Life Up-to-Date.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1372, 13 August 1895, Page 3

Life Up-to-Date.

, The old' delight in life (writes Joseph Hatton) has fttea usef to have hobbies for the pleasure of them. They were hunters ind sportsriien; and felled trees, arid climbed mountains,; and stalked, big'game, and played golf and cricket, arid a dozen other things for the sheer joy of Nowadays they take to these, things for. health's sake, to work off the effects . of high living or the strain of high*think-' irig. Men who ride at certain hours in the Park are " the liver brigade," arid a similar ticket is pirined upon the principal men who play golfy swim, shoot, travel, ride, rowy and go to sea. When the bad weather stopped horse exercise in the rnetrOpolis the liver brigade went to a place in Baker street and rode dumiriy horses, which elatriied to give them the same kind of .jolting as the genuine living animaK They had not ridden in the Park you see or on the Hampstead Heath for the love of the thing, bufc\ to appease; a revolted liver. And so it is all round .'Physical exercise is taken to make rip for over-Work or ' over-feeding; ; - Badly prepared food and a poof imitation of French cooking have a great deal to do with the abnormalisation of the modern liver. table d'Mteof the, new hotel and restaurant, the mysterious dishes concocted from tinned meats arid bottled vegetables, the ostentatioushess of the everyday menu, the utterly silly recipes invented by writers who have no knowledge whatever of cooking, have almost abolished .the honest English dinner, the plaiu fish and joint, the simple coufectioris, and the harmless salad).x>£ the national menu. And so we all have livers and ride dummy horses, and row dummy boats, and tire ourselves with dumb bells, and become the slaves of golf and bicycl'es.