Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-06
A Woman on What and When We
Should Eat--Iack Strap and His
Wife Can Always Agree.
breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner Bills'
of.Fare for Every Day Hints
for Newly Married.
A Right and wrong way OF Doing Every
thing Applied TO BED Making-I"ok
this Covers In Mt the Foot
IdlosYnornsIra ID I.nilng.
ny nOsE TEBnY COOKIE,


I'm considering the subject of daily food
which comes within woman's province
ever since Solomon declared in his pic
ture OF an dcas woman that "Shc bring
eth her f0od,ksfom afar; she riseth ~l'f
whilost is ~ Night and giveth meat u
her household IL Is necessary 20 con
slider something more than the byglcnlc
and economic value of what we eat and
set before others, aud that Is the indiyld'
ual tastes and necessities Tor which We
must cater. ] make a distinction be-
tween tastes and necessities, because
many things we like 90 cat II ~ necessary
10 avoid on account Of their special effect
ON certain constitutions; SO that what IL
palatable may even be poisonous, forman
has outgrown or Out-cduc9ted that IN
stlnct which still guides the beasts Of the
field and warns them against uoXious
dainties. The history Of idiosyncrNsies
I'm regard TO food would be yonmnous II
all its illustrative facts could be obtained
ana written. few may suggest 70 the
anxious housewife The necessity Of find
ing out what her guests cannot cnt before
she prepares their meals.
once knew young girl 60 whom the
least particle OF egg WAS poison. In
sclf-dolcnse, as well as out OF regard Tor
her hosts, she was always obliged 70 ask
the Ingredients Of any diAh set before
her which might perhaps contain the oh
noxlous article. She could not drink
coffee that was cleared with an egg;
and once, going out To n tea party, she
asked the lady OF the house II she put
ogg In her biscuit; she assured my
friend that she had not, but no sooner
had the unfortunate guest swallowed one
TAI 81 ha Iff,ht uatfy roll than ~
went into sort OF spasm that quite
broke up the party and alarmed those
about her. Her hostess explained that
she had quite forgotten having put one
egg Into the dough that made three or
four dozen biscuit, nor could she have
imagined that 80 inflnitcsimal n portion as
was conveyed in one moutlIiul could
have affected any one, but II did, and
came very near being fatal.
At another time my friend was seized
with similar symptoms but could not
trace particle of egg In whn she had
eaten; indeed, she had not eaten any
thing since noon, az the day was warm
and her appetite delicate from the languid
weather, but IL was nfterward discovered
that some icing for cake had been made
that morning In large pitcher, MS In
those dhya, before Dover cgg-bCaters
Were invented 10 bless as, u was the Gus
tom to beat icing with II knife in deep
cup or pitcher, and q lazy servant making
lemonade had not washed the pitcher,
thinking the little icing that remained
after sGraping out the utcnsil would not
hurt the lemonade, but my friend drank
some and was severely IN.
have known many persons who could
not eat veal; It Is 10 me really poisonous,
and never have II on my own table, but
many times | have dlncd whore veal was
the only meat on the table and been
obliged 10 leave IL untastod,
have another friend who can.
not eat even one strawberry with.
out being i'll; had another on
whom they brought out an Irritating crup.
tloni several kinds of fish produce this
effect on certain organizations. had d
relative who went into commissions at tho
smell of cheese, aud 10 was both amusing
and irritating to u young niece who tray.
cled with him good deal 20 find II dc,
vOlved upon her 10 Inspect the table
whenever he took any meal at a hotel
and order of his vands promptly and
peromptorily One day at a country tay.
orn she was Just IN time 90 avert painful
consequences, by SELLING plate from the
walter who was about To set II down un,
der hor uucle's nose, and whisklng II
away below the table the other side
telling the astonished girl In yelled
voices
flake this cheese away dircctly,or that
old gentleman viii have n ntln
Fresh PORK, too IN obnoxious to some
people and nnwhoGSomc for more. Ap.
Piles, often recommended as wholesome
Tor mind and body, ere not so for every
oBo. have known two or three people
who could never eat even one; aud some
times they excite severe collie
The scent aud taste OF certain condl-
ments ART uauseatlng TO some persons
aud IL beh0oyes every good housewife to
ascertain II her guests possess any OF tlese
old ldiosynsrasies, lest the meals she sets
heiorc them may be, TO them, quite un.
catu0le or, at least, very dlsagreeable
Nor IS II well 10 providing for children In
our own households, 10 force them TO eat
what they diAllkoi the stomach viii beat
less outrage than most other Of our vi al
organs, | well remember the expert.
ments that were tried on me IN my earlier
years, when had the misfortune TO be
the only child as Well as the first living
offspring in the family. | was dclicatel,
organized aud Inherited from my mother
- 0A'AN'A NAh AhAhhN hfNfAlNNf III OEut
90 subyert this natural tendency | wa,
Obliged 10 eat some one thing TINT I did
not like every day or 20 without my din,
ner, Now, II was no hardship 10 me "a
last. liked IL as long as the garden was
full OF fruit and had full leave Ia use II,
pleasant stores, so set my fare against Ia,
food that really uauseated me 10 swallow
aud took the alternative OF no dinner
serenely. But 10 this day abhor certain
things / was forced to taste, aud thul
very odor Is slckoniug " timely attack
OF scarlet fever, 80 severe that | barely
escaped from " alive, had not INTERVIEWED
think my training woald have brought
on chronic dyspepsia, M Il was, my 10,
covory was long delayed because nothing
tempted my appetite.
Then, again, there are temporary idiosyn.
cratic desires for food, particularly Via
sickness, that are very apt 10 be- lnstinc.
tive Indication OF usefulness or need. A
physician once knew, whose early death
was real loss Ia the profession. 40 won.