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Show Men, Women and Meals. "When men suppose that dinner goes on whether they nra at home or not, thoy labor under a curious misconception. Arthur Pondenys, writing about tbik melancholy fact, declares: "Some ono once said that an ordinary woman's fa-vorlto fa-vorlto dinner is an egg in a drawing-room. drawing-room. All women have a pasoion for Bomothins on a tray. To the masculine mind things on a tray are unsatisfying; but to tho feminine body thoy embody tho very manna from heaven." It 1b easy to understand that Arthur Pendenys or any other "masculine mind" might havo trouble in comprehending the why and wherofore of this debilitated taste; but no woman would bo at n loss to explain it. It comes from the fatigue which woman suffers ns tbe result of hor colossal co-lossal task of foodlng men. To nourish tho human race Is tho appointed work of woman. At tbe very inception of life, this 1b her labor, and never can existence exist-ence be so fine, eo free, so heroic or 30 boautlful, that she must not pause throe tlme3 a day or more to bend her miud to please her lord. She has been accused of writing no epics; it is said that she Is incapable of composing an oratorio, or deslgulng a cnthodral, or conceiving an heroic statue or painting a picture of tho first finality. The retort is that sho might have done something of tho kind if tho men had not been hungry so fro-auentiy fro-auentiy nnd co Insistently. To bo the nourlsher of the human raco is an undertaking under-taking so prodigious that it is a marvel Mint tho mere exasperation of being chained to the larder has not made flenda ' or lunatlcn out of women nud from squaw to countess, their sufferings in this regard havo points of similarity. Is it any wonder, then, that with .the over-, hungry' man out of tho way, tho woman seeks escape from the tyranny of food, and "eats strawberries .by. moonlight o.n a flowery bank?" The Reader, |