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Show Champion Long-Distance Oyster Eater of France An American, vi.-itin' Manchester, England, nm hng ii'ii, was brought In conti.i t with a waiter who has served since l:)02 and who complained o the degeneracy of the contemporary appetite. appe-tite. "The capacity of the guests is not wluit It used to he," said this waiter. "I have often served fourteen dozen oysters to one man, and many guests would eat five or six dozen at the feast. Today few persons eat more than two and a half dozen." Now this disconsolate waiter might brighten up If he had the opportunity of serving a customer like the man whom Brlllnt Snvarin celebrates in his "Physifilogie du Gout." It Is therein stateil that when Brlllat-Savarln Brlllat-Savarln lived at Versailles he frequently fre-quently met a M. Laperte, who was very fond of oysters, but who complained com-plained that he cnuld never get his fill of them. The famous gastronomist determined to satisfy this man once for all and invited him to dinner. He kept pace with Lnperte up to the third dozen and then allowed him to proceed pro-ceed alone. He swallowed oysters steadily for more than an hour, and Brillar-Savarin had to stop hJm after the thirty-second dozen, Just as he had remarked that he was beginning to enjoy his treat. The two men then dined and Laperte acquitted himself with the vigor and appetite of a man who had been long fasting. i |