Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-06-02
FROM FAR
OFF SIAM
Hopkinsville Girl Writes of
Her Work in Mission
ary Field.
APRIL DINNER IN SIAM.
Attends a Native Wedding,
The Couple Being Mere
Children.

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1t is almost too hot to write tonight,
hut will try and forget the heat for
a little while, and write you a short
letter, at any rate. Hot weather
has begun in earnest, but am feel
ling so well. do not mind it much.
| don't think the heat bothers me as
much as it does some people any.
how.
Friday night Miss Buck and en-
tertained at dinner. There were six
at tie table. and you may like to
know what we had: First course, to-
mato PURGE, (Which ! made, and it
was good; second, salmon croquet-
ties. tembales Of green peas; third,
roast duck, oyster dressing, mashed
potatoes, stewed cucumbers, tama-
r.nd sauce (this fruit is acid, and
grows like the pods on locust trees;
when stewed. it tastes like apple
sauce); fourth, fruit salad bananas
nuts and pomeloes, on lettuce leaves,
with dressing like you make; (the
pomelo is the Siamese grapefruit);
fifth, snow pudding, cocoanut cake;
-iXth, candies. sailed almonds, cof-
fee Everything was very nice The
Laos, when properly trained, make
beautiful servants, and we have an
"a No. l."
But | purposely omitted two
courses. that | might devote whole
paragraph TO them. After the invIt-
ations were out,we remembered tina
our supper wou d come on the 1st of
April, so We decided to celebrate.
First coulse was soup, hot water,
with raw macaroni in it. Mrs. Carr
tasted it first, and then very politely
poured spoonful of salt in it, DR.
Cort took taste, AM then looked
up 70 the far corner OF
the ceiling, as if he was bordering
In which Of my former eXistences
have | ever tasted anything like
Chis?" The faces Of all four guests
we're g bro IN study, and l couldn't
hold in any longer.
The next fake course was a''bogus
salad" tomatoes on cocoanut fiber,
that looked exactly like SHREDDED
cabbage. On the plates We served a
Drown bread sandwich with filing of
'teriliz ed cotton batting. DR.. Cort
cricd manfUlly to bite a piece out Of
MS sandwich, but failed ignominious-
ly, and Mrs. Carr got her mouth full
IF cocoa1ut fiber, and had - leave
the table.
Last Saturday afternoon / went to
a native wedding that was very
pretty and cry funny. The bride
and groom were young. aud shy and
hung their heads as if they had been
caught stealing sugar. The bride
was a pretty little girl, of about Is
years. One Of the bridesmaids had
the same name as she, and DR.. Ma
son started out by trying to marry
the wrong girl, This made him a
little nervous, 50 he pulled out his
handkerchief to mop his face, and
brought out a pair Of "panties, -
belonging to his three year-old SON
The groom came out, bearing a bou-
quet in bowl, which he proceeded
to drop; the service being delayed
until the grand scramble for it was
over. But they were finally hitch
ed" and then refreshments were
served, the missionaries seated at
the table, on which hearts and scrolls
were traced in green vines;while the
bridal party and other guests sat Oh
the floor. We had tea and cakes,
and rice served in different ways,
land candies made of sugar and rice,
peanuts, etc.
After tea, we went into the yard,
where man and woman were"saw-
ing" Translated. this means sing
ing, but if you heard them, you
would think the former word more
expressive. An arbor. covered with
palm branches had been constructed,
and in the center we're seated the
performers. the two singers, and
four accompanies, who blew pipes
of different sizes made of bamboo,
with holes in the sides, and blown
from the end. They will blow all
day on the same three or four notes.
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