KING GOURMAND AND CYNIC.
In private Frederick the Great preferred French, dishes, but in public lie took pains to create tho impression that none but a German .eoulcl servo him. .Here is one of lvis Confessions: “I love good! eating, good l wines, coffee, and even spirituous cordials, and yet my subjects believe me the most abstemious king in tho universo. When I eat in public, it is my German cook that dresses my dinner; but •when I am snug in my little private apartments, I have a French cook who does his best to humor my palate, which, I must confess, is rather of tho nicest. Philosophers may say what they will, with all their lessons, but the pleasures of the senses very well deecrve that we should spare them a couple of hours a day; for, in fact, what would our existence be without them?”
Councernig tho women of Germany, he wrote that “they are almost all fat and special breeders; they have great gentleness, love their domestic employment, and' are commonly faithful enough to their husbands.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3993, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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179KING GOURMAND AND CYNIC. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3993, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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