The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-29
A FEW THINGS.

It is considered quite the thing by G
certain grade of newspapers to publish
/ from day to day bills of fare-or me
nus, if you please-for the benefit OF
the readers. These menus are designed
to include breakfast, lunch and din
ner-or breakfast, dinner and supper
| according to location. In this section
people eat lunch and dinner; in Chi
cago they eat dinner and supper.
Nearly all these feed lists are de.
signed to accommodate a family Of
five, whose support is derived from the
earnings Of a laborer or mechanic, and
as 50 per day Is good, fair wage, il
is somewhat amusing to read the ideas
suggested by some of the self-consti-
tUted chefs.
Careful perusal of forty leading pa.
pers of the country has resulted in dis
covering that the man who eats bacon
and Germon fried potatoes, with coffee
for breakfast. is a chump. For in
stance, a gushing girl whose papa
works in a rolling mill down east
wheeling Stag from the cupo1a, sends
in the following to a Chicago journal
and gets prize for it. too, mind you.
Breakfast-MaIag oranges, bananas
corn mush with cream, fried soles
hashed brown potatoes, short cake
with syrup, coffee.
Now, man with all that under the
waistband of his trousers could start
a forenoon'S work in good shape If
there is anything in the wide, wide
world good for q husky man whose
sole object in life is drilling around a
Stag dump, pushing a Celtic unicycle,
it is malaga oranges and short cake
with syrup. When noontime came,
according to the menu which his
daughter has submitted, he could open
his can and partake of the following,
which is submitted as model lunch:
Stuffed beefsteak, brown dressing
scalloped spuds; mashed turnips;
bread; custard pudding; lemon pie;
coffee.
1t is presumed the old man has &C.
cess to the furnace for the purpose of
warming over the mess before he eats.
When he finishes he goes home to be
confronted with a spread like this one:
Dinner-Rice soup; roast turkey;
cranberry sauce; fried potatoes; seal
lOped tomatoes; peas "a la cam; celery
salad; lemon meringue; crackers;
cheese; coffee.
All Of which would be very soothing,
no doubt, especially to a man who had
a wife and three children to support
on a two-dollar-a-day job.
Another good woman, older Of course
than the designer of the last, puts in
the following as sample:
Breakfast-Bananas: hominy grits;
Goldfish balls; beefsteak; potatoes: tea +:
coffee; milk.
Dinner-Hot frankfurters with sauce
tomato; graham bread mashed pota-
toes: lobster salad; Brown Betty:
lemon pie; apple pie; coffee.
Supper-Deviled crabs; potato salad;
sliced oranges; bananas; coffee; sponge
cake; tea.
After looking over the above the man
who has been missing all the good
things of life will wonder why he has
done so.
The average person who earns 81 per
day sits down to the following:
BreaIfast-Bread: fried bacon; fried
potatoes; more bread; more fried ba-
con: more potatoes: bread: coffee
When the noon hour arrives and the
delegate from the suburbs sits down
to his dinner-bucket, he usually gets
away with something like this:
Bread; corned beef: cabbage; bread:
dried apple pie; bread; coffee.
Arriving at home, he tackles the ap-
pended:
Bread; corned beef warmed over;
cabbage ditto: bread; more dried apple
pie; bread and coffee.
And when the end Of the month
comes he kicks because the grocery bill
Is SO high, and wonders how he can
save expenses.
1t is related of Congressman Blue of
Kansas that he wears red shirt and
white tie. So he represents all the
colors. THE JOSHER.