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Show Kitcbcn and Cable THE SUNDAY MENU. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Wheatena and Cream. Broiled Ham. Boiled Eggs. Saratoga Potatoes. Corn Muffins. Coffee. DINNER. Okra Soup. - -Rib Roast of Beef, Brown Gravy. Mashed Potatoes. Sliced Potatoes, Watercress Salad ' '. "v Rhubarb Sherbet. : Wafers. Black Coffee, ; y;- SUPPER. Ovster Croquettes. Celery Salad. Olives. Brown Bread and Butter. Pot Cheese. Honeyed Apples. Maple Cake. Origin of Vegetables. ' Celery, it is said, originated in Germany. Ger-many. The onion in Egypt. The parsnip in Arabia. Spinach was also first cultivated there. The cucumber hails from the East Indies. The radish is a native of China and Japan. ' The potato is a native of Peru. Cabbage grew wild in Siberia. Parsley was first know in Sardinia. The garden cress is from Egypt and the. east Exchange. Foods in Season.. Though prices are high for many foods, the market just now provides a generous variety of good things to eat. Vegetables from southern climates or I hothouses are plentiful, while greens like dandelions, watercress, chivers, etc., are coming from nearby gardens. The market man's' menu offers artichokes, arti-chokes, asparagus, beets, carrots, cauliflowers, cau-liflowers, celery, parsnips, lettuce, tomatoes, to-matoes, spinach, . watercress, mushrooms, mush-rooms, leeks, turnips, strawberries, rhubarb, eggplants, bananas, oranges, grape fruit, some pineapples, grapes and figs. Cranberries are on the decline, de-cline, and apples continue scarce and high. The season for fish is right. Varieties Varie-ties particularly good now are bluefish, shad, flounders, haddock, trout, white bait, lobsters, mackerel, salmon, smelts, scallops, crabs and oysters. : . Turkeys are no longer prifne. They may be had. but they are likely to be small and tough. Chickens and fowls are plentiful, and quails may be had. Spring lamb is now numbered among the choicest meats, and a leg of it will cost upwards of $3. It is also early for this season's veal. SOCIAL UNREST IN BELGIUM. From a Catholic clergyman, long a resident of Brussels, who is thoroughly familiar with political, social and industrial in-dustrial conditions in Belgium, the Monitor of San Francisco received the subjoined communication. The state-; state-; ments present in strong relief the salient sal-ient features of a situation little known and less understood among Americans. ; In view of the public interest evoked i here by newspaper reports of the re-; re-; cent disturbances which at one stage seemed to threaten the very life of the little kingdom, these timely observations observa-tions of one who knows, are entitled to the prominence which we venture to accord them. This is the Belgian priest's communication to the Monitor: . ' "I was surprised to see you make so bght. in your last issue, of Belgium's late "trouble, it seems, by your estimate, es-timate, as if all consisted of a few dashes of the pen written to amuse our 'paper readers,' or else to satisfy the 'itch of writing' of some correspondents. correspond-ents. "I believe such an idea does not harmonize har-monize with the real state of affairs in Belgium. Undoubtedly there was some 'scene shifting' of a rather rapid nature, na-ture, nevertheless there is a real danger hanging over Belgium, and awaits only a sufficient opportunity to drop, and then revolution and bloodshed. "We read so much of socialism on the continent that we are sick and tired of it. It is painted in all its worst colors, and then we are told that men who demand, de-mand, the rights of free men who de-cialists. de-cialists. Be they what they may, they have a perfect right to voice in the government nnrt rlminfstration of their j country. "In Belgium a large percentage of the I people is shut out from everything, j. They are in the country and of the country for only this, it seems, to toll and work and grin and bear with the whims of worthless politicians. Would Americans stand the same state of affairs af-fairs that obtain at present in Belgium? Bel-gium? Certainly not! Americans demand de-mand equal rights. Rich and poor should and must be one, for wealth is but the veriest accident, one of the mcst transient kind. In Belgium every man has not a vote. It is hard to see the wealthy man because he is wealthy, with three and four votes, while the poor man, because he is poor, has none. It is not reasonable. Such things we thought were long since dead, but yet it seems as if their ghost still prowls around waiting to be exorcised ex-orcised and sent forth. "The little kingdom of Belgium was truly convulsed and hundreds of thousands thou-sands of artisans laid' down their tools as a protest against the present regime; re-gime; 'In a second' it was all changed. Why? because of the peculiar circumstances circum-stances in which the Belgians are. It Is a small country with an immense population. It's area is but 11,373 square miles and its population is 7,-00,000. 7,-00,000. Some are very rich, but the vast majority are struggling from day to' day. A strike then of a few days' duration means little to the employers, but starvation for the employes. . "It was a feeble effort, a vain and vicious one if you will, but in such circumstances cir-cumstances the least effort is a great effort, and its viciousness is well justified justi-fied by its cause. "Conservatism, the antiquated and ridiculous -ideaj of keeping 'voting power' in the hands of a few; is Belgium's Bel-gium's .greatest-enemy. The poor artisan ar-tisan and laborer may be goaded on to do foolish things.., It has been so in the past" and . the laborers are disgusted with both Liberal and Catholic administrations admin-istrations there. They have had a trial of both, with the result that: they see themselves forced-to band together in lawless crowds' to tear from the hard hearts of tyrants and politicians their just rights. Who' can blame them? Not certainly Americans, who are and should be proud of ' their universal suffrage and unionism and it will be happy. . Some radical, change, if not revolution, is necessary, otherwise the quickly established peace may be as quickly torn asunder by a greater and more successful; effort on the part of labor." |