Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-21
/. MUSICAL NOTES
Items of Interest to Musicians Generally and Mem
bers OF the Mountain Home Band Particularly

tive point They publish sched-
ulc that the public can depend up
on Accidents of any kind are very
rare, and the writer firmy believes
that wreck involving a death list
of fifty or over, would cause riot
and the summary punishment of
the officials responsible. Passenger
train wrecks are so rare that they
are seldom. considered among the
possibilities
The newspapers generally are
typographical monstrosities, small
in size, "a pages), frequent in edi-
tions and limited as to contents
Il here must be a dozen dailies in
Christiana, and each one is linn
tied in circulation to small circle
I of admirers who believe in it's poll
icy or because of a personal friend
ship for the editor. The personal
element enters sc largely into the
papers that their scope of general
usefulness is umch impaired. Sew
era1 very creditable illustrated
! weeklieS and Inonthlies are issued
The Norwegian laboring man eats
very little meat, for the very suffi-
cient reason that his income will
! i1Oi pei II II, dllnOuSn 1t Q1Q SCC1n
to us that his family might have
more substantial food if he would
drink less beer. The German is
said to be 1T when it comes to con-
Stunning this particular beverage,
but we doubt if he beats his north
ern neighbor very much. The Nor
wegian worker exists chiefly on
bread and strong coffee. Fish is
also a common diet, but the better
grades are not SO cheap as to make
them available for the poorer class
es- Pork, chicken and salmon are
the swell dishes, and nearly
every formal banquet prepared for
US contained these dishes. The
making of cheese has there reached
the acme of projection, and we
were not a bit backward about dis
playing our preference for this
wholesome and delicious article Of
| food, served in number of ways
before unknown to most of US.
Nearly all pastries are prepared al
the bakeries, and instead of ice
cream parlorS, there are numerous
bakeries where it is possible to en-
Joy a cup of good coffee or chocolate
and the most delicious cakes and
SweetmeatS Imaginable. The
American pie and ham sandwich is
conspicuous manly because of it:
absence. Ice cream and the many
tempting fizzy drinks so familiar tc
! all of US are entirely unknown ovei
: ! there, and we could not helI
thinking that an up to date ict
= cream parlor would do we'll
Perhaps what struck US most for
, ! chilly of all was the large number o
: men and women in every town Wis
!, do but promenade the streets o
, spend their time in the cafes. Thcs
: people were all well dressed an,
appeared to be we'll educated
ttCafe lifc'' has very nearl,
. reached its extreme IN the large
cities of Norway, and it surprises
and shocked US not a little to Sc
, the best people of the communit
sitting in these public places, me-
: and women alike, drinking intox
icating beverages and smoking
cigarets with an abandon not eve
:, permitted in private life in thi
land of the free.
But custom makes most 9nythin
permissible, and the traveller
everywhere confronted with Gus
toms which seem queer only becaus
he does not himself practice them.
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