The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-31
MUsH-MUNcHEns.
How New Workers Feed Their Brain
an Rro1uD IN Much

HOW new YOrkers Feed Their BrAfn
an Drawn on Mush.
Are there mary men among your
customers who eat mush?" asked ANEW
York Morning Journal reporter of the
proprietor of Nassau street Hdairy."
The person addressed looked sur.
prised, as if his 9uestioner was .guying'i
him. Are there?" | shorld think there
are! Take your own profession, for in
stance. I have $50 newspaper men call
on me daily whose diet is mainly com
posed of mush. Why, farinacious foods
are my specially, and. ifyou or l had the
timeto spare I could fill your notebook
with more notes on mushes and musll-
munchers than you couldspossibly use.,
How many kinds of n-ush are there9?'
First, put down Scotch and Irish
oatmeal, that ranks, and willalwaystake
first place on the mush, platform: Then
comes Indian meal, from which mush
third hominy foarth, and, lastly,
cracked Wheatiand crushed wheat"
rs the demand increasingly
"All the time. Ten years ago there
we're not fifty barrels of oatmeal CON
sumed annually in New York city, To
day the CONSUMPTION. II kquita large.
Why, l use up two barrels of oatmeal a
week alone, and so great is the demand
that have been compelled to open
another dairy to meet ~thefwants ofsmy
m~ush-eating constituency. To accomo-
date, my patrons | use 5000 quarts OF
milk afweek.o ISs 8
sis there any popularity connected
with mush diet which is not generally
knOwfE2Pp S g gFsA@
THAT'S just what I was coming to
Few people can tell the difference be-
twee,ascoteh and irish qatmesh,$$whioii
is simply this: TIE Scot h grains are
powdered fine; the Irish are granuIated.
DroghedS.i Fora long time American
secret of extracting the bitter taste from
the hSedJunhLth they got men from Scot.
land. Ihe.knowledge consisted in pre-
pairing the grain insaome peculiar way
before it was sent to the milf. An oat
meal, milling company. in Ohio is now
doing aneiminelise business inssupplying
the market with almost as fine q food
as the imported artiGle.ypAgain, the
difference between crstked and crushed
wheat is not generally understood; the
difference being that the latter is simply
crushed through the rollers, while the
former is merely cracked. The prefer.
ence is simply one of taste" 81
"Wllat constitutes an average mush
meaI7" 80 ~
ga quart of milk to a bowl of mush.
Now let me tell you something else. II
you want to get the full benefit of the
nourishing qualities Of mush food never
eat sugar with it. The reason? Because
nature has nut sufficient sugar already
into the grain. The best way to eat it is
to take with it half cream and half milk.
Too much cream is n OF good, because it
grain fair play, and persons with a ten
dencv TO hdyspepsiA Mould never take
cream at Rllslonly milk III q 4
sis there any special mush seas mp
"Mush Is slwavs eatent the year round,
but Of course people eat more mush
in summer than in winter, and they
never tire of it when it is we'll cooked
"Do you think the people who eat
mush are as strong as those who eat
keef?" asked the Journalier of another
hush manufacturer.
every bit. The food purifies the blood
the teeth and regulates the
system. 1t is the very best diet l know
OF. People come to my place who cal
1.-Two and sometimes three bowls oil
mush at a sitting, and then say they &c
away hungry!" Q..ays..
3 With fefafence to the nunbersoft nucsh
sdairies, there are several that are
Crowded daily. lg}
& Jay Gould. takes his mush regular ATS
dairy Old Broad street, Soalso does Rus
sell Sage. Gen. Spinola also frequents
I,the same place, for mush to him is an
absolute necessity. Henry Clews and
IA. S. Hatch. the newly elected president
sOf the stock exchange, have a decided
leaning to mash.
q The Rev. De Witt Talmage is about as
sgooG a c%onnoisseur of the accurate
quantity of mental food to be got out OF
one bowl of mush as any one. He fire.
squently drops in at the Nassau street
dairy, as also ooes Henry Ward Beecher
Swhen in the ueighborhood.
Talmage is credited with saying thai
smush and misanthropy are never found
In the same company. Mr.. G. A. Dams
has a great liking for musl,. SO have
sths Rev. Or; Prime, ex,mayor Grace
familiar at this well-known establish
There Sss also another mush.hauns on
street, where the commission
men go in dozens.
seA large number Of dry goods mer-
chants frequent the one on the corner
of Reade sndefDuane siTests. Here
sIom II TO 5 i.ays be ssentE S.:,Jafiray,
Mr.. Weller, of Teft & Weller. Fl. S.
Hoyt, Moses Springer, Enoch Parsons,
ard occasionally II. B. CIatlin. In fact,
n1ush seems o to be recognized. as .
necessity to the times. I
Nearly all oar irst-class families go in
for mush in the nurseries.