Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-12
THE RICH AND THE POOR-WHO
ENJOY THE MOST

Twill say, for example, that YOU are A
working man, earning few dollars week,
and that / am an independent person with
an income of ten thousand a year. I will
not take the example of king, because |
apprehend few persons in their senses would
aspire to that uncomfortable position. Well
then, We are both men, with the same SEN
ses and the same appetites. AS regards cur
animal natures, you eat, drink and
sleep; can do no more. Provided we
both have sufficient, there is no real differ
enee In the satisfaction we derive from
these indulgences. My meal may be COM
posed of the so-called @delicacies of the sea-
son, while yours may be simply steak and
potatoes When we have both laid down
our knives and forks and cried enough,
the sensation is the same In both cases. IF
you banker after my delicacies, you own to
desire simply to give your palate passing
qualification. Your food is really more
wholesome and nourishing than mine, and,
II you we're content, you would enjoy it
qHite as much. The real fact is, that these
'delIcacies of the season are invented and
concocted for me, not because they are good
for me, or because there is any great amount
OF enjoyment in the consumption of them,
but because have vast deal Of money to
thru cray. Imerely conform to fashion
in ordering and paying for them.
| begin with salmon, for instance. You
thinK you would like to have salmon every
day for dinner. Try it three times running
Why, in old days before railways established
a ready and rapid communication with the
London markets, the servants of country
gentlemen residing on the banks of the Sew
ern, Tey, the Dee, and Spey, made stipu-
lation in their terms of engagements that
they would not be fed upon salmon more
than three times week Pheasant and
partridge are delicaeies of the season /; but
always to dine on pheasant and partridge
would be less tolerable than perpetual byead
and water. There is nothing for which
man should be more thankful than an ever
recurring appetite for plain beef and mutton
nothing except the means of indulging
that appetite. Those highlyspiced dishes,
called by fine French names, which are set
upon the tables of the rich and great, are
mere cooks tricks to stimulate a languid APP
petite. To banker after such things is to
have longing for physic, not for wholesome
food Many grand folks who habitually eat
them are miserable creatures, who have to
coax their stomachs at every meal-pitiable
victims of dyspepsia and gout.
People who envy the luxurious feasts of
the rich should know that the wise men
who sit down to them only make pretense
of partaking of the so-caIled, good things
that are placed before them. / have heard
that the. cabinet ministers, before they 90
into the city to the Lord Mayors banquet,
dine quietly at home on some simple and
wholesome viands, knowing that there will
be many dishes on the groaning tables of
elaborate PRODUCTIONS of culinary art but
she herself makes her dinner off cut of
simple mutton. Cook as you will, there is
no, exceeding the enjoyment Of that carter
sitting by the roadside humping his bread
and cheese All the Year ArOund