this: I had arrived at this inn, and I dined there; my family was invited with me to the house of a particular friend, whither we went after dinner, which was about three hours after I arrived, without intention, indeed, of sleeping there, lest it should prove more inconvenient than I wished. It was impossible, however, to resist their solicitations, and a servant was sent to inform the people of the inn that we should not want beds. Seeing the next morning in the bill, not only a charge for beds, but for rushlights, my usual prudence, if it may be called so, forsook me, and I resolutely refused to pay the unreasonable demand. A most particular friend. to whom I afterwards related the circumstance, told me he had one to match it. Six gentlemen, upon a public occasion, ordered a dinner at the very house in question; and after they had paid the bill, threw down a shilling a-piece for the waiter. The fellow took up the amount of the bill, and asked what the remainder of the money was for. He was told it was for himself. "For me," said he, I'll send boots for it." At this in solence one of the gentlemen swore he would kick him out of the room. "No, no," said my friend, "that would give you trouble, and put you to expence; I'll tell you how to save both: imitate me; put your shilling into your pocket." Which advice was adopted. It is not unusual for the bill to be cast up wrong.. This error I always make a point of rectifying, because, as it is possible to be a mistake, one may take the liberty of noticing it without offence.-(Continued on page 19.) Interesting Varieties. BREAD. BREAD is often spoiled to please the eye. The artificially whitened, drying, and stuffing bread, though made of the heart of the wheat, is in reality the worst of any yet this is the bread which most people prefer, and the poorer sort will eat no other. All the different kinds of grain are ocea sionally made into bread, some giving the preference to one and some to another, according to early custom and prejudice. The people of South Britain generally prefer bread made of the finest wheat flour, while those of the northern countries eat a mixture of flour and oatmeal, or rye-meal, and many give the preference to bread made of oatmeal alone. The common people of Scotland also eat a mixed bread, but more frequently bread of oatmeal only. In Germany the common bread is made of rye, and the American labourer thinks no bread so strengthening as that which is made of Indian corn; nor do I much doubt but the Laplander thinks his bread made of the bones of fish is the best of any. Bread made of different kinds of grain is more wholesome than that made of one only, as their qualities serve to correct one another. For example, wheat-flour, especially the finer kind, being of a starchy nature, is apt to occasion constipation. Bread made of rye-meal, on the other hand, proves often too slippery for the bowels. A due proportion of these makes the best bread. For the more active and laborious I would recommend a mixture of rye with the stronger grains, corn, &c. as peas, beans, barley, oats, Indian in many different ways; they make a These may be blended hearty bread for a labouring man, and, to use his own language, they lie. longer on his stomach than bread made of wheat-flour only. Barley: bread passes too quickly through the alimentary canal to afford time for conveying the proper nourishment; but bread made of barley mixed with peas is very nourishing. When potatoes, or boiled grain, are used, bread ceases to be a necessary article of diet. During the late scarcity of bread, I made it a rule not to eat above one found no inconvenience whatever from half the quantity I used to do, and I. the change. Nay, some told me, that for a considerable time they had left. off the use of bread altogether, without experiencing any change in the state of their health. A great part. of the bread consumed in this country. is by children. It is always ready, and when the child calls for food, a and was informed that they ran with piece of bread is put into its hand, to it directly to the tea-shop. To save the trouble of dressing any other heavy, sluggish, phlegmatic man, a kind of victuals. Of many children moderate use of tea may not prove this is the principal food, but it is far pernicious; but where there is a debifrom being the most proper. Children litated stomach and an irritability of are often troubled with acidities of the fibre, it never fails to do much hurt, stomach and bowels; and it is well With many it has the effect to prevent known that bread mixed with water, sleep. Tea will induce a total change and kept in a degree of heat equal to of constitution in the people of this that of the human stomach, soon turus country. Indeed, it has gone a great 'sour. During the late scarcity, many way towards effecting that evil alof the labouring men, and even artifiready. A debility, and consequent cers, could not earn as much money irritability of fibre, are become so comas was sufficient to keep their families mon, that not only women, but even in the article of bread only. It is men, are affected with them. That certain, however, that on a different class of diseases, which, for want of plan, such families might have lived a better name, we call nervous, has very comfortably. Many of the articles made almost a complete conquest of diet are cheaper than bread, and of the one sex, and is making hasty equally wholesome. Above one half strides towards vanquishing the other, of the expence of living might be saved, Did women know the train of diseases by a due selection of the articles of induced by debility, and how disadiet. "The English labourer lives greeable these diseases render them to chiefly on bread, which being accom- the other sex, they would shun tea as panied with other dry, and often salt the most deadly poison. No man can food, fires his blood, and excites an love a woman eaten up with vapours, unquenchable thirst, so that his per- or washed down with diseases arising petual cry is for drink. But the great- from relaxation. It is not tea taken est consumption of bread is occasioned as a beverage after a full meal, or in a by tea. It is said that the subjects of crowed assembly, that I so much conGreat Britain consume a greater quan- demn, though I think something as tity of that herb, than the whole in- elegant and less pernicious might be habitants of all the other nations of substituted in its place. The misthis quarter of the globe. The low- chief occasioned by tea arises chiefly est woman in England must have, her from its being substituted for solid tea, and the children generally share it food. This is so much the case at with her. As tea contains no nourish-present, that, had I time to spare, I ment, either for young or old, there think it could not be better employed must of course be bread and butter to than in writing against this destruceat along with it. The quartern loaf tive drug. will not go far among a family of hungry children, and if we add the cost of tea, sugar, butter, and milk, the expence of one meal will be more than would be sufficient to fill their bellies with wholesome food three times a day. There is reason to believe that one half the bread consumed in England is used to tea, without one hearty meal ever made of it. The higher ranks use tea as a luxury, while the lower orders make a diet of it. I had lately occasion to see a striking instance of this in a family, that was represented to me as in distress for want of bread. I sent them a little money, POTATOE BRANDY.-Brandy has for some years past been largely distilled from potatoe-berries in Lorraine and Champagne: these berries produce on fermentation as much spirit as the grapes of Lorraine; but the specific, gravity of the former is only as one. to nine or ten. 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