Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23


d fed wholly with it, they would vast
z and starve to death. But brown fou
is rich in what makes flesh an,
! trength-richer, indeed, than an
| other kind of food. BY a new pro
cess coming generally into use, thu
hull of wheat is removed before grin
ding, which leaves the valuable par
for use in various forms. The crush
ed white wheat sold by grOcers is one
of the best articles, as all disagreea
BILE parts of the grain are left out, anC
mhen boiled a long time (speakine
only as gouFmands, and without {
spark of hygienic enthusiasm), this
breakfast dish
MAY BE CALLED DELICIOUS.
The best bread, in point of taste, is
baked next thesfre, or in brick or cast
iron ovens, by which a greater degree
Of heat attacks the dough, and trans
forms it into richer sweetness than
the common way of baking. AS coun-
try people say, it takes the sweetness
of the fire. At West Hoint, some
years ago derhaps it is so now-part
of the bread was baked in pans, the
/ rest directly on the brick floor of the
oven; and the brick loaves were so
much better ON this account that the
cadets used to draw lots for them
when rations were served. Many an
| officer will remember this difference.
! The sweetness of the corn cake of our
forefathers, and of the far-famed
scOnes of Scotland, was due to bak-
| ing them on hot stones or boards Just
| before the fire where it's heat was
strongest. Coarse flour food, wheth-
| er well boiled or baked, is certain of
pleasing the palate. In those doleful
marches of our army in the South
west, when for weeks our soldiers
toiled through the swamps of the Red
River, dragging cannon through mud
and water up to their knees, their
food was almost wholly of boiled
flour and water, often without salt.
On this men fed with loathing. till
dysentery seized them, and they sick
ened and died. If the prejudices of
the common soldiers allowed the
serving of rations of coarse flour in
stead of fine, this horror would never
be repeated, for wheat meal is palata-
bic cooked in the rudest fashion, and
would keep up the strength under the
seVerest labOrs, besides almost pre-
venting the appearance of that
scourge, dysentery. 1t is intolerable
to think that the dislike of the ignO-
rant to coarse flour is so deep seated
as to block government in carrying
out a change that would so much
benefit the health of the army. But
rations of brown flour would be as
bad to Mike and Jonathan as CREASED
cartridges to the sepoys of the Indian
mutiny.
Women of intelligence share the
preference for a coarse and perfect
diet, to which the upper classes of
England owe their fine development
of muscle and marble compilations.
1t will not do to live on. any one arti-
Gle, however wholesome and it is
firmly believed that a variety of we'll
favored food is indispensable to the
best condition of mind and body.
Leonetta may make her cracked wheat
into the old English frumenty by
boiling it with spices, almonds, rails
ins and sugar, cooking it not less than
three hours. If she is teacher, or
USES HER BRAIN MUCH,
barley, in soup and cakes, should
form a frequent part of her fare, with
as much salmon, oysters, HOLSTERS,
beef, mutton, venison, and game as
she can eat, because these things feed
the brain and nerves. Oatmeal IL es-
pecially good to supply strength and
nervous force, but it is generally
cooked so as to be uneatable by per-
sons of delicate tastes. Beans also
create flesh and brain power, but it
takes a French cook to make accept
able to every body. If Leonetta
wishes for piquant vegetables, let
her cook them till nearly done, and
finish in strong gravy or soup stock,
instead of dressing them with the
melted butter that is the sole sauce
known to American cooks, unless pork
fat is reckOned. But let her be shy
of fats in every shape, if she wants
to be rid of the large pores in her
face, which are oil glands filed TO
their utmost with secretion. Fat
never made healthy flesh in a tenn
perate climate. The juice of meats,
cream if she can eat it,, cheese and
the nitrogen of coarse food will pro-
vide all the heat and force needed by
the body. And this regimen is the
only means of strengthening the
blood, as it is called-that is, supply
ing it with the elements of muscular
and nervous strength which the lit
tie veins drink continually as it courses
III its round. She must eat as much
of these good things as she has an
appetite for, and to get an appetite
she must work IS much as possible in
the air and sun, This is the ring of
an old story, but observation only
convinces one of the great need OF
repeating it. 1t is astonishing how
busily a woman may be occupied in
active work about her house, and yet
hardly feel the direct rays of the sun
ten minutes a day. Houses are not
built TO secure ample sunshine. Even
in the country, where there is no
crowding of houses to cut off the
light, the bedrooms and pantries will
be the south side of q dwelling, and
the hving-rOoms look to the north,
or their windows. will be over hung
by porches to low to let the sun creep
| in, save at its rising and setting. The
want of proper food and of sunshine
| is the cause Of three-fourths of the
nervous ailments of women. Over
work is not the cause. Work, and
/ hard work, too, is the lot of every
I woman who has a right to look on
/ her life with complalsance, and she
would be prepared for it by natures
kindly suficieney, if food, sunlight,
and exercise were daily allowed their
effect. If women gave their bodies
I the same care that they do their best
gowns, they would come up to the
standard of their work. They ought
to be nearly as strong as men, with q
finer and more supple strength, it is
true, but the difference should not
/ be the immence disparagement to
/ women that it is. What they want
/ is muscle, not fat, on their meager
limbs, which ought to be slender,
! graceful, and full of nerve as those of
an Arab courser. Perhaps in. finding
roundness of figure and clearness Of
complexion they may find strength;
and who shall say that these things
do not lie together? Sunshine and
air ripen and freshen the cheeks of
women as they do fruit in orchards.
/ If Leonetta viii, like Englishwomen,
/ spend four and five hours day in the
open air, in such exercise as she can
bear, she Will find her spirits and
color revive as brightly as she can
wish.
A young man, who had spent lit
tie of his own time and a great deal
of his fathers money in fitting for
the bar, was asked, after his examin-