, 1880-10-04
The Romantic Young Man.

ga correspondent, thus "takes off" the
romantic young man of the springs:
"Our romantic youth always comes
into the dining-room with a novel OF
huge dimensions in his hand. He looks
at nobody as he enters, but takes his
seat and at once plunges deeply into
the novel. He is so absorbed with his
reading that he seems to begradge a
spare moment to give the necessary
order for his meal. The order, wAen
given, never fails to make the waiter
grin, in that broad, suggestive manner
peculiar to the African race. This
morning the eccentric individual or
dered one egg and plate of cake for
to look up moment from his novel.
The waiter Immediately rushed off in
despair to interview the head-waiter.
The headwaiter shook his head in a
positive manner, then both walters
grinned, showing their white teeth to
the utmost advantage. and the young
mans waiter returned to say that they
did not have cake for breakfast. The
young man looked up in a half-dazed
sort of way, as though he had all the
woes of some modern Juliet upon his
brain, but gave no further order and
plunged again into his novel. The
waiter brought back the egg and put ii
before the young man upon the table.
Fully fifteen minutes elapsed before he
glanced up from his book. Then he
looked at the egg as though half aston
ished to see it there, ate it up in two
monthfuls, took up his book and rashed
hastily cut of the dining-room, only to
seat himself upon the piazza and to
dive deeply into its pages again. Now,
what is to be thought of young man
who comes to Saratoga, pays six dollars
day for his board, and behaves in
such an unheard of-manner? The only
solution possible to his strange conduc,
appears to be that this unfortun nate
youth is deeply in love!"
WHY WE EAT OYSTERS RAw.-Dr.
William Roberts says: The oyster is
almost the only animal substance which
we eat habitually. and by preference
in the raw or uncooked state; and it is
interesting to know that there is 8
sound physiological reason at the bot
tom of this preference. The fawn.
colored mass which constitutes the
dainty of the oyster is its liver, and
this is little less than heap of glyco
gen. Associated with the glycogen,
but withheld from actual contact with
it during life, is its appropriate diges-
tive ferment-the hepatic diastase. The
mere crushing of the dainty between
the teeth brings these two bodies to.
gether, and the glyeogen is at once di-
gested without other help by its own
diastase. The oyster in the uncooked
state, or merely warmed, is. in fact,
selfdigestive. But the advantage oi
this provision is wholly lost by cook.
ing; for the heat employed immediate
ly destroys the associated ferment, and
cooked oyster has to be digested, like
any other food, by the eaters own di.
gestive powers.
An urgent appeal comes from
Ooroomiah, Persia. for relief to the
starving. The famine is increasing in
severity. Hundreds are dying daily in
and around Ooroomiah for lack Of food.
Their dead bodies lie uuheeded in the
streets. and are devoured by famished
dogs. Mothers, maddened by hunger,
have been discovered eating their own
children. The horrible accounts
which come from Persia must awaken
the sympathies of Americans. who have
enough and to spare.