The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
A Famous omelettc.

A Famous Omelettc.
letter from friend at Mont
saint Michel, In France, does full JUS
tice to the beautiful scenery of the
place and all Its other attractions, and
then adds: 'Dr. johnson, while in the
Highlands, said that the finest scenery
in the world is vastly improved by
good hotel In the background" and
lmust say that although this is certain
~ one of the most, picturesque spots
sin all Europe, not the least Of its at
fractions is the omelette OF Madame
p. II draws all the tourists in this
part of the world. like a. lodestone
though II is as light as feather ana
perfectly delicious. 1t is made for
people while they wait, with Almost fiat
tering interest in plain view Madame
r, with the dignity of priestess of
Ephesus. gets out. her new.laid eggs,
her whisk, her freshly -churned un-
sailed butter, her tiny shallot, her
salt and celery salt and pinch of red
and black pepper, her deep long han
died favorite frying pan, her little
pitcher of fresh cream. she beats her
eggs, adds her ingredients, losses the
whole into her hot pan, gives few
minutes to the final determination
and few vigorous shakes to her pan
and pours out the famous result into
hot plate (Which with a plate of
bread and butter and bottle OF whit.
presents it with a serious grace and
4 All! Monsieur. cooking is the great
art to the hungry and delighted tour
tst" That omelette has made Madame
cordinGly. 1t is worth its weight In
gold, and she knows it. Better is it
for a women to make that omelettc
than to vote in thousand precincts,
and fortunate are they who eat 1t,
soorned as the act would be by the
foolish female! 1t is the best ever
made, by general consent and accla-
\ nation.
nuf
In various parts of Europe one nnds
especially good things that have long
j attracted trade and for which thu
lplace is celebrated. When in HOLLAND
1T. Theirs is not the dairy lunch or
this country at ALL You will enter
a picturesque, typical Dutch cottage.
with sward about it as green as an
fence, which has been freshly scrub
bed that morning. at the walk. also
scrubbed: at the front door, painted
white and like snow, save for its brass
sun; at the girl in a white dress that
sets out like pen wiper and the cap
that has been made familiar to us by
the picture of Queen Wilhelmina, all
room paved with white and green tiles
into which You are first ushered. also
spotess; at the long grape arbor out
side, on which you would have to look
are to take your lunch. Then Your
Dutch maiden, with her rosy cheeks
and blue eyes and SLOW smiles, asks II
you would like to see the stables. and
asserting, you accompany her to an
Clubhouse that looks as if 1t had Just
come off the stage. The bricks of tho
path are brigth vermillion; the flower
beds are numerous. trim and most at
tractive. The building is a deep moss
green. with steep. shelving. dark
crimson. roof, There are muslin cur
tains at the window. through which
find yourself in spacious white. we'll
ventilated building that is simply bril-
liantlv clean. In every stall is kind
Of royal COW. It has had bath. It
has been curried. 1t has been combed
and brushed Its horns have been rub
bed with emery paper and carefully
polished. Its hoofs have had the same
dirt and grass. 1t has been rubbed
down finally with a soft flannel and
as 1t stands there, it is perfect
imal cow is----oS-eyed like Juno. gen
tie and intelligent. when so tended
sweet-breathed. satin-s skinned, benef-
cent cent good friend In the tiled
and country smell and pyramids OF
golden butter and huge stone jars of
milk, and shallow crooks for cream,
one on Wanders as long as one pleases.
plunge in the yellow pool of some
crock and back the party moves to the
a aTo, where the Dutch maiden. like
Yer, Mesdhers Charlotte goes on cutting
a huge square loaf of whole wheat
bread She cuts thick slice or thin,
Pmrevlousiy spread with fresh. tinsalted
from ,b bat. ter, and you wash It down
delicious.. nourishng and satisfactory
IIeaL Which you never see equaled else.
where; People accustomed to porous
alum bread marvel that bread should
be so good. People used to rancid. iii.
Tade butter feel as If they had never
fasted butter before. People who have
Pong been obliged to use chalky. wa
tered. pale-blue or richly saffronized
deceitful stuff sold IS milk. know tina,
they are really dyialSing heavens own
huid for the first tine
The hrew,I English 81 h. Tea.
one anybody will testify. For every
good cup of tea You get, you will Ger.
IA Ky. have to swallow fifty bad ones
france and Spain and Italy and tn,
South American States and Mexico ant
India the tea offered tourists is sim
land are the countries for tea, as any
body can testify that has travelled ir
them They. all understand that goot
lea Is an infusion, not decoction. Ii
Si'A o. ~ eaS . nave a cup y
fresh, delicious tea. Morning, moo,
and night the samovar boils away llk
anything with ever-fresh. ever-boilinI
supplies of water, and each conner doe
the rest, choosing any brand OF tea tina
pleases him. Just as we do cigar an
regulating the strength by quantit
and brewing. In the ice and snow o
the steppes, every post house has 1t
samovar. tea, lemons, sugar ready 70
universal use. 1t is as much a matte
OF course as water and towels in Eng
land: and they have learnt the full
value of the cup that cheers, but no
1nebrtates" to people who come In fror
the icy, stormy world outside Peopl
say there: II wouldn't give you Gu
of tea If you We're freezing" to expires
the limit of human endurance and an
ger, and Russians find in Russia, a
the English have done in India, whe
4 Havelock was marching to the relic
of Lucknow. that nothing SO refreshe.
30 sustains, so cheers men under lon
and severe bodily and mental strai
as a good cup of tea peasant ma
give up his vodka. his food, his shell
ter. even. But he holds on like grir
death to his sheepskin and his tea
They protect him from his worst enc
my, the cold. In China tea is use
in one of their devotional rites, tn
Ehano-Yu. We get in this country an
Europe only the teas that they thin
scorn of. Their Emperor the man
darins, their rich traders, drink va