30 Domestic Economy and Cookery. [JAN. 



and of a mind as elevated as her rank. Suspecting, from several circumstances, the 

 embarrassed state of her husband's affairs, she went into the steward's office, and, 

 locking the door after her, declared that she -would not quit the place till he made her 

 acquainted with her real situation. Her suspicions being more than confirmed, she 

 prevailed on her husband to go and pay some visit, and then immediately dismissed the 

 carriages, horses, servants, hounds [these last were, of course, sent packing] and at 

 his return received him with open arms [open house too, it would appear, for any 

 thing that was left in it] to a state of peace and comfort," &c. &c. 



" The creditors, by wisely trusting their honour and discretion, saved their own 

 money, and prevented the ruin of the family " 



This is certainly the true sort of generosity where a man is a gainer by the 

 charity which he gives away 



" It was, however, a long and painful task of fourteen years : with less labour, the 

 fortune might have been triply earned " 



As Hamlet says of Guildenstern's compliment, " We do not well understand 

 that." 



" Had the lady been a merchant's daughter, in all probability the family would have 

 been ruined; for "what judgment or feeling can be expected," &c. &c. 



Here is a declaration, for a book printed at the back of Fetter-lane, and 

 published in Paternoster Row ! 



We leave fried mutton, however, now, for the work of legislation ; and 

 various substitutes are suggested, for the ordinary articles of food in consump- 

 tion, when these last happen to be dear or scarce. Though " servants," it is 

 truly observed in shewing the obstinacy with which such discoveries are 

 resisted " suffer with great difficulty, even trifling reductions." 



" Snails and frogs [we are alluding now to some late time of distress] might-have 

 greatly assisted us at that period." " I regret this prejudice [against them] very 

 much ; as in this country, so liable to consumption [physiologically ' consumption'] 

 they might be of great service. I give receipts for preparing them ; and should recom- 

 mend that broths be made of them for consumptive patients ; and, if necessary, WITHOUT 



THEIR KNOWLEDGE." 



We need hardly intreat our consumptive friends to be upon their guard ! 

 If any one of them has a pond or even a suspicious duck-puddle within a 

 mile of his house, let him remove upon the sudden, before he swallows, unwit- 

 tingly, the produce of it. We trust, moreover, that all consumptive persons 

 in mere gratitude for the exposure of this iniquitous plot against them will 

 in future push this Magazine in every direction. N.B. Those who are likely 

 soon to die, can make it a condition in their wills that their heirs shall take it 

 for ever. 



" Beech mast, acorns, and horse-chestnuts, by steeping, might be made useful 

 for food." 



This is very true j and it would be no fraud now upon the hogs, for they are 

 fed with barley-meal and potatoes. 

 " Ass and horse-flesh might be used." 

 But this is rather confined, we apprehend, to " times of scarcity." 



" The physician of one of the embassies to China told me, that he had seen children 

 lying upon the sides of tanks, gathering every tiling that had life, and putting what they 

 collected into little boxes, to prevent their escape : the produce was put into the 

 rice pot." 



We have observed the same gathering principle exercised in some parts of 

 Europe; but the " produce" was never (within our knowledge) applied 

 exactly to the same purpose. 



The " poor," it appears, have peculiar tastes, which the world in common, 

 we dare say, are not aware of 



" I find that poor people (the women especially) prefer porter negus to porter." And 

 4k gruel to either !" 



