The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17
Ry H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1885. by International
News Service)

REVAL, Esthonia, May IT.
UN.SO American cents
in Reval buys today q huge
platter each Of cold turkey, roast
beef, roast goose, roast duck, roast
pork, smoked eel, pickles. and
gallantine of veal.
In addition you get fried eggs
on toast, onion salad, meat salad.
picked melon, game salad, pike
and mayonnaiSe, salt Sigi, liver
loaf, eggs and marinated herring,
herring in cream, pork roulades,
caviar sandwiches with mayor
naise, eel sandwiches, caviar and
onions, rollmops, fish and potato
salads, fish pastry, and stuffed
cabbages.
And That Is Not All
The thirty cents buys all of the
aforenamed forty-seven cold plat
tiers. Not one of them. All Of
them. BIT that is not all. The
same thirty cents buys also big
hot pot each of stuffed cabbage
roulades of veal, sausage and
bacon. roast pork and cabbage.
'komm morgen Wieder," which is
pastry stuffed with hamburger
steak, roast hare, roast duck, her
ring and potato stew, and steam
ing hot dogs.
The thirty cents in question are
thirty American cents, vintage
1885. Before the dollar was de-
preciated you could get all this
for 18 American cents.
There is no catch in this. This
is the so-called "sexer table," in
the restaurant Du Nord. The
Sexer table is ESthonian for the
Zakuska, the smorgas bord, the
vorspeiSe, the hors d'oeuvres. This
is Just what you eat before the
meal. After you have finished
this 80 cents worth you go on and
have something to eat.
You can eat all you want of any
dish on the Sexer table and as
many dishes as you like. Then you
choose from a menu listing 81
dishes, ranging from cartridges in
cream to pancakes with caviar,
and they cost an average of rs
American cents a monStrous
portion.
Recalls Old Russia
This is something like old Rus
STA used to be. This is what new
Russia is not any more. Straight
out of the pages of Tolstoys
'Anna Karenina" came that
jovial plump fellow who is stand
ing beneath the plume of lilac
that mods above the sexer table.
With one hand he holds glass of
vodka, while with the other he
directs the waiter to one dish after
another until his plate is towering
with food.
Food is the primary element in
the standard of living. In new
Russia the food supply has been
for 18 years sometimes good,
sometimes bad, sometimes catas-
trophic. Always it has been Suf-
ficiently uncertain, or sufficiently
dear, to make the food question
the center of every family'S con-
CeuCTdLeQ interest.
In this bit of old Russia is it
only the rich men who can spend
80 cents on the sexer table and
get all they want to eat?
We visited OSkar Janberg,
blacksmith in a metal factory,
in his home at As Oskar Street.
Before he went to work at 7
a. M, he and his wife had for
breakfast this morning coffee,
white bread and butter, anchov-
les and sausage. At 1890 p. m.
he launched on a sandwich and
tea, the tea furnished by the fac
tory. Through work at 3 p. M,
he dined at $50 p. m. on potato
soup, roast fresh pork, marinated
herring, rye bread and butter
and cucumber salad. At 8 p. m.
before going to bed they had tea,
white bread and butter, sausage,
cheese and cold roast pork.
Menu of Worker
We visited Rudolf Rant, near
by. Rant is an unskilled worker
in the same metal factory. He
and his wife and two children
had for breakfast this morning
coffee, white bread and butter,
sausage and cheese. For dinner
soup, boiled mutton, bread and
butter; for supper tea, bread,
butter, sausage and cheese.
We visited Johannes Norman,
m Kolda Cfraot Tnnnhonio IN fba
railroad yards. He and his
mother, his wife and daughter
sat down today to a breakfast
of coffee, white bread and black
bread and butter, bacon, cheese
and cold meat. At dinner they
attacked cabbage soup, rich with
the ingredients that have made
Schichi famous; fresh pork, pan.
cakes with marmalade, and be-
fore going to bed they toyed with
tea and milk, white bread, but
ter and cheese. The family drinks
three quarts of milk a day.
Finally, we visited a very poor
woman at 4 SitSi St., Lena Letto,
widow, whose unmarried daughter
works in the spinning mill. They
had for breakfast coffee, white
bread and butter and cheese; for
dinner and supper together they
had cabbage soup and salt pork,
bread and butter.
Janberg earns 80 kronen 1921 500
a month. Rant earns 10 kronen,
($18.O0) a month. Norman earns