| Show dinners must blust lie be more plain physiological facts no more than ill bred people ought to be admitted into good society there is ia one however that is of concern since it seems to demand an important change in a long established precedent the stomach of civilized man has shrunk to such an extent it appears something will have to be d dropped from the menu when meals were occasional as now among savages the elasticity of the stomach was capable of great deeds in the days of figh fighting ting and knight errantry food was as precarious J as now on oa the plains and this created the stomach of the valiant trencher man on whose capacity the tha present orderly sequence of dinner was founded the passing away of the three and four bottle men has been remarked with the growth of the temperance movement and popularly ascribed to it it is only recently that a side light has been thrown h upon the real cause e of their effacement this is the insufficiency of what has come to bo be known as the tanks tank for foi a long along 1 time dinners of state have facetiously been held to bo be periods of gloom it was the true word spot spoken lenin in jest it is now frankly admitted that the modern modem stomach is unable to fo wrestle with the procession of dishes at dinner new york evening sun |
