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The woman who looks upon man as a sinner / Unsaved as to soul, and uncertain in heart, / Should learn how to cook, and prepare him a dinner, / And serve it with talent, refinement, and art. / Full many a question is solved by digestion. / Bad morals are caused, oftentimes by bad cooks, / And many a riot results from poor diet -- / Conversion may lie in the leaves of cook books.
About the dull stalk of the thorntree of duty / Plant flowers of fragrance and vines of good taste. / Surround the coarse needs of the body with beauty, / Make common things noble, make vulgar things chaste. / Put art in housekeeping, nor think culture sleeping / Because the base animal, man, must be fed. / Delsarte should be able to speak in the table -- / 'Expression' may lie in a light loaf of bread.