Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-06
HuMoRINe THE STOMACH.

Historians more or less noted for
veracity, declare that ancient Rome IN
it's days of glory witnessed feats that
would turn some Of our modern Creo-
suses green with envy. But out here
near the Missouri line we are pretty
backward about believing such stories.
If the statisticians of the east are to
be believed New York comes pretty
close to breaking the record and "beat-
ing the world" in the matter of eating.
Quality aid quantity both are to be
counted in this estimate. Nothing
seems to be too good for the eaters in
New York and they seem to be unable
to get too much of anything too. The
following figures are given for sin
gle weeks supply of substantials at
the best known of these caravansa-
ries: One thousand roasting chick
ems, 5000 broilers, 5000 SQUAD chick
ems, 500 dozen squads, 500 guinea
hens, $50 dozen sweetbreads, $50 loins
Of beef, $50 ribs of beef, 1000 racks of
lamb, 500 racks Of mutton, 100 spring
lambs, $500 dozen eggs, 1000 pounds
of butter. When to this is added the
wines champagne leading the list
the fruits, sweets, vegetables, etc, the
total consumption for afweek of one
hotel only gives faint indication of
what it costs to feed the rich and we'll
TODD people who flock to the metrop-
oils.
Imported game has come to be a
regular feature Of the menu-Egyptian
quail, canard de Rouen, lapwing, red
becasse, etc. A shipment from Ger
fu. f3u6a
wild boars, and they went on to the
bills of fare at once with cub bear
meat and other novelties. The single
showing when thus presented: "The
favorite imported cheeses during the
six months from November to April
are Swiss (gruyere). Six million
pounds are consumed, averaging thir
ty cents a pound: Camembert Is con-
sumed at the rate Of 100000 boxes
a season, of which 100000 boxes are
imported. Roquefort is another fav-
orite, and million pounds at forty
cents pound is the record for six
months" When one takes cracker
or a thin slice OF toast covered with
caviar with the cocktail or instead of
| the oysters, he does not realize that
from As 600 to $4,000 pounds of this
Russian delicacy, made Of surgeons
eggs and selling at 81 pound, is con-
sumed during the winter season in
one city alone, not counting the 200,-
900 pounds of domestic caviar, selling
at $1.50 a pound. Several hundred
thousand pounds of truffles, brought
from France and selling at So a can,
are. required for the season, and it is
not strange that their cultivation is
| to be attempted in this country. The
artichoke is still another favorite i'm
ported vegetable, and recommended
| by the medical fraternity for it's bene-
fetal effects on the system. About
three million artichokes, costing from
/ twenty-five to twenty-five cents each,
are sold in a season. About twenty
4 million boxes of French sardines have
| been consumed in the last six months,
also an equal number of canned peas,
string beans and mushrooms. The
| demand for pate de foie gras (goose
! livers) has increased to extraordinary
quantities. Fresh asparagus, brought
from France, sells at $40 to $12 a
bunch-more than a dollar a pound !.
For dollhouse grapes, peaches, etc.,
the demand is steady, no matter what
/ the price.
| And yet, alongside of this surfeit OF
good things, some 100000 people are
living in comfort on plain and simple
I foods, of which they find an abundant
| variety, while half million others
struggle for and are glad to get even
| a scant supply of the barest necessi-
/ ties. One might go on and draw a
/ moral lesson from this comparison, but
lit could do no good and would be
worse than useless. AS long as there
are fancy foods, stomachs will be hui.
mored with them, regardless of power
I ty, of want and of indigestion. Thus
the world wags and no one can change
| it.
WHEN A KANSAN DREAMS,
| Sometimes, even In Kansas, there
are good things produced, and one: of
them comes from the pen welded by