The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-03

Eating is . thing Of prime importance
in this world. Looked n in merely q
philosophical way, il is the fuel that gen.
crates steam for the engine. The body
unfed would in . day or two be like .
steamer without coal. unable 10 turn the
wheel. and drifting helpless. Ye, no
one eats with this thought in his mind,
but simply because he Is hungry. For
thousands Of years men have eaten
without a scientific motive, without m
tionsl appreciation Of the relations Of
food 10 bone, nerve, muscle, and 80 on
The whole motive lay In the mouth.
Men ate because 1, tasted good! But,
by and by, when science shall have
opened up the matter properly, wien
we know the ingredients which the va
rious parts Of the body need, We shall
have scientific bills OK fare, in which
dishes will Dot be obscured in absurd
foreign names, bu; will be named from
their true uses. Then we shall have
BODYBUILDING, fat producing, nerve
replenishing, muscle-forming dish
es. The host will scOrn the
days Of ignorance when men
asked their guests TO take beef or pud-
ding. To a lean and cadayerous guest
he will say: "Let me nil up your It's
sue" or, "My dear sir, your bones are
brittle; allow me TO pass this compound.
Better bones were never made than this
produces" TO some exiguous scholar,
thin and nervous. the jolly hos, will
say: "My dear fellow, let me help you
to brains. What do you affect? This
dish runs strongly to poetry-or phil
osophy is il? This has been found TO
be admirable. Why, sir, philosophy is
only food etherialized. To such a nicely
have we reduced the science Of cooking,
that | a send 8 bill 20 my cook any
day. send up four philosophers, two
musicians and n poet and he will at
nee set things a-stew, and in his skillet
or pan the hidden elements will begin
to hiss and sputter, that in u day or two
will come forth from some brain as q
sonnet or madrigal, or a grave chapter
Of philosophy"
What an age that will be! Nowa
man eats promiscuously. Often when
the preacher would be tender, he in his
ignorance has been feeding combativc-
ness! He fain would appeal to mems
consciences, but has been eating food
that breeds abstract thought. In the
culinary millennium man and his cook
will be like twin brothers. The lawyer
will say: "Giye me a jury breakfast,
average jury" and looking
into his new philosophical receipt book,
his dear Tom will find just the articles
required. The man will gain his case,
unless his opponent has a better cook
and was fed up on a higher pleading
power. In that day intuitiOns will be
to order. The right part being
fed. it will be automatically active. We
shall no more hear about /" ragout" and
I" chops" and "steak ala" this, that or
the other thing. The comits and Gus
tards and bon-bons will give way to
names indicative of mental pow
ers. We shall hear men say, ado let
me give you another spoonful OF con-
.scientia. These speculations are very
and you need strength in the
right spot"
"Lost the game? Why, you neglect
ed yourself. Chess is q sure thing on
this diet. Let ME help you to q little
more"
"Don't, my dear madam. don't touch
that! not but that l am willing that you
should have any thing that the house
affords. But it is provoking to the
1t is wonderful what spirit it
breeds. 1t is for timid persons en-
An, me! what a world Of teaching
and trouble, and mistake, and blaming,
will be over with, when we can extract
morals from a stew-pan, and turn out
problems from the kitchen like Omelcts.
we shall have TO eat on in
the old way, only looking over into this
promised land of science.-H. W. Beech
er-