Judge — July 22, 1905 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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FOOD AND LITER- ATURE. The subject of the relation of food to lit- erature and the col- lateral question of diet and its effect on the literary tempera- ment are with us again. The remarks of Mr. W. D. Howells in the current: Har- pors are timely and enlightening. Says Mr. Howells: “If the contention that our best poetry, if not a resultant, is at least a concomitant of a prune diet, be established by a sufficiently wide induc- tion of authoritative instances, we have a truth that will revolutionize the business.” Itwould be unwise to embrace too hastily this novel generalization, but it can hardly be questioned that in a large way food does exert a vital influence on liter- ary production, whether that food be prunes or fried chicken or what not. Mr. Philip Verrill Mighels has lately thrown some light on the question by telling what he ate when WHAT OUR | he was winning his \UTHORS EATJ spurs in New York a few years ago. He says he lived on fifteen’ cents a day, and adds: “I used to put sugar on my bread instead of butter, because it was cheaper and I liked it as well. Bread and sugar with soup does sound queer, doesn’t it? But it wasn't so bad.” He suggests the following menu for the budding author : Breakfast, two apples and a slice of bread ; lunch, soup from a soup tablet or bouillon capsule, costing a cent, and another slice of bread. He doesn’t give the dinner lay-out, the inference being that'‘it will be sufficient instead of eating any dinner at all just to think what a bang-up breakfast and lunch you had. Mr. Mighels declares the happiest days of his life were spent at that time. Saturday nights he treated himself to pie and the theatre, and that, he says, helped a lot. Of all the cities in the country, New York is certainly the place for famished authors to make their first plunge. No place offers such a variety to fit every depth of lit- erary pocket. For instance, the yourg author with five hundred dollars for his first poem in his pocket can go to any one of adozen gilded taverns and blow it in on a single dinner. On the other hand, he can dine comfortably on a quar- ter at places of undoubted cleanliness and respectability. If a quarter is too Ina Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-KASE. THE “«S0HMMER” HEADS THR LIST OF THE HIGHEST GRADE PIANOS SOHMER PIANOS Sohmer Building, Sth Ave, cor tad St. Yor much, there are nice fifteen cent restau- rants, If this is too staggering for the young author there are high-toned ten- cent eating-houses, and still other pla where for five cents you are served with meats, fish, stews, pickles, vegetables, delicatessen, caviare, clams, etc. Finally there are sidewalk lunch-counters where you can pick up quite a bite for a penny, or you can step into the caravansaries of the swinging-door and range round amongst stack3 of fodder and nibble here and there as freely as the pastured horse crops the clover tops. New York is un- doubtedly our greatest literary centre. This proud city of Gotham further where the authcr who salons can slip in quietly and automat- Here you do not have to tip the waiter prospectus as advertised, there is nothing solitudinous and lonely an automat is. boasts an automatic and very economical hunger emporium, ‘AND THERE’S HE AUTOMAT| objects to the brilliant assemblages of the food ically feed himself out of a slot on the * slide-in-your-coin-we-do-the-rest ” basis. nor wear evening clothes. What's more, if the hand-out doesn't come up to the you need do about it further than look at yourself In the mirrors and consider how ‘Thus are the nervous friction and wear and tear of authorship cut out. The trail of the automat is observable to the trained ~ eye in much of our current literature. We would like to discuss this subject further, but we really have not the time. to think it out at this sitting. THOSE DRUMMERS’ YARNS. The drummers’ yarns are beginning to come in, JUDGE wants good, short sto- ries and especially the kind the knights of the grip used to spin, Don’t forget the prizes offered in addition to pay at regular rates for all stories accepted. They are (1) an autograph knife, (2) a fountain pen, (3) a year’s subscription to the Magazine ROTHSCHILD CORNERED, Of Lord Kitchener's bluntness many stories are told. The best is that of the lunch at which he was entertained. by Lord Rothschild, when he was promoting the Gordon college at Khartoum, Just before lunch Lord Kitchener and Lord Rothschild were seen talking to- | gether, ani presently, distinctly red in the face, the head of the great banking-house walked aw Lord Kitchener had bluntly aske:l his host how much he proposed to give. to which the banker had replied, * One thou- sand pounds, “You must give me five thousand pounds, or I shall not stay,” Kitchener is alleged to have said, Lord Wolseley and others expo tulited; it was all to no purpose. He woul not wv to lunch unless he got the promise. —Kam's Horn, Dige:tion’s greatest aid—Abbott’s Angrstura Biers. “A snip” after exch meal afhids re- ick. REMARKS. The chronic kicker often lives to kick himself, Many a man’s point of view needs sharpening. ven the high flyer may be addicted to low habits. Always tell the truth if you want to make trouble. A fellow is seldom tight: chested when he gets tight. When a man has the disposition of a mule don’t talk about him behind his back.—Philadelphia Reccrd. CHANGED HUSBAND WIFE MADE WISE CHANGE IN FOOD. Change of diet is the only way to really cure stomach and bowel trouble, A wouan says: “My husband had dyspepsia when we were married and had suffered from it for several years. It was almost impossi- ble to find anything he could eat without bad results, “1 thought this was largely due to the use of coffee and persuaded him to dis- continue it. He did so, and began to drink Postum Food Coffee. The change did him good from the beginning, his digestion improved; he suffered much less from his nervousness, and when he added Grape-Nuts food to his diet he was soon entirely cured, « My friend, Mrs. . of Vicks- burg (my former home), had become a nervous wreck also from dyspepsia. Med- jicines had no effect, neither did travel |help her. On my last visit home, some months ago, I persuaded her to use Grape-Nuts food. She was in despair, and consented. She stuck to it until it restored her health so completely that she is now the most enthusiastic triend of Grape-Nuts that I ever knew. She eats it with cream or dry, just as it comes from the package—keeps it in her room and eats it whenever she feels like it. “T began eating Grape-Nuts food, my- self, when my baby was two months old, and I don’t know what I should have | done without it. My appetite was gone, I was weak and nervous and afforded but very little nourishment for the child. The Grape-Nuts food, of which I soon grew very fond, speedily set all this right agai and the baby grew healthful, rosy and beautiful as a mother could wish, He is two years old now and eats Grape-Nuts food himself. I wish every tired young mother knew of the good that Grape Nuts would do her.” Names given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, There's a reason. 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