The daily Alaskan., 1916-06-08

was just an ordinary single dose dish. but Tn Q few minutes began t0 find Our that 1t was Il tafel of another color. An ordinary sized boy came up bear, ing plate of rice and gave 1t to me. Hardly had the boy turned aside when another boy came up with some meat l piled on the meat. hut just as was picking up my knife and fork q larger boy came up bearnR a plate divided off into sections piled to the cargo line with spices. cinnamonS and other trop iCal products. looked to see if there hadn't been some mistaloe but hlS conf dent manner and bearing showed plain ly that was to put them on too did, even though it looked as if I were going on a cruise and had just leaned back to study the mound when an- other bun bearer came up l began on his dish and worked my way around. helping myself to the more prominent articles. and after he had gone on l picked up my spoon and was just wondering which side to make my first enCrOachments on when another outrider came up with another dish of odds and ends. After him came others, some little md some old. some shy and some bold, the line forming at the left and rhythmically tramping by, while l threw on and rounded up until 1t began to look as If the mound builders had gone back into business again. After the tall of the procession had gone by, located 0 favorable spot and went to work.
 These are some of the actual things that were in the dnal draft: Rice, cur ried meat, mincemeat halls, fried on ions. shredded onions. white onions. banana frltters. hard boiled eggs, slic ed cucumbers, Chinese maCaronI. pen nuts. French beans, Indian chutney. COcoanut, red fish, shrlmps, fried fish. fried chicken, goose liver. chin. Hines and Bombay duck.
 I'll take my word for it that every single one of these destrOyers was in my rice tufel.
 put Bombay duck last. for l know that the other ingredients would rather not associate with it. You could read fly understand their attitude If you had once tasted Bombay duck, for there Is no other thing It's size in the world that makes such an impression on you. It has the worst odor Of anything I ever went up against. and without wishing to boast I have smelled some things that were highly praised in their line but for hard. consistent smelling day In and day out Bombay duck has them all in the Yankee division. In cOmpar isou with 1t limhutger cheese has delicate perfume
 How 1t ever got that name Is more than l know. IL is really a dried hsh. which. broken and powdered. lends a seasoning, but as for myself would rather take my seasoning in some other form. Old residents and missionaries who have been in the country a long time say that after a time a person comes 10 be very fond Of 1t. but per SOnally l know that there could never be anything between us-unless it was distance. It Is a.: that can do to stay at the table where one of the parties iS an old resident or a missionary long time in the service.
 The people in Singapore do not cal ricetafel a dish. They consider 1t meal And that's what It is. It looks as if it had been meant for the noon. day repast at a WoOdmen log rolling Many and many a person here has rlcetafel at noon and nothing else. In fact. after eating a Ticetafel there isn't room for anything else. A person then wants to crawl Otr and go to sleep And that is what everybody does in the suburbs of the equator. The shops all close at noon for 3 couple of hours while everybody Hes down and sleeps of the effect of the icetafel.-Homer CToy in Leslie's.