The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-15
4 cAsTRONOMIC GROWER
Thinks We Need a Kitchen Reform-The
american Eater and His Dyspepsia
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American Eater and His Dyspepsia
Boston Budget
4 ro+inr * not particularly aesthetic, but
tTi.dailv acknowledgment to our
.oives and others of our mortal teeDlenesS
2Tore NOT the practice of eating general, 1t
,ronId he he'd a disgraccful yielding. and
we should feed shyly, with shame at
8 henU seen like that Of munchlng lunch
scaled on a CurbStOne. nat piece Ol
9rar. j man how noble in reason! how
infinite in faculties. in form and moving
" how evpress and admirable! in action,
how ike an angel. in apprehension, how
Ike = god, the beauty of the world! the
raracon Of animals" Yet thrice day
his Paragon and godlike animal INDUCES
in ~apprehension of quite another sort,
for It is feeding time, and there IS
snarIing and swapping and a fleshy wag-
oin0 of laws till the machine which IS
within us is resupplied with fuel. People
confess this weakness to each other and
rush in herds to satisfy it, as though
singly it were an abasement.
IS il because eating is ungraCeful that 1t
is so little honored? A lady looks least
like an angel at the dinner table; is that
the reason she loves the kitchen so little?
Is it for such a reason, or by an inherent
vice in national character, that the repre-
sentative American is a SallOW, lean, loose
iointed man, who began life with good
constitution. which he treated as if he had
grudge against it, who every day steps
over mountains in his path, and at so
finds out. for the first time, that he has
an "infernal" stomach, thereupon going
into the doctors hands and afterwards
eating food from one hand and pills from
the other?
In the New World type nature ven
tured upon an experiment, and put IN one
more drOp.of nervous fluid; but the Amer
lean treats the drop as if it were stamina
and not impulse, boiler and not pressure.
30 we are Old at 80. We have not time
for dinner. and throw meat to our stom-
achs with the same hasty jerk as to dogs;
making them snap it in the same nasty
way We all carry weight in our OWL
bodies, and live and work in spite OF them
they are the impediments of the marche
of our lives. And we are all dyspeptic-
word that suggests the spectacles.
Dvspe psia is not nervousness, or We
might owe something to it in literature
it is far unlike that depression under
which De Quincy pitifully says, Com
position of any sort was ineXpressibly
panful-a burden which became public
gain " Dyspepsia would have crushed
Cromwell and deferred the fall of Charles.
Minerva springing from JOve's head, tha
pyeternatural antic. may have been but
an undigested morsel under the imperial
girdle Dyspepsia is author of many
doubt and gloomy doctrine in theology
1t may la been the devil that veXed
q Luther and the saints. 1t has los
battles 1t has stranged ideas.
We need a kitchen reform. and the es
Enlistment of classes in which not only
young women can be taught how to cook
but young ladies qualified to superintenC
the culinary departments of their future
households. 1t is time we realized tina
nothing useful is vulgar or undignified
II cooking is vulgar, so is eating; and tie
US dispense with both or make both oh
Jects OF study. 1t is no materialism t.
say that the food we eat is the thought
we think, the doctrines we hold to, thu
experiences we treasure or try to forget
our successes or failures What we con
sumo becomes ourselves, and life is seer
Oy every man through the medium Of hi
physical being and condition.