Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-14
DAILY SENTINEL
WEDNESDAY, MORNING. JUNE Il.


Ine GoIey - - sSOo
A vriter In An the Tear Round" discourses:
81 will say. for example. that you are working
man, earning pound or 80 . week. and that /
an al Independent person, With al income Of
ten thousand year. -ill not take the exam
pie Of king, because apprshend fev persons
In their senses would aspire 20 that uncomforts-
bic position. Well. then, vs are both men, with
the same senses and the same sppetites. Asre-
CARDS our animal natures. you eat, drink and
sleep; can do no more. Provided We both
have Sufficient. there Is no real difference IN the
satisfaction ve derive from these indulgencies.
Ny meals may be composed of the so-cslled
"deicacies Of The season, while yours may be
simply a steak aud potatoes. When ne have
both laid down our kniles and forks and cried
enough" the sensation is the same IN both
e2ses. IL you banker after my delieacies, you
Own TO a desire simply 10 give Jour palate
passing grati6cation Your food 10 really more
wholesome and nourishing than mine, and II you
we're content, you would enjoy 10 quite A. much.
The real fact l., that these "delicacies
Of the season" are invented and con
cocted for me, not because they are good
for me, or because there IL any great amount OF
enjoy ment in the consumption of them, but be-
cause have avast deal OF money 10 throw away.
I merely conform 20 the fashion in ordering and
paying for them. begin with salmon, for in
stance. YOs think you would like 10 have cal
mon every day for dinner. Try IL three times
running. Why, IN old days, before railways
established a ready and rapid communication
with the London markets, the servants Of coun-
Try gentlemen residing on the banks OF the
Severn. the Tay. the Dee and the Spey. made
stipulation in their terms of engagement that
they would not De ted on salmon more than
three times week. Pheasant and partridge
are the del cacies the season; but always 10
dine on pheasant aud partridge would be less
tolerable than perpetual bread and water. There
il nothing for which = man should be more
thankful than an ever recurring appetite for pla
beef and matton-nothing except the means OF
INDUCING that appetite. Those highly spiced
dishes called by fine French names, which are
set upon the tables OF the rich and great, are
mere cooks tricks TO stimulate the languid appe-
Ute. To banker alter such things Is TO have a
longing for physic. not Tor wholesome food
Many grand folks who habitually eat them are
miserable creatures, who have TO coax their
stomAchs at every meal-pitiable victims of dys
pepsia and govt. Luxury ia feeding rests upon
the yulgur idea that a good dinner must cost 4
great deal Of money The height Of human ie-
LEFTY with some people il to drink champs gne.
Why have they 80 high an opinion OF that par
tcular winef Because il costs more than any
other, and j. supposed TO be an arislocratic bev-
erage. But What il the enjoy ment OF these pam
pered feeders TO that Of The hungry carter whO
sits down by the wAy-lde % thumb bunch Of
bread aud cheese. or cold mesII The active
vigor OF that mans appetite il superior TO all the
sauces in the world People who envy the luIu
rious feasts of the rioh should know that the
wise men Who cit down 10 them only make pre-
tence OF paftsking of the go called good things
that sre placed before them. | have heard that
the Cabinet Ministers. before they 20 into the
city To the Lord Mayors banquet dine quietly At
home on some simple and wholesome Wand,
knowing that there will be many dishes OH the
grosning tables OF Gudhal which they dare
hot touch. he Queen spreads her table with
all the most elaborate productions of the Gull
nary art: but she herself makes her dinner off a
cut of simple mutton. Cook "a you will. and
lavish money as you viii, there il no exceeding
the enjoyment OF that carter sitting by the road
side thumbing his bread aud cheese"