The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-24
what Articles OF Food are best adapt.
ed 10 warm weather.

what Articles OF Food are best adapt.
ed 10 Warm Weather.
Ii It be true that in cold weather we
need, and the appetite demands, con-
concentrated carbonaceous food, 1t Is
also true, as might be expected, as
we all know, that the appetite de-
mands in warm weather very differ
emit class of articles of food; and the
reason is obvious.
-Four. fifths of our food being devoted
to the production of heat, we peed four
times as much In cold weather as In
warm. If, therefore, we ate the same
articles in summer as in winter, and
only what our nature required, the
stomach and bowels would collapse
into one quarter OF their size, and
could not properly carry on their func'
tions. Nature, therefore, provides for
the warm climates and the summers of
cold food, In which all the elements are
greatly diluted, and in which the pro-
portions of carbonates are much small
er than those provided for cold weather.
This you will see in the analysis of
southern and northern corn, in very
remarkable degree. While the pro-
portion of northern corn is six of the
carbonates to one of the nitrates, the
proportions of these principals in
southern corn are nearly equal. II
would, therefore, require six times the
bulk of southern corn as OF northern
to support the same degree of heat; and
this disparity is still more strikingly
seen If we compare northern corn with
some of our common vegetables. Corn
contains seventy-three per cent. OF car
donates, turnIps four per cent, and
cucumbers one per cent. Consequent
ly it would require eighteen pounds OF
turnips, or seventy-three pounds OF
Cucumbers, to furnish as much neat as
northern corn meal.
The comparative proportions of car
donates and nitrates in wheat, and in
deed all cereals that grow both in
northern aud southern climates, as we'll
as those OF all other natural products
of the soil, plainly declare the will OF
God in regard to summer aud winter
food, as also do our appelttes and tastes.
In the spring we lose our desire for
butter and buckwheRts, and begiH to
crave some acid fruits and green vege'
tables, And yet how many Thought
less housekeepers at the north go
through nearly the same routine of
cooking in summer as in winter, with
lust about as much butter and
lard and fat beef and even pork, and
fat gravy, and flour puddings, with
sauce; not because they like it as well,
or think 1t Is wholesome, but only be-
cause their mothers did so before
themp' And SO powerful is this
thoughtless and absurd habit In the
Southern States, that II Ia said that
however plentiful may be the supply
of milk, and cheese, and green vegeta-
bles, fresh lean beef, and fruits &c, a
southern family always has on the
table a smoked ham or "side OF pork
and their vegetables are cooked swim
ming in fat; and TO force an appetite
they use the most stimulating spices
and condiments. In short, their food
to- E,r haN r-nEIhnF iS Snifnhip univ
for the coldeat northern winter weather.
Is it strange that diseases prevail?
We need, in summer or winter,
whether using muscles or bralnsS or
neither, every day food containing car
Donates for the lungs, nitrates for the
muscles and tissues, and phosphates
for the vital powers; but we need them
in very different proportions, according
to the temperature in which we live
and our habits of life. These elements
are furnished at our hands, varying In
proportions so as to be adapted to the
different temperatures and habits; and
toI animals that have instincts and not
intellects to guide them, from the ele-
plant to the smallest antmslcule these
different elements are so mixed and
prepared, and the appetite SO adjusted
| to them, that they always want, and
always have, and always eat the right
kind of food at the right time, and the
right Quantity. But man. VINO naS lu-
tellect, is expected 10 understand the
laws of his being, and TO adapt his
food to the wants of his ma
ture, varying 1t according to circum'
stances. We are creatures of habit
and our-sy stems have wonderful power
in adapting themselves 10 ciEcum'
stances; and therefore we do not all die
however thoughtlessly we live. and
however perseYeriDgiy continue the
wrong habits to which we have been
accustomed; and our appetites falling
in with our habits, the evils of wrong
living are perpetuated. Still 1t istrue
every where that the average amount o.
health and the average length OF life
are in exact proportions to the care
we take to live in accordance with the
laws OF our being. This statistics show
| and our own observations confirm.
But what responsibility these con.
slderations place upon wives and
mothers, who have, or ought to have
the direction of these matters TC
them, in providence. as in the word o!
God, the Injunction emphatically is
'Keep my commandments, for length
OF days, and long life, and peace, shall
they add to thee" and TO thy family
This Important promise is fulhlleo
literally by those who study 10 obey
physical laws. however fguratiYe III
iuldIIment may be In regard to moral
Iaw.-PhfLosopliy Of EdtiHg. .