Identifier: americancomicalm00bost (find matches)
Title: The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42, long. 71, but will answer for all New England
Year: 1831 (1830s)
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Subjects: Almanacs, American
Publisher: Boston : Charles Ellms
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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14 KEEPING FAST DAY.
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HOURS OF MEALS NOW AND FORMERLY.

The stately dames of Edward IV. Court, rose with the lark,
dispatched dinner at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and shortly
after eight were wrapped in slumber. How would these reason-
able people (reasonable at least in this respect) be astonished,
could they but be witnesses of the present distribution of time a-
mongst children of fashion !—What a contrast, there is between
the materials of the morning meal, A. D. 1, 5 50 when Queen
Elizabeth's maids of honour began the day with a round of beef,
or a red herring, and a flagon of ale, and in 1823, when the sports-
man, and even the day laborer, breakfast on what cooks call
" Chinese soup," i. e. tea. Swift has jocosely observed, that the
world must be encompassed before a washer woman can sit down
to breakfast, i. e. by a voyage to the east for tea and to the west
for sugar. In the Northumberland Household-book for 1512,
we are informed that a thousand pound was the sum annually
expended in housekeeping. This maintained 166 persons; and

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