Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
DINNER TABLE ETHICS.

Recently there has been some discus
typhoid germs. from which it appears
that the oyster is especially adapted for
paper, discussing the subject in half
humorous vein. finally asked if the oys-
ter on the half shell must so.
This aroused the ire of the Baltimore
sun. which has replied in most inter-
oysters terrapin, canvas backs and the
like. the Sun. published in the city of
monuments and good living. may as
sumo to know thing or two. 1t says:
Some years ago Il lot of oysters taken
in Long Island sound were bedded i'll
the mouth of sewer. and naturally
some one was made sick by eating them.
This was a sufficient starter for the
health fadiist, and now We have arti-
cles about The oyster as a Vehicle for
Typhoid Fever This kind of stuff may
have some effect upon the demand for
second and third class oysters, which
from time to time endeavor to obtain
4 footing in good society. But the posi-
ton of the Chesapeake oyster. or. rath-
er. the Chesapeake and its tributaries
oyster is too well established to be
affected by any such attacks as these.
One of our esteemed but ill-informed
Boston contemporaries gravely discusses
this question and asks solemnly, Must
the oyster on the half shell go?" IN
n. - - ,,,1. "a
lapses into the native Boston slang. If
our contemporary had been in Baltimore
during the last week or two and had
seen several hundred thousand gallons
of shucked oysters and thousands Of
barrels of oysters in the shell landed
at Light street he would have concluded
that the calamity he suggests is not
imminent. Many shucked oysters go
from Baltimore to New York and Bos-
ton. where they are served on half
shells kept for the purpose and which
are used indefinitely. 1t is also said
that they are sometimes served on clam
shells.
The Boston paper is SO overcome by
its emotions in discussing the possible
Punishment Of the oyster from the din
ner table that in its confusion it dis
cusses possible substitutes as pre-
soup course. 1t even suggests grape
fruit and cantaloupe in their season.
Anyone who would put his dinner into
his stomach upon great mass of wa
terry pulp is almost ignorant enough to
eat beans for Sunday morning break
fast and enjoy them. Such a practice
would be, like whisgery. the negation
of all principle.' 1t would be in line
with the old practice of the English
public schools, where the pudding was
served as a first course at dinner. with
the understanding that those boys who
ate the most pudding would get the
most beef Those who qualified them
elves to get a great deal of beef found
when the time came for that course
that they did not want any A person
who takes a fine cantaoupe as an appe-
tier is like the Dutchman mentioned
by Diedroch Knickerbocker the histo-
rlan. This enterprising individual ran
half a mile to get up his speed to jump
over a hill But when he reached the
foot of the hill he was so tired he had
to sit down to rest.
Probably the best-informed diners in
the world We're the Romans in their age
of luxury. And there is we believe, a
lin" in Horace which shows that they
put fruit at the end of the feast and
that the diner began with an egg. The
idea of beginning a dinner with a plate
OF fruit and then following that with
soup could only enter the mind of a
Daan-eater