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Updated: June 25, 2025
In the course of a half-hour, which time, as I was informed, intervened between the just-ended morning promenade and the noon meal which was the next thing on the program, I gleaned considerable information concerning the daily schedule of La Ferte. A typical day was divided by planton-cries as follows: "Cafe," "Corvee d'eau," "Nettoyage de Chambre," "Monter les Hommes," "A la soupe les hommes."
I wonder how many times, en route to la soupe or The Enormous Room or promenade, I have heard the unearthly smouldering laughter of girls or of men entombed within the drooling greenish walls of La Ferte Mace.
We drove back for some distance, and entered a small cabaret, where some women were diligently engaged in spinning, and some men were superintending with intense interest the preparation of some soupe maigre. Their patois was scarcely intelligible, and a boy whom we took as our guide spoke no English.
It is supper-time-l'heure de la soupe, as French rustics say and before every cottage-door are squatted family groups, eating their pottage on the doorsteps. Around are the dogs and cats, chickens, pigs and goats. To every humble homestead is attached orchard, garden, even a patch of corn or vineyard. All is peace and contentment. Certainly these rural interiors would not satisfy everybody.
The French say, C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat, and we have always found on a tramping expedition nothing so life-restoring after fatigue and hunger as the portable soup now so easily obtained at places where prepared food is put up for travellers' uses. Spirituous liquors are no help in roughing it.
Wild Fruits Ingredients for a "Soupe Maigre" Orchidaceous Plants Wild Nutmegs Native Oils Cinnamon Primeval Forests Valuable Woods The Mahawelli River Variety of Palms Cocoa-nut Toddy Arrack Cocoa-nut Oil Cocoa-nut-planting The Talipot Palm The Areca Palm Betel Chewing Sago Nuts Varicty of Bees Waste of Beeswax Edible Fungi Narcotic Puff-ball Intoxicating Drugs Poisoned Cakes The "Sack Tree" No Gum Trees of Value in Ceylon.
It's very pretty, you know." But about the syphilitics at La Ferte: they were, somewhat tardily to be sure, segregated in a very small and dirty room for a matter of, perhaps, two weeks. And the Surveillant actually saw to it that during this period they ate la soupe out of individual china bowls.
While the men were upstairs recovering from la soupe, the gentleman-inspectors were invited downstairs to look at a specimen of the Directeur's kindness a kindness which he could not restrain even in the case of those who were guilty of some terrible wrong.
The Clyster given the Child last evening operated very well. it is clear of fever this evening and is much better, the swelling is considerably abated and appears as if it would pass off without coming to a head. we still continue fresh poltices of onions to the swolen part. we directed the indians in what manner to treat the dieased Cheif, gave him a few dozes of flour of sulpher and Creem of tartar & some portable soupe and directed them to take him home. they seemed unwilling to comply with the latter part of the injunction for they consumed the day and remained with us all night. at 1 P.M. Joseph and R. Feilds returned, accompanyed by Hohastillpilp several other inferior Cheifs and some young men.
In three days Pete discarded the immateriality which had constituted the exquisite definiteness of his advent, and donned the garb of flesh-and-blood. This change was due equally to La Soupe and the canteen, and to the finding of friends. Also he had known nobody during that time but the five fingers which deposited said bread and water with conscientious regularity on the ground beside him.
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