Year: 1866

will say, for example, that you are
working-man, earning pound OR two
week, and that am an Independent person
with an income Of ten thousand year.
will not take the example of king, because
| apprehended few persons in their senses
would aspire to that uncomfortable position.
Well then, we are both men. with the
some senses and the same appetites. AS
regards our animal natures, you eat, drink,
and sleep can do no more. Provided
we both have sufficient, there Is no real
difference in the satisfaction we derive
from these indulgences. My meal may be
composed Of the so-called = delicacies Of
the season." while yours may be simply
steak and potatoes. When we have both
laid down our knives and forks and cried,
Enough" the sensation is the same in
both cases If you banker after my delica-
cies, you own to a desire simply to give
your plate passing qualification. Your
food is really more wholesome and nourlsh-
ing than mine, and, if you were content,
you would enjoy it quite as much. The
real fact is, that these "delicacies of
the season" are invented and concoet-
ed for me, not because they are good
for me. or because there is any great
amount of enjoyment in the consumption
of them, but because | have vast deal OF
money to throw away. | merely conform
to a fashion in ordering and paying for
them.


| began with salmon for instance. You
think you would like to have salmon every
day for dinner. Try it three times running.
Why, in old days before railways cstab-
lished ready and rapid communication
with the London markets, the servants OF
country gentlemen residing on the banks
of the Severn, Tey, the Dee, and Spey, made
a stipulation in their terms of engagement
that they would not be fed upon salmon
more than three times a week. Pheasant
and partridge are delicacies Of the season
but always to dine on pheasant and par
fridge would be less tolerable than perpet'
ual bread and water There is nothing for
which a man should be more thankful than
an ever recurring appetite for plain beef
and matchmaking except the means OF
indulging that appetite. Those highly
spiced dishes, called by fine French names,
which are set upon the tables of the rich
and great, are mere cooks tricks TO stimu-
late the languid appetite. 10 banker after
such things is to have longing for physic,
not IOf WHOlSbOluC lOOu. Mduy ditd lOlhS
who habitually at them them ale misera-
BE creatures, who have to coax their
Btomachs at every meal-pitiable victims
Of dyspepsia and gout.


People who envy the luxurious feasts OF
the rich should know that the wise men
who sit down to them only make a pretencc
Of partaking of the so-called good things
that are placed before them. have heard
that the cabinet ministers, before they 90
into the city to the Lord Mayors banquet,
dine quietly at home on some simple and
wholesome Wand, knowing that there will
be many dishes on the g-oaning tables oi
Guldhall which they dare not touch The
Queen spreads her table with all the most
elaborate productions of the culinary arr
but she herself makes her dinner off Il cut
of simple mutton Cook as You will, and
lavish money as you will, there is no eN-
ceeding the enjoyment Of that carter sit
ting by the roadside thumbing his bread
and cheese !-AH the Year Round.