Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comforts and luxuries which gardening can produce for the tables of the wealthy. Clubs, after all, are not so bad a thing for family men. They act as conductors to the storms hovering in the air. — Lady Blessington. The vulgar habit of associating the notion of gentility with expense, is invariably discountenanced at the clubs. 1 The Duke of Wellington may often be seen at the Senior United Service, dining on a joint; and, on one occasion, when he was charged fifteenpenee instead of a shilling for it, he bestirred himself till the odd threepence was struck off. The motive was obvious ; he took the trouble of ob- jecting, to give his sanction to the principle.—Quarterly Review. A cunning Welch squire, a zealous diner out, had the following not unfair bait for those who swallowed it:—“ I have a little book at home,” he would say slyly, in a comer, to such of his friends as had venison, or game, or any other good things to be eaten, “ and in that little book is your name.” He died, however, without making a null, at the age of eighty-six.—Nimrod. The late Duke of Bridgewater, when in London, would not undertake the trouble of keeping house : he, therefore, made an allowance of 2000/. a year to a friend, with whom he dined when not otherwise engaged, and to whose table he had the privilege of inviting his intimate friends. Sir James Lowther, father of the first Lord Lonsdale, when he visited London, used frequently to dine incog, at some very obscure and economical eating-house; where the price of some article in the bill being advanced one far- thing, the thrifty baronet took such mortal offence, that he withdrew his custom from the house; and was ever after- wards known by the sobriquet of “ Farthing Jamie.” One of the best practical jokes in Theodore Hook’s clever Gilbert Gurney, is Daly’s hoax upon the lady who had never been at Richmond before, or, at least, knew none of the peculiarities of the place. He desired the waiter, after
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