Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-13

DIl1t1eS OF poor humanity, CnaC Tue uTuJn
be not told; better to wear Grape and
bombazine and go amounting than to
expose the reality. Better to let greed
have rule-to cover and smother and
trick out with soft-handed delusion the
fatal truth It was not pleasant or
agreeable.
Wives and children do starve to death,
but it is done so quietly that they don't
know themselves what killed them.
Many nursing mother is starved until
she totters on the verge of the yawning
grave; growing children, through pow
erty or greed, are starved and their
physical powers weakened in a way SO
that they never recover from the early
blight; poor sewing girls and theolog-
ical students are starving at fearful
rate, and all from the lack of the proper
food-that which contains the needed
nourishment. l believe many starve
ignorantly -those who know not the
truth of physiology, and who do not
understand what is needed to build up
and preserve life and vigor, and to
keep in repair and supply the waste of
this wonderful piece of mechanism, the
human body.
All of us who blunder thus through
Ignorance are to be pitied and taught.
We must seek for this knowledge which
is so needful to our we'll being, both
physically and intellectually. Any one
is culpable who remains in ignorance of
these wise laws in this age of good
books and good lectures But too often
the money greed is the cause of tagging
steps, short breaths, pallid faces and at
tenuated frames.
1t is common for many farmers to sell
off every edible that will command
good price, such as fresh eggs, good
butter, early vegetables, fat sheep and
cattle and chickens, and, for the sake
of the money gained, deny themselves
and their families that which their vi
tality demands, and, deprived OF, is pos.
itively defrauded.
It is heathenish for the man with
stalwart iron frame to expect his wife
and children always to have an appetite
for that coarse food which his outdoor
exercise makes him take in with such a
royal relish, Think of a weak. nursing
mother, in hot weather, sitting down to
| dinner of old dry boiled beans, strong
smelling smoked or picked pork, corn
bread, buttermilk, raw onions, greens
boiled in with fat pork, and sausage,
saved by dint of extra ingenuity And
yet such things are common and the
lord of the hous ehold raves and says
very bitter things about "whims" and
"want of exercise and EMOTIONS, and
then cites himself as an example of
health and hardihood and manly vigor.
Sometimes the woman physically don't
starve, but the woman intellectually is
dead, dead. Sometimes only her love
is dead, and laid aside and covered up
with Young hopes and aspirations that
were blighted long, long ago-died in
their young bloom and freshness, and
while the simmer of gold and the 6 low
of the rose were yet upon them.
/ heard thin-faced woman with sad
eyes, say the other day to her husband:
ooh, did you know that Jack Homer
was dealing in fresh fish this spring
Gets them right from the lake every
week. They did look SO good, too p
The bear! the great big polar bear
What did he do but step to the wall of
the old tumble down kitchen, and just
as tenderly and lovingly as I would pat
the pinky curve of a blessed baby's
cheek and chin, did he pat fitch of
old, strong, brown-smoked bacon, and
say: "Yere's yer good fresh fish. I'd
wish for nothing better p
He did not, like humane husband,
say "Fresh fish Why, Doll, wouldn't
We like some? Well, dear, you shall
have 'em bless yer poor little thin
| face.'
| No, he sat down to dinner-it was as
good as the house atforded-he liked
! potatoes baked, so she had baked them:
and he liked boiled pork, and there it
was; and there was his favorite
custard pie and hot coffee everything
that he liked; but nothing was there to
supply the call made by her little frame.
[ don't know as he knew this or, if
knowing it, whether he cared as much
about pleasing her as she did him. Judge
not, for he remarked Immediately after
spearing into a piece of pork that, in
size, looked like young pig, on his
strong fork: why, Marian, fresh fish
must be as much as ten cents a pound
AS high as portland, you know, a
pound of pork will go twice as far as
pound of fish, besides the good grease
that's fried out of it; and that's good
| AO1 oIO1U ILL Jou huOW,-SOOu W
make biscuits and pies, ana to fry taters
in and aigs, and to shorten the crust of
corn bread. Why, seems to me you're
not very good economizer, or you'd
"a counted this all up Oh, no no
fish fur me at them prices! I'd eat
my own head off fore I'd be able to
make fust payment on the new thrashin'
masbien if eat fish at them high fig
gers p
rubbed my forehead, for I seemed
to hear away on the mountain heights,
the voice of the minister who had united
them in marriage four years ago, $50
long as you both do live. % His words
came to us very distinctly.
Bonnie Marie Bennett was brave
little lady when she was school girl
in Lansing; but how she would endure
| slow starvation was another thing.