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Show HOW A DUKE LIVED. In a little yellowed English maga-Alne.dated maga-Alne.dated April 1S04, a writer In What to Eat came across the following amusing scrap, which Is copied verbatim: ver-batim: If the Duke of Q does not extend his life to a still longer ptrtod tt will not b for want of culinary comforts and those other succulent arts by which longevity Is best promoted. Hit grace's sustenance Is thus dally administered: ad-ministered: At 7 In the morning he regales in a warm milk bath, perfumed with almond powder, where he takes his coffee and a buttered muflln, and afterward retires to bed; he rises about 9 and breakfasts on cafe au lalt, with new-laid eggs, just parboiled; par-boiled; at 11 ha Is presented with two warm jellies and rusques; at 1 he takes a veal cutlet a la Malntouon; at 3 jellies and eggs repeated. At 5 the duke has a cup of chocolate and rusques; at 7:30 he takes a hearty dinner from hlgh-sessonrl dishes, and makes suitable libations of claret and Madeira; at 10 tea, coffee and muffins; at 12 sups oft a roost poulst, with a plentiful dilution ot lime punch; at 1 In the morning he retires to bed In high spirits and sleeps till 3, when his man cook, to the moment, watts upon him In person with a hot and savory veal cutlet, which, with a potation pota-tion ot wine and water, prepares him for his further repose, that continues generally uninterrupted till tho morning morn-ing summons to his lactean bath. In this routine of living comforts aro the four-and-twenty hours Invariably In-variably divided, so that It his grace does not know, with Sir Tobey Delch, "that our life Is composed ot the four elements," he knows at least, with Sir Andrew Aguecheek, "that It consists In eating and drinking." |