The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-17
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MEAL TIME IN sunnER.
A Pew Pertinent Suggestions for Home
Practice In the Heated Term.

A Pew Pertinent Suggestions for HON,
Practice In the Heated Term.
Roast pork, plum pudding and mine,
pie are now out Of season. To think o
these things in July gives most people ,
Temporary thrill Of discomfort. For win
ter dinners, especially at Thanksgiving
and Christmas, they seem to have especial
adaptation. Tradition sanctions them and
custom brings them smoking hot upon
our tables. Now that the heats OF sum.
mer are testing our patience we want some
thing as different as possible. All that Is
heavy and fat and gross is banished from
the tables OF those who best understand
the art Of living. The human body needs
nourishment In July as it does in January,
but that which in midwinter would COM
iortably feed It proves in the dog.days a
grievous load. The people who in sum-
mer eat winter dinners are those who 90
about with dismal feeling Of oppression
and constant complaint that the weather
is great burden to them. Putting too
great strain upon their digestive appar'
tus, they find that II groans and creaks
under burden which ON Christmas or
New Years it might dispose Of with reas-
enable safety.
tits happy provision OF Providence
that in summer we are not driven for sus.
tenance to heavy joints Of meat or to
solid rAtions OF sausages or smoked and
sailed fish. We have fresh fish in abun-
dance, and though brook trout are costly
we can buy bass and catfish and bluetish
at prices within the reach OF almost every
body. The lettuce family in all its varie-
ties offers US light lunch with easy
digestion. Though the oyster is in retire
ment the toothsUme and appetzing clam
patiently awaits his fale. A list Of con-
stantlY changing vegetables bewilders US
US it Invites us to make selection. As we
begin TO exhaust the wealth Of It's attract.
iveness new products OF farm and truck
garden are added to it for our nouTish.
ment and our delight. AS berries run
their course the larger fruits take their
places. The harvest apple smiles upon us
from the orchard with its big round lace.
The ugly little peach, which is ugly
only because il Is immature and knotty,
grins at our children from its lurking
PLACE on the fruit stand at the corner and
tells US that before long We shall be- revel'
ing in the wealth OF the orchards OF Della.
ware and Maryland and OF our own State,
which, despite all the croaklng OF the
owners, were not destroyed by the cruel
trOsts OF March, April and May. The
great green watermelon already journeys
to US from the far South, and We shall s0on
have him fresh from neigh6oring patches.
The shorter the melons ride from where
he was raised the better we like him
Perhaps 1t is fanGtical TO want TO 90 with
out meat, but il we want TO be tanAtical on
this point We need not be fearful Of starv'
ing 10 death on such vegetarian diet as
the markets now afford.
The kitchen commissariat in these hot
days may safely be very different affair
from what it sin winter. 1.-THE eating oil the
summer meal is comparatively light work,
80 may the preparation OF it be lighter
There are many families Of moderate size
in which the light gas stoves may allow
the great kitchen range q summer holiday.
To build in the kitchen fire big enough
and hot enough 10 keep locomotive CO.
ing is altogether unnecessary. To keep q
woman fretting and tuning and perspir-
ing over such heated abOminatiOn, mere
ly that coffee may be prepared, or eggs
boiled or bread toasted. is as absurd
AS it is inconsderate. II We can
keep the kitchen cooler, SO We ought
to put in the refrigerator all the an.
cry passions and ugly thoughts which are
at some seasons OF the year allowed
to come to the table. Wrangling is always
out OF order Mt meal times, but especially
in summer. II people want TO complain
OF the heat, or OF the badness Of their di.
gestion, or OF the crookedness OF their
or OF the perverslty Of the
market man, or OF the stupidity OF the
cook, or OF the general degeneracy OF the
human race, let them go to the honsetop
for fifteen minutes before each meal, and
have their complaints out where they can
disturb nobody. When we meet at the
table let US be jolly and light Of heart,
and take our time to it and keep cool.