People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — RECONSIDERED THE QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

RECONSIDERED THE QUESTION.

Is Greater Pleasure Derived from Anticipation Than from Realization? That Long Islanders are not wholly devoid of humor, which has been charged against them, is clearly demonstrated by a recent occurrence a i Riverhead, the Suffolk county-seat. It seems that the local debating society had under consideration the old topic: “Whether there is greater pleasure derived from anticipation than from realization?” This weighty subject was discussed at length, and was finally carried in favor of anticipation by a heavy majority. Now, it happened that a favorite dish of Riverheadcrs is rabbit stew, and that one of the losing faction, Nate Downs, is esteemed as the best concooter of rabbit stew on the eastern end of Long Island. Not long after the famous debate Nate invited the whole company to visit his house and partake of the favorite dish. Anticipation ran high, and at the appointed hour the club assembled en masse, but, alas for realization, there was no rabbit stew, only the usual paraphernalia of serving it—dishes, knives, etc. Nate had sought by this practical method to force the society to reconsider its hasty decision, and was eminently successful. The company left, very angry, but with the settled conviction that so far as rabbit stew was concerned realization would be morn satisfactory than anticipation.