Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-05-04
MOSCOW'S MOST NOTED RES
TAURANT NOW AMERICAN
KITCHEN FOR CHILDREN
BY Nellie r. Gardner.

BY Nellie r. Gardner.
The crystal chandeliers are still
: hanging. The exquisite murals o
= 1885 still adorn the ceilings. TIL
green and gold walls have not beeI
changed Even the huge stoves II
the kitchen are the same. But thu
GUSTS are entirely different
To world travellers familiar witt
!, the gay Hermitage Restaurant o.
Oscaow, and the brilliant parties
tht we're once held in that lively Rus.
? 'sian city, the present dinners at tbs
Hermitage would present an incon,
gruOus picture. Instead men and
women in evening dress mad satin
velvet and ermine, entering the great
dOOrways, each night after the opera
I or ballet, he would see MONDAY
! procession Of boys and girls, carry
ing pals, cups, coffee-pots, or bowls.
The eject is the same as if you had
been absent from New York for five
| years, and walked up Fifth Avenue
! or Broadway, when you returned and
! saw the children from Grand Street,
o. oft, or Tenth Avenue, or East
/ 10th Street, coming into Rector'g
| Churchill's, Sherry's or Demonico's
| for lunch.
For the Hermitage Restaurant in
Moscow is now the largest child
feeding kitchen Of the American Re-
lief Administration in Russia. Each
day, approximately $500 boys and
girls come there to eat their ration
0 health-giying food, the gift of
American Charity.
In other European countries wheer
the i. r. A, has established feeding
kitchens during the last few years,
the blue granite pail was the most
favored receptacle among the child
rem. ANY foreign visitor coming into
ne city or village could find his way
10 the a. r. A kitchen. simply by
GLOWING the line of children with
5maI blue pals. But in Moscow. the
variety containers, which the
children bring to the kitchens. is
gerater. Some carry tin cups, q few
bring coffee-pOts, and others bring
Wash-basins, but the majority carry
the "miski" drown wooden bowls
which orm the principal equipment
o every Russian kitchen. And for
nearly an hour before the opening of
the Hermitage Kitchen, at 1890 P.
NJ, the procession Of boys and girls.
hugging these dishes and spoons, can
be seen trudging in the direction of
No. 29 Neglunnii Roezd. And when
the glad hour strikes. and the big
doors are unlocked, the line o chat
terlng, happy youngsters bound up
stairs.
Five hundred boys and girls can
be fed at one time in the Hermitage
and the doors remain open
from 1890 to $3.50 o'clock. The
method of feeding is this. Each
child presents his admittance card. |
and receives a big roll of white !
bread. Then he passes 10 the count
er where the plat de jour is being
served. Sometimes this is smeeten- |
ed boiled rice, sometimes hominy |
gTits, and sometimes thick and sweet |
cocoa, the last being the first choice /
Of nearly all the children. His roll |
OF bread is his authorization for the |
portion OF cereal, which the kind
faced woman ladies out into his |
brown bowl. Then he finds e place
at one OF the long tables, as quickly !
as possible, and dips in. From that !
moment, he does not waste much !,
time talking to his small neighbor.
He tends strictly to the business of
eating.
Generosity and the willingness to |
share, is one of the universal traits
of Russian children. 4 small boy |
with a few pink rubles in his pocket,
will often stop and divide his pile
with an aged beggar on the street. |
And so these children fed at the A /!
R. 4. kitchens in oscow would like
10 take some of the food home 10
divide with the less fortunate mem
hers of their families. Perhaps
afther or mother is hungry, or a
brother too old for admittance 10
he kitchen. But lie is one OF the
rules of a. r. A. feeding that all the
,ood must be eaten by children, while
-hev are in the Kitchen, except IN
,ase of illness verified by q physl-
JAMS or nurses certificate, when the
,ood ration may be carried nome
These small boys and girls OF MOS
,ow are intelligent and crafty, ana
IN to tricks the same as healthy
normal children the world over. 80
.hev try to think up schemes 10 peat
his rule. The portion cereal Is so
generous that it almost completely
ills the stomach OF q small boy or
yirl. On some days, he could easl,
y dispense with the roll OF oreao
md share it with some other mem
Der of the family So he tries 10
sneak it home in his high fur cap.
One is reminded of the old TRICK
IF college girls in gym trying to get
through class without removing their
,orsets. And it is about as Elective.
The keen-eyed teacher used to come
Town the line, occasionally, and feel
he waistlines of all the girls, and the
guilty one was dismissed from class
hat day. So in the Hermitage /
Kitchen in Moscow, every once IN a
while sentry is posted at the door,
o eel the heads of those who are
eaving. mad catch the bad little boys
md girls especially the boys) VINO
ire trying to carry home their rolls
instead eating them. The shame
If being caught usually humbles
bo,,, ;,.n f,,tu-a obedience of the