Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-03

We have bills of fare Of the North.
We have either dessicating summer in
which the energies and appetites are
parched, or the over saturated skies of
August, when muscle and bodily tone
are limp and languid, and in both of
these conditions the thermometer and
the example of semi-tropical peoples
ought to be studied. Fruits and fruit
juices we need vastly more than meats
and meat juices, vegetable soups, the
succulant vegetables, the farinas, the
light cheeses, the fresh fish, the nuts,
the grapes, the raisins, the mushrooms
and the omelettes, the curd and whey.
Maccaroni, chestnuis, olives, salads
beans, poultry, small birds, melons,
these are the home foods of Italy and
Spain, with mutton and rice as you
travel further eastward and into another
civilization still. There is no country
in the world where garden vegetables
are so profuse as in America, because we
have the products of Mexico naturalized
in the North. and the truck patches of
all countries except Japan, which Lis rich
in some that are yet strangers here.
Item-While the florists are importing
choice varieties of Japan shrubs and
choice ornamental trees why doesn't
somebody bring over the soy bean,
which is called the Japanese garden
beefsteak, precisely as the mushroom is
the field beefsteak of France? It is
certainly much pleasanter for the cooks,
at least the skilled ones, to serve up
light dishes that tempt the appetite in
the hottest morning or the most air
tight evening on cool table cloth than
to ''baste" huge joint for hours in
needlessly hot oven that keeps the whole
house uncomfortable.
We are summer Italians, at all events,
and should profit by the hint to keep in
good condition. ''You had better
make your lunch on almonds and raj
SINS" said doctor last week to pam
pered invalid, ethan that bit of tender
loin. Look on your map. Ii l were to
put you on diet of milk and water
crackers, it would do you more good
than all the chops you are intending to
eat for a week You are heavy, you
say, take no interest in anything. Ger
tainly, you are too busy digesting TO
have time for anything else. If you
would only take 'Mys.NoveP down from
the forgotten corner In the bookcases,
and turn to that delightful description Of
the RiccdbOccG hospitality, how the
poor italian gentleman had taught his
English wife to make fruit syrups, and
serve them out to summer thirsty visi-
tors in simple and elegant fashion you
would learn how to be hospitable per-
haps to yourselves. You would coasid-
er it penance no doubt, to be put on
German mush and milk, but your COM
plexion would be the better for it, and
you would feel more like dancing at the
ship-hops at Snug Harbor. A good rice
pudding and q glass of strawberries
make stout enough lunch at present,
and when you want a very rich dish,
indeed, this summer, let the waiter bring
you maccaroni cooked with cheese"
1t is the privilege of the family ply
sician to give instruction by gibes and
threats but here is a huge family of
nearly a million Philadelphians, and
their neighbors in the country round,
who are troubling themselves to get
Russian English diet three times day,
when what they want are the Mediter
ranean foods until the middle of Sep
tember at least.