The Portland daily press., 1872-10-11
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM In ADVANCE.

this economy?' And made up nv mind
That tor this day at least would sink all NOR
al restraints and give up the reins to appetite.
1 nave no apology or defense for what fol-
lowed. Saturday breakfast. began with one
cents worth OF oat meal porridge, with tea
spoonful of sugar, worth quarter OF cent
then followed accents worth of cracked wheat,
WIN half a cents worth of milk and one
cent worth of rye and Indian bread. For
uihner ate half a small lobster, which cost
.hree cents, and one cents worth of coarse
pread; ana one cents worth of hominy salad.
ana closed with two cents worth of cracked
wheat and milk. Cost of the DAVIS food twelve
and three-quarters cents. In all these state
ments only the cost of material is given.
Cost for the week, ftty3four and a quarter
cents. OF course L don't pretend that every
body can live in that Luxurious way IL isn't
everybody who can afford it. / could have
lived just as well, so far as health and strength
are concerned, on half the money Besides,
on three days l ate too much altogether, and
suffered from thirst and dulhess. But then
l may plead that worked very hard, and
really need good deal more food than idlers.
By the way, l weighed myself at
the beginning of the week, and found that it
was just two hundred and twelve pounds.
Since dinner to-day / weighed again, and
found that balanced two hundred and twelve
and a half pounds, although it has been a
week of warm weather, and have had un-
usual demands for exertion of various kinds
But let me feed family of ten instead of
one person, and l will give them the highest
health and strength upon diet which will
cost not much more than two dollars for the
ten persons for week. Let me transfer my
experiment to the far west, where wheat,
corn, oats and beef are so cheap, and the cost
of feeding my family of ten would be so ridi-
culous that dare not mention it lest you
laugh at me. And so far from my family
group being one of ghosts or skeletons, / will
engage that they shall be plumper and strong
er, healthier and happier, with clearer skins,
brighter eyes, sweeter breaths, whittier teeth,
and, in addition, that they shall live longer
than your Delmonico diners, each Of whom
spends enough at single dinner to feed my
family of ten for a week. And last but not
least, they shall enjoy their meals more than
your Delmonico diners.-DiO LeaciS.
FEMININE AMENIrIEs.-If women, per-
haps better than men, know how to do
things insolent to each other, so do they
know how to resentimpertinences. An Amer
ican lady travelling in Switzerland tells this
dinner-table story:
l had seen enough of travelling English, of
whom the party at the table was principally
composed, to know how to greet them; so
entirely ignored their presence, placidly gaz-
ing out at the window in the interval of the
courses, on long, struggling St. Goarhausen
opposite. This had its effect in the increased
respect of all glances, except those from
pair of bold black eyes opposite me, whose
owner observed to her husband, in a loud
tone, "One of the people of the country,
l suppose" 'TMy dear,' murmured the
gentlemen, stake care; the lady may un-
derstand English" ''Not likelyp' in a
tone of indefinite disdain. ''Oh ah one can
never be too careful. So many of our people
go to Paris, don't you know, that the French
must pick up little of our lingo" ''I don't
! think her French" remarked the lady, her
gaze still broadly. fixed on me. She proceed
ed with some very free and impertinent re-
marks. At the conclusion of the meal want
ed some confitures that stood near this lady,
and the walters had all left the room. look
ed directly at her, and said in my best Eng
lish, "Madame, may trouble you to hand
me those bon-bons ?" Ii you could have seen
the woman's facei 1t turned white, her jaw
dropped, and she stared blankly, utterly un-
able to comply with my request. Her hus-
band snatched up.the plate and handed it to
me with a bow, and l ate my confectionery
with an innocent air, in the midst of a d. al
silence.