St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
New York Letter.

abstinence. We may have cucumberS
at moderate cost. that are not, to be
sure, quite as delicious as those we shall
pick in our own back yards by and by,
but are still fresh cucumbers, unflavored
with the taste of great expense. We
may get escarole, that delightful MEM
Der of the endive family, though that is
still costly and none too plenty, in the
markets. Satisfy is cheap, and no one
good knowledge of salads. There is
spinach, hardly salad, but first
cousin of salads; there are new toma-
toes that are very good, and new aSpara-
gus which is not very good.
Still there are people, unhappily, who
sit down to their breakfasts, morning
after morning, without salads. They are
of the kind who hoard their belongings
while they are young in order that some
body else may enjoy them hereafter-a
profound mistake, unless it be lofty
philanthropy, which commonly it is not.
In the youth of each day is the time
for the daintiest pleasures of the palate,
wherefore the breakfast table should be
fair, like morning flower. The flower
should be on the table. Do not forget
to tickle the senses, so far as they may
be tickled, so that the whole body may
be reused to that full measure OF vital
ity which will make success of each
day. Therefore, flowers. The eye and
the nOsrril, assailed with the soft weapon
of delight, will in turn so arouse, cheer,
coax, enliven, awaken, kindle, FLIP and
suscitate the sleepy body that the day
shall open merrily and happily, what
ever the sorrows of yesterday have been.
And the palate has its work. That
grand apotheOsis Of utilitarianism in
food, oatmeal, will supply your bodily
furnance with all the fuel it needs, the
ScOtchman will tell you. Do not ques-
ton or doubt him. Let him have it, puir
body! You feed, as the birds do, upon
seed sufficient, but also upon the Succu-
lent delicacies which shall mOisten your
cOppers and please you softly. He
meant you to do it when He put those
dainties here. Think you they were
meant for the beasts of the field or the
birds or the air alone.
No. Eat what your palate calls for,
first being careful that you have not en-
tirely ruined and perverted your palate.
Do you not remember what Dr.. Austin
Flint said when he was detected eating
a midnight rabbit? He said man ought
to live as sumptuOuslY as possible. He
should eat what he wanted, and all he
wanted, whenever he wanted it. He
might so get the govt, but never dys-
pepsia.
Therefore breakfast with thy might.
Open the day nationally by putting the
body in trim to do the work of the day.
Get your servant into happy condition
first, and you can call on it for the
hardest work without fearing rebellion.
Above all, do not read your paper at the
breakfast table.
The markets are full. Look up the
dainties. Feed neither on husks
nor staples all the time. Shad is
good-between the bones, and it is good
training for an irritable, impatient man
to busy himself on each mOuthful. Shad
are here from the Chesapeake, and will
stay in season for a considerable time.
Save your pennies until you have thirty
five of them, and go to the market for
one good shad. You will not repent the
effort.
When you get a shad plank it. If
you do not know hOw-and only few
masters of the noble art of planking
live in this world, for most of them have
gone TO their reward-yOu can do nearly
as well. Slit it, rub it with little olive
oil and broil it. Do not begrudge the
cost if you have to send out and buy the
charcoal for the fire. You will be glad
you didn't cook that shad on anthracite.
There are other delicacies. Probably
YOU cannot get snowbirdS. They are
the best condition. Homeopathy was
too much for them in the latter part of
March. But you may get squads for
$3.50 a dozen, and various other small
deer at various prices. Go to the market
again. Do not send, but look around
yourself and see if there are not some
young Philadelphia chickens to be had.
They ought to cost you about rs cents
pound, but they are worth it. Possibly
you can get guinea hen, and if you
can afford it, don't hesitate to pay so
cents for it.
If you must have plain, solid meat, re-
member that roast beef and mutton may
be had the year around, but only for
little time now can you get spring lamb
in perfection. There is plenty of that
in market. and it will cost you 80 cents
a pound. The word ''Only" is not sar-
caSm. The extravaganza Of the price
of anything is merely relative.
Remember, above all things, that
there is only one thing on earth that
you are obliged to be interested in every
day. That is eating. Any other sub
ject, barring drinking, which is merely
a twin, can De forgotten for series OF
DAYS without much harm, but man must
eat daily, and the more wisely he eats
the better his life will be. A good lib
eral allowance of attention to this par
ticular subject pays better than almost
any other investment of time and trou-
BILE that can be made.
And don't let your oyster man smash
the shells when he opens them. If he
will not ''stab," 60 to another dealer.
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