Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-07
TALKING AT TABLE.

The Journal of Health says that
talking at table is one of the very
best digesters. This, then, accounts
for the tremendous appetite every
body bas for the Sunday dinner.
We never could understand why,
with scarcely any exercise on Sun
day, the dinner of that day should
be healthier and more anxiously
sought for by the diner than any
other dinner. Many real good
Christian people will sacrifice Sun
day-school, where it is a noon ses-
sion, in order to get home for
something to eat. Although the
breakfast has been later than any
other Of the week, still noon brings
a most ravenous appetite. But it
is all explained now. Talking at
the table does it. Everybody knows
that the Sunday breakfast is the
longest on the floor, and is more
talked over than any breakfast of
the week. This is the way it comes
about. The children are to be got
up and got ready for church. 1t is
immaterial how long people have
been married, the woman always
gets the breakfast ready as soon as
she has called the children. They
don't come, as a general thing.
when they are called, but no wo-
man allows this to influence her ac.
tions. She gets the breakfast just
as puEctually as if she never had
! to wait an hour or SO for a dilatory
family. This is the grandest illus
tration of the sublime faith Of wo
man to be found on record, Witt
one or two of the other children sht
sits down to the meal. The sur
roundings of the breakfast woulC
make it a repast Of lead were it tho
for the conversation which flow
smoothly on. And the great yari
ETY. Of subjects discussed is IN i'm
portant element in the development
Of the gastric juices. There's he
husband who, seeing the breakfas
about ready, thoughtfully arrange
his shaving articles, and falls |,
lathering his face just as he j
called to the table. 1t occurs t
him that there should be some ex
PLANTATION of why the meal is al
ways brought on just as he gets t.
shaving, and he demands it. The
she wants to know why people vii
persist in shaving when they knal
the breakfast is right before them
Thus is one subject disposed o
Then there is the boy who is boun
to have two cups of coffee He ha
to be met on the very first openin
Of the rebellion.
! "You shan't have another cup {
. coffee; one is enough for you. 70
are so nervous now there is no liN
3 ing with you"
~ want it, | tell you.
! "And | tell you, you shan't hav
: it."
: civil have it."
b What's that, sir?"
a "Don't you never let me hes
Z You talk like that again, cir, or I
: give you something that'll max
!. your tongue civil"
There's the other boy, who pc
!. ceives that there is not sugar enoug
in his cup, and hits upon the bol
expedient of declaring that the
has been no sugar put in it at all.
81 know better. You stir it l
is and you'll find it sweet enough"
= = "But / am stirring it up, a
there amt no sugar in it at ALL"
. "There's all you'll get, and yC
70 can drink it or leave it alone. I
got something else to do besid
1. doctoring you up for worms. "
y Then the father sits down, and
: being helped, when another chi
comes in, and seeing his moth
! occupied, backs up to her to ha
: his apron buttonod.
The temerity Of these procee
ings, although somewhat near
- thousandth performance never |
comes sufficiently familiar to be u
:, derstood by the mother, and s
, hastily observes; -.
II "Get away from here; don't y
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