USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



duces, every thing taken into account, a saving 

 of full one-half. Let that be thought of by a 

 tradesman, who has a large family, and who lays 

 his account w^ith toiling twenty or thirty years in 

 order to obtain a competence. The saving in 

 such a case is a fortune in itself; and if a man 

 so situated, suffer himself to be, by any of those 

 impertinent whims called prejudices, diverted 

 from pursuing the dictates of reason, he ought, 

 in justice, to lead the latter part of his life in 

 a state of penury, if not in a state of want. 

 The same reason applies in every particular to 

 the use of corn-flour, in preference to that of 

 wheat, especially in this case of puddings ; the 

 relative cost, will at all times, be one- third at 

 least against the wheat-flour. At present, with 

 our scarcity of wheat, and, witb the want of 

 knowledge, generally speaking, as to the use of 

 the corn-flour, the difference in the expense is 

 quite enormous; and, this being so clearly on 

 the side of the corn-flour, where is the m.an, who 

 has not money actually to fling away, to find an 

 apology for not insisting upon the use of corn- 

 flour in his family; and that too, when his own 

 palate convinces him that it is better than the 

 other ? We all know what a fuss has frequently 

 been macie in time of dearth, to get substitutes 

 for bread. Rice amongst other things has been 

 resorted to. Rice is a poor meagre feeble thing, 



