The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-15
DIET OF THE FAMILY.
When. what and How to Eat--some Uss-
full Hints.


When. what and How to Eat--some Use
full Hints.
Those persons who desire to live
themselves and have their families live
hygienically, find it very difficult 70
decide what foods are healthy and
what are not But there are a few gen.
eral rules that may be given. One of
the ways of accomplishing this is by
means of the proper combinations of
different kinds of food. A few hints on
this subject are given in book on the
diet question, as follows: A combina-
ton of dishes that would be delightful
in the sultry days of July or August
would be altogether insufficient to sat-
isfy the appetite on a cold December
day, or a keen frosty morning; and
damp, the food is always best relished
if warm. Often a good plate of hot
soup, to be followed by corn-bread and
baked potatoes, and perhaps another
warm vegetable is very acceptable on
damp, cold days, when there is raw
atmosphere, chilling one through. In
the early fall days, before the stoves are
put up, the mornings are very chilly and
the juicy fruits and cooling vegetables
that have been so acceptable during the
heats in summer should be replaced by
something warmer and more stimula-
ting.
To form perfect diet, the cook, or
in other words the housekeeper, must
use her rare good sense in the matter,
and adapt the food to the circumstances
of the case. What would be suitable in
the case of student or one engaged in
sedentary occupations is not most suita-
BILE for the farmer who is actively at
work. He needs those foods which
will give him the greatest amount of
flesh-forming elements, which we find
in meat, milk, eggs, and the gluten of
grains, which we will find in oatmeal,
cracked wheat, etc. The various veg
etables, beans, peas and the Hubbard
squashes also contain great nutriment.
Bread made from the whole wheat flour
which contains the gluten of the grain
is the most nutritious.
No doubt much injury is done to
children by their being allowed to eat
highly seasoned and unsuitable food.
While there may be a difference of
opinion as to the healthfulness and de-
STABILITY of anyone consuming pickles,
strong coffee and using pepper, highly
spiced sauces, ETC., there are few who
will claim they are suitable articles for
childrens diet. 1t is said that the ex-
cessive use of red pepper which is SO
common in the cooking of torrid eli
mates is rendered necessary by the effect
of the long and continued heat on the liv-
er, which weakens it and lessons the sup
ply of bile; the pepper having the effect
of stimulating this organ. This excuse
can hardly be urged for its use in this
climate and certainly not with children.
A great deal is also said about eating
too much, but a child should not be
stinted in its food. 1t requires good
deal to supply the waste and keep up
the growth. But it should be of the
right kind. 1t has been said with
truth that child will seldom over-eat
of perfectly simply food, when it will
beg for more pastry and cake. There
is much truth after all in the saying
which sounds so harsh to childish ears,
g If you are not hungry enough to eat
bread and butter, you don't need any
thing" The diet need not be confined
to quite such limited list as this, but
may embrace fruit plain cookies, etc.,
but the principle holds good that plain
food will be relished by the hungry per-
son, and if not hungry he is better off
without any. If there is craving
for some particular article, it
shows there is want in the system
which should be supplied in the food
The child needs sugar. but it should be
supplied in the food, not in Jumps from
the sngar-bowl at all times of the day.
In this connection the words of Miss
Frances Willard, who is known through
out the country as the apostle of tenn
perance comes with force: II have
formed settled conviction that the
world is fed too much. Pastries, cakes,
hot bread, rich GRAVES, pickles and pep
per sauces are all discarded from my
bill of fare and / firmly believe they
will be from the recipes of the twentieth
century. Entire wheat flour bread,
vegetables, fruit, fish, with little meat,
and milk as the chief drink, will distil
in the alembic of the digestive organs
into pure, rich, feverless blood, electric
but steady nerves, and brains that can
think Gods thoughts after Him., as
they have never yet thought. This is
my recipe: plain living and high
thinking and this is my warning:
With high living you will get exceeding
ly plain thinking y Western Rural.