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GREAT MEN WHO WERE BIG EATERS.

STORIES OF WAGNER, BALZAC, AND JOHNSON,

HANDEL'S "MEALS FOR A COMPANY."

TENNYSON'S GENIUS INSPIRED BY CHEESE!

His

Edmund Kean, the favons actor, [ Is the world of music there is One Hundred Oysters! had many peculiarities, one of less agréement of opinion. Mendels

Balzac was equally" voracious but which was a habit of dieting him- noha, as is well-known, was among affected the

more conventional self according to the part he hap the most abstemious of mea. He manner of eating in courses. pened to be playing. For example, never felt the need of heavy or even favourite meal began with a hun when he was playing in the role regular meals, and he was quite dred oysters, "followed by severni of lover, he ate scarcely anything content to let his appetite have its cutlets of jamb, a couple of soles, but mutton; when acting the part way. Once he declared that he and a brace of partridges, and of a tyrant, park was his staple could live for a week on a loaf of whatever sweets were going. dish; and when he was appearing bread and a cassage, and many a ́as a murderer, as be frequently did week he ate little more.

with great distinction, he confined himself to a diet of roast beefl

His idea was that different kinda of meat stimulated different moods, and be invariably practised what he preached, and claimed to benefit from it in him stage performances.

Eaw Meat and Horror Though, us it appears to novel and audacious, his theory

was, in fact, by no means original.

Henri Fuseli, the noted Swiss artist, ate uncooked meat for the purpose of raising horrible images in his imagination, and he believed

to

under the

He preferred wine to coffee, and drak it in great quantities. Three beef steaks formed the principal daily meal of the elder Dumas. Bismarck lamented the approach of old age because his customary thirteen eggs for breakfast were beginning to prove too much for his diminishing appetite.

Wagner, however, was of pre. cisely the opposite extreme, main taining, as he did, that abundant fuel was necessary to sustain the physical constitution strain of nervous tension and deep

Coming to our own countrymen, spiritual emotion which the every one is familiar with Dr. John. musician is constantly subjected. son's strong preference for roast He therefore dined and wined ence, and was found of declaring beet. Burke had a similar prefer. well, and claimed to derive great that England and Ireland, despite pleasure and profit from the sunip.their feuds, could always come tuousness of his repasts. In this together on a roast beef platform, view he was supported by Handel, of when it need only be said that he once ordered a dianer for a company," and then sat down to it

so profoundly in the efficacy of this with the explanation that he was device that nothing could shift himze company!"

from it.

Nor must WŁ forget that famous English" novelist of a bye. gone day, Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, adopted the same kind of diet, and for the same reason, when she was

writing"The Mysteries of Udol. pho,"

Beethoven was similarly keen on strong, rich faroon he could get it!

Anchovy and Comedy.

Lamb and Roast Pork.

Equaily partial to roast beef was Cruden, of Bible, concordance fame. "If you get it cold, sir," he used

tard, it is fit for the gods'

Charles Lamb's inordinate pas- sioa for roast pig is notorious.

and with plenty of mus-

Edward Fitzgerald describes a meal he once gave to Tennyson, which consisted of "soles, boiled fowls, and an apple tart, cheese, As a rule, the literary giants have etc." In this case the boiled fowls been great eatere, though many of appear to have been the favourite them showed a curious inclinationoured with great gusto.

dish, but the cheese was also hon

Gibbon and Cheese.

To those who may be inclined to

to go on to a special and restricted Extraordinary, we say, that the dismiss, such an idea as absurd, it diet when the must within them delicate plant of genius should thrive on checset In point of fact, should be remarked that no less! was particularly active.

it seems in eome cases to thrive an authority than Sir Heary Keith Pope's gin and toast when be

very well on it. recently declared his adherence to was writing Don Juan, and Sheri- the view that artists and men of dan's anchovy sandwiches and

It could be said, for instance: letters are undoubtedly influenced claret when engaged on his come in their work by the kind of fooddies are cases in point. Whether that "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was practically they eat.

this peculiarity in them further written on toasted cheese. Gibbon substantiates the view that differ- bimsoil has told us that he never ent moods thrive heet on particus when dining alone, when no one got enough of it at dinner unless Raphael, too, believed the same lar diets must be left to the indivi- could be shocked by the enormous thing, but, unlike Fuseli, he held † dual judgment.

quantity he devoured.

- Music and Mastication.

Always when he had guests, be

that meat of any sort tended to One feature that is more certain. deaden the subtlety and vividness by significant is the partiality of eays, be would wait about in the of the imagination, and he went

most great litterateurs for this or library until all were in bed and that particular dish. We find it then sneak down to the kitchen for so far as to recommend artists to also in foreign literary circles. what cheese he could find, after abstain from eating it altogether. Victor Hugo, for example, who had wards toasting. it before the bed- He himself, during his great perfectly gargantuan appetite, room are!

appeased it daily with practically Sir Walter Scott thought no period, lived mostly on dried fruits. the same kind of fare,

breakfast worth the name unless it Murillo was also strongly of the This consisted of veal cutlets, consisted mainly of elicep's head. opinion that po man could eat emelete, roset heef with tomato The explanation of all this appears coarse meats and have the soul of sauce, lima beans and oil, and quite" simple: These great minds. an artiste, and he, Ike Raphael, various condiments, the whole mix-found out the kinds of food that excluded meat from his diet en-ed into one dish and served with a suited them best and stuck to tirely.

large pot of coffee.

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To-day. (August 22.).. Queen's Theatre: "Four Walls" World Theatre: "Red Lipa". Star Theatre: "Gigolo," Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulsa Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

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Tides: High: 10.00 am and 11.21 p.m.; Low: 3.54 a.m."and 5.16 p.m.

Star Theatre: "Gigolo," Promenade Concert, H.K.V.D.C., Parade Ground, 9.15 p.m.

Tides: High: 10.43 am and 11.42 p.m.; Low: 4.31 a.m. and 5.46 Detti..

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Bunday. August 25.) Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Baseball: Hong Kong Fili-,

Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

St. Bartholomew. Lawn Bowls: Division Police r, Taikoo, Kowloon C.C. v.pinos. European Mails:-Inward: Lon-Craigengower, Kowloon D.R.C.. don vid Straits, parcels (Hector).

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Friday, (August 23.) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.

H.K. Football Club, 42nd annual general meeting. Jardine, Mathe-World Theatre: "Red Lips." son's Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

Billiards: Garrison Mesa Buffalo Club, K.0.8.B. . H.K. Police, R.E.'s v. R.A., Craigengower "H.K. Police Res., Somersets e. C. and P.O.'s Club.

Queen's Theatre: Four Walls", World Theatre: "Red Lipa"

Baseball 8. China e Japanese V.Rd, Night Fete, 0.15 p.m. Queen's Theatre: Four Walls."

Star Theatre "Gigolo." Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Ten Dances H.K. Hotel and

Dinner Dances: HK Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 830 p.m.

Tide:-High: 11.28 am;-Low? 6.09 a.m. and 0.15 p.m.

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European Mails Inward: Europe vid Negapatam,papers only (Kumsang).

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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.") m

Tides:-High: 12.41 a.m. and 1.28 P.m.; Low: 6.54 p.m. and 7.10 p.m.

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