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Show The Decline of Gluttony. Ufih great cooks Btill command "jus salaries in Europe and Amer-id Amer-id splendid dinners are still every fairs, there has been, I think, a cer-ance cer-ance further from were gluttony, jon the stage of last century gorging, gor-ging, to that of the man who eats links with the utmost moderation, atifies his delicate palate avec re-Biuent. re-Biuent. just as he does his fine ear ?ood music, and his critical eye with tful forms and colors in the decora-For decora-For the modern Sybarite the table lere detail of universal luxury, not ipreine concern. Even this stage to me to be passing away. The 1 and profusion of London dinners in my recollection of thirty yeare, 'really curtailed by improved taste; a singular way the adoption, from awn or another, of water drinking ' by hundreds of men and women in 7 is tending visibly to minimize the y of the table in England, and must, J.'d suppose, effect the same end in lea, Frances Power Cobbe in n |