The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07

New York June 6.-Long before owen
Meredith so POLITICALLY stated the fact, il
was known that civilized or uncivilized
man required his dinner. In the very ear
Is days a handful of strawberries served
on their own leaves. brook trout broiled
over sticks Of wood from the apple tree
and offered on the leaf Of a water lily.
with the absolute juice Of a coffee berry
as e finish. served for the dinner. PrODa-
bly,. the coffee was imbibed out Of cup
like orchid. Then men grew less poeticai
and more uncouth. and were satisfied TO
tear apart meat with their fingers and TO
absorb gallons Of strong wines from big
cups made of coarse clay. The years went
by They became hundreds. they became
thousands. and man was counted as civil
ICED. This was about 1880. At this time the
ordinary dinner was known. 1t consisted
of a number of dishes, more or less well
cooked. all placed upon the table at once,
and removed before d dessert, composed,
too often, of heavy pas,rys and puddings,
that We're ineXplicable. And the result was
that the civilized man had the dyspepsia,
for he ate much grease, many more vege-
table than were required and he always
arose from the table feeling that life
wasn't worth living, and that the objec-
tions to life were principally material and
took the form of a cook
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The simplest dinner is served, so that it g
pleasing to the eyes as we'll as to the lips,
and one may enjoy it. There are women
who persist in offering the same old din
ner, that one that brought dyspepsia, but
these women are few, thank goodness, and
their number is gradually growing less.
You and 1 each with a small home, one
maid servant and a limited income. know
that a dinner can be served properly, even
is one has not the income Of Croesus Mr..
Astor or Mr.. Vanderbilt IL is true that
little more thought is required; that little
more attention is given. or, TO sum it all
up, ones dinner must bear the hallmark
of the management of genuewoman.
The markets are full Of good things, and
the good things are cheap.
1t remains with you whether these good
things shall be served in a good
ly and a godly manner, or wheth-
er they shall be served after a fashion
dictated by some servant of Satan. How
much appetite have you when you sit
down to a table. heavy with the roast OF
lamb a dish of peas, dish of potatoes,
a dish of asparagus, a dish Of sliced GU
cumbers, a dish of thick slices Of bread
with a centre piece composed OF a butter
dish2 After this, have you any appetite
when there is put upon the crummy Ia
blecloth a large apple pie, dish of straw
berries, pitcher OF cream, ana whole
poundcake? Your eyes eat your dinner
which means that you see so much that
you want nothing.
But put this dinner in the hands of a
wise woman, and the result will be that
you will be seated al table covered with
white damask, glittering with shining
glass and real or plated silver. Every
thing is immaculate from the standpoint
of cleanliness. There is no butter dish
in the center of the table but instead
either an embroidered centerpece, or one
cd nj m
a tall, slender glass, holding bunch OF
sweet peas, or single rose, While around
it is a tiny glass dish filled with salted
almonds, a curious Japanese saucer, with
radishes on ice upon it. and a tiny plat
ter oVerlaid with cracked ice, peeplng out
from which you see small olives. At each
place is a soup dish filled with cracked
Ice standing upon an ordinary plate, and
having six tiny clans IN their shells TO
invite your appetite. To be sure, it is the
cook in a cotton gown and clean, white
apron, who removes the dishes when the
CLAIMS are eaten. As the weather is hot,
there is no soup; as the hostess Is eco
nomical. there are only four courses the
CLAIMS counting as the first. Then comes
the roast lamb, carefully cooked, and with
the kidney attached to it. In front OF the
hostess is dish of peas and one
of new potatoes, the potatoes being
boiled in their skins and wrapped care
fully in a napkin. When this course Is re-
moved there appears the asparagus, cold,
and to be eaten either with French dress
ing or mayonnaise. Inc COOK, as wait
resS, brushes e cry crumb OF the table,
and there il brought on cish of beauu-
full strawberries. either with r without
their caps, as ycI fancy. WIN tRese are,
as q contrast and for use, snow white soft
sugar and WHIPPED cream, so that he who
likes may dip strawberries in the sugar
and eat them RON their green bO--nets, or
she who likes may press item down,
sweeten them and put whipped cream
over them, na-ing sort Of straWbe
souffie. one is offered tiny, thin cakes
on a pretty platter, aI1 there Is another
of odd Chinese nuts, while upon square
plate rests a box of either prunes or
After the maid has arranged dessert,
she draws up at one side of the hostess
q small table, on which is the teakettle,
a French coffee pot and all the cups and
saucers. and the housewife, as she makes
the coffee, has an opportunity Of showing
her white hands, her beautiful rings, and
her ability in making the most delicious
of drinks a good cup of coffee. And this
dinner is enjoyed by everybody. Every
thing is dainty, and 1t does not cost one
penny more to serve dinner adapted TO
the tastes of gentlefolk than il does to
serve one adapted only to greedy, ill-bred
people. You think this impossible? know
that it is not. Then, too, on TINS appe-
thing table, there is a jug of good Cali
fornia claret, which is much better than
ice water for anyone TO drink with his
dinner. No vim ordinaire, but good brand
of California wine which can be
gotten at reasonable price ana and
children TO be temperate. Drunkards, my
friend, come from households where vine
is never seen and where it is spoken of
as an attractive, but a forbidden fruit.
Adam did not die as it was said. when
he was 9S7 years old, but he lives to-day
in the hearts of every young man, and
as with the old Adam, so with the new
Adam, the forbidden is the attractive
fruit. The juice Of the grape was meant
10 enjoy, and the drunkard Is no worse
than the glutton. Unfortunately, the eff
feet of too much drinking is more easily
seen than the effect of too much eating.
The man who eats too much grows cross,
grows unjust. grows unkind, grows ir-
ritabe, but he does not stagger. Per
sonaly, 1 believe the brain is as much
effected by too much eating as too much
drinking, and in time this will be proven.
What 1 am commencing TO drink. with
your dinner is the 5aice of the California
grape, not of the Kentucky corn, or the
Tennessee rye.
ing out. especially in the warm weather.
and so she offers. in the morning, either
dish Of grape fruit strawber-
and a bit. Of toast. a cup of good
coffee, and if you wish il, a slice
Of cold meat. Usually, when the fruit and
the toast and the coffee have been eaten.