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Show Doughnuts, Liver and Bacon The League of Mothers' Clubs published, pub-lished, the other day. the favoriie dishes of President Coolidge, Governor Smith of New York and New York city's Mayor Walker. The favorite food of the mayor of New York city is bread pudding. The governor of the Empire state prefers above any gastronomical delight the well-known and humble corned beef and cabbage. And the Presideni's greatest treat? Is It filet mlgnon. p.-1c de foi gras? No indeed; it is just plain doughnuts! His favorite luncheon lunch-eon dish we all know liver and bacon but beyond and above even that lie likes to eat doughnuts! What does this prove that John O'Grady and the colonel's boss are brothers under the skin? Oh no; we knew that long ago. The point that seems to us to merit comment Is Ibat three leaders In the country's nfi'aTs, men who can afford to indulge any craving of the palate, who can command com-mand all the delights of the epicure, enjoy most the simple' foods thai are within the reach of a day laborer. The mayor of a great city I'm Is bread pudd'ng a treat; tho governor of the richest -state in the Union gets his greatest joy of the table out of despised corned beef and cabbage; and j wiih a retinue of people provided to I supply bis every want, with chefs j trained to the finest intricacies of the 'iilinary art, the President of the I'nited States desires not exolic deli caries, but just plain doughnuts! This is merely a new illustralion of ihe well-known fact that those who 'an have anything they desire want very little. The tastes of the mighty are notoriously simple! Many poopt,' commiserate with themselves for lack of worldly goods and envy others with more material possessions, thinkim: that those possessions would bring ihem happiness. If all Ihose people could only be given carte blanche r t a short time in the position of . who can command the material en i 'oyments which loom so Important lo ' them, they would soon be satiated and b glad to return, in other respects re-spects as in the matter of fund, to their own simple fare. And they would then have acquired the perspec j the ami the true sense of values-which values-which mean conlenl. |
