Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
THINGS In GENERAL.
The Art of Dinner-Giving and the Work of
Dinner-Getting McAllister's View,

The Art of Dinner-Giving and the Work of
Dinner-Getting McAlIister's Views
to Cause Thinking - Bishop More
Afraid of Capitalists Than Tramps.
Mr.. Ward McAlllster has been instructing
US, in the columns of the New York Tribune,
as to the correct way to give dinner. The
art OF dinner-giving, he says. is tan art that
every man should cultivate. A perfect dinner
| is an occasion that will be remembered when
! the recollection of all other entertainments
has faded 1t is not a trifiing matter to give a
| perfect dinner, and the host who does succeed
in such an undertaking has accomplished
| great deal for his guests. There is much that
| must be understood before one can hope to do
| SO much. The host must know whom to in
vite, as well as what to give them. AS to the
| food and wines, they must be of the best that
can be had in every particular, and not only
must they be the best. but the food must be
cooked and the viands and wines served in
manner with which no fault can be found"
Yes, indeed. But suppose you haven't food
and wines "of the best that can be had in every
particular" Suppose you have no food nor
wines OF any kind, except a very meagre, and
bad. and altogether unsatisfactory kind Sup
pose that you are. of grim necessity. q good
deal less interested in the art of dinner-giving
than in the art of dinner-gettingI There are
such people. And the unfortunate thing about
Mr.. McAllister. and his book and his newspa-
per article, and his very existence is the fright
full and shameful contrast which is thus
brought out between these two separated
classes-the dinner-givers and the dinner-get-
tiers. That there should be people whose chief
occupation is the devising of new ways Of
spending money in the delights of eating and
drinking, side by side with other people who
have no money in their pockets, and no dinners
of any sort upon their tables, and starvation
for guest and lodger-that this should be pos
sible in this Christian century-this is one of
the things which Mr.. McAllister makes
thoughtful people think about.
Rather Unpleasant Fact
The fact is not pleasant one to face. But
there is no getting away from 1t. What sig
nifcant coincidence that these two books
should appear at the same time, and be read by
the same people, and be piled mp side by side in
the bookstores, and be laid together on library
tables-"Society as 1 Have Found It." by Ward
McAllister, and Society as l Have Found
1t" ("In Darkest England") by William Booth
The coincidence was happily commented upon
the other day by writer who entitled his arti-
Gle The Froth and the Dregs."
"a civilization that drives the two poles of
society farther and farther apart, that wIdens
the gap and Intensifes the jealousy between
trast, in city or country, between the comforts
of the rich and the hardships of the poor, which
overtasks or underpays wagewOrkers in
order to add superfuous afl uence and ire
which helps a hundredth part of the
population to own half of the property, which
exposes innumerable women to moral ruin for
ated and rickety children ~ daily @ from
pestilental tenements to factories and
mines, which countenances as a con-
spicuous parisn-leader in the commercial
capital of its best community an owner of real
estate who has pocketed four millions of dol
lars by the rental of four nests of misery and
dens of vice five stories high. which let's fifteen
thousand children die within year after they
are born in these cellars and garrets without
uttering a sound of Indignation or alarm,
which robs the citizen voter of his independ-
ence and manliness at the polls, enslaving him
by fear or want to landlord or employer,
which increases the rate of suicide and in
sanity every year, which steadily multiplies the
which sells offices of trust in the State to the
highest bidder. which puts the loftiest trusts in
the government of great cities into the
hands of saloon keepers, gamblers, Jockeys
and their patrons. social condition
where Legislatures are bribed and juries are
packed, whore in most industries 'one man is
of a fraud is security against punishment
this is not a civilization under the command of
the religion of Christ"
The Opinion of a Bishop.
That is what Bishop Huntington says. When
talked with him, the other day, at Syracuse
he repeated that and emphasized It. He said
that as he looked ahead into the future, he
had more fear of the capitalists than he had of |
the tramps. asked him what in his opinion, |
the church is really for; what is the supreme |
purpose which the Founder of it meant the |
church to get accomplished, and he sad THE |
church exists to make men brothers" He |
quoted from the maCnificat: He hath put |
down the mighty from their seats, and exalted |
them of low degree He hath filled the hungry |
with good things, and the rich he hath sent |
empty away" And, again, from the text of |
Cnrist's. first sermon: THE Spirit of the Lord |
is upon me, because He hath anointed me to |
preach the Gospel to the poor" These words.
he said. set forth the real spirit Of genuine
Christianity.
Mr.. McAllister-you and your Four Hundre O
your name is Dives. And Lazarus lies on your
doorstep. You are attired in purple and fine
linen, and fare sumptuously every day. You
know how to dress and how to dine even to per-
lection. And you give your whole mind to these
things. And Lazarus gets the crumbs which
fall from your tables. and your dogs lick his
sores. Dives was not altogether neglecrful of
Lazarus. And you are not. But Lazarus gets
worse rather than better; somehow keeps on
day after day, sick and in rags, and on your
you. The Master had nothing harder than
that to say about your brother in Jerusalem. !
What shall we eat? What shall we drinkf
Wherewithal shall we be clothed? Nobody
questions. But here is Lazarus on your door,
step.
Where McAllister Is Needed.
Really the place where there is the most need
of Mr.. McAllister's instructions in the ''aru of
is up in heaven. For one day
the door stood open and somebody looked in,
and, behold the servants were eating with the
family, and "the Office clerk and his wifo and
the blacksmith and his daughter were sitting
in the best places anG some of the Four Hun
lred were left out altogether
The Professor of Things in General wonders
sometimes what the parsons preach about
where Dives goes to church.
..fhe parish priest
Of AusterlitZ
Climbed uD in high church stceple
To be nearer God,
So that he might hand
His word down to his people.
''And in sermon script
He daily wrote
What he thought was sent from heaven;
And he dropt this down
On his peoples heads
Two times one day in seven.
''In his age God said,
Come down and die.'
And he cried out from the steeple,
where art thou, Lord?'
Ano the Lord replied,
Down here among My people,
Speaking of parsons and preaching. see that
he Rev. Howard MacQueary has been found
;uilty by the ecclesiastical court, and has been |
,iveu six months to come to a better mind,
md, without waiting that long. has resigned |
lis ministry. This was the only decision 10 |
which any ecclesiastical court could come. The
Wonder is that they took SO long about II.
The one Unfortunate step in the whole mat
er. as was pointed out in these Monday Medi-
atIons some time ago, was the bringing Of MIR. I
rror grapple." That, in the long run. and in .
pite of the religious papers, is the best way. :