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

John Timbs

Date:: 1838

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

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$went to sleep. The baronet lived several years after- wards, his intellect wholly unimpaired, his speech restored, and his general health as good as ever; and he daily dis- cussed his bottle or two of port with apparent impunity. A German, on his passage from Hamburgh to England, was asked by a fellow voyageur, whether he should not drink porter on his arrival in London: “ No,” replied the Ger- man, “ it will be much too strong for my head.” “ Ah !” rejoined the other, “ you will change your opinion when you have once tasted it.” A few weeks after, the Ger- man was met by his friend, who asked him whether he had not drunk porter as he predicted. “ No,” replied he, “ I drink half-and-half.”—“ But that is even stronger, be- ing half ale and half porter!” “ Oh,” cried the German, with surprise, “ I thought half and half was half porter and half water. The last time Madame Pasta was in England, a literary lady of high distinction asked her whether she drank as much porter as usual: “ No, mia cara, prendo half-and- half, adesso.”—Quarterly Review. Clubs are favourable to temperance : it seems that when people can freely please themselves, and when they have an opportunity of living simply, excess is seldom commit- ted. From an account of the expenses of the Athemeum, in the year 1832, it appears that 17,322 dinners cost, on an average, 2s. 9ijd. each, and that the average quantity of wine for each person was a small fraction more than half a pint.—Mr. Walker's Original. Paley says, and truly, that it is one tiring to be drunk, and another to be a drunkard. An old fashioned Welsh squire was so far removed from a drunkard, that when at home by himself, a little small beer at dinner and two glasses of wine were his quantum. Notwithstanding, he scarcely ever had a party at his own house, or made one at a neigh- bour’s, that he did not get very drunk. He was a pleasant fellow, and a pint of wine just set his soul afloat: his simple expression, “ I am coming about,” was the certain prelude to a night’s debauch.—Nimrod. In Alderney, one of the Channel islands, in the year n 2$

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