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It seems the leaflet was addressed "To those about to wobble" I wasn't responsible for the silly title of the thing and the woman never recovered; anyway, the voter was completely won over by the grapes and jellies, and I think that should have balanced matters.
Fish of many sorts done up in all the fashions of the day meat and fowl in every form vegetable soups, and dishes of numberless varieties fruit-preserves, custards, custard-puddings, and jellies and last, but not least, buttered crumpets and cheese, formed as fine a spread as was ever set before a king.
Washington sat opposite each other in the middle of the table; the two secretaries, one at each end. It was a great dinner, and the best of the kind I ever was at. The room, however, was disagreeably warm. The dessert was, apple pies, pudding, etc.; then iced creams, jellies, etc.; then water-melons, musk-melons, apples, peaches, nuts. It was the most solemn dinner I ever was at.
Great, luscious oysters, delicately cooked after every conceivable fashion canvas-backed ducks, swimming in foreign jellies turkeys and roasted chickens, that went from the table whole, being too common for men who had learned to indulge in wild game and condiments at the cost of ten thousand a year decanters, through which the wine gleamed red and bright, interspersed here and there with others of a darker tinge and more potent flavor brandied fruit and rich sweetmeats, all shed their dull sickening fragrance through the tea-room.
The freebooters listened sedately to his protests and redoubled their offending, well aware that in their candidate's chamber politics could have yet no place. Far from the turmoil, the celebrity ate the jellies of his idolaters, and spent his waking hours in the impractical companionship of a certain Shelley and one John Keats.
And not a word out of these noble women of their sacrifice, nor of the shame and trouble and labour of their lives, who always had been used to every luxury! Nothing but cheer had they brought to the sickroom, and not a sign of their poverty and hardship, for they knew that their broths and biscuit and jellies must have choked me. No.
And she gave the same order every day, with a constancy that, you must know, formed part of this young lady's character. Soup, wine and jellies were sent from the kitchen every other day with equal pertinacity. Wilson concealed the true donor of all those things and took the credit to herself.
The manufacture of jellies, preserves, sirups, and various kinds of pickles and condiments has perhaps afforded the largest field for adulterations, although it is possible to adulterate nearly all of the leading articles of food. A long step in the prevention of food and drug adulteration was taken in this country by the passage of the Pure Food Law.
It is a good day for a dinner party. You are well over the washing and ironing, you know, and you have Wednesday for the jellies and creams, besides a good two hours in the afternoon to get out the best china and see to the silver. Friday is for cleaning up and putting things away, because Saturday one is always busy getting ready for Sunday." Miss Ruth demurred.
And, in fact, in the room he used as a reading and writing room, on a side table, I found an inviting array of cold meats, jellies, cakes, and fancy breads, with an assortment of wines. We ate till we could eat no more, masticating our food carefully and taking wine in moderation.
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