Show THE ENGLISH BREAKFAST A Reason Why the Vianils at Tills Meal Are Cold New York Times breakfast is a meal not The English brealtast I understood by us I may be served in the dining room or in the library I is I more often on call than en famille ofen I I and there is total absence even in the highest circles of formality in dress or in service The viands are for the most part cold The English will tell you that this is because they have learned that cold meats are more digestible di-gestible than hot and that it is vulgar to eat a heavy meal early in the day but a shrewd observer attributes their preference to a combination of lazy servants and oldfashioned stoves which renders it difficult toget a heavy meal early in the day f Where hot dishes are served they are apt to be minced veal or a e thin crisp slices of Irish bacon These with slces eggs invariably boiled or steamed which latter is done at table are all that are within reach The cold lare al I meats consisting of ham tongue col lared head etc are placed on the sideboard As no servant is expected to be in attendance at this meal the gentlemen of the family go back and forth from table to sideboard serving those who ask for helpings The thoughtless uninitiated American might object to such confusion and inconvenience in-convenience but John Bull delights in an affectation of simplicity and accom afectaton pushes informality in his usual clumsy fashion Such a convenience as a table bell is an unknown article of furnishing furnish-ing Should the servant by any chance be wanted when out of the room even at dinner the mistress will rise from her chair and cross to the mantel by the side of which is an electric button with the or kitchen bellpunch communicating wih |