Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-30
cheap Enjoyment.

! will say, for example, that you are q
working man, earning pound or two g
week, and that am an independent per-
son with So income OF ten Thousand g
year will not take the example of q
king, because Apprehend few persons 10
their senses would aspire to that uucom.
Portable position. Well, then, We are both
men, With the same senses and the same
sppeIites AS regards 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 We
derive from these indulge1cies. Ny meal
m=y be composed of the so called 'ideIica.
cie5 of the season. while yours may be
simply 3 steak and potatoes. When We
have both laid down our knives aud forks
and cried "epouEh,n the sensation is the
sameiu both cases. II you banker after
my delicscies, you own to desire simply
TO give your palate passing qualification
Your food is really more wholesome and
uou'ishiug than mine, and if you were con.
'eoI, you would enjoy it quite as much
The real fact is, that these '1elicAcies Of
the season" are invented aud concocted for
me, not because they are good for me, or
because there is any great amount OF en-
joyment in the consumption Of them, but
because have vast deal of money to
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in ordering and paying tor them.
began with salmon, for instance, You
think you would like to have salmon ev-
cry day for dinner. Try it three times run.
mig. Why, in old days, before railways
established a ready and rapid commuui.
cation With theoLondon markets, the ser
wants of country gentlemen residing on
the banks of the Severn, the Thay, the
Dee and the Spey, made a stipulation 10
their terms OF engagement that they would
not be fed upon salmon more than three
times week. Pheasant and partridge
are delicacies of the season; but always TO
dine on pheasant and partridge would be
less tolerAble than perpetual bread and
water. There is nothing for which a man
should be more thankful than an ever-re.
curing appetite for plain beef and mutton
nothing except the means of induleing
that appetite. Those highly spiced dishes,
called by 6ne French names, which are
set upon the tables of the rich and great.
are mere cooks tricks to stimulate the Ian
guild appetite. To banker after such things
is 10 have longing for physic, not for
wholesome food. Many grand folks who
habitually eatlhem are miserable ctea-
lures, who have to coax their stomach a,
every meal-piIable victims of dyspepsia
and govt.
Luxury in feeding rests upon the vulgar
idea that good dinner must cost grea,
deal Of money. The height of human fe-
licity with some people is to drink cham.
payne. Why have they so high an opinion
of that particular wine? Because it cost,
more than any other, ard ia supposed &c
be an aristocratic beverage. But what il
the enjoyment of these psmpered feeders
10 that of the hungry carter who sits dowr
by the wayside to thumb bunch of breaC
and cheese, or cold meati The active
vigor Of that mans appetite is superior Il
all the sauces in the world.
People who envy the luxurious feas,s o
the rich should know that the wise mer
who sit down to them only make pretenc,
# par'skiug of the So called good things
that are placed before them have heAFC
that the Cabinet Ministers, before they %
into the city to the Lord Mayors BANQUET
dine quietly at home on some simple anc
wholesome Wand, knowing that there viii
be many dishes on the grosniug tables o
Guildhsil which they dare not touch. Tbt
Queen spreads her table with all the mos
elaborate productions of the culinary ar,
but sbe herself makes her dinner of Gu
of simple mutton. Cook az you will, auc
lavish money s.you will, there is no ex,
ceedinR the enjoyment OF that carter sit
tIug by the roadside thumbing his bread
and eheese.-AAthe Year Round.