Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-01-10
The Soul Destroying Buck-Wheat

To the Editor ofths Tribune.
Chicago, Dec. 18.-If some of our
moralists, reformers, and straight
jackets who are bewailing the low
state of morals as exemplified by the
habits ofso many of our young men,
would but turn their attention to
soma of the errors into which they
in common with the great mass Of
mankind, have fallen, as slaves to
the power IF their own appetites, it
may prove of some service to them
in their worthy endeavors to accom-
plish reforms.
The so.called popular vices of the
day have been SO often and 80 thor
ougbly portrayed with all their
baneful effects that one would natur-
ally conclude that there remained
nothing more against which to warn
the inexperienced or unwary. We
have been told that wine is a mock
er, and strong drink raging, and have
all become familiar with the terrible
effects resulting from It's use. To-
bacco has been denounced as q pois-
on, the extent of whose inroads up.
on health and morals is only equaled
by its drain upon tho purse. Snuff
has been pictured az q filthy adjunct
OF q diseased brain. Opium has
been deGried until its use has become
almost penalty. Even spruce gum
has become synonymous with bad
breath and a shallow mind, and the
frequent use of candy is deplored as
conducive to headaches aud decayed
teeth, but not warning has been
raised nor protest uttered against
tho greedy, indiscriminate use Of the
most popular of oil culinary devices,
buckwheat cakes, as exemplifiod not
only in the professional boarding.
house OF our large aud moro popular
cities, but at the breakfast table of
our most exemplary and consistent
advocates OF reform in personal hab-
its, many of whom will eloquently
enlarge upon the baneful and perni-
cious effects of the use of tobacco,
with its connecting habits, and yet
morning after morning will deliber-
ately gorge themselves with hot
cakes. until having demonstrated
their full capacity as gormandizers,
they devote their remaining ener.
gies to the duties and labors of the
day. Men and women who are con-
stantly appealing with voice and
purse to medical science for relief
from that great enemy of mankind
dyspepsia, with all its accompanying
disorders, will persistently indulge
in habit, which, in It's permanent
effects upon the physical system,
may prove almost, or quite as per-
nicious as some of the vices of their
weaker brethren.
Woman will bewail the weakness
OF man in his persistent use of the
filthy weed, or condole his unhappy
bondage to its power over will and
conscience, and yet with all the en-
oellishments of culinary art will de.
liberately spread before him an ar.
ticle OF diet which heats clogs and
tortIres the helpless stomach of it's
victim, which Ia it's distress invaria-
bly, demands some agent of relief, if
but temporary. What more ready
and efficient agent than the filthy
weed. what more magical in easing
or relieving burdened or distressed
stomach What more PLAUSIBLE or
convincing argument need be addu-
ced in proof OF it's medicinal virtues,
or it's beneficial agency as a panacea
for ills far too common
Many a slave of this "vile habit"
has dated his bondage to the crav-
ings OF an outraged stomach for re-
lief from sufferings caused by the
proverbial cake plate set before him
as embodying one of the culinary
essentials of a home of some doting
mother or fond wife,
No one. net even those loudest in
it's praise, deny the pernicious eff
feet of the weed upon the physical
system to greater or less extent,
but TO those who are more fortunate,
IN their freedom from this particular
vice. and yet so unoharitably de-
uounce its practice in others, might
be Justly applied tho sentiment of
the old warning against hurting mis-.
sles by those living in glass inolos.
ures, and to some OF the weaker
brethren our vice may not appear in
such hideous proportions, when view.
ed in connection with another, W hich
in many cases proves but prelude
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