The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-09

lvl1lMS OF THE DLER.
Some Dinners We Have Eaten.


ana then repents at leisure or rather
ure, which is Just as good and some
times vastly more convenient.
Lemon pies Welsh rarebits, sliced to-
matoes. brolled ham, cucumbers, fried
oysters and plum buildings, alto put on
this earth for the especial benefit of those.
With coy digestions. They are the things
which dyspeptics should not eat and
which therefore they do eat. And here
another delicate question presents Itself
to-wit: Is It better to have hungered
and gone unfed, or to have eaten and re-
pented7 Others may sardonicaly answer
by showing their physicians receipts,
but this cheerful ruminator In llfes pas
lures says: GIVE mo the food first aud
let mo answer the question afterwards,
SO
IN mcn1oriess inches there can be no
sweeter or more appeuzing thoughts than
those which recall the feasts wherewish
we have rcgaled our souls. How fondiy
our recollections cling to this retrospec-
two pabulum-this heterogeneous assort-
ment Of food. Back, back. back we so
to tho days OF our childhood, when zen
gignntic horse-c cakes 1.-TWO for cent?,
trotted unhaltered into our ''tum-tums.
or cantered down our elastic throttles In
company viii, picked cucumbcrs and
sticks OF peppermint candy sucked Into
nothingness at tho end OF a lemon. no
Indigestion then. whatever, has COME
later! And none In tho Juvenile days OF
tChristmastide, when for fortnight, We
defied the imps OF dyspepsia and dropped
goodies" into bottomless zir1o-llneu pit
Trooping before our eyes there como
back. too, the golden ba ttalions OF pies
.mado by mothers and sisters and grand
mothers and aunts OF the long ago-wo-
men who could be so easily wteedled out
Of o second or even g third slice ana q
who somehow could strnishten out I'll
sorts or Internal difficulties with the
a.tinseyiest -weensiest" little doses OF cal
omel or limc-watcr. IS 5a
No wonder We talk about these good
women to our wives. who have q way
OF getting irrltated at such "reminiscences.
And no wonder that we place around the
heads OF those who fed us in our youth
an uureole OF sweetness. which nothing
can dislodge. Il b VII II
tics $Elyslum.y IA 81 4 sSsSs s3S
4 hut one #outgrows a million things ero
ono loses his love OF food. Memory, IN
skimming over the recollections OF 8youth.
maturity and even old age. finds all
along tho route q -hostsof culinary land
marks which are crowned with pleasure.
a5 Andato be q Yirg inian = 70 have lived
snd N,aten--to have toasted and banquet
( Cd Z to- have run the ga NUT Il OF gastric
beakitude. and, q like oliver Twist to be
crying over for more. Not eat n$Vir-3
tglnia Perish the ;trcusonable thought!
For here appetite, association and en-
yironment all unite In ono 4 Irresistible
combination which walks rough-shod over
dyspepsia and indigestion, anu unblusll-.
ingly sends up Its plate for q second
helping.
Sf53 Would IS we're a. hydra. head ed (and.
therefor AZ q n l,y ara -mouthcD monster,
forever aailylng 6with life'a frce-lunch
counter in the Ole Dominion, No gour-
mandiainE. mind you. and no &gluttony,
H. you please-s n1ply keeping pace With
the normal 4 gait 1iof my neishbors and
hurting no ones feelings" by seeln-:
ing scorns of$ their humble fare. M.
b Methlnks already. as the idea ASSUMES
definite shape that III sea before J nc u
vast pyramid whose base ts country ham
and sahp:tt ara asnnsage and gatherings
All Il ;souse aid spring lamb and chicken
q nd: turkey stsiid Ia pssum and taters."'
8s Ali ues higher up my wa terry eye--,the
eye 1wat ers, as vel ,ass the uth-beholds
oysters arYdacrabs and fish and partrldses
and .aora-and rabbit .i4. .fis
Climbing to a. still grea ter elevation.
Sdespltesthe burdens Il have already taken
OH, II behold ,'roastin' years and Gym,
bllns and tomatoes and snaps and peas
ard beans, let alone watermelon and =
$warty cucumber. And next 4 see the.
brown Of hnked apples and tho saffron
tints OF pies innumerable. and-but good
ness, how can one with such obstacles
before him ever reach tho apex Of the
pyramid, wherein sits {. green-tufted
julep. 81. 81 s. Il.
n But enough, this "menulstlc" rhnp-
sody. like too much food, may become
nausentingi4 Suffice 1t to say that when
YOU read the biography Of n Virginlan
who died at the ago OF eighty years you
may, in reflecting on his life's work. rn-t
cali the fact that he ate s91a6 n,ea Is. And