The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-06
Gables portfolto.
For the FARMER AND MECHANIC.
Physiological Teachings Of the Bible.
QUOTATIONS

scribes." Joseph, the husband OF the VII
gin Mary, and our Lord himself, were ar
tizans." Not Carpenters please to OBJ
serve. but .sartizans." Any business. re-
curing de1terity of hand, was called by
the Greeks "a trade ~s'techaeen. Paul, the
tent-maker, took up his abode with Aquila
and Princilla, because 'they were tent
makers by trade 'techneen.'' And IN
Mark 6: 3, our Lord is called a (carpenter)
.stektoon.'' /" Teckneen designates the
trade itself-sstektoOn,' the tradesman.
Our Lord may have been, like Paul, q
sstent-maker;' or he may have been a bas-
ket-maker. All we know certainly, is that
he was an startizan." do not think he
was a carpenter, because wood was, at that
time, a very scarce article in Palestine.
Luke was a doctor. JOIN the Baptist was
a Jewish priest. Peter and Andrew, James
and John, were fishermen. The holy men
to whom the birth of our Lord was first an
nounced by the angels were shepherds.
All these em~ployments were such as com
ported with the dignity of man. All the
attitudes necessarily assumed by the shep-
herd and fisherman, for instance, are grace
full, manly and conducive to health. Tn
statistics Of Great Britain show that con-
sumption exists there just in proportion to
the number Of indoor operatives IN each
district. The pastoral regions of Scotland
are most exempt from this fearful scourge.
A scourge sent in punishment, by God, for
a violation of his holy laws. And this is
only one of the numerous diseases brought
upon the human race by disease-engender-
ing occupations. Some occupations kill
much sooner than others which are still far
from healthful. We copy the following ex-
tract from a London paper, showing that
bakers are remarkably short lived: "Bread-
making is lone by manual labor. Two
men are usually employed in kneading, one
preparing the dough for the other. The
heat of the bake houses, even when large
and we'll ventilated, is very great. The
work is laborious, and, as a consequence,
the pcrspiration rolls from the faces of the
men into the dough! Net a very pleasant
contemplation for the consumers! To stop
and wipe away the perspiration is not to be
thought of. as thereby the men would de-
tain each other. The effect of the heated
atmosphere, constant inhalation of carbonic
acid gas from the fermenting dough-also
the constant inhalation of -four dust, and
the STOPPING posture in which the men
work, causes lung-disease to a fearful ex-
tent. OF 164 journeymen bakers dying in
London, the average age at death was
twenty years! To produce these lung dis
eases is doubtless the tendency of baking
in every country"
In reply to statements like this. persons
say, 'But bread is a necessity of life, and
therefore we must have bakers" Bread
made from wheaton -four is not a necessity
of life, and therefore we need not have ba-
kers. Multitudes of the human are not
lbread-eaters, and have better health than
the bread eaters. The hundreds Of millions
who inhabit China and Japan raise a little
-. ~ ,ac1-o ln,c fNr nc+rr onl onpfno
tions, but for the ''staff Of life" they rely
upon rice. The Chinese laborers of Cali
fornia say they lose their health when they
substitute bread for rice. The millions of
other human beings who inhabit the tro-
pics. use for bread the plantain and the
banana. And all intelligent travellers
unite in extolling the wonderfully nutri-
tious qualities of these delicious fruits.
Humboll has observed that a European is
surprised to see the smallness of the banana
plantation which furnishes the food Of an
Indian family. One acre will produce an
average of 100, 600 lbs. Of fruit. 1t is al
ways cultivated: and is not found growing
wild in any part Of the world. DR.. Wright
observes that no species of provision could
supply it's place;-lt is more palateable than
wheaton bread, more nutritious and more
healthful. 1t needs no cooking; and if all
the fires and bakeries in the world were
converted into stove-heated Conservatives
for growing bananas, we would need no
bakers. They are successfully cultivated,
in this way, as far North as Edinburg,
Scotland, Cat. 55o.) According to Wright,
one acre of bananas will produce as much
food as 1873 acres OF wheat. Count the cost
of acre under glass as compared with the
purchase Of 1873 acres of land, with the
subsequent fencing, ploughing, narrowing,
sowing, reaping. binding, wagon hauling,
mill-grinding, kneading and baking, nee
essary to produce wheaton bread, and |
think you will find the stove-heated, glass
covered acre of banana bread the cheapest.
1t is certainly infinitely more delicious.
People unaccustomed to wheaton bread do
not relish it. Nothing but habit makes it
palateable. The force of habit makes many
articles of food pleasant, which, when first
tasted, are intensely disagreeable. Tobac-
co mot a food, but a luxury is extremely
nauseatlng to those unaccustomed to it. Tea
and coffee without cream and sugar. are
not at all OleaSant unlpSs no hi+ maLoo tbe,,