The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
Over the Nuts and Wine =:
By FRANCES coURTENAY BAYLOR

lions. They take it in small cups
without either milk or sugar. They
think our teas and our way OF making
and serving them simply barbarous.
They call i the American barbarous
of themselves as nation that has for
10000 years been growing and making
tea and doing all the things that they
fee feel we ,s., are trying as experiment.
all. There is not enough for home
consumption. And the colonel of
regiment on field days will stop at a
tea house and order cheap tea for
1000 men at his expense with no more
concern than 1t would cause one OF
our adinirals to order an extra ration
or grog for a battleship, and for just
the same reason. An English diplomat
once described to me meeting Just such
Ills regen Sss as they R We're eea e
ing tea house. He had ridden out
from Pekin at time when the anti
the English DEVILS and he felt not
a little nervous when he spicd the pro-
cession., He looked on the mandarins
,,,ei hoping to ride peacefully BY
sword was girded there. He turned
to the left, and. behold another just
like 1T was girded on the left side Ile
gave the military salute and halted.
The great man halted, too, and an in
fully ' aeteped glad Wh Keep ne his shf head
o, on his shoulders. Well, for US, there
more satisfied than in England In
every well-ordered English home you
can always have delicious cup of tea
for the asking, and in Cheltenham and
Bath it is served with an incompatible
your mouth. In England tea is the
Cali the English novels You INA have ) read ss
to to,s see that plainly. When people are
are depressed or disappointed; when
they are worried. or grieved. or shock
ed or frightened: when they are bored
simply, or dull; when they quarrel, or
are agitated; In all the big and little
crises of life they always take cup
of generally three or four. Dr.
johnson. we all remember. took thir-
teen at Mrs. Thrale's without the ghost
OF an apology. Most Of their unhappy
rove AFFAIRS dissolve and disappear in
ers TITAN cup or two of good. hot,
freshly and properly made and stepped
Ensllsh breakfast tea with whipped
cream and buttered toast.
Good Coffee.
But IT you are lover OF good coffee
you need never look for it in England
You Will find delicious coffee in the
East, In Norway Sweden. Iceland.
france. in South America, and gener-
ally everywhere on the Continent of
Europe. Perhaps you will find the best
CUP OF all in Vienna, where coffee is
Utmost religion. and the boarding
house connection of this country is
simply unknown. They drip it there
made. toothsome nut cakes, not only
at the fine hotels and the social cafe
geselschaft," but in thousands OF mod
est homes At all the expositions
made and served it at % cents cup.
but you can get it for 10 or IL in
| Vienna at all the cafes. Says Fred
erika Bremen in one,o her delightful
novels: Thou loved Heaven! 1 think
l see thee when the steaming coffee
pot Is brought in on cold morning.
| Good Chocolate.
| Occasionally on the Continent. and in
TINS country, too. one gets in private
But in the East and Mexico, Cuba,
Brazil. 1t is always to be counted upon.
To our taste, they make it perhaps
a little too rich. THE spoon should
stand up in it, they say. But 1t is
delightfully."- favored, and really a
meal. served as they serve 1t with
pan de gloria; GLORY bread) or
not macaroons. not made with water.
like ours and actually served luke
warm. with meat and vegetables for
dinner sometimes by poor housekeep-
| ers.
Dcer and PretzcIH.
Then. If you like local perfection in
eating. try some Munich beer--light
foamy, malty. refreshing-and some
Munich pretzels, in Munich, not New
York. Germans and Englishmen empty
stein after stein and dispose Of q
JunEfrau in pretzels to the music OF
Strauss waltzes by the best bands ir
Europe, They seem hogsheads ant
watts. not human beings, as they sit 70,
a whole afternoon in the public gar.
dens at their little tables and poul
rivers Of Munich beer down rathole.
that go through to China apparently
To the orthodox Bavarian gallon O
beer is mere prelude to drinking, {
good beginning, a fair. fine start, {
preparation for incredible stems slow
~ consumed. after the first, thircty
lightful. hour after hour. I'M prolonged
and infinite enjoyment. Beer for then
is home, country, music. health. han
piness, civilization, almost heaven
You would have been amused by tn
comic fury and scorn of a German por
ter. who was in one of our Southern
cities. Call this city," he foamed
like his own beer; Call You this ;
/ city? Without one beer garden!" II
had indeed arrived in new world
in beer as the famous English Duk
was in butt of Malmsey, and for he
beer is the great consider. Life with
out beer would be impossible.
Athenian DuintIcs.
Travellers in Greece of every nation
have good word to say for certain o
their delcacies. that is, If they cal
bear any experiments in food ant
drink at all. There Is "salep," which
/ the Greeks dote on. and which is real
/ ~ very nice. Then there is ''rahat
lakoum," which they stole from tn,
f. Turks and have improved upon. Wasl
81 these down with "Santorinos" wine
r which does not smack as much of goat
: skins and resin as some of the others
such as Priam drank and all Greek:
! from the King TO the brigand and tn,
fisherman immensely relish STILL ant
you will have a pleasant experience
Europeans cavil at the resin will
J which they preserve their wines whe1
they first arrive in Greece. But custom
and habit are mighty. In twenty year
, they find European wines insipid be
cause they lack It,
Chinese Game and EGGS.
, Bold is the man who can aconduc
experiments in the Chinese cuisine, an,
!, not only brave. but made of cast
. iron. for they like putrid ducks, The
, keep eggs from generation to genera
I ton. as other nations do Jewels an
. pictures and plate. They concoct won
! derful dishes from cats, rats, hats
! dogs, snakes. They are somethin
| awful in the matter OF eating. One O
{ my relatives who was accredited I
China was given dinner by the Chi
: |neSe merchants of San Fra ncisco no