Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-06-24

was "a dinner just the same ana in
some Sorts OF society would be regard
ca as culinary success. He tells us
lie tables groaned beneatn
tAe weight, notably the dellca-
eAes whereof the Miss Peck
INNS (great writer's sometimes err
Al the construction of sentences, ana
Dlchens was no eXceptlon), nau beeA
previously torewarned Ii. e. fish and
OWL but OF boiled beer, roast veal.
Oacon, pies, and an abundance OF sucn
heavy vegetables as are tavoraply
"nown TO housekeepers for their salts
lylng qualities. Nor were beverages
aching, Tor ne lelates that there were
JotLles OF stout, bottles OF VINE, bot
oies OF ale, and divers other strong
drlnks, botn native and tore. gn, not
20 mention great DowI OF
punch, brewed by the gentle
man of a debating turn Oh
mind 1t was great eaLlng and drink
ing festival, was that, and small reason
IS there to marvel that afterward Mr..
recksnift was so intoXlcaled that he
oppressed deslre to see Mrs. Iodser
notion OF a wooden leg, providing thaL
5000 lady had no objections.
mat dickens loved to take his time
at table is manifest from the manner
IN which he scored we Americans on
cur mode of dining. Take the noon
day meal at Mrs. Pawkln's in New
YORK City Tor an example:
1t as d numerous COMMUNICATIVE
teen or twenty perhaps; all the knives
and forks were working away at a rate
oil
words were spoken, and everybody
seemed to eat his utmost in self-de-
1ense, as If famine were expected to
set in before breakfast time and it had
become high time to assert the first
law o1 nature. The poultry, which may,
perhaps, be considered to have formeu
the staple of the entertainment-for
there was turkey at the top a pair
OF ducks at the bottom and two fowls
IL the miudle-disappeared as rapidly
as If each bird had the use of its
wings and had flown in desperation
down human throat. The oysters,
stewed and picked, leaped from their
capaclous reservoirs and sid by score )
| into the mouths of the assembly. The
| sharpest pickles vanished, whole Gu
cumbers at once, like sugar plums, and
no man winked his eye. Great heaps
CT indigestible matter melted as ice be-
Ire tAe monday sun. Dyspeptic in
dividuals bolted their food in wedges.
ieeding, not themselves, but whole
broods of Nightmares who were CON
1,nually standing at livery within tn I'm.
spare men with lank and rigid cheeks
came cut from the destruction of heavy
dishes and glared with watchful eyes
upon the pastry" He naively adds:
1t must have been a great relief to
Mrs Pawkins, in that it was soon
over" This criticism of American table
manners is repeated in the same book
twice, although with less detail. not
ably in the dinner at the National ho-
tel and on the steamboat where Elijah
Pogram, M. c., defended his country
man for first licking off his knife and
tlen taking some butter, declaring that
Chuzzlewit's protest was an exhibition
of the morbid hatred of our institu-
TONS"
Mark Tapley and friend returned to
England to Mrs. Lupin's, on a wet
night. That good woman displayed
knowledge of suppers for damp men
that was as delightful as her education
j the matter of putting up lunches. She
first cleared the kitchen of those who
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