The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-09
HELOURNAL.
HYeENIc.

OYSTERS AND FRUIT.-Most per-
sons are glad to eat oysters when
they can get them, but if they canl
be nice and luxurious about it they I
will enjoy the following titbit of
yourmand rhetoric that is travelling
around in our agricultural exchan
ges.
Fruit should be eaten alive like
oysters. There is an edge to the |
taste of fresh opened oyster, which
comes, 1 suppose, from the surprise |
he feels at being suddenly scooped
out of his shell. sIn few minutes
this gives place to feeling of
alarm; and then, in an hour or two,
to one of despair. When he is laid
out by his brethren in a dish, the
whole brood is hopeless and sad.
They may taste of life, but it is of
life disappointed. But the fresh
opened oyster has no time to grow
feverish or melancholy. He is
caught in q state of serene uncon@
of sorrow. He has a
sound mind in q sound body, and is
therefore wholesome and nice. AL
low him to reflect before his spirit is
gone. But the quick operation of
him from his shell sends
a spasm through his being, which
startles all the latent excellence he
may possess into sudden and unique
perfection. If eaten at this crisis of
his healthful powers he conveys all
the qualification which an oyster is
capable of giving to the superior
animal man. So, analogously, / be-
ieve, it is in eating fruit. 1t must
be eaten alive, before the reaction be-
gins to set in from its severance
from the life-carrying stem. While
a plum, for example hangs upon its
stalk, it is in some magnetic cores
pondence with all the powers of na-
ture: it shares the life of the earth
and sky; it has sunshine in its veins
and dew in its cells. Cut it of, and
in time it dies, corrupt, unwhole-
some; and every moment in its pro
gress from life to death is marked
by a decadence oftbat essence which
makes fruit. Therefore supposing
you pluck tt ripe, the sooner a plum
is catch the better for you. This, of
course, applies most to tender skin
ned fruit. A firm apple dies slowly.
A nut holds out long against the
debasing influence of separation
from its source of life. But plums,
figs, peaches, apricots and strawber-
ries begin to suffer directly after
they are gathered. This is the case
even with pine-apples, which are sus-
ceptible of bruises, but they contain
such an apparent surplusage of fla
yor, that the first stages of their de-
cay are not perceived except by a
cunning palate.
ARE ONIONS HEALTHFUL.-Ap ply
sician has forwarded the following to
the New York Farmers Club. We
should like to know if any of our
readers have facts which sustain the
conclusion given: "On ship board
at New Orleans in the year 1S49, in
charge of one hundred marines with
cholera among them, I observed that
those who ate freely of onions, sup
posing them to be healthy, were at
tackled certainly and fatally. On
ions and salt cured the bite of rat
tlesnake on my son, and are consid-
cred specific in all snake bites. /
have found four separate witnesses
of phenomena connected with small
pox and fever.
1. Onions in rooms with smallpox
rot rapidly.
2. Blisters arise in them.
3. They retain and communicate
the virus many weeks after the epi-
demic has subsidized.
4. Applied to the feet of fever pa
tients they rapidly turn black.
5. They prevent the spread ol
smallpox in thickly populated tene
ments by absorbing the virus.
6. A man with hydrophobia, il
his frenzy ate voraciously of onions
and recovered.
From all these facts may be de
duced.
l. That onions should not be eat
en- when there is a prevailing epi
demic.
2. That onions sliced and fre
quently changed are good disinfect
ants.
8. That experiments should b.
made to test the extent of their use
fitness. For many years l have op
posed vaccination as ordinarily done
and hence hail with satisfaction any
means of mitigating the virus o
this distemper."
FRUITS AND BERRIEs.-Fruits an(
berries at this season of the yea
are not only precious luxuries, bu
great promoters of health. They
act upon the liver, promoting tina
secretion naturally which many ar,
in the habit of obtaining only by tn,
means of artificial medicines. They
thus avert many a disease resulting
from torpid condition of the liver
Another way in which they act ben
eficially is in the mechanical effec
their little seeds produce in passing
through the bowels, very much tho
same as the water of an irritated eye
ball when any hard substance touch
es that delicate organ, and this water
by dissolving the hardened contents
of constipated bowels, keeps them il
a healthier state than any pill o.
purgative invented by the apothe
cary. There can be no doubt tina
in the summer and fall seasons peo
pie who live manly on berries
and coarse bread, can almost ensure
exemption from sickness, while
those who eat heartily of solid meat:
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