Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-19
LIE WITHOUT suaAR.
One Of the Most Severe Daprivations
that the Ancients Suffered

that the AncientS Suffered,
Besides the natural sw, cts we have
taken to producing artificial ones
Has any housewife ever realized the
alarming condition Of cookery Ia the
benlghted generations before the la.
vention Of eugaie IL Il really almost
too appalling TO think about, 80 msny
thinga that we now look upon ~ AL
bnt necessarles cakes, pudding, made
dishea, confectionery, preserves, sweet
biscuits, jrllies, cooked huits, &c,
We're then practically qulteimpossihle
Fancy attempting nowadays 10 live a
sipgle DAY without sugar; no tea, no
coffee, no jam, no pudding, no cake,
no sweets, no hot toddy before one GOES
TO bed; the bare idea IA
too terrible. And yet that
was really the abjeot condition
OF all che civilized world up to the
middle OF the middle ages HOrace's
punch waa tugsrltss aud leinonlcss;
tue gentle Virgil new lasted the cnn-
genial cup { afternoon tea; and Soc
rates went from his cradle o his grave
without ever knowing the flavor OF
peppermint bups-ey 90. How the
children managed ia spend their Sat
urday as, or their weekly obulus, Ia a
profound mystery; to be sure, people
had honey; but honey israre, dear aud
ecanty; Il can never have allied one.
quarter the llace that sugar iills In
our modern affections, Try FOR n me-
ment 70 reali2e drinking honey with
ones whisky and water, or doing the
years preserving with n pot OF best
Natboiine, aud you get az once COM
mon measure Of the difference between
the two a. practical sweeteners,
Nowadays we get sugar from cane
and beet-rOot In abundance. while
! sugar naples aud palm.treea OF various
| sOrtH afford considerable supply 10
| remOter countries But the childhood
~ the little Greeks and Romans must
have been absolutely unlighted 10y q
single lay OF lay fOm chocolate creams
or Evert0n Q Zee The consequence
Of this excessive production OF sweets
Ia modern times X, OF course, that We
have begun To distrust the indications
afforded us by the sense Of taste IN thll
particular as TO the whOlesomenesa oil
various Cbieots We can mix sugar
with anything we like whether It had
sugar Ia Il TO begin with or otherwise
ana by sweetenlng and favoring W,
can give a falre palatableness 10 ever
the worst aud most indigestible rub
bish, such Rs plaster OF paris, largely
sold under the name OF sugared nj
monde TO the ingenious youth OF I've
hemispheres. But In untouched ma
turo the test rarely or never falls A
long as fruits are unripe or unit 70
human food they are green and sour
~ soon a. they ripen they become sol
and awect, and usually acquire som
bright color as sort OF advertisement
OF their edibllity. In the main, ba
the accidents OF civilization, whatove
" sweet is good to eat, nay, more,
meant TO be- eaten; IL II only our owl
perverse folly that makes us some
times think all nice thiugs bad for ua
and all wholesome thinea nasty. In
I tate OF nature the exact Opposite /
, really the case. One may observe, toe
/ that children, who are literally youn
, savRges In more senses than one, stAui
I nearer TO the primitive feeling 10 thi
D respect than Rrnwn-up people. The
4 uuatieotedly like aweea; adults VIII
# have grown more accustomed TO th
q Artificial meat diet don't, as "A rule, car
i muen for puddinga, cakes, and mao
{ dishes