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

Ne" very EaSt.
In cold weather it is q good thing to
know what to eat. A doctor said yester-
day that most people think they know,
bat don't, and that q great many more
do know, but don't 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 4 restaurant and gulp down a
p%iping-hot oyster stew. That was the
very worst thing he could eat, the doc
tor said, and ii was a 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, ''cat oysters that are
more than a week old. That may not
seem to relate to the subject of cold
weather, but it does much more than
you know. Oysters chat are more than
a week old have become an%tiquated, as
we say in medicine, and have TO be
cooked as hot as lightning just to make
people think they're fresh. That's
where all the mischief lies. Most peo-
pie think it is just the thing to get out
side of anything that's hot when the
Thermometer is way down tickling zero,
and they rush eff and tackle oysters
that arc old enough to walk. for the
simple reason that they resemble a red
hot stove. It's bad enough to eatiany-
thing that's hot, but TO eat stale oysters
is a good deal worse. Hot oysters Will
! give you dyspepsia and rheumatism,
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ancient oysters will poison a mans
| 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 l complaiT
particularly about hot oysters? Because
people eat more of them than anything
else. il seems to me. Every young wo'
man who goes to u theatre, and every
young man who goes out nights, mus,
stop on the way home and eat oysters
People think hot food, and especial,
hot oysters, make a person warm, bu'
it, the biggest mistake out.
slot drinks are just as bad as no
food, with this exception: All people
do not drink, and women don't drinl
at all, as a rule, but everybody eats anl
wants to eat hot food. But there's ne
use talking about hot drinks. You nigh
as well attempt to change the curse o
the earth rs try to make some men fee
that they could live without a steamins
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vember to April, They'll drink ant
freeze, and drink over again, and keel
on freezing right through the %livelon!
winter without ever dreaming tina
they're colder than anybody else, or tina
they're within an ace of pneumonia al
the time. Why, you'll meet men VIII
know all about politics and religion an
horse-racing and everything else. an
they don't know how to take care G
their health. It's positively demorali2
ing to a man of sanitary warnings TO o
down to Wall street, for instance, an
see the way the brokers down there ACT
The minute it gets cold they pour he
WHISTLES down their throats by til
dozen. One steaming bumper of Il col
day is wors on Il man who's out tina
four plain WHISTLES or six generou
doses of rock and rye
A downtown bartender said he wisl
ed it was below zero always. Me
drink a hot bumper, go out, and com
back in ten minutes to get another
keep the first one from freezing. II
didn't know exactly how much bette
business was in winter than in summer
but he. had an idea it was about te
times.-NeW York Star.