The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-12

would not be likely to do so even if he liked
French cookery, which he does not. He is
ono of the few business men in New York
/, who dine i'll the middle of the day, though
! he calls his dinner luncheon, and when
/; the average New Yorker is dining he i'll
dulges in something ut home which is
! high tea, unless he is entertaining guests
In that case it becomes sure enough din
| ner.
He breakfasts early, 1880 or a. M, and
very simply, the meal consisting of steak
| or chops, II baked potato, II roll and dish
| of wheaton grits. OF the last dish he is
especially fond, and he says that he cats it
| BIS mornings in the year and that it always
agrees with him. II cat" he says, what
| agrees with me and do without what does
not. Six months in the year l have baked
| or stewed apples for breakfast. l am fond
| Of fruit and find it beneficial to me-"
Mr. Sage's luncheon or dinner almost in
variably consists of n cut of roast meat,
either beef or lamb, with bread and butter
and fruit, and claret if it be summer or tea
| If it be winter. He drinks coffee at break
fast and tea with the evening meal. Clarct
he does not care for excepting in warm
| weather, but when it is cool he takes ia
blespoonful of bourbon whisky in water
| Immediately after breakfast, declaring that
| 1t is Il first rate tonic.
His tea" is almost like the other two
meals, consisting, as IL rule, of steak chops
or broiled chicken with the usual accom-
paniments of potatoes and bread, though
he sometimes takes biscuits. He is par
ticular to degree about his bread and has
1t always homemade, of the lightest and
whitest. There is, rs Mr.. McCurdy says,
great difference between high living and
good living and many men in New York
m II
seem princely fortune live higher than
he does, though there are few who live
better than he does-that is, if excellence
| and simplicity of food constitute good liv-
| ing.
| One who has attended any considerable
number of the great dinners at which
| Chauncey Depew is so often seen would be
| inclined to think that he was Il high liver
| II any one OH earth is for though the pub
| lie banquets are by no means the best ex-
amples OF artistic cpicureanism to he had
even at second rate restaurants, yet they
are always pretentious and sometimes we'll
cooked.
Mr. Depew, however is rather a plain
liver, though not so plain one as Mr..
sage. He says, IF II man cannot DENY
himself at a banquet, he has no business to
so to one" And accordingly he selects
from his menu a simple dinner and eats
only what he has selected, though of course
the entire series of courses is served to him.
This dinner, though simple by compare
son, Is really IL somewhat elaborate repast
but nothing is included in it which he
deems injurious TO his health He cschews
all pastry and all ices, but eats freely of
meat and vegetables. II eat all vegetables
freely i'll season." he says, land for that
matter ont OF season we'll in these DAYS
OF cans" He is very temperate in the use
OF wines, seldom drinking more than half
IL bottle and never tasting more than one
Kind Mt meal. Champagne is his choice,
because he says he is more likely to get it
pure than he is ii he takes anything else.
Coils p. Huntington, the great railway
magnatc, is another example OF the men
who live simply, although they can easily
afford pic at every meal. He is said to be
worth s5O00o,000. He, like Mr. Sage.
ciinSs to his early habits so tcnaciously ms
To dine at o'clock instead of u orr. His
breakfast consists of Il steak or chop, a
baked potato, bread and butter and tea.
His dinner is almost invariably piece of
roast beef, with bread and butter and vegc-
tables and weak tea. His supper is of cold
meats. bread and butter and tea. He never
drinks coffee. He is extremely fond of
fresh vegetables and eats almost al kinds
i'll season, but his favoritc is the tomato.
Potatoes he always wants baked
Mr.. Huntington says that he believes Il
person ought To eat whatever suits his an
petite, but that he ought TO be able to sat
isfy himself with whatever he NAV be able
20 get "Ipity the man." he said, "wIo is
constantly busying himself with thinking
about what he shall get TO cat" The very
simple diet described is the one to which
lie confines himself winter and summer.
hardly ever making any change except rs
20 the vegetables, which he changes from
time TO time according to the season
sweets of all kinds he avoids carefully.
having indeed little taste for them and he
lieving them to I've injurious to him.
The late jay Gould lived plainly from
choice. The late William II. Vanderbilt
also cschewed high living. He had no taste
for wine or liquor and never INDUCED in
1t, though if he were in company where his
refusal to do so would be couspiciol,s he
would raise his glass to his lips and set it
down with the contents unlisted He said
once when questioned by Il friend as to his
habits of living: Il have been accustomed
ever since was Il boy To plain, wholesome
living, and attribute my uniformly good
health to that fact and % my regular habits.
have my ills and aches like almost all
other men, but | am free from spells of
sickness" This was about two wears be-
fore Mr. Vanderbilt died.
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