Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-30
THE HOTCHPOr.

HE tO
"And il seemeth that this ord hotchpgt is III En-
glsh puddirg; for in pudding is not commonly put
one thing alone, but thing with other things to-
gether" LIT. s 267.
No. OoroBER so, 1850.
From the .4t,ic Of Neri,s, Nsgation, Esquire.
ssiculs Dapes"
ssTHe table, and the homely gnds
Demand my song. "-ARMsTRose.
Soul of the illustrious and thrice immortal
Sancho-the pole-star of whose appetite were the
omeets and ola podridas of La Mancha-who
didst exclaim, in the plenitude of thy esurlent
wisdom. 6 blessed be the man who invented eat
ing.'-look with complacency, we beseech thee,
ON our labors. Or, if the doctrine of metemp-
sychoss be true. and thy spirit. that didst always
hunger after the flesh pots of Egypt, animate the
"human frame divine" of any lucky wight OF
modern days, we shall be thrice happy in the
certainty of his appreciation. And to those who
may sneer at us for apostrophising thee-whom
they impiously call mere creature of magma
ton--we say. that we believe in thy quondam
materality as firmly as in the existence OF $ An
thropophagi, and men whose heads do grow be-
meath their shoulders" or in the perfectIbllly OF
the human race according to Bob Owens Sys-
TEN.
Well hast thou conicctured ere this. comely
Reader. that we are not one who might take dc-
light in such feas, as that Of the Barmecide
and the BARRIERS sixth brother, spoken of in that
agreeable nucleus of Eastern wit. fancy and Wis
dom. the thousand and one nights" or do re-
gulate our astronomical exercises by the ancho-
ritical statutes of the arm ecclesiastic Yet, sci
nj mo- l.
gence in the aldermanic propensity ~; beware.
we pray YOU. of chasing us with the Apicii or
Nasidieni of the day; nor think for moment
that we are worthy the fraternal embrace of
Lord Guoseton. We see no great SIN IN using
the good things God has given us-it seems to us
the most proper manner for showing our gratitude
-for ,hiss fsySrs-always provided temperance and
there is occasion to crafty the calls Of hunger,
can any reason he advanced whv it should not be
done with he viands most pleasing to the appe
tite; or why man should not, bv furnishing his
palate the most ccnsolatory orgasm. in some mea-
sure reliere The tediun, of eating? There are
extremes. though, in catering for taste distin-
guished by delicate perception of the agreea.
bic. We would not, like the Roman epicures.
pay 5000 sestertii (about els dollars) for null
let (e); nor would we carry our prediction for
the opsonia of the culinary art to such height,
(even if it ware in our power as did Apicius,
who. after having spent near 100000 of dollars
on the Injuries of the table. committed suicide
through fear that he would die of hunger, hav-
ing only $50. 600 dollars left him! ~. Epicur-
ism is, in many cases, very depraved TASTE
The prevailing delicacy in one nation, may be an
object of supreme disgust in another. Who
does not feel his s.mouth WATER at the splendid
description given by Horace Of supper of Ma
sidienGs, yet is not oppressed with sense OF
loathing when he comes to the passage where
Ai.itur >qui,ias int, + M ona na,an'es
IN ,atiua g.ireca sub no, .erus R9c grdyi9d inguf
CAPITA ssi, dsteiOr p.st partum cdrns fuiurd
O! your hunger is most potent molher OF
irascible ana stubborn dispositions, our school
boy DAYS can witness Many time, and.oft
when our Nitlls like temper hath prompted us to
neglect duly coming our matutiI al quantum of
Corderv or Cornelius Nepos, have we endured
in ..durance yie' the consciousness, that din
ner time was SLOWLY, but surely, passing away;
and when the hour approached for the evening
session. often have we looked, from the school |
room window, at the happy faces redoent of
mirth and fun below us-occasionally grinning |
most melancholy smie to shew our contempt for the
penance inflicted by preceptorial tyranny, while
The gastric was wasius dire intestine war upon |
our abdominal premises: when school convened. |
.yntax of our lesson. This was a pretty good
plan, we must confess, for attaining the object in
view; yet who does not more admire that pursued |
by the schoolmasters of ancient Rome,
"Ut pueris ohm dant crus,ua biand
Doctores, elements yeint ut dscere prims."
'Blapdi Doctores-good God! what misnomer
his would be for the tribe of modern pedasogues.)
Shenstone's schoolmistress, however, seems to
lave had little more of this ancient wisdom than
he rest of her DileoThian sisterhood: for she
lad chest,
Whence oft with sugared Gates she did them greet,
And gingerbread, rare, now certes douoly sweet"
Spirit of degeneracy! how hast thou infected
IL classes of modern days. Why, even in old
Bill of Avon's time, funeral, that most sorrow
ul and sobiferous of all human undertakings,
vas graced by festival; for what saith Hamlet,
n speaking OF his mothers ill-assorted match. 8
the funeral baked meats did coldy furnish forth
he marriage feast" {
The extortions and expressions of the great ,
ystem of petty sovereionties and AFFECT vassal- r