The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-16
HOW TO EAT IN THE SPRING.



New Things at the Markets and How
to Prepare Them for the Table.
NEW YORK, April 14.-The apparently
sarcastic yell of Strawberries" that
startled the good housekeepers of New York
while they were still trying to get the re
mains of the late blizzard removed from
their doorSteps was the first reminder, out
side tho almanac, that it Is time for change
of diet. Fresh esculents and fruits may be
had and the merry spring lamb is the tooth
some alternative for bear meat and roast
goose.
The spring salads, for example, are plenty
again, after our long period of abstinence.
We may have cucumbers at moderate cost,
that are not, to be sure, quite as delicious as
those we shall pick in our own back yards
by and by, but are still fresh cucumbers,
unflavored with the taste of great expense.
We may get escaroe, that delightful mem
Der of the endive family, though that is still
costly and none too plenty in the markets
Satisfy is cheap and no one who has failed
to try this can claim a good knowledge of
salads. There is spinach, hardly salad,
but first cousin of salads; there are new
tomatoes that are very good, and new
asparagus which is not yet very good.
Still there are people, unhappily, who sit
down to their breakfasts, morning after
morning, without salads. They are of the
kind who hoard their belongings while they
are young in order that somebody else may
enjoy them hereafter, profound mistake
unless it be lofty philanthropy, which com
monty it is not
In the youth of each day is the time for
the daintiest pleasures of the palate, where
fore the breakfast table should be fair like
a morning flower. The flower should be on
the table. Do rot forget to tickle the
senses. so far as they may be tickled, SO
that the whole body may be reused to that
| full measure of vitality which will make a
success of each day. Therefore flowers. The
eye and the nostril, assailed with the soft
weapon of delight, will in turn so arouse,
| cheer, coax, enliven, awaken, kindle, flip
and suscitate the sleepy body that the da y
shall open merrily and happily, whatever
the sorrows of yesterday have been.
And the palate has its work. That grand
| apotheosis of utiltarianism in food, oatmeal
| will supply your bodily furnace with all the
| fuel it needs, the Scotchman will tell you.
| Do not question or doubt him. Let him
| have it, puir body You feed, as the birds
| do, upon seed sufficient but also upon the
| succulent delicacies which shall moisten
your coppers and please You softly. He
| meant you to do it when he put those dain-
| ties here. ThiHk you they were meant for
the beasts of the field and the birds of the
| air alone?
No. Eat what your palate calls for. first
being careful that you have not entirely
ruined and perverted your palate Do YOU
not remember what DR.. Austin Flint said
| when he was detected eating a midnight
! rarehit3 He said man ought to live as
sumptuously as possible He should eat
what he wanted, all he wanted, whenever
he wanted it. He might so get govt, but
never dyspepsia.
Therefore breakfast with thy might.
| Open the day nationally by putting the
| body in trim to do the work of the day. Get
your servant into happy condition first,
and you can call on it for the hardest work
without fearing rebellion. Above all, do
| not read your paper at the breakfast table.
The markets are full. Look up the
dainties Feed neither on husks nor staples
ali the time. Shad is good-between the
bones, and it is good training for an irrit-
able, impatient man TO busy him self few
moments on each mouthful. Shad are here
from the Chesapeake and will stay in season
for considerable time. Save your pennies
till you have tuirty-fve of them and go to
the market for one good shad. You will not
repent the effort.
When you get a shad plank it, If you do
not know how-and only few masters of
the noble art of planking live in this world,
for most of them have gone TO their reward
you can do nearly as well. Split it., rub
it with little olive oil and broil il. Do
not begrudge the cost if you have 10 send
out and buy the charcoal for the fire. You
will be glad you didn't cook that shad on
anthracite.
There are other delicacies. Probably
you cannot get snowbirds. They are scarce
and dear and not generally in the best CON
dition. Homeopathy was too much for them
in the latter part Of March. But you may
get squads for SO so a dozen and vali us
other small deer at various prices. Go TO
the market again. Don't send, but look
around yourself and see if there are some
young Philadelphia chickens TO be had.
They ought to cost you about 25c. pound
but they are worth it. Possibly you can
get guinea hen, and if you can afford it
don't hesitate to pay SOC. for it.
If you must have plain solid meat, remem-
Der that roast beef and mutton may be had
the year around, but only for little time
now can you get spring lamb in perfection.
There is plenty Of that in market and it
will cost you BIC a pound. The word
"only" is not sarcasm. The extravaganza
of the price of anything is merely relative
Remember above all things, that there
is only one thing on earth that you are
obliged TO be interested in every day. That
is eating. ANY other subject, barring
drinking, which is merely twin, can be
forgotten for a series of days without much
harm, but man must eat daily, and the
more wisely he eats the better his life will
be- A good liberal allowance OF attention
20 this particular subject pays better than
almost any other investment Of time and
trouble that can be made.
And don't let your oysterman smash the
shells when he opens them. II he will not
''stab" go TO another dealer.
DAVID A CURTIS.