The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-02
What We Eat and How We Eat.

From Dtf Cincinnati ChEUliel,
Adulterated food Is, perhaps, the cheap
eat luxury that an American citizen car
now indulge in. Il lis q luxury because 4
is cheap, and II q cheap because it Is adnl
lerated. All the conditions, then to per
feet enjoyment are 70 be found In some
thing that Is fit 70 eat being mixed with
something thEt "a not flt to be eaten
Modern science has advanced all the way
up TO make the most pAlaiSble butter ou'
Of the veriest slime in the bottom Of the
Thames What difference does 1t make
whether butter comes from the lactcan
fluid, sweet uddcr, or from the vilcst gar.
bage Of the severn, so II tastes pleasant
and passes for the genuine product Of the
sweetest Churn, rolled with fair maids
dlmpled hands into yellow golden balls,
under the shade Of wide-spreading tree,
near the cool spring house.
Coffee Is delightful beverage Lord
Bacon says: "This drink Comforteth the
brain and heart, and helpeth digestion" !"
Tho flowers grow In clusters At the root
Of the leaves, close TO the branches, are
pure white and fragrant. and each berry
contUins two grains of coffee. Out Of
these little berries, well Drowned shade
dnrker than the golden hue, Is made de.
cOctiOn, II delicious drink, with richest
aroma, which we sip with sweet relish,
md call il coffee Under the inspiration
Ol ils gentle stimulus the brain glOws and
gives It's best power, and man is better
and purer for this good drink, that sOOthes
the body and repairs the waste Of matter
But science steps in here and does some.
thing better than nature. What Ia this
clean, aromatic little berry, growing in
the valleys and up the mountain sides in
the tropics 10 us, II We can have cheaper
substitute made Of Chicoy, beans, pea
nuts, acorns, roasted corn, rye, wheat,
roasted potatoes, mangOld.wurZel, carrots,
parsnips, and refuse grounds, duly com
compounded, put up In clean papers,
handsomely labeled, served mp in the no.
tells, eating houses, and even invading the
Old Dominion cotIee-pOt upon our own
tables, sacred for years TO the pure gin Of
Gods free grace, the unadullerated, lus.
CiOus coffee berry,
When we sit down TO the breakfast Ia
bic these sultry mornings, with u Inult-
lcssly white t0blC:clOth spread out, en-
hlematic of the good things that are to
come upon it--pure golden butter, just
yielding TO the gentle pressure Of the
knife, good savOry bread, and, CrOwning
all, the grateful fumes Of rich pure cOiiVe
spreading like an incense, we cut and are
blessed and rcplCnished with new life for
the days tolls, "ClcdRlincsS is gOtiliRcsS,"
and pure viands arc the best ethics, and
each arc within the reach Of Nll.
But sit down TO an Rdulteratcd table.
cloth, stained and smeared butter looking
like grease and tasting like tallOw, bread
hot and bitter with saleratlls, or void Of
all phOsphates that give strength TO bone
and brain and enamel TO the teeth, coffee
compounded oEenough villlainOus ingrCdi.
cnts to destroy the nervous organism Of
an OK, and when you are loaded with this
vile compost, rise and go with the poisons
that will soon sap the VigOr Of the most
robust manhood.
The American people must learn to eat
-how and what TO cat. There Is no civ.
NIL kinds Of crude, impure stuff into their
stOmnchs. Tom COrwin once s0id: "The
people of Kansas ought TO be born with
ballOt.bOXCs in their bellies" Americans
ought to be born with Cast.irOn stOmacls,
for, ns they arc now used, or rather Hbus'
cd, they Hro simply chemical laboratories
for the analysis Of NIL sorts Of impure and
hArhariOus food, shOvelcd In as il ona
wager, to gorge and overload II in the
possible time.
4 Canny ScotChmNn, David Macrae,
who has recently been travelling in AmGrl.
ca, Inns published book: 1.-THE Amcrl.
cans ut ETomc-Pcn and Ink Sketches OF
American Men, Manners and lnstitu-
tons" Here Is what he says about how
we eat In the Opera Restaurant At
ChicagO--a place frcluented by mcr.
chants-T had the curiosity to time
five or six gentlemen at their din
ncrs, and found the average number
nr minutes taken by each TO he
three and three quarters, All Of them had
two cOUrscs-onv Of them had three.
There were no seats; tue customers
swarmed in front OF long metal counter
like II public house bar. a man would
come in walk briskly to the counter,
order brown soup, shoot II down; order
chicken and ham. give 1t the rlln OF his
teeth as it flew in bits into his mouth
would snap up blackberry tart, pay his
money, and bo Off, This was dinner.
Most Of these gentlemen only so home for
supper, which IS the last meal Of the day.
| never saw anything in America, in the
way OF quick eating, outstrip those stand
ing dinners In the Opera Restaurant at
Chicago: but all over America the habit
Is more or less prevalent"
Let us learn what to eat, how To eat,
and IN tnkr nlentv of time In eating.