| Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...defects which will, I am sure, be apparent to you in my communication. Our governess's first axiom is, that " the way to a man's heart is through his stomach ;" and it is on this foundation she rears the superstructure of our education. Not a few persons are attracted... | |
| American essays - 1912 - 912 pages
...desirable one, and that all cooks eventually marry. This would not be hard to believe, for is it not qften said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and moreover the best way to tame the male animal is to feed the brute? It therefore does not seem impossible... | |
| Simpkin Marshall & Co. - 1868 - 620 pages
...it. Remember the Scotch proverb, " A hungry man's an angry man." A popular Transatlantic writer says that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and that a woman who cannot roast a turkey will never retain the affections of her husband. Without going... | |
| Thomas Inman - 1870 - 316 pages
...which is strongly flavoured. 153 CHAPTER XVIII. ON UYSPEPSIA. SOME author has facetiously remarked that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and that cooks are of more consequence than tailors. That the stomach is in reality the most important... | |
| 1902 - 1492 pages
...satisfactorily what they have always claimed — that combinations reduce prices. It is an old saying that " the way to a man's heart is through his stomach," and this may also prove the proper channel by which to influence legislation, unless the Beef Trust pursues... | |
| David Dixon Porter - United States - 1875 - 550 pages
...they could supply to the secretary in making his annual report. They were always mindful of the adage, that " the way to a man's heart is through his stomach," and although their entertainments materially affected their financial resources, yet they were the means... | |
| Illinois - 1881 - 1142 pages
...knowledge — in a word, the incornpetency of the wife and mother. It is said, and very truly, I think, that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach ; and if a wife expects to retain the respect of her husband, she must at least know how to direct her servants... | |
| J. T. McAdam - Canada - 1881 - 240 pages
...whose nephew, as manager, is both an excellent companion and an accomplished caterer — knowing well that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and has been actively engaged in ministering to the daily wants of a hungry community from the mines of... | |
| Michigan State Horticultural Society - Horticulture - 1882 - 412 pages
...kindness that have been extended to us on every hand, from the time of our arrival. It is an old saying, that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and when sitting at the tables loaded for our delectation, we have felt that our entertainers fully believed... | |
| Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States - United States - 1890 - 94 pages
...how sick that call made us in the grey dawn of many a foggy, muggy morning. You know that it has been said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and I am led by this further incident of the evening to believe that the way to enliven recollection and... | |
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