The Placer herald., 1855-12-29


ife3 Instead of holding sleepy conventions
and passing idle and inefficient resolutions
let them begin by breaking all their frying
pans.
But it is not alone those companies that
should be stimulated to action. The whole
State must be regenerated. How is this to
be accomplished! | respectfully suggest that
the Temperance and Bible Societies, cooper
ating with the Tract Society, give their best
aid in the good cause, for all of them are
deeply interested in the result. How can
temperance exist permanently in country
where large portion of the inhabitants sub
sist almost exclusively on fried salt bacon2
Where is the stomach that can long resist,
unimpaired, such fare without the potent aid
Of alcohol No, whskey aids digestion, and
the wretched stomach must either resort to
it at the risk Of contracting the habit of ine-
briefly, or suffer the torlnents of gastric com
plants, induced BY indigestible food. How
too. can the sublime truths of the gospel
penetrate deep y into the enfeebled minds Of
those whose bodies are worn down and ex-
hausted by frying pan cookerya
The remedy is to be found, at least COM
mencement in the right direction, in ''moral
suasion," which the temperance men in New
York are beginning to find out is the first
step in the right path, and which, as before
stated can alone change the time-fonned
hearts of any people or nation. Let the
tract society distribute throughout the length
and breadth of the land, cheap cookery
books, in which the art Of dressing salt and
smoked pork in the best and whoesomest
way, shall be more particularly explained and
illustrated. Let them teach how the French
peasant makes his delicious soupe ouS chour,
with the aid Of only salt pork and cabbage.
and lives ford, a healthy and happy
man. Let these cookery tracts contain every
receipt that in the country can be made avail
able for the preparation of the food which in
this region nature has SO bountifully supplied
to man, and let these receipts produce an ali
ment as acceptable to the palate as it will be
light and easy for the digestive organs, and
invigoratng to the body. Above all, let
these tracts denounce in the most unqualified
terms and emphatic manner, the use Of the
frying pan, and demonstrate in the cearest
way the baneful effects of this hell-enpen-
cred cookery uensil
When these tracts have begun to bear
their savory and healthful fruits, we shall see
springing up throughout the land anti-frying-
pan societies for the suppression and preven-
ton OF Indigestion, dyspepsia and other stom-
ach vices Political clubs, cliques conven-
tons and parties will take their color, their
tone, their vitality, from the principles incul-
Gated by these societies, and members of
Congress, Senators and Governors will be
borne into Office on the wings of their widely
disseminated anti-flying pan principles, whilst
their opponents will perish miserably by in
digestion, and be sent to the old boy, riding
on the handles of their own frying pans, like
children on walking canes, or like witches on
broom-stick
What political party can hope to attain
such success as must inevitably attain the
anti-frying-panite whose object, end and
aim will be the ameioration of tie condi-
ton Of the whole human race by improving
their health strengthening their minds, in
creasing their happiness, and preparing them
for eternal bliss hereafter. How poor, how
patry how insignificant are the objects Of
the know-Nothing party in comparison with
these. Yet this party in the course of two
or three short years has succeeded in getting
the nation into a Stew almost as unwhoesome
as if they had put it into frying-pa But,
thank God, they will pass away, and this en-
lightened nation, nay, may say, this enlight-
ened age, will be engaged, like the prince,
Mr. Clark and his wife, in the contest be-
tween frying and boiling There is little
fear, however, that the turmoilinq will, as in
the Clark controversy, be put an end to by
the frying party basting their opponents
Truth is omnipotent, and must prevail
Frying pans are doomed to be buried in the
oblivion fthe Ash-hoe, and known to future
generations but as the relic of barbarous
age.