There are still English farmers who, while telling you that farming spells starvation, enjoy their seven solid meals a day.

Once a year there comes a week's feast throughout Russia, during which many deaths occur from the over-eating of pancakes; but this is a religious festival, and an exception.

Taking him all round, the German as a trencherman stands pre-eminent among the nations of the earth.

He rises early, and while dressing tosses off a few cups of coffee, together with half a dozen hot buttered rolls.

But it is not until ten o'clock that he sits down to anything that can properly be called a meal.