Overloading the Dining Table. But what have the women to do In this matter? Do they, too, not vie with each other as to who can set tho finest tabloV Even the plain farmers' wives do not always give us a good example. Count the varieties at a single meal, especially if they have company. Besides bread, but tor, milk, meat, vegetables, etc. (enough for any Christ ian),thero ore cakes, pastries. preserves, jellies, pickles, puddings, sido dishes innumerable, with coffee or other hot drink, over and above. 1 think 1 once counted no less than sixteen dishes at a plain little "tea" in a country village With this stato of things In the rural districts, dis-tricts, what aro we to expect In the large cities? Listen to one who has just spoken his mind on this subject: ' "Tho essential difference between barbarism bar-barism and civilization, according to epicures, epi-cures, is that then men ate to live, and now they livo to eat. In American cities, notably not-ably In Now York, there aro, It must bo confessed, many no called civilized beings of this order. "When they are not eating, j they are talking or 11ii;iking:ibout it; nnd; their faces slnw what an absorbing ideal 1 and habit it is. Tuev may bo seen any ' evening at Delmoinrn's. liie Brunswick, I the Hoffman, or at somo ono of the fashionable fash-ionable clubs, intent, upmi the dinner they j have ordered, and enjnviiig with repellent : seusuality their various dishes and wines. They aro apl to have round, protruding I eyes, large, c.i:U'se moiillis, double chin:, florid, oleaginous complexions, a general I expression of m.iltcr dominating and controlling con-trolling mind. T hey are barbarians Ln the i midst of high civilization: t'-ir thr-y are consecrated to tii- ir r.ppetites. aud imper vious to tho finer isdiiea of life." Susanna W. Dood3, M. D.. iu Deoiorest's Monthly