Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-17
INDIVIDUALS WHO
SHOULD EAT ALONE

" people were dogs. then IL would BID
1 permissible to snap and snarl over
their sood or to eat In sulen silence,
II would be permissible to cast damp
er over the merry spirits of children at
table and chill and check the tender
sympathy Of their mother with their
happy mood, II people were dogs, IL
would be permissible for the biggest
dog TO grab the choicest bits for him
self, not caring what becomes Of the
rest,
People not being dogs, however, but
human beings, supposedly civilized, the
dinner hour should be for all the family
the happiest. Greest Of the day. All UNI
pleasant sights, sounds and ways ought
70 be banished like a pestlence during
that hour Cleanliness, light, refine
ment, Joy and good temper should
reign IL one talks let him tell merry
or interesting events Of the day. Let
all wear clean garments and be neatly
Broomed then no matter what their
work Is. Cheertulness, cleanliness and
refinement al table promote long life
and digestion.
Long ago, In the gloomy age OF ascetl-
clsm. q notion somehow got started
that people must take their food In
silence, perhaps to punish them for
the sins they had committed just pre-
vious to taking food. At any rate, tina
frightful old notion got nstilled into
the heads Of numerous fathers Of fami-
lies In their own households they i'm
posed this frozen silence unhapply
there are stll found such fathers.
They ought to be put into cell TO eat
alone, instead Of being permitted 70
shed dyspepsia upon all around them.
Out with them
Again, II people were cats II would
be permissible for them to lick their
paws, as nature provided that cats
should do II the development theory
be true, many persons have apparently
brought the habit OF licking their paws,
now transformed into fingers, down the
corridors OF time from the period when
they were cats. Ignoring the square OF
linen provided for civilized man TO
wipe his fingers on at table, these
abominable creatures revert to the cat
or monkey type while they feed and
take away the appetite Of any well
bred person near them.
Turn out the distressing person who
lcks his fingers at table Provide a
stall for him with the old curmudgeon
and JOY killer and let them alike take
nourishment in solitude.
Then there Is the person who takes
medicine at the table. Usually the
nostrum is little pills, but frequently
It Is quinine powder. In plain sight
Of all the world. sickening to his fellow
man and not ashamed, is the medicine
swallowing diner. The sensitive in
dividual who witnesses the dosing
process rolls in his inward parts with
nausea, but what cares the drug swal-
/ lower2
out with him likewisel Put him In
a stall between the curmudgeon and
| the human cat, Above the dining eel
OF each respectively inscribe their
| uames-the Human Cat, the Medicine
| Swalower, the Human Dog
Next we might have a double cell
| and into IL should be thrust together
| away from the company OF their rel
| low men the person who talks about his
| physical ailments at the table. par
| ticularly If these include dyspepsia, and
| the person who quarrels and gets int
heated discussions while eating, i
! this latter one is not dyspeptlc al
ready he soon will be, and he and tn
monster that talks about his ailments
at the dinner table can fight 1t out to-
| gether.
Rid OF these fell destroyers OF human
| peace Of mind, the rest OF the worlt
viii be able TO dine comfortably.
KATHERINE BLADES.