Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Frugal Dinners. [ARTICLE]

Frugal Dinners.

There was a great duchess who said to a neighbor, “When there’s only my lord and I, we have always a dish of roast.” The story is well known of George IV. sending away a splendid dinner and dining off beans and baeon. The Duke of Wellington could dine very heartily on a mutton chop, and, in fact, did not appreciate anything beyond it. There is a great nobleman who is careful to have a magnificent dinner every day, but he frequently dines off an apple, and, from his theory of health, wishes his own family to partake as slightly as possible of the good things outspread on the bounteous boaiS. I was talking one day with a worthy Carthusian monk who dined habitually on an apple and biscuit. He explained to me th&t what people called hunger about 7 o’clock was only a little acidity left by the noonday meal. Many experienced stagers, who studv dietetic science, out of a big menu pick up a very little dinner, and complain, in fact, that they make a very poor dinner, because there are only a, few perfectly natural items. Of course a man ought to know how both to abound and to be in want; but I confess to a British prejudice in favor of heartily enjoying a good dinner. —London Society.