The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-11
DINNERS OLD AND NEW.
Protest Against TOO Many Plates for
the Food Served

Protest Against TOO Many Plates for
the Food Served.
It has become the custom for the
newspapers which wish to be very nice
Go devote certain portions of their val.
liable space to the cooking department
in which are given q hatch of APPROX
cl recipes for home use Perhaps these
htrlc screeds on cooking and Iishing
up foods are sane and regular 80
doubt Che average menu as detailed.
VIII serve TO make ont a square meal
But it IS cur private opinion that
among the thousands who read the
elaborate "menus' in The papers net
ten ever so much as try TO carry out
tic idea which is elaborated so charm.
iugly in print The fact IS that aver
age persons who read the newspapers
have not tho time TO get mp dinners Of
three TO FIVE courses at home The
whole business may be very proper
and fitting for the occasion. and t
may De cheap enough for those in me.
dium circumstances 10 indulge ID the
trial. but when il comes TO preparing
SO many dishes there is not uma
er.ugh between two meals to Go the
work.
In saying this we are speaking for
the .,eraee family which resolves a
Newspaper as daily guest and which
reads tie paper as part OF the daily
duty It is a fine thing to be able TO
buy what one wants TO eat and &c is a
finer thing to have a digestion that IS
capahlJ OF handling th~ ingredients
which we are asked to threw into our
stomachs Mcac5~Aile. 10 people who
work 20 live and who have daily and
hourly tasks 70 perform. St is out Of
tie question to get together such an
accumulation Of goodies for every
meal There are othor duties more
Important thon caring. The family
which wishes 20 prosper cannot spend
an its time. in preparing and p.annins
for the meals.
4Nh NNuIA NNA NAANNntA tAi > NNNAE wv
anD uncultivated in many ways They
were sadly lacking in appreciation OF
| the aesthetic manner of Gssimilating
iood so much in vogue today II they
I mad one good course with perchance a
/ few side dishes, they we're satisfied
and thanked the Lord for His bountl.
ful favors with more sincerity than
/ the epicurean diners Of today can mas.
ter when we had soup for dinner,
said a wealthy woman Who is a favor.
ste at the Maine summer resorts. I'VE
/ had soup That was our dinner. II was
gooc enough. and there was enough OF
/ IT, As soon as we had received our
soup, the dinner was done, and We
could so about our business with the
Knowledge that we were following the
custom of our neighbors Many a
time have ] risen from a supper of hot
hcsty puddings and milk better salts
FED physically than J do now from
what the society reporters choose ia
call "a dainty lunch Really, the only
difference between the old way and the
new is that now we have more silver
ware and dishes, while then we had
more food"
One would be trespasslng on credul
ity If he were to try and predic, taC
outcome Of this modern lad for hay
inc many courses with a small amount
Of food Every woman who lives ha'
a taste for seeing nice things atou
Ter Women are more refined tha.
men, anyhow. But even a woman OF
good taste must feel that tnere is q
time when a halt should be called
/ There is more in living than changing
plates ana dnger bowls. II one mNs
make a choice between "grub" anC
napkins, he would prefer the former
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