Show DINING AND FEEDING american table 31 manners anners not fot so open to Critic criticism lim as formerly it has been conceded that the degree of civilization a people has reached may be accurately measured by its dietary Z now aruie ne one cue has said that the american feeds the englishman devours the frenchman dines in view of this statement on one wonders what the english havo have been doing through ugh the centuries to have bave advanced so little we do not pretend to answer for them but would say for ourselves we have been hewing our way vay through forests pio in every direction in every sen sense ample apology for feeding instead of dinin dining but of mure course it was a frenchman who made tho the declaration and of course he made it long ago when mortifying though it be honesty compels us to acamo acknowledge cledge that we manhave may hava been guilty times however and conditions havi have changed and not even the most bigoted frenchman will refuse to admit that when the american has reached the dining point he will have more to dine upon than any other man in the world the culture of man in america will demand all tho the art in his chiq cuisine that france by study has evolved with the added merit of honesty in his food the disguises incident to poverty of material not being a necessity there is no department of supply in which wo we have not the advantage and we are learning to uso use our materials as rapidly as we have been obliged to leam all other things ella morris morn s kretschmar Eret in womans comans home co companion |