Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — IN A DUTCH TAVERN. [ARTICLE]

IN A DUTCH TAVERN.

The Bar* laid Before a Stranger In That Land of Good Appetite*. , A stranger dining for the first tin's In a Catch tavern sees a few novelties First of all he is struck by the great size and thickness of the plates, proportionate to the national appet te; and In man, places he will find a napkin of fine wh ; V' p:. per, folded In a three-oorr.ered sLa and stamped with border flowers, a te landscape in the corner, and t * no oo' tue hotel or case. ,no stranger to he sore of his facts, wii or er roast beef, and they will brny' h m half a dozen -lie s as arfte as cabba e leaves; or beefsteak, and he s presented with a sort of cnahlon of raw meat, enough to satisfy a family; or a fish, and there appears a marine animal nearly as long as the table; and with each of these come a mountain of boiled potatoes and a pot of vigorous mustard. Of bread, a little thin slice about as bfg as a dollar, most displeasing to us LetIns, whose habit it It to devour bread in quantities, so that In a Dutch tavern one mast be constantly asking for more, to the great amusement of the waltera i A Ith any one of these three dishea and a glass of Bavarian or Amsterdam beer, an honest man may be satd to have dined. As for wine, whoever has the cramp In his parse will not talk of wine In t o deed, since It is extremely dear; but, as parses are pretty generally robust, almost all middle-class Dutchmen and their betters drink it; and there are certainly few countries where so great a variety and abundance of foreign wines are found as In Holland, Frenoh and Rhine wines especially.