Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-26

The last contribution to that rapidly In
,reasing class Of books which deals scientific
ally with the dinner table. is the work Of Dr.
Albert Bellows, entitled - How not to be
SEX Most Of our authors who treat this
subject seem 70 have arrived at the comfort
ing conclusion that Of all nations who in their
eating violate the laws of good health, we
Americans are the worst. DR.. Bellows is no
exception to this rule, but his remarks. never
theless, if not consoling, may be found use
full:
BRAIN WORKERS.
1t has been proved by analysis that the more
active the brain, the more phosphorus Is
used up and thrown of by the system, clergy
men usln, up more ON Sundays, and lawyers
on court DAYS. than at any other times, and
vet our professional men have lived as other
men liye-eating what has come before them
without considering whether the elements
thev take are adapted 10 develop stupidity
OF mental yigor eating, perchance, such
stupeiying articles as ham. OF fat pork, and
white bread and butter. while making or
ureaching a sermon. and such phosphate
food az trout and other fish. with unD0lted
bread. vegetables and fruit, when idle or rus
ticating But a little observation would
show a vast difference IN the quality Of ser
mons. whether made and preached on car
houace0us or phosphate diet; and the esti-
mste of the old divine, " If the number Of tons
Of beans and pork preached to every Sunday
while the owners were asleep might be offset
bv an estimate Of the number Of congrega-
rions. not only in New England but in Old
England and all the rest Of the fat and starch
eating world, who are put asleep by sermons
made from stupeiying principles extracted
from fat pork, fat beef and supcrilne -four.
The nitrates and phosphates Of all meats
and vegetables are soluble and partly insolu-
bIe: and. therefore, in soaking in cold water,
all lose much that Is important, especially to
The thinking man. In cold water, albumen
!. Dissolved on lost, but in hot water the albu-
men is coaguated. and mostly retained but
in bot water as well as cold, the soluble phos-
rhates are lost Neither fish. nor meats. nor
vegetables should. therefore. ever he picked
in brine. nor should they be boiled, unless in
little water, as in the admirable arrange
meut Of Zimmerman OF Durcklee, where all
the soluble materials, as well as all the flavor,
are retained in the water that is necessary to
keep up the steam, and being used as gravy
OF soup. all the elements are saved, as nature
intended.
In roasting, OF broiling, OF, indeed, in any
manner OF cooking. care must be taken not to
burn UP or otherwise destroy or lose any Of
the juices Of either vegetable or animal food ;
especially is the important for thinking men,
and for those whose digestion is full-the
power of the stomach, rs well az the power Of
the brain. being dependent on soluble phos-
uhorus. And especially is the power of the
stomach dependent ON the flavor Of the food
Let any one try the experiment Of cooking
meats. fish. potatoes, carrots. turnlQs, or any
other l00d-animal or yegeta5le-in steam
or IN which the flavor and all the steam are
distilled back and saved, and compare the
taste Of these with that Of the same food cook
ed so that all these elements are lost, and he
will be astonished at the difference in flavor,
digestibility. and mental and physical ener-
gy impaired by it.
MUSCLE woEKERS.
From the chapter on =. Food for Laboring
Men. " We make some valuable selections
also The kinds of food most wanted, because
eaten when not wanted, hy the system, are
the most expensive The article most used
when not wanted, is superiine -four, out Of
which has been bolted a large portion Of its
nitrates and ph0sphates. This being used
with butter and sugar, furnishes very little
but heating material The next article on
which most money is expended and wasted,
because most used with other articles contain
inr enough Of carbonace3us clements, is but
ter. which contain, nota particle Of strength
or lile-giving material and therefore useless
except with food deficient in carbon. And
another article most extensively used and for
the same reason wasted. is sugar which
though useful with too acid fruits. and rs a
part Of a meal in which is %, large a proper
ton Of nitrorcnous food, Is worse than useless
In confectionery cakes 6c., especially If eat
en- between meals, and when food is nos want
ed, as it not only adds to the superauous
heat, but causes fermentation in the stomach
and bowels. and causes or tends 70 cause,
natulence. cole. dyspepsia, and the thousand
and one troubles oil the digestive organs,
which we are apt to impute to green vegeta-
bles and fruit, when the fact il, these extra
carh0naccous substances. IN their passage out
Of the system, embauass the digestion of nat
ural food. and cause it to give Us these trOu-
hles and this Is proved by the fact that
those who avoid these expensive and useless
articles may eat as much as they choose of
green vegetables and fruits, and they give
them no tiatulance. produce no irritation.
Our Puritan foreiathers, who lived on
beans. pears, unbolted grains, and the meats.
vegetables, and fruits as they came from
their fields and gardens, cooked in the sim
plest manner, best calculated to develop
their flavor, and prepare them for diges-
1; uJ "'le ~, I,;a eoa",'' ,nJ arr f,re
,oa+Lo-s ,-.i W. ~ 5o+ the naIe-face5 aab-
.,,,,,o,o1 I'll c,,ldra+ic consnTnn.
tiyo and sc,t;,ne-tal race as are their de-
,,encr,te don,I,ters # tle isn't generation
Even onr farmers and their wives and daugh-
ters have become terribly 5erenerated. In