Workingmen will turn up their noses at the fare on which a Carlyle did some of the finest literary work of our century.

I remember some time ago speaking to one of our butchers, who told me that workingmen largely ordered some of his best cuts.

Now an ample supply of nutritious food is certainly essential for good work, whether of the brain or of the brawn.

The advance of labor is rightly gauged, among other ways, by its increasing consumption of wheat and meat, but the nutritiousness of meat is not necessarily dependent upon its being from the finest cut.

I should like to see all men eating "French" chops and porter-house steaks if they could afford it; but when I know the average wages of our workingmen and the cost of living on the simplest possible scale, it is discouraging to learn such a fact as that which I have mentioned, since all the elements of necessary sustenance can be had in so much cheaper forms.