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Show Food by Proxy. Most of us know some particulai food or drink, the desire for which la stimulated in us by reading about it. But the writing must be skillful, or if not skillful, artlessly good. The cruder method of the stage produces the same effect; all smokers have experienced the almost overwhelming desire to smoke which comes upon them when someone lights a cigarette on the stage; these strange and rapid restaurant restau-rant meals of the fashionable theater, when a party sits down at a table and Is whirled through six courses in about five minutes, surrounded by champagne bottles In ice buckets and trays of liquors, have an absurdly exciting ex-citing effect. |