Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-15
Cause of HI Health and Mortality in
m1SSac

IBoston Correspondence of the Chicago J ,urnal.
We eat TO live, and live to eat" So says an
Old prOyerb. The report OF the Massachusetts
DOar0 OF health on the subject lets little day.
hight into the cause of so much premature
death III this state. Bad diet is the cause of
half the mortality in Massachusetts. One-half
OF the people OF the state support the other
nall writing from farming town, a cores
pondent says: III people die of consumption
acquired here, 1t Is because they sleep III little
close, impure bedrooms on the ground floor
never oathe, and eat little meat, except fried
salt pork. The butcher runs through the town
once week, and the baker just as often.
what with Tried salt pork and heavy brown
Dread and poor butter and bad air AMI closed
pores, II IS only a wonder that they live as
long as they do From boot and shoe town:
Inc same unYarylng round of pies, CAKES
tough meat poorly cooked, boiled tea and
muddy coffee, is repeated day by day Too
much SAT- hsh and meat are used and tOOlt1le
1allhaceOuS food. As general rue the modes
OF cooking are semi barbarOuS. Frying is uni
terSaL Soups are almost unknown, except
among the Canadian French. The ma iOrity of
IahlllieS In this town eat pie at every meal.
DOughnuts and 'turnOvers' fried in lard are
aSO In general use for supper or breakfast.
Many families use crackers as a substitute for
Dlead, Duylng barrel at a time" The time
devoted TO meals by one half of the population
OF the state averages from ten to fifteen min
nteS. Persons employed in mills shoe shops
and other manufacturing concerns ''eat
on a jump These people fill their
mouths with great ''wads' of food, sWaI
low them very RAPIDLY, and soon find
II.
1mpactlOn of food in the rSOphaguS of these
people must be embarrassing and still the
people wonder why it is they are troubled
with the dyspepsia. The teachings of professed
cooks viii never avail the people OF this state.
linen there IS no inventive faculty in the pre-
paration OF food. Its preparation is regarded
as species OF unmitigated drudgery, and not
as department OF art whose cultivation
would make lie happy and healthy. Good
motr Is spoiled nice beef is sacrificed, and the
material that Is eaten is despatched with as
little delay as possible. when bread. the
stan OF lie IN all countries, is found to be as
then be sign that the state is advancing in
tke rehnements OF life. The relation of food
to man is we'll Illustrated in the fact that the
nhest lo9klng men in the state are the fisher
men, and the finest children are those of Scan
ulnaVlan parents. They are robust, with
great capacities for endurance. In auricuI-
IuraI communities in the state there is not as
much variety in food as there was half cen
Jury ago, while the quality is not so good and
the cooking OF the same greatly deteriorated
Gteographleally considered, Cape Cod and
differently from the people of the mountain
section Of the state. The Irish make the best
ore bread and eat the most vegetables. The under
stltute the great nervous class of the state.
who consume more boiled cheap tea than they
Massachusetts stomach is badly out of order.
A Big Days Shot.
IL DID NOT BELIEVE THERE WERE AS MANY
SNlPE AS THAT IN LANDER COUNTY"
IAustin (Nevada) ReveilleI
Really, my boy, 1t amt reasonable. Let's
60 over to the Cosmopolitan and take hot
Scotch and sit down by the stove Pom nv
work, II makes my blood run cold to hear YOU
talking about hunting, and fishing, and pie
MES, and other summer luxuries, and the Their
stage team"
two and two make four"
- don't doubt your word, my boy, but, hon.
est Indian, your subject is not appropriate to
the climatic conditions"
I" But this is on the dead square,"
wen, II you must, you must: but be uuick
apont ~, Tor am freezing to death"
ono Ven, you see, ne went down on Reese river
que Ti nose NOT days last week, and to which
the rigid atmosphere of today is such strik
ing and startling contrast, taking his ann
along In case he should see a feather or So.
You know snipe amt usually very plentiful in
this county, but, you may believe If or not tba
bank OF the river was just covered with 'em1
He Dlazed away, and blazed and banged and
Kept shooting at them till his ammunition
gave out, and when he came to count his hirJS
he had just ll3 Of EN-" W.
You don't say! l did not believe there were
as many snipe as that in Lander county"
"sure's you live, Well, he brought 'em
nome, and met him coming up the street.
anu anu ne asked me TO go up TO the house with
nun 10 see MS game and he would give me
lew Snlpe Tor breakfast. He had the birds i'm
TWO barley sacks, and 1, wanting to be Oblig-
lhg-Oelng as he was going to give me SOM,
fnr bin, S one Oh the sacks up to the house
10. MN. when We got there we went into the
n .f ana he commenced emptying the
SACKS :; out on the floor and, you may believe
~ or not, Just as you dunno choose, but of that
hundred and thirteen snipe every blessed one
OF them, all but two, were mOs1uieoesNtwo
snlpe and one hundred and eleven mosami'
toy '''n ii0'qui-
49,, on, yes, OF course believe it. And you're
me man That Intends 10 go on probation in the
church? oh, no, 1 ain bit dry: I've 90. an
engagement; want TO go down town and bor.
sS% prospectus OF the Paris Exposition and
American liars" ioi TIC oeSt
- me GUILTY. alton of the. opium nonnu
winch has hitherto been exeinsiye1y a p3gppy,
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