Dining And Feeding

It has been conceded that the degree of civilization a peoplehas reached may be accurately ineasured by its dietary. Now, some one has said that "the American feeds, the Englishman devours, the Frenchman dines. ' ' In view of this statement one wonders what the English have been doing through the centuries to have advanced solittle. We do not pretend to answer for them, but would say for ourselves, we have been hewing our way through forests, pioneering in every direction, in every sense - ampie apology for feeding instead of dining. But, of course, it was a Frenchman who made the declaration, and, of course, he made it long ago, wheu, mortifying though it be, honesty compels as to acknowledge that we may have been guilty. Times, however, and conditions have changed, and not even the most bigoted Frenchman will refuse to admit that when the American has reached the dining point he will have more to dine upon than any other man in the world. The culture of man in America will demand all the art in his cuisine that France by study has evolved, with the added merit of honesty in his food, the disguises incident to poverty of material not being a necessity. There is no department of supply in which we have not the advantage, and we are learning to use our material s as rapidly as we have been obliged to