The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1869-05-19
How We arc Murdered by Bod
Cooking.

The French think that we are a
strange people, because Wo have in
vented over two hundred religions and
only one gravy. We are great people
but VIC have not yet learned how to eat;
and it Ia disgrace to US a. . nation.
The influence Of diet over the character,
disposition and mWals Oft people, both,
national and individually, Is a doctrine
that has received the countenance and
support of somc Of the greatest names,
in science and literature. That SO
inconstant, sclf.willcd aud indepcn.
dent being as man should be subject.
ed to tho perpetual notifications arts-
| ing from food might at the first glnncc'
seem to be q. bold proposition 81 But,
nevertheless so It Isl. and, within the
limits Of certain restrictions, there can
be no question that man, both bodily
aud meutally. Is withall his intellectu. 4.
III RsccnfAffcy. the helpless creature Of
his stomach. The French have reduced
eating to a science; they live TO- eat,
VIC eat to live. Compare O meal OF
heavy pastry or bread, hGif-cooked
vegetables, tough meat, hot biscuit or
hot cakes swimming in butter and mo
lasscs, coffee, spices, pickles, and tho
heterogeneous mixture ofarttcles wnicn
so often constitute our present diet
with the brcakinstof the old Earl Of
northumberland, OF whom we read ::
I" My Lord aud Lady have for break
fast, ut seven o'clock, a quart Of beer,
rs much wine, two pieces Of salt fish,
six rcd hcrrings, four white ones, and a
dish of sprats." No wonder we aro O
nation Of dyspepticsl 1t takes thirty.
three thousand physicians 10 patch up
and keep in repair the diseased, debili-
tatcd aud sickly bodies Of the inhabi.
tants of this country, to say nothing OF
the cart loads Of quack noSrums got
ten up and sold and bought and swal-
lowed by the coniiding public. A IA
nous Connecticut Clergyman sometime
since remarked in a sermon that your
French cook takes quart Of Goals,
small bit Of shrivclcd Meat, n quater
Of fowl, three onions, two potatoes,
Il carrot, and twig or two OF
savory, and cooks n feast for ten
!pcrsonS. Your Irish help will bnrn
Il hod full Of coal, and taIo two or three
pounds Of steak, peck measure full OF
hCSCtHUlCo, Hull POhhA ~ buNSSsS -.
pounds Of flour, and spoil the whole I
The steak il dried. juIceless; the vsge-
tables are hard and ovcr.done; the but
ter is CONCEALED OH the servers and tho
lour rolled into biscuit, which means,
in the vocabulary Of American cook
ing, dried ball, rank with Salcratus,
with n lump OF dough in the mid.
dIc!'
Oh, that we had more Blo+s anohg
us! that every female seminary had
professor Of the art Of cookcryt and.
that tho time soon may coaie when.
cooking shall be reduced to a scLancsE
Then, but not till then, shall weBe rid Of
the abomlnable, heterogeneous oorglo~
lncrations with which that diaDcical
arrangement called stomach" il reuSe-
cutcd,
five were called upon 10 convert
sinners to repentance, we should Be-
impcllcd TO commence with their diet.
If We would enjoy a sound, healthy
religion. if we would love God and our
fellow men, if we would look OH the
bright sido Of everything, we must
have n good digestion. - Cleveland
Lcndcr.