The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-09
DANGER IN OYSTER STEWS.
Hot Food and Hot Drinks Killing or
New Ycrkcrs Very Fast.


New Ycrkcrs Very Fast.
In cold weather it is q good thing to
know what to eat. A doctor said yester-
day that most people think they know,
but don't, and that great many more
do know, but don put their knowledge
into practice. He said a man would
rush down town in the morning. after
dancing around to keep warm, would
pop into n restaurant and gulp down Il
piping-hot oyster stew. That was the
very worst thing he could cat, the doc
tor said. and ii was Il wonder to him
that half the people of New York didn't
die of dyspepsia and the other half
come mighty near it.
Never under any circumstances, :"
said the doctor, ''eat oysters that are
more than week old. That may not
seem TO relate to the subject of cold
weather, but it does much more than
you know. Oysters that are more than
a week old have become antiquated, as
we say in medicine, and have to be
cooked rs hot rs lightning just to make
people think they're fresh That's
where all the mischief lies. Most pco-
pie think ii is Just the thing to get out
side Of anything that's hot when the
Thermometer is way down tickling zero,
and they rush off and tackle oysters
that arc old enough to walk, for the
simple reason that they resemble a rcd
hot stove. It's bad enough to eatSany-
thing that's hot, but to eat stale oysters
is a good deal worse, Hot oysters will
give YOU dyspepsia and rheumatism,
catarrh, and a lot of other things, but
ancient oysters will poison a man S
blood in no time.
Every winter l have to treat
people who get sick from eat
ing hot food. Of course they
never suspect what the trouble is,
and laugh when they are told. It's al
most impossible to make them UNDER
stand that they're actually committing
suicide by inches. Why do complain
particularly about hot oysters? Because
| people eat more OF them than anything
else. it seems to me. Every young wo-
man who goes TO a theatre, and every
young man who goes out nights, must
stop on the way home and eat oysters.
People think hot food, and especially
| hot oysters, make person warm, but
it's the biggest mistake out.
''Hot drinks are Just as bad as hot
food, with this exception: All people
do not drink, and women don't drink
at all, as rule. but everybody eats and
wants to eat hot food But there's no
use talking about hot drinks. You might
as well attempt to change the course OF
the earth rs try to make some men feel
that they could live without a steaming
hot whisky every hour or so from No
vembcr to April, They'll drink and
| freeze, and drink over again. and keep
on freezing right through the livclong
| winter without ever dreaming that
they re colder than anybody else, or that
they re within an ace of pneumonia all
the time. Why, youth meet men who
know all about politics and religion inc
horse-racing and everything else, anc
they don't know how to take care o.
their health. It's positively demoralz
ing 10 4 man of sanitary yearnings TO &C
down to Wall street, for instance, anC
see the way the brokers down there act
The minute it gets cold they pour ho
whiskies down their throats by Tho
dozen. One steamng bumper of colo
day is worse on u man who's out than
four plain whiskics or six gcncrou
doses of rock and rye"
/ A downtown bartender said he wish
ed it was below zero always. Mel
drink a hot bumper, go out. and com,
back III ten minutes to get another t
keep the first one from freezing. HI
didn't know exactly how much bette
business was in winter than in summer
but he had an idea it was about tel
times. .-NeW York Star.