The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-08
AUGUST 8 1857

Der Of women to his followers, but forbade
wine. He found the Arabs Of strong sexu-
al passions and not needing wine. Had
Mohamet lived in New England, where the
expenses of a family are large, and the hab-
its Of drinking wine are common, we belleye
he would have popularized his rellglon ny
forbidding polygamy and allowing s'new
rum.o Moses, before him, permitted the
Jews to have pigs, but not to cat them
That was his law, because pigs were neces-
sary to clear up the filth about the camp,
but not necessary to eat in that climate
Without any law they use turkey buzzards
in the same way rs they do in our Southern
States. Ii Moses had been q Canadian,
where fish is frozen up eight months of the
wear, and swine are wealth, he would never
have said as he did. He did not allow to
eat Of the things strangled. Very proper in
warm country, where the blood should De
let of, and not remain to corrupt the whole;
but see if anybody this way, even jew,
refuses to partake of chicken pie, because
the fowl had its neck rung instead of its
head cut off! Our Catholics can sustain
Lent forty days in the spring-for nature
requires it more than religion; but let them
try their Lent at the last OF the year, SO as
to include Thanksgiving and Christmas, and
see how it will go. The founders OF all re-
ligions that have outlived themselves, have
been philosophers, men of science and OBJ
servation, students Of nature and human
habits, and have sought to adapt their
theories to man, even more than man to re-
ligion. ......-. - ..a r. ~
Now it is easy to inquire what are the
cheapest and most healthy kinds of food,
and according to circumstances resort to
their use; but we never can create uniform
rule; and as men vary in their food SO they
will vary in their natures, and we never can
have unity of race, whether ourorigin was
one or not. The French philosophers have
given us the nutritive propensities OF vari-
Gus articles; and even by examination IN the
open stomach of living men, we learn how
long each article is in digesting. But these
are mere distractions. We can prove that
every 100 pounds Of wheat bread contains
80 pounds of nutritious matter, and the
butchers meat, that he is selling US at from
IL to l8 cents a pound, has but 80 per cent;
of nutritious matter. Shall we then all
turn Grahamites? Not at all. 1t is not
nourishment alone that men seek, otherwise
bread alone would be sufficient; but experi-
ence proves to the hard worker, that beef
most readily augments the solid parts OF the
blood, and conduces most to muscular
strength, and no chemical experiments will
beat him out of what nature teaches. So
all through the world. Tell that woman at
the door not to buy green's and radishes,
that give but pounds Of solid nutritious
substance to the 100, while peas and beans
will give more than 80 per cent, and she
will laugh at the idea; and the suggestion
may be worthy of only such a reception
So prove to the Irishman that pound of
bread is equal to 2 2 of potatoes, and 70
pounds Of bread and 30 pounds of meat are
equal to 800 pounds Of potatoes, and he
will have the latter still, and tellthe Anda-
lusian muletcer to eat his onion no longer,
for its mostly water, but he will eat on as
before, in the faith that it is what his ma
ture Graves and what is best for him. In
all cases this is not from mere habit and
taste, but a necessity upon which habit and
taste rest.