The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
MUNCHING IN PUBLIC.

Whether we eat to live, or live to eat
living should have some show of dignity
and eating some semblance of propriety.
! Man is made to walk about erect. Dogs
track along the ground with their noses,
and chickens drop their heads and peck
i'll the dirt at every step. For these crea-
lures there is apology in the standard
nursery poem For tbs their nature, too.
| One can excuse them, but there is no apol
ogy for human beings. who act As if their
chief quest in life is the search for some
thing to eorlnandize and whose principle
employment is eating and drinking, in pub
lie as well as private.
There is touch of unbewitched and ma
| tural feeling in the witch in Macbeth. "
"A sailors wife had chestnuts in her lap
and munched and munched and munched.
The weird sister had not lost all her origi-
nal propriety nor did Size seem less than a
woman disguised. For there are few
! things more annoying, when it is done out
of place and out of season. than this per-
petual muuching. The floors of railroad
ears. of waiting rooms and places OF amtse-
ment the sidewalks about street corners,
the pavements III front Of shop windows.
are strewn with peanut shells, banana
skins. orange peel, apple cores melon rinds
or peach stones. No one can wonder that
an offence of this kind caused a New En-
| gland ecclesiastical council to dissolve the
relation between preacher and his flock.
| 1t was proved against him that he ate APP
pies in the street. To be sure. the parson
offence was an aggravated one. He added
insult to injury by swapping the seeds Ill
the faces of his Pensioners rs he passed by
them.
The habit looks so uncouth that women.
at least, should avoid it. They seldom
walk and eat. But one may sometimes see
a smart miss, pretty and well dressed, be
stow herself comfortably i'll railway ear
and arrange her parcels about her with
due regard to safety and to her own COM
fort. You think what beautiful picture,
and wish that you We're acquainted with so
nice looking a girl Presently. having adj
iusted everything and recalled to memory
the commissions she had forgotten, she
prepares to exercise herself otherwise.
Out OF a parcel she produces her cakes.
her oranges. her pop corn. her chocolates,
her peanuts or doughnuts. her apples or
some such things and proceeds to MUNICH
SO long as she remains in the car. Then
you would rather not have her acquan
| lance.
The Rayels, famous pantominists some
years ago. had one scene i'll which 4 beauti
full portrait hung upon wall. While you
were admiring it, suddenly its lips parted.
huge mouthfuls Of eatableS fell in; the
Jaws worked, and-the picture was dread
fully spoiled. This performance was in
tended to be laughed at But a young lady
does not desire to be laughed at when She
spoils beautiful picture by an unneces-
sary devouring of miscellaneous food in
the presence of fifty lockers ON i'll rail
road car Sometimes the practice is eN
cusable Oh a long journey. for example
never on a short one. 1t may be worth
while to consider whether it is not much
more seemly to take your repast comtorta-
bly,. where a napkin is convenient, than to
swear your fingers on the road and wipe
them on your duster 1t may be said the
men are quite as bad So they are, and
worse. But men are ncorrigble. Ledger.