It
may be good policy in some circumstances
to make a show of that sort of liberality
which gives three times as much as the
average man or woman consumes; in
such a case let it be breads and vege-
tables that are condemned to be thrown
away, and always serve the meats small.
As some have but little idea of quantities
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in pounds and ounces, let us observe that
ten eggs are a pound and two eggs are
three ounces, and enough for nearly every
person. If we should set five dishes of
eggs each containing two fried, it would
certainly look like a profuse allowance,
yet there would only be the alloted pound.
Take away a dish and replace it with one
of meat same weight ; take away another
and give potatoes or fried oysters, fish,
or mush of its weight ; take another and
give bread, and take the fourth and bring
m its place batter cakes and there is but
the allotted pound of solids yet, although
a good and complete meal. These things
are worth considering bc;cause they are
related to the difficulty there is of living
in this world, for it is not what we eat but
what we waste that makes board so high.
A man in business ought to have tact
enough to relax a rule in economy at the
right time but some have not. I stopped
somewhere recently where they only
served one egg to a dish, with small
piece of ham. I have forgotten where it
was but as there is no unpleasant im-
pression attached to the remembrance it
must have been a good table with enough
of other things, where nobody was dis-
E leased, and certainly at our Summer
ouse at Unitah Lake, where there was
no stint or restraint, about half the orders
that ^ame were for one egg only, but eggs
are staple and common and that does
not excuse the mistake of old Mr. Stick-
tite at his Union Depot Hotel at Jimson-
vale with his asparagus. When the
crowd of passengers looked over his bill
of fare and saw "asparagus," notprmted
but written in, they looked around and
at each other as if to say, "What a lib-
eral man," and "What an excellent din-
ner we shall have." But when it was
brought in, three poor little infant stalks
counted without a miss to each plate
the sentiment changed to^ a dry little
laugh and all fell to finding fault in-
discrimmately wiih everything on the
board. The dinner would have been
well enough without the asparagus; it
was not expected; why did he have it?
For popularity, oi course; to make peo-
ple say he was liberal, but he failed
through not giving enough ; it did more
harm than good. So it was at the Hotel
Fantastic at Fantastic Beach, when they
tried to give a high-toned Sunday dinner
with larded fillet of beef and cooked one
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
It may be good policy in some circumstances to make a show of that sort of liberality which gives three times as much as the average man or woman consumes; in such a case let it be breads and vegetables that are condemned to be thrown away, and always serve the meats small.
As some have but little idea of quantities
15^
in pounds and ounces, let us observe that ten eggs are a pound and two eggs are three ounces, and enough for nearly every person. If we should set five dishes of eggs each containing two fried, it would certainly look like a profuse allowance, yet there would only be the alloted pound. Take away a dish and replace it with one of meat same weight ; take away another and give potatoes or fried oysters, fish, or mush of its weight ; take another and give bread, and take the fourth and bring m its place batter cakes and there is but the allotted pound of solids yet, although a good and complete meal. These things are worth considering because they are related to the difficulty there is of living in this world, for it is not what we eat but what we waste that makes board so high. A man in business ought to have tact enough to relax a rule in economy at the right time but some have not. I stopped somewhere recently where they only served one egg to a dish, with small piece of ham. I have forgotten where it was but as there is no unpleasant impression attached to the remembrance it must have been a good table with enough of other things, where nobody was dis-
pleased, and certainly at our Summer ouse at Unitah Lake, where there was no stint or restraint, about half the orders that ^ame were for one egg only, but eggs are staple and common and that does not excuse the mistake of old Mr. Sticktite at his Union Depot Hotel at Jimsonvale with his asparagus. When the crowd of passengers looked over his bill of fare and saw "asparagus," not printed but written in, they looked around and at each other as if to say, "What a liberal man," and "What an excellent dinner we shall have." But when it was brought in, three poor little infant stalks counted without a miss to each plate the sentiment changed to a dry little laugh and all fell to finding fault indiscriminately wiih everything on the board. The dinner would have been well enough without the asparagus; it was not expected; why did he have it? For popularity, oi course; to make people say he was liberal, but he failed through not giving enough ; it did more harm than good. So it was at the Hotel Fantastic at Fantastic Beach, when they tried to give a high-toned Sunday dinner with larded fillet of beef and cooked one