The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-03-14
THE sunny south
DIR. KELLOGG RETURNS FROM
NEW ORLEANS-THEY HAD
COLD THERE TOO.

1t is not that we love the north
less, but that we love the south more,
remarks DR.. H. E. Kellogg this morn
ing on his return from New Orleans,
where he took postgraduate work in
the surgical departments and hos
pital of the Tulane university. He is
enthusiastic over his months resi-
dence in the southern city, and glad
for the benefit derived from the elm
ical experience he was enabled to en-
Joy. OF the clinical experience he
had little to say of interest to the
layman, except the grewsome fact
that cadavers are much cheaper there
than in northern schools of medicine
and surgery.
Living in the south is much cheap
er than here, the doctor says. He
himself got room and board for So a
week. Clothing, shoes and food are
cheaper, and n does not require so
much of any one of the items. Fish
is used extensively, and the city be-
ing IS per cent French, every kind
of water bug known to man is used
by them as food. Mr.. Kellogg got so
he almost liked some of them. he
says. There are crabs and shrimp
and great Holsters and all sorts of re-
pulsive looking things, and which the
housewife may buy alive. Great blue
point oysters are sold for an amaz-
ingly small price, and the city is full
of so called "oyster bars" Prepar-
ing sea food for the table in an art in
which all cooks are adept there.
They are making a flour. from
bananas there, and bread made of a
| 20 per cent mixture of this.and white
flour is mot hard to take" he says,
being a doctor. And in the cooking
of rice they are way and beyond the
careful wife of the north-they boil
it with a piece of smoked ham or
smoked pork ribs, and eat it as we
do potatoes. He is now convinced
that this method is the only way.
He rode beneath the funeral moss
of Lake Pontchartrain, and visited
the famous "red snapper" beach,
The red snapper is a salt water fish,
growing to a size of from six pounds
to 20 pounds, and hone of them ever
come TO within 40 feet of the surface.
The nice part of this is, however, thai
they are the best fish he ever ate
and he doesn't think he cares for or
binary fish any more.
At the leading French hotels AND
restaurants the waiter first serves
the guest a glass of a good stiff liz
uor, much as they do water here
Then with the meal they serve clare
in place of water. From this i
would seem that the people of thu
south have the right conception o
life and the way to live it.
1t frosted the palm leaves ther'
this winter-a very unusual occur
rence. One day while DR.. kellogg,
was in the city the thermometer go
down to 5S, and the state of tn
weather was the subject of universe
comment. Most of the time the tenn
perature was from rs up to IS de
grees. Summer showers would occu
often-almostly daily-but on clear
ing up the temperature would be sof
and warm and balmy. Except owe
the part of the house devoted t
cooking, there are few chimneys il
New Orleans. Now they use small
kerosene burners. Formerly, an
probably even now among the olde
French residents, braziers of char
coal were used for heating. Woo
J Is the fuel used for the cooking o
food.