The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
To Accommodate the Lady,

Writing on the rail, Mr. Burdette
says, in the Burlington Hawkeye: A
woman with three bird cages and a lit
tie girl has just got on the train. She
arranges the three bird cages on q seat,
and then she and the little girl stand up
in the aisle and she glares around upon
the ungallant men who remain glued to
their seats and look dTeamily out of the
window. bend my face down to the
tablet and write furiously, for I feel her
eyes fasten upon me. Somehow or other,
l am alWays the victim in cases of this
delicate nature. Just as I expected.
She speaks, fastening her commanding
gaze upon me:
:'Sir, would it be asking too much if
begged you to let myself and my little
girl have that seat A gentleman can
always find q seat so much easier than
lady"
And she smiled. Not the charming
est kind ofa smile. It was too triumph
ant to be very pleasing. OF course I
surrendered. I said:
"Oh, certainly. certainly. I could
fnd q sest without any trouble"
She thanked me, and crawled out OF
my comfortable seat, and gathered up
my OveTcoat, my manuscript, my shawl
strap package, my yalise, and my over
shoes, and she and the little girl went
into the vacant premises as soon as the
writ Of ejectment had been served, and
they looked happy aud contented.
Then stepped across the aisle; I teok
up those bird cages and sat them down
on top of the coal box, and sat down on
the seat thus vacated. I apologeticalIy
remarked to the woman, who was gazing
st me with an expression that bOded
trouble, that sit was much warmer for
the Canaries up by the stove" She
didn't say anything, but she gave me q
look that made it much hotter for me,
for about five minutes, than the stove
can make it for the canaIies. 1 don't
believe she likes me, and am uncom~
fortably confident that she disapproves
of my conduct.
He Thinks Food Should be Eaten Raw.
A German physician has started new
theory with regard to food. He mains
tains that both the vegetarians and meat
eaters are on the wrong tack. Vegetables
are not more wholesome than meat, or
meat than vegetables, and nothing is
gained by cOnsumiDga compound OF both,
Whatever nutritive qualities they may
possess, he says, is destroyed in great
measure and often entirely by the process
of cooking. Ali food should be eaten
raw. If this practice were adopted, there
would be little or no illness among
human beings. They would live their
apportioned time aud simply fade away,
like animals in wild state, from old age.
Let those afflicted with gout, rheuma~
tism or indigestion try for q time the
effect of a simple uneooked diet, such as
oysters and fruit, for instance, and they
will find all medicines unnecessary, and
such rapid improvement of their health
that they will forsWeaT all cooked articles
of food at once and forever Intem-
peTance would also, it is urged, no longer
be the curse of civilized communities.
The yearning for drink is caused by the
unnatural abstraction from what are
termed 4" solids" of the aqueous element
they c0ntain-uncoOked beef, for exs
ample, containing from seventy to eighty
per cent, and some vegetables even 2
larger proportion of water. There Weuld
be less thirst, and consequently less desire
to drink, if our food was consumed in It's
natural state, without first being sub
jected to the action of FIRE. Clothing,
our adviser also thinks, is mistake, but
he admits that the world is not yet far
enough advanced in civilization to 20
about undressed. Whatever differences
of opinion may exist cs to this anti,
cooking theory, there ca lnot be a doubt
that in getting rid of the kitchen with
all its abnses-includiDg the cook
housekeepers would be spared a vast deal
of worry, and probably on this account
alone would live to q greater age than at
present.