Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-31
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| Souhlfy udh Ii prOCuraDle, the war
seems to have driven from the cards
of Harrisburg's hotels and restau-
rants, it's cafes and quick Iuncheries
some OF the things we were brought
up on like spare ribs, stewed kidney
and mush, while it is very rarely
that you can get macaroni prepared
in the Italian style, open-faced apple
pie busted almost brown with CHINA
mon and Juniata terrapin. Home
made mince meat has not been in the
markets for a long time and we
! doubt whether the farmers wives
are making smearcase any more.
There used to be times when spare
flDs could be had in almost any eat
ing place Wednesday and Satur-
days and stewed kidney twenty years
ago was q fine dish and in demand
until the aromatic beef stew came
| along to chase it into the class with
picked pigs feet. And who does not
recall the Fridays when the tables of
almost any eating place showed the
| Russ influence in macaroni or spa
| getti cooked in that inimitable Italian
way, while the hotels that catered
to the country trade, especially dur
ing court week used to make a spe-
cialty of boiled mush, which was also
|
mornings at the Commonwealth. AS
for that apple pie the men behind
| the counters say that people won't
pay q dime for a cut and that they
have to have fifty cents for each pie.
| 1t is almost as Sorrowful as the sit
uation that has arisen in the matter
of the Juniata red leg. In the days
| of Boy" Russ and Pete Gonelli, no
F.! December or January was complste
without the terrapin sign being dis
| played, and now, you have to keep
| your eyes and ears open for the word
that some one has bought some Of
! the fresh water turtles" or else go
and regaie yourself on snapper OF
a truth, the end of the war year is
bringing many changes in Harris
burg diet. What with oyster stews
costing thirty and thirty-fve cents;
sweitZer sandwiches fifteen and no
Ilimburger, and not even spring
allie to be had, we are forced to wish
that the rabbit season had lasted
longer.
Our friend the lunch counterman
probably feels about as badly over it
as we do because he breaks out now
and then with some Siciiian maledic-
tions against the men who protest
that the orders of sauerkraut are so
small that it takes two to make
portion such as they used to serve
last winter. He blames the farmers
whom the says sells their cabbage to
the men who buy up queek an
much" 1t don't pay any more TO
have sauerkraut he says and pre-
diets the deadful time when it will
follow other things to the special
dish" class reserved for high days
and holidays. He says that the people
miss a lot by not eating frankfurters
L. Ill art.i-l lNI
folks don't know the good kinds OF
fish to be had. He slices the inside
of the sandwich so thin that he is al
most ashamed, but he cCntides to you
that his troubles are nothing to hiS
white coated pal at the bar when
the Schooner" and the cannon
balI' have departed never to return
and where the "stein" holds about
two-thirds of what il used to con-
tain two years ago. "Barkeep he
have much argue" is his description
of the tribulationS of the fellow VINO
has the vanishing job.
! It may be remarked in passing
that recent events in the war have
caused a considerable dlHerence IN
the demeanor of the men from the
land OF the goulash and that he no
longer has much to say to the Ital-
anS either here or at Steelton. 1t
may be said that the men who came
here from Russia are now very much
intent upon their own business and
are manifesting an eagerness to get
out of military service. In fact the
breakdown of the Russian govern
ment was followed very promptly
by declarations that the suddenly
very dear beloved Russia was out
of the war and that there was no
reason why her sons should be called
on to serve. The Slav, Hungarian.
Croat and other racial segment OF
the Austrian empire have If anything
grown more reticent since the dec
laration against Austria and in many
instances appear to be keeping out
of the way of trouble. 1t is rather ap-
parent that some of them are glad
they are here and that they mean to
stay. on the other hand some odd
situations have arisen in regard TO
Austrians In a number of instances
lit has been reported that men sum-
moned for the draft bluntly declared
themselves enemy aliens. When ask
ed. all things being equal, whether
i'm event of this country being in
vaded they would bear arms against
Austria or Germany they have given
the surprising reply that they had
to take oaths when they lett military
service or their home province that
they would not bear arms against
the land of their birth.
|
Some rather startling statements
are made to the attorneys who have
been giving up hours day atter Gay
to advise the men of draft age how
to fill out their questionnaires and
the number of aliens who frankly
have no wish to shoulder gun un-
der any circumstances, but who want
to get all the benefits of residence
here without sacrifice in return Is as
tonishing. However, one of the most
brutally frank statements was mace
by a stalwart Slav VINO repleo 70
tba first question after giving his
name and address. with now
| meester, get me out