The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-04
INExCUsABLE IMPIETY.

IHtIc always WtIo llleH Ill LIlo W0Elu
who. not being able to signalize their ex-
istence in any other way, become vigor-.
Gus iconoclasts-image-breakers They
seek fame by kicking over time-honored
monuments and destroying ancient land
marks. They deny the authenticity of
things made sacred by custom, tradition,
and even history. To these there is no
William Tell with his apple and long
bow exploit; no Richard the Third
with his demonism, and, consequent
ly, no strangled Princess in the Tower;
no Joan of Arc; no Jonah in the whales
belly; no Washington in the "little
hatchet" episode; no well-authenticated
grave of Adam, over which fitting mon
ument could be erected, Mark Twain to
the contrary Notwithstanding; no Homer
or Hercules or Don Quixote or Shaks-
peare or Mother Hubbard or authentic
author Of the Declaration of Independ-
ence; no nothing, in fact, that all the
rest Of the world cherishes a belief in,
and has for 10! these many years.
These vandals attack even the semi
sacred social habits and affections of pri-
vate life, and it is grievous to know that
in this work so-called Socialists are some
times found engaged. Professor Church
in recent lecture on the "Chemistry of
Food" has thrown metaphorical stone
at the bean-pots of Boston. While
acknowledging that beans and all species
of leutils are TYPICAL articles of food
and theoretically good, yet he pronounces
them as severe tax on digestion, bitter
and astringent, and that while they fur
nish cheap and rather palatable article
of food and have food-staying qualities,
yet they are not good "fesh formers
and are calculated to lower the tone Of
the human system.
This is a matter most seriously affect.
ing the prestige of Boston or New Eng
land, but now comes class of destruc-
tionists who raise an outcry against pies,
particularly against bakers pies, but in
cidentally against the whole field of pie
dom. Some cases of poisonous pie-eating
having occurred, by reason of the use of
copper vessels or improper ingredients,
they would erase the whole family Of
pies from our bills of fare. The holiday
mince, capable of the most varied and
heterogeneous development; the gentle
and delicate custard, the stern, unyield-
ing dried apple, fit emblem of the puri-
tanical vigor of Cotton Mather
and Wendell Phillips; the passive
pumpkin, sacred to Christmas
festivities; the toothsome lemon, for q
second piece of which even an anchorite
could be pardohed for asking; the festive
Strasburg pates-de-foie-gras, in the con.
struction of which the lives of many fat
geese have been sacrificed and the con.
sumption of which perils the lives Of
many human geese; all these, and many
others, sacred to the pleasant memory Of
childhood or to the indigestions Of more
mature years, are now cried out against
vituperated, objurgated and altogether
pronounced as untitled for human con.
sumption. 5-
1t is strange to-what extremes dyspep
tic and morbid human nature will drive
a man or woman! Must the world for.
swear pie because Of one or even ten
mems indigestion? Should the inef
fciency Of the gastric juices Of any one
man. to wrestle with traditional pie.
crust, whereby he holds nocturnal inter