The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-02-15

/ We 0fterzhearPeopie remark, "Wedon't want
10 be thinking OF what does harm and whatdoes
good. Best way is to eat what's on the table, -
ad know a mother who gives her only child,
a little girl three years old, hot biscuits mince
pie, rich cake, and the like, believing, she says
that "a chid's stomach should get used to any
thing" For her part, she believes in living the
natural way, not in picking and choosing. Why
not, on the same principle, let the child get used
to all kinds of reading, and all kinds of compli-
ca lions.
1t is curious, the way people assume that be-
cause the present system of cookeryis customary,
it is therefore natural as if the course of din
ner, with its central dish and its revolving lesser
dishes, were, equally with the solar system, an
established order of nature Meal-providers have
sought out many Inventions and call these the
natural way. They give us at one sitting, fish,
pork, -four, butter, salt, milk, eggs, raisins,
Spices corn, potatoes, squash, coffee, sugar, sale
ratus, pickles. onions, lard, pepper cooked fruits
tomatoes essences, all variously combined, and
say "Here, eat-eat in the natural way" Why
natural2 The men and women it produces are,
no doubt, its natural men and women. Hear
them ''Oh, my head oh, my back oh, my
side oh, my liver oh, my stomach oh, my
nerves ~ On every side resounds the mournful
chorus. Seldom do we hear break in the jubant
voice chanting in response 81 am in perfect
health feel no ACHE no pain ~ Is this, then,
the natural way But thesystem speaks for itself.
Or rather the innumerable host of invalidS speak
for it. So does the grand army of doctors. So
do proprietors of patent medicines, rolling in
wealth. Why, people take ill health for granted
'No use telling your aches-everybody has EN-,
is remark often heard.
Occasionally an individual rebels, and insists
on eating really simple aud natural food. Such
individual is straightway called odd. He is jeer
ed. ridiculed accused of thinking about his
stomach and about what merely goes to sustain
the body, as if such thinking were not worth
while.
Now, these bodies are nearer and dearer to US
than any earthly possession. And, what is more,
they aciU cling to us. We are Joined TO them,
for better for worse and from this union there is
no divorce, till death do US part. Why, then,
scoff at them? Why not, on the contrary, seri-
ousy consider how we may build them up as
pure, as strong, and as perfect as may be? Not
worth while to think about ones stomach? Why?
The stomach is not an obscure party, doing busi-
ness in a small way and on its own account. 1t
is leading partner in an important and influential
firm 'Stomach, Brains & Co." Nothing vulgar
about brains Oh no. They've always been
respectable. Well, in this great firm, each men,
ber is liable for ALL and all for EACH Ii one runs
in debt, the others have to pay. 1t is we'll known
that the condition of the brain and other organs
is affected by the quality of the blood, and the
quality Of the blood by the quality of the food.
| The change Of food into blood is chemical pro-
cess, and why is not human chemistry as we'll
worth studying as any other kind For instance,
as that by which the manufacturer selects the
best chemicals for his various dyestuffs and the
gardener those best adapted to the various soils.
Perhaps the time may come when this chemistry
of eating shall rank with other scientific studies.
People shall then he allowed to "pick and choose"
the diet best calculated to make healthy nerves.
blood, bones, ETC., and they will not suffer ridi
cule for so doing. Hearth and Home.