Show what the lawmakers eat in Sum merti m e 1 L 1 CA Br bwashington ASHINGTON among the thou W sand things that influent influenced ced the making of the tariff bill in congress there has been overlooked one elemont element that had indirect but important effect on the raising or lowering of schedules three times a day this influence got to work on the senators tor S al and d congressmen perspiring in the midsummer mid summer sunnier heat of the capitol cap liol it was their daily diet the menus of washington are a culinary jumble a gastronomic hash a geographical mixture of tropical c 1 al and temperate zone cookery they must serve the pie eaters of new england the Frenchi fied palates of new yorkers the beefeaters beef eaters of the north the ironclad iron clad stomachs Is of the west and the t 11 e uneasy u n easy livers vers of the south the city has not co completely mple tely acquired the art of hot weather her dining that you can find best exemplified in agypt india and the far east where englishmen and americans live he in exile It struggles between carnivorous appetite sand bifid tropical trop leaf temperature what sort hort of a tariff decision would you expect from a man who cats beefsteak for breakfast yet this Is is what you can find on washington Washing tor i bills billa of fare then there are 17 different d I 1 ff e r e ait kinds of cereal ceral foods that leave a sawdust nourishment in your stomach 1 and a dozen different acidly fruits that carlsbad doctors tel lyou to avoid there is nothing in the world that lies heavier on a tired fla flaccid celd midsummer mid summer stomach than an teed iced melon the first thing in the morning yet a majority of the tariff makers ate them daily the internal chill their digestive or 1 A gans get Js is a rapid cooler for tariff reduction enthusiasm the capitol restaurant serves more dairy dishes and pie than at any anif other time of the year the average lawmaker eats cats at noon a good habit in this country if only ho he would eat i digestible food but ho he turns his liver with 0 overdoses ver doses of milk pours down quantities of iced drinks amid layers of pie and de vitalizing food the one salvation is that roast beef f generally cold still remains the principal blood making brain sustain ing inu muscle scle giving meat dish of the 4 1 1 capital cut but it is the night diners that furnish the most amazing specimens of menus the bills of fare of the leading hotels follow closely parallel lines their principal dishes can be classified as follows twenty four different kinds of ices fifteen cold salads fifteen different ways of cooking j potatoes f twenty nine vegetables hot and cold eight fish cooked in 15 different ar ways v 7 thirteen fresh fruits y 4 eligh eight t varieties of i cheese T C seven seventeen tean hot ro roasts i as i ts ind and en entrees free g of which e ight eight were 6 chicken acke n a anda n birds f |