The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-02
DANGER IN OYSTER STEWS.
Hot Food AMI Hot Drinks killing of
New Workers Very Fast.

S$C" very
In cold weather it is a good thing to
know what to eat. A doctor said yes
terday that most people think they
know, but don't, and that great many
more do know, but don't put their
knowledge into practice. He said q
man would rush down in the morning.
after dancing around to keep warm,
would pop into q restaurant and gulp
down piping-hot oyster stew. That was
the very worst thing he could eat, the
doctor said, and it was 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
u week old have become antiquated, Us
we say in medicines, and have to be
cooked as rot as lightning just to make
people think they're fresh. That's where
all the mischief lies Most people think
it is just the thing to get outside of any
thing that's hot when the thermometer
is way down tickling zero, and they rush
off and tackle oysters that are old enough
to walk, for the simple reason that they
resemble rcd-hot stove. It's bad enough
to eat anything that's hot. but to eat
stale oysters is Il good deal worse. Hot
oysters will give you dyspepsia and rheu-
matism, catarrh. and a lot of other
things, but ancient oysters will poison a
mans blood in no time.
Every winter have to treat people
who get sick from eating hot food. OF
course they never suspect what the trou-
bic is, and laugh when they are told.
It's almost impossible to make them un-
derstand that they're actually commit
ting suicide by inches. Why do com.
plain particularly about hot oystersp Be-
cause people eat more of them than any.
thing else, it seems to me. Every young
woman who goes to theater, 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 rs bad as hot
food, with this exception: All people do
not drink, and women don't drink at
all, rs q rule, but everybody eats, and
wants to eat hot food. But there's no
use talking about hot drinks. You might
rs well attempt to change the course of
the earth rs try to make some men feel
that they could live without steaming
hot whisky every hour or so from Novem-
Der to April. They'll drink and freeze,
and drink over again, and keep on freez-
ing right through the livclong winter
without ever dreaming that they're cold
or than anybody else, or that they're
within an ace of pneumonia all the time.
Why, you'll meet men who know all
about politics and religion and horse
racing and everything else, and they
don't know how to take care of their
health. It's positively demoralizing to
man of sanitary warnings to 60 down to
Wall street, for instance, and see the way
the brokers down there act. The minute
it gets cold they pour hot WHISTLES down
their throats by the dozen. One steam
ing bumper of II cold day is worse on
man who's out than four plain whiskies
or six generous doses of rock and rye"
A downtown bartender said he wished
it was below zero always. Men drink n
hot bumper, go out, and come back in
ten minutes to get another to keep the
first one from freezing. He didn't know
exactly how much better business was in
winter than i'm summer, but he had an
idea it was about ten times.-N. Y. Star.