STYLE OF LIVING.

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STYLE OF LIVING.

§1-The Kind of Meat, Hokseflesii, Black Bkead, Coffee, etc.

CONSDMED BY THE PeOFLE.

Theke is the same melancholy tale to be told concerning thewant of refinement at table among Prussians, as there isrespecting their want of cleanliness botb in their personsand honses.

Barbarism, and even animalism, is never so conspicuousamong people as when you see them at their food. Eating,or indeed any act of mere sensuality, every refined natureknows, is so repulsive to others, that gentlefolks with us arenaturally studious how to avoid offending the susceptibilitiesof those who may happen to sit at the same board with tliern.Some of our poets have been unable to bear the siglit of alady eating, even though the act wcre performed with all thedelicacy of the most polished manners. But, witbout goingto such absurdly sensitive extremes, it is highly necessary thatdames who would be regarded as a grade above Carnivorain the scale of creation, should learn to perform an animalfunction after the least possible animal fashion.

Again, the quality of the food indulged in is a sure criterionas to whether the people have got beyond that primitive coarse-ness of palate which delights only in the strongest flavoured

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