Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-22

public charge, and give the necessary in
formation for so doing is the chief aim of
this article
All nutriment contains two elements:
one which warns. as the carbonates,"
answering to charcoal, which when it is
burned gives out heat. Without warmth
we die. That warmth is generated by the
stove within us that which feeds the stove
supplies the fuels whatever is oily,
whatever is sweet. Sweet OIL sugar, but
ter, are representatives, of this class of
food or nutriment and are almost entirely
nutritious. In a hundred parts of oil there
are nearly three hundred parts of carbon or
warmth; the same with sugar. Hence in
cold weather we have Il greater relish for
fats and sweets.
A Greenlander will take at one meal five
pounds of tallOw candles and rs much hogs
lard, butter or any kind of oil as he can
get: he needs it to generate warmth
enough within to keep him comfortable.
But there is as much nutriment of this
kind in pound of lard costing sixteen
cents, as there is in a pound of butter
costing fifty cents. \ pound of lard made
into gravy, taken with bread, goes every
bit as far as Il pound of butter spread on
bread a clear saving of two-thiTds.
The other element of food is called the
snitrates.,' making flesh and imparting
strength to work Among these are meats
ofsali kinds. Hence the carbonates warm
and the nitrates strengthen; pure carbon
ate oil. Eas oil and sugar, gives no strength
warmth onlv-and without other food
containing nitrates a man would soon die,
But beneticent wisdom has given both
constituents to almost all the common
articles of food-nOt only the nutriment
of warmth but the nutriment of strength;
hence, beef, for example, has thirtY-tlve
per cent. of nutriment, of which ten per
cent. gives strength, and fourteen per
cent. warmth, and two per cent. is brain
feeding material, called phoSphateS.
Common rice has nincty-two per cent. of
nutriment, eight per cent. being water.
There is as much nutriment in one pound
of rice, costing ten cents, as in three pounds
of beef costing dollar. The estimate
that we give is for beef without any bone !;
but the bone has to be paid for. Bacon is
cheaper than beef, and goes twice rs far;
it has only fourteen per cent. of water,
beef sixty-eight per cent. White beans
have siXty-seVen per cent. OF nutrlment,
and contain twice as much nutriment as
beef, costing pound for pound, not a
quarter as much. making a difference
altogether of several hundred per cent.
In Scotland whole families Of working
people make their entire breakfast on Oat-
meal porridge, costing but a few cents.
Wheaton grits, crushed wheat, Graham
bread. have all the elements needed to
give warmth and strength to the body and
to keep it in health and Vigor, if nothing
else were eaten, for weeks and months
together In this way the cost of eating
/ could be easily and healthfully reduced to
twenty-five cents day. and even less, and
the person never know the pangs of hunger
Very many persons in Ireland live
mainly on potatoes, which have but twenty
five per cent. of nutrimcnt the remainder
being water; and they would made a COM
paratively cheap diet.
1t has been stated that nearly half the
! globe is mainly fed on rice; the millions
/ of China and Japan make it their chief
article of subsistence.
/ If man sits down and leisurely makes
Il full meal of potatoes. or boiled rice, or
oatmeal porridge, or wheaton gritS OF
! hominy, either one of them seasoned with
well made gravy Ofhog's lard. a little flour
with a proper amount of pepper and salt,
/ he will feel no more hungry half an hour
! dItcIN.It, VIII IEdN e ttS illbCI SilltlN, W III
have quite rs much feeling of satisfaction
as to food. will be as much disinclined to
eat, as if he had made a dinner on broiled
( chicken, roast beef fried oysters, or porter
house steak: all the difference is in the
pleasurableness experienced during the
Short period of its going down the throat
Just as Il thirsty man will feel quite as free
from thirst in five minutes, from drinking
. ori,SS of cn11
the only difference being in plcasurable-
ness during the time of swallowing. The
practical question to be considered is
:. Ought ]. in these times, to give a dollar
! for a dinner of roast turkey, When the
system would be as much nourished by a
7 palmer one costing not quarter rs much?'
the only difference being the greater plea
sure during the few minutes of eating
! All that is needed is little self-denial
during dinntr-time, to save thousands OF
dollars in the city of New York every day.
A true humanity would seem to require.
in time of scarcity of food and clothing.
in the inclement weather of winter. that
both rich and poor should practice Il
reasonable amount of self-denial; tho rich
that they might be able to help the poor
more literally without expressing or IN
turing themselves: and the poor, that
they should do all in their power to make
the calls on those who are helping them
as moderate as possible
The following is It sharp and explicit
rule of diet for those whose circumstances
are limited: Breakfast-Oatmeal pOr-
ridge. cracked wheat or hOminy, alterna-
tin1 them and using salt and sometimes
sugar, syrup, treacle, or milk. Dinner
meat with potatoes. turnips, onions ol
beans, with corn bread OF Graham; nothing
else whatever; no dessert. If drink Is
needed. take half a glass Of cold water or
what is better, u cup of hot drink; the
best is milk and water, half and half
sweetencd or not: Drink no cold water
within IN hour after Il meal Let any
one, sedentary or laborlOTS, try such ;
diet for Il week. and, other things being
equal, he will weigh more, be stronger
: and be in better health than before bu
he should weigh himself at the same houl
of the day. in the same clothing, and or
the same scales. If, in the ways suggested
the g well-to-do " will put their shoulders
to the wheel and curtail some of thei
luxuries. and those who are not so g wei
off, will do their part, by practicing theil
share of self-denial and use less costly foot
although quite as nutritious and healthfu
us that eaten in better times, the rich ant
poor laboring side by side in the generous
aims of mutual help, all will think th
better of themselves, and the happier viii
they be in the very near future, before th
daisy peeps its little cheering head abov
, the snow, when the flush times " come
as come they must and will. rs inevitabl,
asi the coming of joyous sprlng.-Dr. "
, ". Hall.