Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-12-31
Household, Farm and Garden.
WEsAT sgsAa.s. WE EAT!

WEsAT sEsAAa WE EAT!
In these days Of cattle plague and
chicken and hog cholera, OF vitlated
tastes and morbid desires, The quos-
ton, "What shall we cat:" becomes
one OF Importance, The first requi-
sition as to food is that it shall be pre-
pared from healthy materials. whether
animal or vegetable, Diseased or
tainted mea; sickly OF stale vegeta-
blcs, can net be fit to form healthy
| human nerve OF muscle.
The material being III proper con-
lition, the next thing is its proper
preparation. Ripe fruit is most lus-
cious and healthy in its original state
fresh from the tree. Gceen fruit
should be well cooked and swectened,
| Vegetables need to be put into boiling
water and cooked thoroughly if cook
ed at all Raw vegetables, as slaw,
cucumbers. rajislcs and onions, agree
| Well with some persons, Meat, II quite
tender, is most easily digcsted when
slightly cooked, but tough meat
should be stewen t9r hours till tender,
then slightly Drowned in an oven il
preferred. Bread should be light sweet,
and well baked.
| The main point is for each individ-
ual to ascertain what kind OF TODD a
grees perfectly with his or her system
and determinedly eschew all that disa-
grees with it.
AS thu races of men become refined
their Municipalities III all respects be.
come greater While the entire pop
ulaton of barbarous nations live al.
most exclusively on one or two arti-
Giles Of diet, with us il is very different
Half a dozen persons sitting down at
a table together require at least a:
many different dishes to make a salts
factory meal, for nothing is truer thar
he homely maxim, Nv hat is one
mans meat is another's poison"
A spoonful from dish of boiled
cabbage on last Sunday which was
eaten OF freely and did no harm t
any enc else, SO completely upset
| to use an old country world the wri
ter, that the -4agocate had nearly gone
without its Editorial Correspondence
this week Moran. What habitually
disagrees with a person should never
be partaken OF.
1t is otthe utmost Importance to
cultivate simple tase in CHI dren. The
European custom OF having q separate
and earlier dinnerand supper-table sci
for the children of a family, does not
find favor in this country.
| Therefore 1t becomes the duty o
parents. Tor the sake Of their children
health, 10 simplify as much as possible
the bill of fare at their common table
Good, we'll baked brown and whit,
bread, potatoes, milk boiled or not
as agrees best, with ripe or stewec
fruit, should constitute the chiet diet
Of all children under three or toul
years old. Butter and lean meat and
Vegetables may be added rs years in
crease if the child voluntarily chooses
them. But do not coax a child to eat
what it does not desire inst because
grown people think the article very
nice and somewhat of treat.
We know Of child who sits On it,
little high chair at q table generally
covered with what Is called luXuriou.
living. 1t eats the bread and milk, OF
the potato and cream set before it, re
fusing if offered any ct the articles OF
the plates OF those around. Fresh OF
stewed fruit is her desert; pie or cake
she declines. This is the result of care
ful, ever watchtul training, and shows
what can be done if simple tastes arc
cultivated, and an artificial taste for
what ar: enormously termed goodies
is not induced The same care has
been bestowed on this child with re-
spect to dress, exercise and rest, and
ii has never been SICK Tor an hour in
its life.
To thus watch over and preserve a
child from adverse iniiuence-from
the false kindness OF mistaken friends
and good naturei servants, is the
mothers especial work. 1t demands
intelligence ana tirmness. But she
should regard it as a high and sacred
prerogative to keep her children IN
good health, SO that their bodies shall
be built up to make fair and substan-
tial temples for the indwelling spirit.
Rare should be the case in which she
deleeatesthis trust to another. +. V.B.
u oman,s latoeate.