The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-17

are apples CT Il bright yellow color, the !
shape of Albemarle pippins, and next
them some red ones tEat remind YOU
Of Riiey's poem about the apples and
the u u
And the winesaps blushed their red
dcst
When he spanked the pippins ripe.
And hen the D~ineappies. There arr
! great baskets Of them, ranging i'll size
from that Of you two fists to a peck
, measure. | ask for the price and am
told they bring from : to 6 cents
. apiece. Their are also melons and
| payayas, whose flesh is as yellw as
! gold. The papaya grows IN g tree, but
| it looks like a yellow muskmelon. 1t
tastes much the same, but it is SO good
for digestion that you can mix it with
, pork, nlince pie or plum pudding and
have no nightmare to follow.
Among the other fruits sold there
is the mangosteen. which has a red
skin and white flesh, and whose taste
makes ne think OF ice cream There
are also and lemOnS
and other fruits strange to my eyes.
The vegetables are CT many varic-
ties. There are all kinds OF potatoes
IS we'll as the yucca. d great root
which tastes like the Irish potato, and
there are sweet potatoes and yamS.
There are suuashes and C~abbages, and.
in short, vegetables Of every climate,
from the tropical loWlands to the
AtiSAu tcito VI tAc 1iobiiNdillS.
Scenes at the Restaurants.
But let us go on to the meat market
and look at the cook shops behind it.
There is q half acre of meat peddlers.
They are selling beef, pork and NUT
ton cut up in long strips, and hung to
iron bars over their heads. The butch
erS are Indian women bare-headed,
red-faced and b~iack-hairod. Here is
one bringing in a wash tub filled with
pork cut in long strings, She hangs
them over the rack above her counter
like clothes on a line. and sells by the
strip.
We go on to the cook shops. They
cover half an acre. Each consists Of
an over or stove built up from the
floor to the height Of your waist, and
50 made that they form tables upon
which. in pans filled with ashes, char
coal is burning. The pots. containing
the meats, rest upon an iron frame
work yer the Goals and each fire has
its pot. Here is one in which fish Is
frying. Over there macarOni is stew
ing, and at my left fresh tomatoes are
cooking. There are great bowls Of
rice steam.inS away, and big iron jars
OF bean soup ready to serve. Here
they are boiling eggs, there frying
plantains or bananas and farther on
making fritters Of various kinds. The
ordinary restaurant has a counter in
front OF 1t. and this serves also as a
table. There is an Indian eating fried
fish. and beside him a girl nibbling
away at fried bananas, while farther
on is a man shovelling in snails. The
snails are sold by peddlers. here
are great baskets Of them with cab
bagc leaves at h sides, the latter be-
ing used to wrap up the snails. And
then there are crabs upon strings
and fish no larger than white bait,
which are sold by tho pint.
I How The Eat ia Guatemala.
II VII re kf3r orDA
: cially delicious and the vegetables are
, as good as can be raised anywhere
I under the sun. The only trouble is the
cooking and serving. / am living at g
hotel where the rate Is forty OF fifty
, dollars a day. mean GuatemalaI
!, d~ollass-and have dined at III othe1
e hotels and restaurants Of the capital
Everything comes to the table In Span.
: ism style. The meats are usually fried
r and n stewsa are SO hot with peppers
and chillis that they take the skin of
$ the roof Of our mouth.
II The usual meals arc deSayuno OF
2 rising. almuerzo from = to = and din
a ner at about & o'clock IN the evening
4 The ~desayuno, or first breakfast, con
d sists only Of coffee aad bread. although
n at some Of the hotels where foreigner
8 stop you can have eggs O.
q an Omelet by paying extra The cot
fee served is as black as ink, and it j
mefly by running emf cm en- mt en-
made from an extract or essence form
a ed by running cold water through tn
freshly ground powder. A bottle o
.e this essence is placed on the table
You pour some into your cup and tn
h waiter fills it up with hot water o
with not milk. \ t~easpoonful of es
sence will make a strong cup OF coffee
The almuerzo Is the real breakfast
This Is eaten by some at IL or l
o'clock and by others between 12 an
1. It is usually served table d'hot
,e and consists OF q soup, some form Q
t. eggs. roast'or fried meat with yegeta
a bles and a dessert. The dinner. ~hic
runs from . 10 3 o CLOCK, Is ABOUT IN
re same. only the dishes are more /
,a number and the dessert Is more e!at
crate. Among the common dishes {
IN every meal is a plate Of boiled rio
Ike anu one u oiacR oeaiis' Az ~ g
he the country has plenty OF them an
ed the IfuiS are
so Queer Domestic ARRANGEMENTS