New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-04-05
How Women Eat.

used to know 4 husband. says Clara
Belle, who said that he always fell more
or less ont of love with his wife on Sum
day, but tumbled slap in again when he
saw her arrayed for church. She was
at such times SO neatly dressed, so smil-
ing, so sweetly different from her every
day aspect, that she made regular
weekly conquest of his heart. Oh,
there are few women who can't be
charming if they earnestly set about it
even while eating. I mention this
test of feminine grace because it is a
severe one. The process of filing the
stomach ordained by nature is vulgar in
itself, and Il great deal of daintiness is
required in the woman who would eat
repellantly. Fried oysters are a sore
trial to the ethereal girl who sits down
to them with her adnirer after late
theatrical performance. 1t has been
five or six hours since dinner, and she
is as hungry as a bear that has lived on
its paws all winter. She knows that
bedtime is close ahead, and she will
not have to endure her corset long, if
she does tighten it from the inside
But big appetite is Disseminating in a
maiden, and fried oysters are greasy
The problem before her is how to put
the seven oysters into herself without
convincing the young man that her
stomach is about like his own in it's pc
riodical call for food. There is risk
in the matter that no skill can wholly
eliminate. The best rule is to put on an
expression of very mild disdain at each
mouthful, as though you took it in I'M
der protest. Don't overdo this, and
look as though sickened. but just elevate
the brows a trife, smile family, and
try to give the impression that you toll
crate fried oyster, but do not banker
after it. l watched slender, graceful,
angel-faced creature in fashionable
oyster-house the other night, and saw
that by neglecting her department. she
was shocking the fellow across the ia
BILE. Perhaps she didn't care whether
he adored her or not. Anyhow, she was
putting the oysters into her mouth by
halves, chewing them with undisguised
gusto, swallowing plenty of bread and
cut cabbage along with them, and tax
ing no pains whatever to disguise the
fact that she was enjoying them nights
~. At the next table sat thicker and
elder woman, who practiced the art of
oyster-eating as l have indicated it.
Her facial expression was clever. She
slipped in the food in big pieces when
her companion wasn't looking, and nib
bled when he was looking. She got
away with hearty meal without ap-
pearing to have taken anything to speak
of, and it was only the empty plates
that revealed the fact She was notices.
skillful in drinking her half of quart of
champagne. The glass was lifted to
her lips like the hand of queen to kiss:
her mouth shut over barely an inch of
the brim; there was no stopping or
gurgling; the wine trickled neatly down
her throat, but with quite sufficient &C.
lerity. When starting to go out, with
considerable of the fluid effervescing in
her brain, she failed for dreamy in
slant to recognize her reflection in a
full-length mirror, and tried to turn out
to let herself pass by herself. The blum
der was seen by nobody but me. She
recovered her equanimity instantly, and
departed as smoothly as a fairy.