Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1916 — TRAVELING NOW IN KOREA [ARTICLE]

TRAVELING NOW IN KOREA

Ice Cream and American Biscuits on the Restaurant Cars. •A Baldwin locomotive, built in Philadelphia, whisked us through the green hills and past the quaint 1,0 Oh-year-old villages of Korea. It was odd to see the white swaddled Koreans, with their bare feet and flytrap hats, riding in this most modern of trains. We fled at forty miles an hour over trails where a few years ago these same Koreans doubtless joggled donkeyback at twenty miles a day. ' Any American road would have been proud of the dinner on that train. It was vastly better than the dinners on the roads in Japan. The tiffin (luncheon) was table d’hote and cost only 1 yen (50 cents). It comprised seven courses, and its main features, relieved of their French disguises, were soup, fish, chicken salad, beefsteak, brown potatoes, succotash, ice cream and lady fingers, apples 4 oranges, bapanas and coffee. Plenty of everything and everything gopd. Electric bell at every tables. 'Speedy service. Eternal politeness. I ~ ; - And as if this were not enough, ice cream and nabiscos were served at 3 p. m.! That was the last straw. Subscribe for The Democrat-