The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-11
A NATIONAL FAULT.
We Eat in Haste and When Dyspep-
STA Comes, Repent al Leisure.

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who has witnessed the feats of deglu-
tition nerformed nv commercial
4ua,ou,.a =. ,ouror ,+a+;on will
oi"seiAo's w g ia."s
cavll at tnls assertion. Ii AZ saie "
attribute the national disease OF dys-
nensia. to this cause fully as much as
FL the indioestible yiands of which
the ordinary citizen makes his chief
diet. And this haste is not confined
to the hotel dining room or the rail
wav eating house. In the private
household as astonishing and disgust
ing exhibitions Of rapid g~orging may
he seen as are ever witnessed in pub
lie restaurants.
No one who had once beheld tn e
snectacle could ever forget the fashion
in which meals were conducted in a
certain home where wealth and every
evidence of outward refinement gave
promise of better things. The father,
a man of business from the sixteenth
wear. plainly considered eating the
duty to be ACCOMPLISHED at the table.
and quite ignored such minor con-
siderations as the interchange of
thought or observation, or n of the
social features usually connected with
fhA OnarGIl0n OF 0lnlnO. Ii he pOuiu
not quite equal Napoleon the First.
who was said to have devoured his en-
tire dinner in six minutes. he did not
fall far behind the great warrior.
Som. meat. vegetables. dessert. were
swallowed in rapid succession and in
almost utter silence. The slight de-
courses was endured impatientlv. AL
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down. the eager man would push
back his chair. spring to his feet, and,
with a muttered word of farewell,
make a rush for the street. In an in
slant the slam of the front door
would that he was on his
way back to his office.
His children were not backward in
initiating him. and all the pleadings
of their refined. care-worn mother
were nowerless to check the influence
Of the fathers example. With such a.
rush at meal times. elegant or even
tolerably decent table manners vera
imnossible. and the visitor in the
home found eating a difficult business
when accompanied by the sight of a
haste and habits that often could only
be described as revolving.
If the midday meal must be hur-
ried let it also be simple. There is no
rhylne or reason in attemp ting to dis
nose of a three or fonr course dinner
in thirty or forty minutes IF ontv
half an hour can be allowed for the
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maat coursa and a ssJad or ,naot
course and a dessert. These should be
served promptly, but in an orderly
asnloh, a ooIn Inc conducG OF the
hena6ted bv sl1ch simnlicifv W "
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must insist Ever if her h,,shand
will not nnnform 70 ber wishes ~ +h;s
reoard sha should rao,,;ra FROM sar
wants and childran :. cartain amonn+
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A Character Sketch.
] once knew a woman who scanned
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pe, ose III 'iose
VINO became only signify acquainted