The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16

party Of men left Salt Lake City for St.
Louis with tue United States mail, to be
delivered at Independence or St. Joe. 1t
was Winter. They found the prairies COW
cred with snow, and finally their animals
persisted with hunger; ct this stage the six
men found themselves utterly destitute OF
food the game had taken to the woods,
there were no rivers, the ground was COW
cred with SNOW, they were still hundreds
of miles from the journeys end, while the
bleak winter winds whistled across the
prairies in unobstructed fury, and froze
them sometimes almost to the hearts core.
All, absolutely all, they had to subsist upon,
| under the desperate circumstances was snow,
\ they burned, and boiled in snow water,
and upon it travelled six, days until they
| reached place of help.
These are the bare facts of the case, as
| reported to the Government, and demon
strated that coffee, alone, is sustenant,
as we'll as q stimulant; that it contains
the elements of nutrition; consequently it is
not mere stimulant, and all that has been
| said of smere stimulants" is not applica-
BILE to it. Coffee, then, being of itself nu-
tritious, capable of sustaining life for days
at a time, under circumstances of severe
cold and the labor of travelling on foot, and
| it being customary to use it with cream and
sugar, which are themselves concentrated
| nutriments, and with it being drank hot,
the conclusion appears to US legitimate as
one of Euclid's corrollaries, that coffee, as
| generally used in this country, ia vaiua-
BILE, nutritious, healthfui and comfortable
| item. .,
Chemical analysis has Of late, under the
| direction of the most competent and IN
telligent minds of the age, arrived at the
point just stated, and declares that coffee
is a n utriment, aud that it's essential prin-
ciple, although one hundred and twenty
Eve per cent. less, is identical with that of
the tea of commerce; and when facts, un-
iversal custom and science all unite In one
point, surely we may feel safe, aud here
after take our cup of coffee and tea I'm
peace and quietness."
/ Having said so much about cup of tea
and coffee, it is proper to say something OF
its preparation. Individuals and nations
have their preferences, but some things
must be laid down as of universal applica-
ton,
The first cup of coffee is the best.
The last cup of tea is the best.
Never take more than one cup at q meal
Never increase the strength.
> If it were mere stimulant then, after 6
while, it might, il not increased in strength
or quantity, produce no sensible effect
might do no good, as brandy, opium, O.
r any other mere stimulant but as tea anC
? coffee are nutritious, the moro so as they
are used with milk and sugar, cup of thu
sseelf- same" is likely to do you as muci
good and as little harm twenty years hence
as
4 1t has been justly said, ain the life o
' most persons a period arrives when tn
stomach no longer digests enough of tn
a ordinary elements of food to make up 70
;, the natural daily waste of the bodily sub
r stance. The size and weight of the body
@ therefore, begins to diminish more or les
preceptibly. At this period tea comes il
Q as a medicine to arrest the waste, to keel
|. the body from falling away SO fast, ant
:, thus enable the less energetic power o
digestion still to supply as much as i
Q needed to repair the wear and tear of tn
!. solid tissues. No wonder, therefore, tina
tea should be favorite, on the one-haud
: with the poor, whose supply of substantial
r food lie scanty, and on the other with tn
aged and infiIm, of the weaker sex, who's
Q power of digestion and whose bodily sub
3 stance have together begun to fail.
# Nor is it surprising that the aged femal
u who has only enough of weekly income t.
il buy what are called the common necessa
b ries of life, should yet spend portion O
?. her small gains in purchasing her ounce @
It tea. She can live quite as well on less O
= common food when she takes her tea alon
@ with it while she feels lighter at the sam
time more cheerful, and filter for her wor
d because of the indulgence.
e The use of tea became general in Chin
q about the year A. d. 600, and after dOze
1t hundred y ears use, the Chinese seemed {
" live as long as the ADglO-Saxons do, wit
ID whom, a thousand years later, it was g