The National tribune., 1884-03-06
LOYAL W0MBN'S WORK
Temperance Talk - Our Experience
Meeting Relief Corps Notes.
CONDUCTED By Kate B. s.errpood.l

days. ana OF JUS evils upon lne human race
This is well too much cannot be said. The
only trouble is that our sweeping reformers
turn their batteries against strong drink alone.
They forget the injunction is temperance in all
things" They forget that it is ill-cooked, indi-
gestible food that is filling the land with dys-
peptics and drunkards
Poor nutrition leads to the desire for stimu-
| lants. The blood has lost its sustaining power
through poor feeding, the muscles become limp
and fabby, the steps drag, the eye droops and
the form becomes thin and pinched. Stimu-
/ lants are resorted TO, and the poor, impover-
+ ished wretch, seeming to improve at first un-
der the forcing process, collapses and goes to
+ the drunkard's. or the opium caters, grave.
Men may preach and women may pray while
! the world stands, but unless they afford some
I thing which meets the actual needs OF men,
they themselves will substitute something
which seems to supply the demands of nature
Where man is asked TO give up drink, let him
be supplied with good nutritious food. This
point is becoming understood, and so in cities
we have our cofee-houses and temperance
! inns, where comfortable meals are supplied for
! less than the beer and bologna would cost at
the saloon.
The fact is that food is the great question iii
this country since supply good food is to lessen
the number of opium eaters, dram drinkers,
/ and quinne devotees With men it is drink,
with women drugs, and why? Simply that
4 our American table does not supply good,
4 wholesome food.
| In country overfowing with the richest
] products of land and sea, men, women and
/ children are literally starving TO death by the
! hundreds and thousands and tens OF thousands
! And why? Because greasy fried meats, hard as
a chip, greasy fried potatoes, greasy fried eggs
/ greasy doughnuts, spiced pickles, fancy cakes
and pies are the rule, not the exception, upon
every table.
49, -orCs
broughtup on diet of oatmeal and oaten cakes;
Of the hardy Germans, who in all their child
lives never saw anything richer than black rye
bread and milk and cheese of the beautiful
/ Italians, living solely on fruit and maccaroni,
and of the athletic japanese and Chinese, on
their simple food Of rice and vegetables.
Americans eat too much, too fast, and their
food is too heavy and highly seasoned among
/ the rich, and too heavy and ill-cooked among
all classes
Eat, eat, drink, drink,-Inisery, wretched-
ness, disease scrolula in all its horrible forms
What else can we expect from stomachs that
/ groan daily with an unwholesome mixture Of
grease. spices, condiments, and sirupy COM
pounds.
No wonder we are race of dyspeptics and
1 drunkards; that our checks are pale, our lips
thin; that we spend the best hours of our lives
nursing sick headache or seated IN a dentists
chair. Food In abundance, overhowing plate
and platter, but the food that impoverishes,
instead of aifording nntrimenf blood, muscle,
bone strength, activity, vital, mental and
moral health.
Mothers of America, You rule the destinies of
a nation. Wiz you coEtinue to gorge your
childrens stomachs with pastry and pudding,
when they perish for simple bread and milk ?
VIII you ruin them with salads, sausages and
preserves, when they should have plain, we'll
cooked meat and ripe, wholesome fruit? Will
/ you, if you are poor and your larder affords no
/ iuxHries, give them heavy cakes and greasy
bacon. when you could afford twice the guam
flfy and thrice the quality of nutriment IN a
savory soup or a yyell-cooked porridge?
1t will be happy thing for america when
half the time, money and brains devoted to
] temperance crusades against strong drink shall
be given TO the PRONUNCIATION of better meth
DDS in cookery among rich and poor. Our
present policy is to turn .out ready-made
drunkards from the family, and then organize
! the community to effect their reform. Reform,
/ like charity, should begin at home and in the
/ mothers kitchen.
PIES WITHOUT FRUIT.
A variety of delicious pies may be made
/ without fruit, OF which are the following, the
Ingredients simple and in general use:
Potato Pie (Irisl)-Boil and mash five large white
potatoes. stir 10 a cream one-haif pound OF butter
/ and one-bah pound Of sugar. Add the juice and
I riDd Of lemon and little wine vinegar Beat
six eggs very light, whites and yolks separately.
Mix ali together, and bake with under-crust
/ only.
! Potato Pie tslreeD-One pound mealIy sweet pota-
toes, onehaf cup Of butter, threequarters of cup
Of sugar. tablespoonful Of cinnamon one table
spoonful OF nutmeg. four eggs beaten separately,
lemon, juice and grated rInd. little vinegar
Parioil the potatoes and CRATE when cold Cream
butter and sugar. aud add ingredients. A little
| brandy is an improvement. To be eaten cold
/ AocE Cream Pic-Beat three eggs very light add
three heapng teaspoonfuls Of -four. and mix thor
ogghly- Stir in pint and q half Of boiling milk
little salt and sugar, and favor with lemon. Boil
and sir until perfectly smooth. Bake the crust
I quick oven. fill with the mixture strew with
! powdered sugar, and brown. Pies much superior
10 cistard
Florence crcana Pie-Bring 70 a boil a cup OF
water and cup Of sugar, sir in a blended table
spoonful OF corIl-srcii. and boil well. Crate the
Ilnds OF two lemons and chop the pulp, removing
the seeds. Add two beaten eggs TO the starch then
the chopped lemons. Bake in good 1aky crust
cover with a rich meringue, made by beating cup
! Of powdered sugar into the whites of two beaten
eggs, and brown lightly
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Lille Dolan says she has little brother
named Patrick Henry. Who was Patrick
Henry?
LIS W: DO not write @P. s." when you
would add a postscript TO your letter. Good
letter-writeFs have abandoned that practice
Soldiers Boy: You should write pleas
! u-r-e when you mean pleasure, as it gives the
editor no pleasure TO have you spell pleasure
this way: p-l-a-s-h-u-r-e.
D.: Spell ont the word instead Of using figures
when you write your age; the number Of days
weeks years, etc.
is ii considered bad manners for lady friends &c
salute one another with lziss?-A Missouri Girl
VIII some one give me recipe for bread griddle.
cakes ?-One Who Likes to Cook.
Can some one tell me how to make French
ast?-American Girl.
Tell Young Girl Of Twenty /" that the best ma.
terlal for her 10 have photograph taken in is 9
pure white dress, without any coors that will look
blotchy and homogeneous soft ruehing around
dress il worn avoid much white, unless ii is some
sheer and delicate lace. Avoid pink and blue rib.
bons on a dark dress they take white.-Pho
tographer.
). womans beauty lies within
tinted cheek or dimpled chin;
laughing eye, cbiseled nose;
rounded form, or graceful pose.
Yet deeper far her beauty lies
In being modest. good, and wise.
No fairer jewel Ter was found
Than womanhoOd with honor crowned
Will some one send the address of Clara Bar
ton, president of the Red Cross Association. Il
Comrade Edmond Parsloe, the soldier elocu
. ZIONIST, Hillsdale, Mich.
Comrade J. T. Randle company e. ID Ten
, nesSee, who resides at Loudon, Tenn, seein,
"The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge,n pub
. lished ia THE TRIBUNE has sent the hero
Past Department Commander j. S. COUNT