Clarksville daily chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-11-05
EATERS. aIo AND LITTLE.
Contrasts az she TABIe-Over.Eatlns.
A More Sensible view.
New York Star. ]

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There is no better place to observe
human nature than in one of the coffee
and cake saloons which abound in New
York. 1t is amusing to watch the diff.
ferent patrons of these useful ana econ.
omical establishments. There is boor
who takes a whole cake at mouthful
and gulps his coffee from his saucer,
and with his knife he shoyels the pork
and beaIT into his capacious NAV.
What contrast there is between this
fellow, who has no breeding, and an
other who sits near him. The other
sips his coffee from the cup, and never
thinks of being so ill-bred as to drink
from the saucer
The same contrast in manners that
exists ip the coffee and cake saloons may
be observed to great extent in the
dining-rooms of the popular hotels and
and high priced restaurants. The vul-
gar man who has plenty of money with
which 70 buy an expensive dinner, can
show himself hog in more than one
way, at private tables, as well as at
the public establishments, the gour-
mand may be found. There are people
whose main object in life is to eat
Speaking of this class of individuals, a
well known physician with whom Star
reporter conversed, said:
ut is strange that men who use excel
lent judgment in other affairs of life,
give very little thought to the preserya-
ton of bodily health. They are given
to excuses in eating and drinking
which completely ruin their digestion
The sufferings which some of these men
endure are terrible in the extreme. For
the sake of pleasing the palate for a
brief time they doom themselves to
months and years of agony, and finally
die miserably."
''Well, doctor, what style of diet would
you recommend"
"While am not vegetarian in the
strict sense of the word, | will say that
meat of most kinds should be eaten of
very sparingly. Grease and fat in yari-
Gus forms enter too largely into the
preparations of food for all classes of
people. Look at the menu for first
class hotel, for instancel All of the dishes
are reeking with fat, and to add to. their
indigestible qualities they are so
highly seasoned with pepper and other
condiments that they cannot do otherwise
than bring dyspepsia to the people who
put them into their stomachs."
'And when these injudicicus people
lose their health they furnish business
for the physicians. | see no reason
why you should complain.
''Ah, there's the rub. These heavy
koc h. A..
we have. They expect us to restore
their health, and at the same they are
continually violating the laws of ma
ture, Well, ! suppose that the inju-
dicious diet of such people is godsend
to us doctors, for it is a well-known fact
that it is the cause of nine tenths of the
sickness. Over-eating and lack of
proper physical exercise are faults to
which too little attention is paid by the
majority of the men and women of this
degenerative age"
One writer describes what he terms
little octave dinners" where there is
enough to eat and drink, and not too
much, and adds:
1.-THE guests are we'll chosen, and the
courses are sent up to time. The COM
pany sit down at eight and rise soon
after nine. Afterward they stroll
about certain rooms, sit down to cards,
take turn at billiards, when there are
no ladies upstairs to join, look at works
of art, smoke cigar and chat on q sofa,
and at eleven are quite fit to 90 on to
any other reception. They have dined,
not overdined; the grossness of the meal
has been altogether avoided, and the
expense has been about half as much
per head as at certain other dinners
which are found not one-half as pleasur
able"
The same writer observed that ''the
Cresus feeding business is played out;
that it only helps millionaires to fritter
away their money and gluttons to gorge.
1t ruins the respectable fools with mod
crate incomes, and degrades social inter
course. Let man give what he can
afford, and ask his friends to sit down
and be content with what contents him.
He concludes with:
"A gentleman does not want his host
to serve what 1t will pinch him to pay
for, and what it will surfeit him 50 eat.
Depend upon it, the day is not far off
when on interminable banquet In pri-
vate house will be badge of vulgarity,
and when dinner entertainments will
rise in peoples estimation just in pro-
portion as their elegance, ingenuity and
dtness TO promote pleasant intercourse
are aimed at, rather than their suInptu-
ous extravaganza and prepostorous
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