The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

In nAmerica perhaps IS many people
suffer from trying to live in . style be-
yond their means as anywhere else. or
more, in properties to the numberof the
whole. OF But i'm this fertile land thisa
should not be. I'd And, in select
ing and building ones house
too careful an estirnate as to actual or
probable Income and the cost of main
tanning it can not be made. Most of
the large cities are oyercroTded. Farms
are waiting to be TILED, and waste
places to be filled up with people, The
emptying of these placesof abodew ewould
possibly soonest solve thu tenement
house problem. Wise legislation will
help the matter on, with good architec-
tural arrangements and philanthropy to
assist. But Ills q matter needing urgent
at5entions unless our fair cities are to be-
come . blot upon civilization. Human
beings can not preserve the decencies of
life in some tenement houses as they now
exist, and religion and nature demand
a reform. In most other styles of build
ing, improvements can be made, and In
some are greatly needed; but given con-
scientiousness and intelligence in those
who inhabit them, they VIII improve
them, and in fifty years from nowwe
predict great changes for the better in
the dwellings Of the American people.
Then in foods. The Puritans had oom-
paratively coarse fare. Neither manu-
facture nor. commerce could convert the
raw material into wholesome and
palatable viands, or bring those
! from other climes.oA Even their
farorite cup OF tea must be dispensed
with at the imperative call of duty. But
they ate their hopely fare, as the Spar
I q ~ l.e- l. ~
ism; and If there were occasional muir
of Egypt" they endured so far as to
leave this fertile land an Inheritance to
their children, and children'si children,
to untold generations; eshallswe say for
eSerPf H1so, it viii be held by each gen.
eration enduring the trial of the hour
without finching. Mr.. Carlyle said to
Lord Macaulay, on seeing his face in re-
pose. LiT notioeds the ahomeay Morse
features that you find everywhere In. the
Western Isles, and j thought to myself,
tWelli any one can see that you are an
honest, good sort of fellow, made out of
oat-meaI. - This same simple diet of oat-
meal has produced many other remark
able personages And the simple fare
of the early settlers undoubtedly In
creased their hardihood. The rivers
and sea gave them fish, in abundance,
and the forests game. They raised some
vegetables Corn was generally sure
crop, and hasty-pudding as famous .
dish as ever oat-meal in Scotland. Now,
at the South the principal foods among
| the poorer classes are corn-meal and
pork, with occasionally little molasses
and coffee. As q whole, the American
people eat better than any other that
is, have food in greater variety
and of better quality than any
other nation of the earth. Simplicity o.
life is practioed only by the very poor
so far as regards eating. In prepara-
ton Of foods by cooking We are,
economically, far behind the French
however,. But nature gives such al
abundancethat to 60 hungry here seems
the grossest mismanagement. There
are places where fresh meats are hare
to obtain. But the vast canning estab.
ishments make up somewhat for this
Not by giving nice, juicy beefsteak, by
| any means, but fresh salmon, or oysters
or bomllon soup; something that vii
take the place of beef for q time al
least. When far from market, and
wishing something delicate and nour
ishing for an invalid, L have found 8
snipe .stewed, a quail broiled, rec
squirrel made into broth, some nicely
prepared trout, answer the purpose ad
,mirably. Almost every locality wl
furnish something wholesome, appetiz
ing and cheap. In large cities every
thing must be bought; but then most o
our cities are too full of people in pro
portion to the country places anywhere
and nature holds out an inviting hans
to their haif-starved denizens. One ma,
greatly prefer a dinner of roast beef
with the accompanying vegetables, Il
one of wild-fowlor fish and were lonl
compelled to live on bacon and hoe
cake, should confess being stiff necket
and rebellious, even were the motive
for my doing so exceeding strong. Cor
Christian al Work.