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Show Plain Living. To the ordinary homekeeping youth plain living is usually the every day AU 't to which lie bus always been accustomed, accus-tomed, with little regard to its fitness or wholesomeness. With n royal contempt for divergent tastes, ho is apt to give a domestic version of the old saying, "Ur-thoiloxy "Ur-thoiloxy is my doxy, so heterodoxy must be yours." What suits him should suit every one. The same spirit animated Dr. Johnson when lmgavo his famous definition of "oats" as "in England, food for horses, in Scotland for men." But the whirligi,' of time has so twisted affairs af-fairs around that the food at which the great lexicographer sneered little more than u hundred years ago i.s now an article ar-ticle of daily diet in thousands of English En-glish homes. Tho plainer,! of plain living liv-ing it is to us nowaday.!, but tho high thinking of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Eigh-teenth centuries was cultivated on a very diiieivut aliment. Yet who is prepared to .say that greater intellects have ever been known in tli English nation than were produced in the days of roistering, wino bibbing aud high living, when such mir.da were developed as those of Shakespeare, Ben Jousoii, Dry den, Addison, Addi-son, Swift, Pone and countless others whom time fails even to mention? Christine Terhune llerriek. |