Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

interest from date. 2 per cent oft for cash Where entitled to credit. F. W. FISHER. W. A. McCurtain and Dr. Charles Downle, Auctioneers. ' H. W. Marble, Clerk. Hot lunch by "Good Coffee” Brow*. Col. W. A. McCurtain’s Sale Dates Phone Rensselaer, 926-R. Terms—l per cent. ' .■ n in ■ r ' March 14, A. M. o Yeoman. Stock sale. ; March 15, B. H. Geesa and Thomas Gorman. General sale. March 17, Henry Poicel. General sale. 7 ' • AS TO THICKNESS OF BREAD Ditner Table Etiquette in the Old Days of Abundance Differs From ? That of Today.

We hive jt on no less authority than that of ‘Hints on Etiquette and the Usages ot Society,’.’ written by Charles William Dry, and published in Boston In 1844, that the household bread should never be cut less than an inch and a half hick. Appended to this importsmt bit <f advice is the graceful hint that “notHng is more plebeian than thin bread a- dinner.” Somebody was talking the oher day about the good old times —sonebody is forever talking about them--and here is historical proof of the a>undarce as represented in slices an inch and hair thick, and wisdom as sh»wn b the simple expedient of declaing anything less than the prescribe thickness “plebeian.” Of course, remits a writer in the Indianapolis News,‘.he word plebeian settled the thing. lit were plebeian to cut bread les than an inch and a half thick, you nay be sure that it was not done to aw great extent. There may have bee tn emergency now and then whe company came unexpectedly or whenhere were too many in the family an too little flour in the barrel, but ceatnly the plain statement that it was debeian,”

so plebeian, in fact, that “nhing was more plebeian,” made it difficult thing to serve thin slices in bse Even so you may consid that it was a less difficult thing‘to rve thin, bread in those days than it ould be to serve thick bread these ds. One doubts if even that unpleasai epithet “plebeian” could inthice us cut It an inch «nd a half thick. V could not if we would. One loaf ssn and a half inches long would ixe five slices. That would mean tvloaves to a meal for a family of any e, and it is plain to be seen that tt could never be accomplished. Bututting ♦them thin, say three slices to 'inch, we can shave out twenty-two twen-ty-three to the seven an half inch-loaf. Statistics are wonfully convincing, are they not? Ymay suggest that they had real Jos of bread in those old days, and fc, to be sure, easy to picture them cuge, benevolent affairs. It is easy imagine one of those inch and half slices nicely spread with sugar (rup or jelly or any of the good thinhat belonged to those days.

It would, no doubt, take aare forceful word than “plebeian” induce the powers that be to makch loaves of bread these days. Anat, of course, is the difference betwthe good old times and these. Aat people had to do then was to Un a useful bit of a book and cuiir bread accordingly, without c<xg food values, or appetites or priceTe may pretend that we think it pin, to cut bread an inch and a half j, but it is nothing more than pre. We know that we have to cut j according to the size of the loa} the size of the family and the sf our purse, and we are lucky and t ful to have any bread to cut b manner, plebeian or proper.

Walt Whitman’s Home. Sold Aj Walt Whitman’s birthplace at 1 ington, L. 1., the old gray horn the “Good Gray Poet,” has been again. The ancient farmhouse, w the lad worked and plowed dreamed' the thoughts that ’ to spring up later into “Leave Grass,” had been transferred to Ji Brewster of Flushing by Fl Rokers, who bought it at auctioi November 14, 1915. Whether the homely, angular structure is to be allowed by its i. owner to hold its place on Huntington-Melville road could be learned. Mr. Brewster said 1 he had not decided what disposi he would make of it. For many years after Whitmi death the lilacs that he had loved t the “whitewashed palings” of wh he wrote were cared for by th who dwelt in the old home. T 1 the house feli into other hands, t the beauty which surrounded 1 ungainly old structure was allow to wither. ■ 1 , - .

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