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Show by eloughnuts, beans and pie, and in Virginia Vjy corn polio and pork, let each live and lot live. But neither ono should insist that high thinking is impossible to ! his neighbor unless tho latter conforms i to the mode of living prescribed by tho former. On the same principle, charity should be exercise;! toward the. man who has a pretty t:islo in salmis, ragouts, timbales, rissoles, sol -au-sents, creuettes ami all tho other viands with those mysterious names the French ceok bestows upon Lhe creations eif his art, nor, above all, consider con-sider that man a gourmand rather than a gourme t who elares boldly to express his preference for these over more honiedy preparations of food. The housewife who desire's to do he r best for tho development of hvr family in every direction den-s not lower the nut urn of her efforts when she condescends to Bitch things ef low estate as the daintiest disposition of tho fool supplies at hot command. On the contrary, she will often find that when she negh.'e ts material ma-terial interests in her anxiety to promoto mental culture, then is just the timo when the intellectual part niake-s scantiest scant-iest progress, (food and attractive feioil that will well sustain the body is a m fossa fos-sa ry premise to a thoroughly nourished mind. Tho ameliorating inflneneo of goo.l ; living upon the cantankerous disposition is well known. Sl r we-ll the cake and hen', the omok't li.rflit; j The way to win a man is through his appetite). How often one bears it said of a person from whom the granting of a favor H desired, "Yon would better approach him nlte-r dinner." And why? Uecauso i one is then at his best. A comfortable, i well cooked and ilain'ily served dinner (if you can get him to cut it !) will geu-i geu-i enilly ren ter amertable to reason tho : most confirmed nscelio, will mako tho rough barbarian as gentle as a dove ami quicken the intellectual activity of tho "brainy" man. Animal, is it, tins tbc-; tbc-; ory? Not at all; on the contrary, it is refining. Kat your dinner, thou, and let it bo , the bet attainable, and after it you will ho reaily for work, either physical or mental. One seldom hears a hungry' ; man say a e l' 'ver or wil ly thing, whiKi many a volume; could be tilled with thu i wit and wisdom that has been ut tered ' 1 aeretes the: " walnul.s aud ilia wine'' after I a good dinner. 1 S Olio more fallacy. "Not. lean enough j to be a goetd scholar" is all nonsense. . i Some of tlio brightest women and most : scholarly men have their bones extreme'- : , ly well cove red. Wisdom and avoirdu- i pois are not ti-cosary exeludeuts; in ! I fact, they are often most happy help- ' i mates. j j C'uiasTiN2 Tkiiiuvvk Hkriuck. ; A PLEA FOR GOOD LIVING. Christine Tcrlinno Herrlck Wrltee on a Subject uf Interest to All. New Yoisk, JIarch Among a certain cer-tain class ef theorists there has always been much talk about plain living and high thinking. So closely have the two been connected in the facile phrase that the're seemed an implie'd hint of gluttony glut-tony in the suggestion that an intellectual intellect-ual bun visant is neithe-r an impossibility impossibil-ity nor an anomaly. Much e xpressed variation of opinion nay lie directly traceel to dilTerene-es in delinitiou. This is undoubtedly true of tho case in hand. Diversities of bedie'f to what etmsiituH'S plain living are as plenty as religious sects. Without going lor illustration ameuig those1 classes wheso feieas eif conviviality are confined to that kind of entertainment whereby Gen. Jackson proved his good breeding to Davy Oewkott when ho put tin' whisky jug on the table and looked the other v ay or studying thi habits and manners man-ners of those improvident ones with v, horn it is always e'itlie-r a feast or a fist, and whose sole conception of on-jyuieut on-jyuieut is a big "fcfd," the extra vik-f.ine'e vik-f.ine'e entailing after privalion one may yet find a wide variety from which to c ill an estimate of what constitutes 1 lain living. New England, where have been do-v do-v doped brains and brawn on beans, points to this favorite food as one source c" much of the greatness of her sons, and claims on this diet to have produce 1 a Sumner, an Kverett, a Webster, a r.olmes, a Lowell, a Longfellow (and a John L. Sullivan), to say nothing of many other political, artistic and literary litera-ry celebrities. Ia the middlestate'stliero is pen-haps a less distinctive dietary, Jiidway lietween tho beans and codfish of tho Yankee states, and tho hog and hominy eif the south, the denizens of this half way district select the best from tin;ir neighbors on each side. All unito in a common devotion to what some ono lias aptly termed the Moloch of American Ameri-can digestions pie! This dainty prednv-, prednv-, bly Courishe's more raukly north than aonth e-f Mastm and Dixon's line. In New England this and the tift, ijuoted beans and fish cakes are usually elaed villi doughnuts among the necessities of life by the natives. Yet, to one with any education in the art of dietetics, what could bo meire barbarously unwholesome unwhole-some than such viands? Climate snd custom are tho great dictators dic-tators of public opinion. The consumer of tho dyspeptic dainties enumerated above would turn with scorn from French "made dishes' and nomlescript plats, while? tho nation of cooks view with equal elisdain the rare roast beef, the huge mutton chops and the solid wheat en loaf that form the staples eiftliet in the British isles. To each ieople its own dietary is elear, and until recently none wa.s mores insular in prejudice ugain.-t innovations than the average Ftay-at-heune citizen of these United states. With the widened culture gaintl by travel and by contact with other peoples aud other manners, a change is taking place in this respect, but even yet a touch of cosmopolitanism in a man's or woman's natnre is required to fit the taste for imported luxuries. There is little question that in the mat-. mat-. tor of fooel each ono must bo a law unto himself. What liest suits the individual palate and eligestion, best elevelojis the intellectual part of the consumer. If thia result be achieved in Massachusetts |