Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21
uette. made some inquiries concern

quette. l made some inquiries concern
ing the methods of wile-drinking.
"Never in the world order more than
a pint of champagne when with a
lady - said he. elf you don't know
the lady intimately, you are assumin
that she wants to get dizzy if you order a
quart, and if you know her tastes you
assuredlY do not wish to recognize her
thirst when it is a wholesale one. 1t is
very rare that two people can possibly
drink quart of any one sort of wine and
enjoy it. Ii a quart of wine is necessary,
then by all means divide it into pint of
claret and let the champagne follow it.
When you see young man order big
flet of beef covered with mushrooms,
stewed potatoes and a large bottle of
champagne, set him down at once for
new figure in town, or something very
fresh in the way of home product. If
you will take notice of the gentleman and
lady just at our right, you will see what
scientific eating and drinking is. He is
lunching one of his many friends. The
lady is declasee, but she knows the
right thing. They had sherry
when they sat down; then eggs a la
cocotte, which is q preparation of truf-
fies and mushrooms, you know. After
which came some white bait with this
graham toast delicately buttered; now
they are enjoying a very nice dish of
sweetbreads pique, and with these they
are drinking Chateau YQuem, a perfect
sauterne. l just heard the gentleman
order broiled mushrooms on toast, and
with these he and the lady will doubtless
have each single glass of champagne;
following with q tiny bit of Roquefort
cheese, q toasted hard cracker. and sip
of coffee, they will have finished an
abundant but not tiresome luncheon and
will go away in a genial mood and with
no weight on their chests. The chap aud
his girl over there eating the steak and
drinking glass after glass of champagne
will get up flushed, logy and irritable.
l doubt if the fellow will win that girl
He has money, l fancy, and during their
courtship he will stuff her with heavy
meats and limitless champagne. She
will end with acute dyspepsia and he will
become bilious, and as result of these
ailments their sentiment will Jade and
she will throw him over. II I knew him
/ would show him how to keep the girl
sound in body and heart. All that is nec-
essary is for him to learn how to eat in
the fashion followed By our friend at our
right.
was a great deal of truth in my friend g
words. Eating is an art, and even the
divine passion is subsidiary to it.
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a man writes 10 me to say that women
don t marry because they don't get the
chance. He adds: "True, there is q
small percentage who never enter the
matrimonial lists for other reasons, but
the majority, if they only get the chance
at all, are only too happy to accept 1t.
But why do women not get the chance?''
Why indeed? How does this man happen
TO know that all but small percentage
of unmarried women "never had the
chance. And upon what grounds does
he base his conviction that "the MAORI
~ of women, if they get the chance at
all, are only too happy to accept it?' 1t
does not seem to strike him as within the
range of possibilities that "the chance''
rs be calls it, may have, in inuumera-
BILE cases, eminated from an altogether
uncongenial specimen of masculine arro-
gauce, and that, marvellous Us il may
appear, there are plenty of women who
have too much self-respect to be willing
to tie themselves to the first man that
comes, simply because he has conde-
scended to intimate matrimonial inten-
tons. Yet this is SO, as anyone who |