IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



managemeiitjOf two of which instances I shall have 

 to speak by-and-bye. She does not, indeed, abstain 

 from the use of tea and sugar, which I am very 

 sorry for on her own account ; for the expense^ 

 the reader must needs think, cannot be an ob- 

 ject with me. But she has never had any pre- 

 judice about any of the things proceeding from 

 corn. She adopted the several modes of using 

 it immediately upon seeing them ; and never 

 cried up old England on account of its wheat 

 flour, as is the case with scores of perverse wo- 

 men whose husbands take them to America, 

 and who, owing to the perverseness and everlast- 

 ing worryings of their wives, come back and 

 starve upon the spot from whence they started. 

 But is it possible that we are to be told, or that 

 we are to think for a moment, that labouring 

 people in England, who do not see a pound of 

 meat from month's end to month's end, will turn 

 up their noses at food which is seen upon the 

 tables of the most opulent people in the best fed 

 country in the world ? O no 1 this will not be be- 

 lieved 5 there will be for a while a little contest 

 between the comfortahle cup of tea, and the mess 

 of potatoes on one side, and the porridge and 

 mush on the other ; but the contest will not last 

 long ; the love of a bellyful and the love of ease, 

 for here the two are combined, will soon set 

 aside the cups and saucers and the potatoe-pot. 



