p. 7 | Just Three Minutes

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 1.

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“Just Three Minutes.”

WILL we Americans ever learn to eat slowly enough?

While we were sitting in a restaurant last Saturday, a full-grown live American took a seat at our table.

“Waiter—”

“Yes, sir.”

“Pork and beans—quick!”

The pork and beans were brought.

Before taking the first mouthful the gentleman again proceeded:

“And waiter—any mince pie?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Bring me a piece—and have it here in just three minutes.”

The man “came to time” within two minutes—he began on the mince pie just five minutes after he had begun on the pork and beans, and within about nine minutes from the time he sat down, he had paid his bill and passed out of the restaurant.

Here is an instance exactly as we saw it last Saturday noon. It is by no means an exceptional case, save that most American business men take about twenty minutes, instead of ten minutes, to do the same thing.

There is dyspepsia in every minute less than half an hour that is occupied by the daily lunch.—N. Y. Mail.