel. a little salt and good deal of pepper, and 1 hard boiled eggs put in whole.
 l Next came cold boiled mutton, with q
 bit of cold turkey covered with mole
 Ca brick-colored sauce, red hot with Drowned pepper) and TWO sweet pota- 1 toes, all served together on each plate. Then came great platter of boiled | thing chicken, mutton, beef, with various vegetables. seeds and green fruits. boiled in one pot and j served red hot, the main dish of the
 meal. With this a sauce of green pep
 pers was handed around, merely to look at which brought tears to ones
 eyes. This was followed by slices of
 aguacate, the only fruit used for salads,
 sometimes called vegetable butter" ! then cheese, arepa cake and the weak i est of tea. It may be remarked en pas sant, that Colombians seem to have no l idea how to make tea. and they drink ] it as medicine, which in their hands ! it resembles. The native cheese is white as paper, and quite as tough and tasteless. Arepa cake is a sort of first 1 cousin to the Mexican tortilla, being made of srushed corn and water, with out salt or soda, baked on a hot griddle
 or in the ashes, and eaten without but i te-
 After breakfast the kind host and
 hostess beguiled the time for us by a [ tour of tke hacienda, visit to the 1 flower-garden. the pigs and poultry, a stroll along the river bank and view
 of the few sights of the village. At | half-past three we returned to dinner This is the ceremonious meal of the
 day-so formal and stately that each | lady is expected to dress for it and to
 enter the dining room on the arm of a
 male escort, though the tive-year-old
 son of the family be unwillingly inn
 pressed into the service when there are
 not enough adult gentlemen to go around. This going in to- dinner is weighty affair and the cause of much concern on the part of host and hostess, because precedence must be given to
 the pair of highest social rank and 1 grea test age, and to make mistake about it would be embarrassing indeed. 1 The table was beautifully spread,
 with pyramid of flowers in the middle and at each plate a bouquet of blue 1 forget-me-nots. tied with pink ribbon. 1 At the hostess end of the table ap- peared a big roast turkey, and at the DEh h1t+ ,r,;YN hrn dy, beer and chiche-the latter a na- tive beverage made from fermented corn and believed to be very strength ening. First cocktails were served, the edge of each glass sugared to perfec- ton: and at the end of the repast the cognac bottle was circulated for those who desired to flavor their coffee. Be- tween cocktail and cognac each exer- cised his individual taste in the bever-
 ages above mentioned-except in the matter of chiche-a villanious brew out fo courtesy to the place, because it is
 homemade and the housewife's espec-
 ial pride. Soup was the first course,
 colored saffron-yellow by some myste-
 rious process Then the mistress of the manse carved the turkey, while her lord at the other end of the long table busted himself with the popping corks. With each slice of turkey was put two Irish potatoes, lump of corn-meal
 pudding, a bit of roast mutton and some aguacate salad. When this had
 been cleared away and the table emp tied of all but the flowers and bottles and little dishes of red hot pepper sauce, another kind of soup was
 brought in, called masamora, seemingly composed of everything the cook could lay hands on, including rice, tomatoes, fish, pork, slices of peaches and agua-
 cates. ripe grapes, peppers, potatoes, what not. Then came dulce, or
 sweettmeat or cornmeal, well sugared,
 on the top of which appeared in white letters the name of the house. "Jurate- na." Afterwards cheese was served, with ripe cake, accompanied by huge mugs of chiche. Then great dishes of oranges, bananas and granadillos, fol- lowed by glasses of water, and lastly coffee, with cigarettes for all who de- sired them. Nearly all native ladies in- dulge in cigarettes in casa, and put a good "thimbleful'' of cognac in the cof- fee. When water is passed after the fruit, it is customary to fill ones
 mouth, force the water noisily between the teeth and then eject it upon the
 cement floor.
 About eight D. m. a third meal was served, consisting of tea, coffee, choc- plate, or bread and milk, as each pre- fired There was also the everlasting
 cheese, arpa cake and chiche, some
 wafer cakes with honey between them,
 and dulce made of guavas
 The sala, or drawing-room, of this typical country house of the better class
 in Colombia is a very long and high
 apartment, walled and ceiled with
 adobe faced with white cotton cloth.
 Its brick floor is partially covered with
 straw mats, and it's wide windows, with
 their shutters of solid wood, like the
 doors of barn, are guiltless of glass
 and draped with lace curtains. By
 some are known only to the builder, a
 heavy crystal chandelier (never light
 ed), is seemingly upheld by the frail
 cotton ceiling.
 FANNIE B. WARD.
 MIR. WILLARD.