BREAD AND BUTTER

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 4

BREAD AND BUTTER

"It is one of the facts of life from which we cannot escape, even if we would, that while man does not live by bread alone, he cannot live without bread, and plain bread arid butter is the one article of food of which we never tire. It is the one item, of the menu which makes all the others palatable and valuable. How often you have tried to tempt flagging appetites with a nicely-cut piece of bread and butter, and have succeeded in your attempt ? We soon tire of cream buns and iced cakes; our appetite is soon satisfied and digestion rebels. But when we are hungry, when nothing else tempts us, we come back to bread and butter. That is not only true physically; it is just as true of the deeper and greater things. People soon tire of jazz music; the average dance tune has only a life of six weeks, and the performers have to resort to ever more extravagant capers in an endeavour to stimulate the jaded taste of their audiences. Cinema stars rise and fall with bewildering rapidity. But the oratorios retain their appeal and their popularity, and the everlasting gospel still comforts the suffering and supports the weak, still inspires the brave and strengthens all fine and splendid endeavour. These are the bread and butter things. Just as the bookseller speaks of books which sell steadily and the draper of stocks which sell constantly in all weathers and all fashions as 'bread and butter lines.' " —The Rev. W. J. May, in his book

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