Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-03-01
CONCERNING FOOD.


have been compelled by absolute neccs-
sity to resort to every possible ar.itice
to proiong life and make much OF very
small quantities of food, we have as yet
been obliged to resort to no such de-
vices. Plenty still remains with us,
and we make the most proflse use, If
not waste, of enormous quantities of
the most concentrated kind OF food.
Yet seekers after health have thought
that If we resorted to few of the ecoria
onlies which other people are Obliged
to cultivate, it would very much pro-
mote the general health. Many popu-
lar writers on hygiene maintain that
the American people make too much
use OF wheaton flour. ground to an inn
palpable degree of tineness, particular
ly when used in the form of hot bread.
tits certain that diseases of the teeth
prevails among US to an extent unknown
among other nations, and the dentists
thrive accordingly. Much of this has
been attributed to this concentrated
form of bread, us well us the numerous
forms of dyspepsia which are so com
mon, especially among our farmers,
whose almost exclusive diet, three
times a day, is hot biscuit, hot fried
pork, and the hottest aud strongest de.
coction of coffee which can he made.
Dyspepsia is almost invariably present
where this bill of fare is exclusively
used. s.e #... a-.a.-
The point here suggested in the
Journal is worthy of serious considera-
ton. The universal use Of nothing but
tine wheat flour for bread, especially in
all this western country, is Il matter Of
great danger to the permanent health
of the nation. Nothing is better known
an physical economy, than that tie
human system like that of other ami
mails requires supply OF cnarser and
more bulky food, along with the con.
centratcd nutgimcnt, III order to It's
most vigorous, deveiorclncit This is
especially the case with all who lead
quiet life, Or are not called to severe
manual toll. Let q horse he fed entire
~ on corn or oats, without any supply
CT hay or other cUarscr food, aud he
will very soon he used up.p Just so
with man. Severe bodily toll will in
deed overcome III a measure the evil
effects of too concentrated feed and
steady workers thus cat on with i.npu.
nifty, defying for a time the indigestion
which their mode Of living invites.
But sooner or later dyspepsia and other
stomach diseases, with their numerous
train of evils, come rs the sure reward
OF too concentrated living.
s.. Happy WAS it for our New England
fathers, that, partly perhaps from the
necessities Of their less fertile soil and
from their sturdy habit Of economy,
they established and handed down Il
snorc healthy! style Of living. The
fine flower: was the luxury, INDUCED
but sparingly; While "rye.and. indian"
formed the staple in the way OF bread
This grand old article of food has been
going out of date with nnuny, even in
parts OF New England itself, where the
greatest inroaG5 OF motera INDULGENCE
have come. But we rejoice that there
are many WHO yet lingcr about the
good old customs and vigor breeding
economies OF the fore!atllcrs. \ gene
raj deterioration Of physical stamina is
following the new TChncments of food;
but some are still averting the evil by
adherence to pilgrim paths
Our thanks we give to Il kind Proyi- |
dence, that nurtured cur childhood
among New England farmers, with !
plenty of "johnny- cake" and molasses, !
to go with the white cake more SPAR .
ingly dealt out, AID especially with |
huge ioavcs Of 'rye.and-indan " bread .
smoking SO savory from the oven, with !
tive hSt-nI hpans 4. -, u
meats. For fifty years we lInve held .
fast to the bread of our youth; and .
have trained our family to live on and
to tope these palmer, less exhaustive,
more sweet and heal;hful, as well .
It's economical forHls, OF the "staif OF
life. The result is Il strong and fixed
preference in all, from oldest to young
est, for the cheaper, safer bread, with
more freedom from ailments than is
common with stronger constitutions
and on our own part, All ability to DO
more and endure more DAY, than
most of the young men we now find
lor employ from twenty to thirty
years OF age.
We now and hero lift our warning
voice to this country, against the pres
entstyle of living, Oh none but ine-aour
bread, ithc very mother OF Dyspepsia
and that too mostly in the form oil hot
biscuit, with strong coffee and green tea
three times day. None OF as, parents
or children, have drank anything but
cold water, until in advancing years
one cup twice IL day of weak black tea
Of the simplest kind. Or course, ali
brandy, beer, and tobacco, are not SO
much as named. O! it does fill lis with
Ioathing as we'll as pity to see the verb
est youths Of our times, iiousisiing
their pipes, squirting out their guilds,
switiing down cup after cup, OF the
strongest, most exciting coffee or tea,
with nose turned up Though in abiect
poverty, or living OH charity at even I
the sight CT nice indian cake, or rich
rye-and-indian bread, oranything short
OF 1.-THE finest of the wheat What
Kind OF Il training is this we are giving ;
To our successors, thus to nurture them
in cigeminate and Notwithstanding in
diligence, with 20 manly restraint, no
se.f-denying economy, to give them the
back bone and the virtue of our Ameri-
CAN sires?
Some of the better trained use the
coarse wheat. Some like the pure ill.,
dian; some the unadultera.ed rye. +
But above all, give to Us now, AID give
to US ever, the good old New England I
"rye-and-ilidian bread, combining
all the best virtues Of both, sweet and
sets help-mate serves it up to us every {
week. 1t Is, for this world, the /.
!" BREAD OF LIFE
Professor Bache, of the United States |
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