The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-02
MR. BEEcHER's BREAD AND WATER
THEORY VERSUS PRAoTiOK.
Eow an Admirer Of Mr. Beechsr Tried the Diet, and
How He Didn't Like 1t.
LET THE OLD MAN HAVE A CHANCE AT 1T
HIMSELF.
[From the Irish World.l

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who can keep me awake, and had the pieasuj
of hearing his famous bread and water di
course Which has kicked up such whilI,
balloo. When we were going home, my wifi
who thought the Plymouth pastor was mrs
Gle OF wisdom not inferior to St. John th
That was magnificent sermon, Fred. and I n
mistake" --o n
Tip top, Mary" replied; "Mr Beecher
Didn't he pitch into the strikers. tboppb
sald she. The impudence of the viliains, wht
say they cannot rear q family on ninety cent,
aor Gay, .S;n wnen good wholesome water can be had
Its outrageous, Mary replied "I done
hoNT hn0M wnas M =. the world is coming to! often
thst las, was a ar, water and fine view, and now
they shout bloody murder when they can't get
good bread into the bargain"
sure they never had ANYTHING for diunar
bnt potatoes and salt in their own country. !"
SAID she, but here they think they must get
tanv %eat 81 hsae least twics week. They have
"What was that he said about the bread and
water. Mary y said /, 'tI couldn't hear it ex-
actly for the people laughing"
why, he said o man who couldn't live on
bread and water when necessity required it,
wasn't fit to live. That a family could love
1'.ht Molk ana Dc happy on bread and water for
breakfast; water and bread for dinner and
bread and water for supper, and then they
might commence the following morning with
milk from the pump"
well, Mary" said 1, " he must know what
ne IS talking aUont, for it is serious snbie Ct
and be has no doubt tested his doctrine on |
nlnsett, and when SO wise and good a man
say thls economical diet is sufficient to sustain
aVigorous and happy life, 1 don't think that |
could do better these hard times than try it |
myself; then If it agrees with me can give it |
to you and the children, for it would be great
saving and no mistake"
On" said she, looking a trifls uneasy, sit
was the strikers he was talking to he wasn't
dition of life" 49, o"A ooN'
MARY" replied, "if man who has to Law
tSis, tS a,g mines, drive an engine, or carry
the nod, whether the thermometer is up to 100
or down to Zero can live work, love and be
happy on that diet, can /, 30 can the chill |
dren, and mean to see how much fruth there |
10 IN our pastors doctrine will commence
tne experiment. 10 morrow morning, and give
IL far trial for q week"
Sne tried to coax and laugh me out of nv re-
solVe tand very coaxing way she has, too),
. put 1T was of no use for am as obstinate as a
spanish mule or General Grant himself. So
next morning sent the girl to the pumn for a |
pitcher of water, and my wife set before me a
nice loaf of her own baking, and Iu wager
tnere nn is not better baker in the City of
Fer the bread, but as the reverend pentleman | L
bad said nothing about butter-and indeed q
ssiinety sirsny cents q day wouldn't go far in that
of course sternly refused to comply.
got over the first breakfast pretty well. the .
|. I; .ater was cold, the bread sweet. and had be- q
restaurant in the city, and think rather b
estonished the waiter who came that day d
pas 5ase my g.s order nf When told him to bring
from the way he looked at me it was NJ
'iain he thought 1 was crazy, and could see "
n nm n whispering his impression to the other
citing down my dinner than my breakfast. "
nd when returned to my office almost as | to
ungry as before left, was far from being tn
my bappiest. temper, as both the porter "
nd the boy quickly found out But if II was "
aro to get through with my dinner la Ri
eeener, 1 10 was ten times more difficult to eat nt
har f,,A
rrili' which made her cry and put her in the CO co
y. AS @ tor the rest of the evening, and when I tTtt
at down according to habit, to read fonnd w
was hardly eqnal to the task. fey
~ IL hau not :; remarkably strong will Joined ed
iIn iI.n an unusual amount of PRIDE whicn will mc
svef 5 allow me to show the white feather, it hu
pniu have been quite impossible to get s,
rough the Beecher regimen the following @ eo'
y and II Mary was not the best little wife W ou
u one OF the sweetest tempered little women WI
the world she would never have put mn With ls
snappishness both to her and the children
ep p,1 came home in the evening. Certainly
plymouth PASTORS staff of life had mot so
nsehod. -N'o o"h
usually admire the wit, logic, and learning
lloh sclntillates brightly through the col.
ms of my favorite evening paper, bnt When
tleo this evening to wade throug the lead
article on the existing dangerous strikes,
prew the paper down before had half read
lnd said the argument was all ID non
! se: The diet was having 9 singular effect IT
bringing me round to the side of the work tho S
IN before. 1 think may venture the re-. ia
rk' based on my own experience, that no 80 10
n-were he as conservative as Vanderbilt oPini
lselt-could subsst two weeks on Plymouth be, fe
without developing into q full. blown Civ
HHcaI. more
Pc next morning Mary was down bright 1ead,
eqarIy, and when l reached the break fast howe
tcrad tet Tu the 5aole q good supply of SINCE
e!ea toast, ham and eggs done to a charm, that
not coffee whose fragrance filled the arsst
Of their odors. nenetrstiny 70 tbIa Una many
OF my soul Aud oh, how my dear little inesti
3 exhausted all the charms of her ipnocent sion f
Rre in coaxing and wheedlipg me in the recen
eaaVor ito break my resolution but when all m
found she couldn't bulge me from my which
n eoI'e' ene sooDeo as II her heart would chimes
ek, aud said if kept on this way she knew We
pold soon have to 60 to the lunatio asylum, room,
what would become of her and tue chill. So..-o
Lot Freddy and Perdy, of Kitty and Mat Ts GSsr0
2 t cut half her teeth vet. Then for the agent,
a1n1e she turned her invective against the win ell
SIC1 S;s pastor, and called him an old fool,
uiGn't know what he was talking about 10!
SAID she would like to put his head in a BALME