Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

before tho ncxt moal, which is never tho
case when l have my porridgo. l feel as.
sured if workingmen and their families
would but take basin of oatmeal and milk
porridge night and morning; with such
other. food as they can procure in the in
terval, wo should have healthier race of
men aud women than now exists. A few
years ago l had Dcvonshirc girl living
with mo as servant. The girl was willing
enough to work, but had not tho stamina to
perform it, This found, on questioning
her, arose from tho deficient and ill-adviscd
diet on which she had been reared. She
shortly began to take hor porridgo night
aud morning, and this, with daily mid
day meal of meat, enabled hor to perform
her duties with case. 1t is surprising how
much nutrition is contained in this cheap.
wholesome food"
Oats do not contain great deal of phos-
phatic matter, and therefore arc not com
mended as bone producing food, but mas.
much as almost all tho food We eat supplies
tho necessary phosphatcs for the growth of
tho Skeleton, there is moro necessity to have
our diet composed of suoh substances as
produce flesh, fat and muscles, and oats
contain suporabundancc of these clements
Travel where we will North of the Poto-
mao or Ohio, and wo find oatmeal and milk
or sugar favorito breakfast dish. The
grains of oats are ground sufficiently to rub
OF tho bran, and perhaps crack the grain.
In this condition they arc boiled and eaten
like hominy with milk or with sugar. Wo
hope our farmers will test tho palatableness
of this dish during the summer and lot US
hear from them. It is now dish to most
of them, but if it proves to DO wholesome
and palatable, why should it not be intro
duced hero as it has been olsewhere2
We clip tho following from another ex-
change:
Oatmeal, now found on almost every
gentleman's breakfast table, was, few years
ago, used exclusively by the Scotch and
Irish. DIR. johnson, who, in his hatred of
the Scotch, lost no opportunity of saying q
bitter word against them, defined oats us in
Scotland food for Scotohmcn, but in Eng
land food for horses.
eyes," answered an indignant SCOTCH
man, "where oan you find such men as in
Scotland, or such horses as in Eugland?'
Wo have hoard of shrcwd old Scotch
mother who used to mako her family eat
oa'"C"' htSt) sayluS: - Ho O1lrn VINO cuts
the most porritch will get the most meat
after it," But tho bairn who gained tho
prizc always found himself too full to enjoy
tho meat.
1t is mentioned in most charming book,
"Tho Life and Letters of Lord NIacaulay,"
that Carlyle, oatchiug sight Of Macaulay's
face in rcposo, remarked, DWELL any ono
can SEQ that you arc oil honest good sort of
fellow, made out of oatmeal"
If oatmeal can "make" suoh men as Walter
Scott, DR.. Chalmers and Lord NIaoaulay,
we may we'll heap high tho porritch dish,
and bribe our children to cat of it. Ono
thing wc do know, that it is far better for
tho blood and brain than oakc, confeotions,
and the scores of delicaoies on which many
pale littlo pets arc fed by their foolishly
fond mothers.
"The Queens Own" regiment Of almost
giants, recruited from tho Scottish High
lands, arc, as Carlyle said of Macaulay,
"made of oatmeal" So boys who want
height, and breadth, and muscle, and girls
who want rosy checks and physical vigor,
should turn from hot broad and other indi-
gcstiblcs, to this food for Scotchmen and
horses"