The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-03-31
Dr.. Dio Lspzia on EveuIn- TI75.-i u.
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npeople have beautiful bomaa ~
wealth, and desire to make tbeir -
ty q recherche affair, are tbers -.
professional players, singers. aeto-. 1r.'
leaders, florists etc. ? Somatbinr,
grand could be given for halftbe az.
pense of an elaborate supper.
need hardly hint to bright nan.
pie of q less pretentious class that
social singing, dancing, chAradeG
and hundred beautiful games are
all open to them. These are ten.
fold more enjoyable than the more
stately methods of the rich.
The time will soon come when the
people of really fne culture win not
think of giving their guests 3 late
supper; indeed, Of the twenty most
intellectual and refined homes to
winch l have been invited in Aueri-
ca and Europe, not one gave apv rs-
Iresnments at an evening party,
with perhaps the exception Of wins
in France, and lemonade in this conn
try.
Ifpeople have no brains. but b.va
good stomachs, then I advise eatino
on all occasions; in fact, it is the on.
ly thing left. Such people may have
already eaten three meals, but when
they assemble in the evening at a So
ciable they had better feed again,
and feed hearty; what else is there
to do2 They can't sit and stare st
each other by the hour, and it
wouln't be good manners to lie down
on the floor and go to sleep. After
they finish the more substantial
meats and think they can fill up the
rest of the evening with nuts, dough
nuts, apples, cider, and other triaing
things.
But If people happen TO have a
love Of music, paintings, converse
ton (the finest of the fine arts,
bright games, chArsdes, dramatics,
or any other of twenty amusements
if they happen to have 3 love above
cold pork, then, advise them, when
assembled in a social way, to give
their brains q chance, and not stuff
their stomsehs; the former is human,
the latter is piggish.
Few changes incur social life have
afforded me such genuine satisfac-
ton as the recent changes, among a
few of our best people, in the forms
and methods Of hospitality.
The change from, evil you have
a glass Of Whisky?' which was Gd-
dressed to callers fifty years ago, to
the question, "Will you have some
thing to eatY' which was addressed
to them twenty five years ago. wsS,
on the whole, q great improvement.
The change which has now been in
augurated Of addressing your hospi-
tality to something above the stOm-
ach is a still greater improvement.
When this has been fairly estab-
lished, housekeepers can entertain
company in the evening with real
pleasure and profit to all concerned.
When an evening socislable means .
"big feed" it involves a great sscri-
fee: there is roasting, baking, and
fussing for two or three days, and the
expense is such as only q few can
well afford. And what is it all fort
Why, Ican't think of any thing, un-
less it is to make the company sick.
Does any one doubt that eating late
in the evening is injurious7 And
does any one doubt that the prepa-
ration and cost of the supper involve
a sacrifice to the housekeeper7 If
these are admitted, 1 can't imagine
any decent apology for the custom.
What shall be doneS Every i'm
portant movement must be inaugu-
rated by individual action. Let
those who have the idea and the NOR
al courage excuse themselves from
all evening refreshments, and the
fashion will soon become general
1t is a real pleasure to say thai al
ready thousands have determined
upon this course, so that now it is
quite safe to entertain company
without refreshments.