Wichita eagle., 1888-07-29
EAT THE SIMPLEST FOOD.
How Jay Gould Stands the Strain OF Bus.
mesa Good Dteresic Kule.


The very best living is compatible with the
greatest simplicity. and the complex variety
Of the set feasts Of today is, as a matter OF
fact, Incompatible with really good living.
Jay Gould talking about eating some tims
ago said: Il do not believe that any man
can stand the strain OF large business unless
he lives On the simplest food he can get /
am very fond of baked potatoes They ara
about the simplest things you can eat | do
not care for what are called fancy dishes
Plain meats and vegetables good bread, good
butter and good mil are my staples don't
mean that | do no, ike some dishes that
cannot eat with IMMUNITY but | am lucky
enough not to care much about them | re-
member once al public dinner | ate some
dish which was very good 70 the taste, but
was sick for week after il
Now, when | go 10 heavy dinner. take
little soup if it IS plain, piece Of roast
meat or game, and some plain potatoes or
peas-or, in fact any vegetable that Is served
without sauce These sauces spoil the food
for me. Then for the rest OF the time | 81,
at the table, play with something on my
plate, and pass the time as well as | can"
Why is Jay Gould's opinion about food
any better than that OF any other mans Sim
ply because he has succeeded better than
most men in associating causes with effects,
and Is beyond question leading expert IS &c
causes, and food is prime cause
Simplicity, then, Is invaluable as charac-
teristic of good food II is also character
istic OF the most refined gastronomy, for
there Is simplicity Of elegance as well as a
simplicity Of coarseness The ash cake and
molasses of the Alabama field hand is a sim
pie meal The ash cake is merely lump Of
paste Of corn meal and water buried and
naked in hot ashes But a canvas back,
plainly and properly cooked, with glass or
two Of rare. pure old wine, is just as simple
Nothing but the best is good enough for any
man who can get the best, and it is well TO
remember that quality being equal. the sim
plest food is the best.
What, then, shall we eat' There is the
best medical authority for saying, ''eat what
ever you want" The rule, Ike ell others,
has its limitations A man who is suffering
from the astronomical crimes Of the past,
who has little by little destroyed his healthy
appetite and substituted therefor a morbid
craving for abhorrent mixtures, may TO
longer go on n his sins without fresh pangs
for every fresh ofense But the reader
will say, ''ehis is a fat contradiction Of :ae
first dictlrn, eat what you want and the
whole theory becomes an absurdity"
Not SO fast. If your stomach is already
ruined, you are exempt. But If it be ruined,
you VIII please remember that it was not
ruined by Intelligent eating. or eating in
compliance with the real demands Of your
stomach and your appetite. IL may have
been because you ate when you didn't want
to, or did not eat when you wanted to, or
from some other cause than eating. Perhaps
your ancestors spoiled it for you, but don't
make the mistake of suppozing that nature,
unless ii is interfered with, will give you an
appetite for any food that your stomach can't
take care of.-New York Mail and Express.