Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-10-07
French EruSaIity.

| French FrugaIity.
sm wiling DOW, says Paris correspondent,
It the ford Of the French workiog people. His
bullion at eight c!nts per quart is half water.
tie never wastes any, aud the making of yes
| terday goes in with tia Of to day, which is
| adding to quality bu: not to quaiy. His or.
binary vino is sour, half water AID gassful
is good for 4 Ii of indigestion. lie waters even
bis cider. Here We shiSo the rotten spot 10
his boasted so-csllcd economy. Hs i, ever
trying to make someth!ns out ct nothing. Ro
Is ingenious In manufacturing tastes aud flavors
out OF scraps. His pottcd meat or sausage
shops. which abound 10 every block contain
forty different preparations OF meat, aod barely
IS one tit to cot. There nre d3z,u mixtures,
cramm,d into oascs. They l1ok pi,,, em,ll
nice and taste nice for 'cH f1iau.es, but OK.
anime cICs,Iy the cjnHnts and you will iud
chopped gristle, hide, cartilage aad sinow5. 1t
is highly seas, ,ned. fills up ttc stomloh aud
makes impure blood
You alc oharnfd with tho fried f,h and
potato shops 80 common and so convenient for
the worker to purcalS, . dinaer for a
few cents, but you cian)t make ma1y meals
OF those fish and potatoes. The gresss
they arc ooUked in Is too rancid. Tfav.
ellers tell what M Admirable and eoouomi.
cal arrangement 10 the Freuch family
is tho pot au teuthA pot is always on the fire,
always s!owlug aud SIN uerug. into which 90
all tho remnants OF yesterdays dinuer the
bcnes. tho broth, the scraps, aud all this ever
turning out fresh food iOr the family. But this
Is old food, sae tOod, second hand food, and
10 matter how disguised IS to TASTE has lost
It's prime elements OF strength AID nutrition.
1t is true that French oook can make several
meals out OF an EuglishmaG'S beefsteak break.
tast, but no doesat always in these combina-
lions aud conrivan0cS odd anything to tho
strength producing qualities of the original
beetsteak.
| am disposed to believe that 10 Paris there
ls much greater dls,ncton between the rich
aud poor man's laolo as regards 1laty than ip
New York aod San Francisco. You may often
see tho French workman making his eleven
o'clock breaktas: on pitc, Of bread and glass
OF souc wine, AMI he does not appear to regard
this as aa indication oil hard timos either.
Bread aud wine is the staple G1jl Of thousand,
10 Paris. The pO0r mad' i child sits contentedIy
at tho back door, on it, lap q plate AMI on that
plate pe!c OF bread, and lha. bread cons!i.
tltes all OF lt5 morning Or noon moal. Tho
working GIL tr2aks her mocniug fast with
bread, makes her Lunch Of il at uoon, a1d at
oight comes home with few sticks of maccar.
onl. and Very seldom scrap OF meat. whsra~
with shc preparc5 plate oi soup, and this is
ner dinner day in and day out.
assert taat TIC workers OF Fraucc DO not
get Suhiciclc3 or = variety OF nutritious !ooi,
that thcy cheat themselves by pl.tiog iato
their stomacha material which fills up but does
not et:eosthct; tEa, Gauch OF their boas!ed
economy IL feeding themselves c1ns:ti in tho
manufacture OF flaV0rs rather than in nutrition
for bone, boOd, nerve snd muscle, and tia. %
ris1lt, whllo the hest nsd brain os Franco,
being generously fed, il brilliant, the body,
represented by the bulk of the people, being
semi starved, is weak apd puffy.
Look at the average phF:iqu: oE 4 Paris
street car load OF passengers aad asS yourself
II IL America sou ever saw 81 largo proper
lion OF puffy, whcCzy, as.h,na'ic, ciulps?, un-
dersize1, badly EU. up man and women? This
comes OF generations OF s2m-s:ayvatOn bono
soup warmed over aoG watCred over aud over
again, apd masty, sour w!HC ;nl water. 1t
Comes of living or highly scgs9ned scraps. 1t
comes Of Ercuch fC:ion that saaV!ggs aud saw
du5: vii! make atroag, healthy, mau aud wo
| men, if only s:asoned 50 as TO resemble the
flavor of good, fit bac! and muuou. 1t won't
90. Francs, 10 iesdpg her hono aod siuew.
has approached ncar the coldluoa OF ths uo-
| fortunate horse, whoac &C )nCm' cal oW1er would
have taught him to sub7's: oa shayioss had be
not died just IS he Vas getting accustomed to
such diet. TTenty-linc or thirty millions Of
people have been working aod semi starving
10 this manner for hunircis OF years.
| IT WAS THE CAT n ci.iz3n OF Syracuse who
weighs 800 pounds has pc. CAT ths. aome!mes
exhsuats his good nature. Last Sunday night
! when he went to bad tho ca: followed him to
his sleeping room, and not wishing the cat to
remain in tho ssmo room over night. Re placed
it in an adjoining one. separated from his by
psrtition thst does not reach to the ceiling.
| Citizen and est both went to s!oep but a. d
| O'clock in the morning the clt'z:n wss awaken.
ed by a heavy object falling on his face. 1t was
that est, which had climbed to tho top the
partition snd jumped. Getting up. ho placed
the cat in the adjoining oom second time. and
went 10 sleep. Butthe est found lis Way TO tho
top Of the partition once moro. ind once more IL
dumped squareiy down on tho cLlzsn's face.
carrying two gla.s globes along after it
Then up rose the offended ciiizen, aud all 10
his sleeping robe he found his way to the front
door, cat in hand, and across tho way he threw
that cat. Au innocent pssser by WAS astonished
mot more by the cats transit than by the round.