The Grenada sentinel., 1889-11-09
COok-ROOM TEMPERANCE
The Culinary Department as an Aid d.
the Temperance Movement-Evils of
the Improper Treatment of Foods.

tine Temperance Moyement-Eyils
the Improper Treatment of Foods.
Of No doubt among the poor, men az
women, too. resort to beer in order
piece out an insufficient diet. Bad
IS cooked meat, bakers bread and mi,
e erable boiled tea made out of Ii
/ sweepings OF warehouses, constitut
l. the chief articles of food. In citie
e if vegetables are bought they ar
g cheap, stale, wilted trash. half dc
d cayed and utterly unwholesome
I Denizens of tenements eat nothin
r which give the rich blood and abound
ing health that workers ought tt
have. Growing children are starve,
for the want of nutritious grains ant
cooling fruits, as well Us for the lack
of good air and cleanliness. Phos
pilates, that are found in whole wheat
and oatmeal, are generally lacking
from their larders.
Under these condition: nature Graves
nutriment. There is a constant, gnaw-
Ing hunger hard to BEAR Wives and
mothers. ignorant of the proper mode
OF preparing and cooking food, and
many of them at work earsing the
means to buy their daily bread, it is
easy Tor them to supply the want, or
try to supply it, by ale, beer or some
thing stronger still. They could do
nothing worse, but for the time the
trouble is tided over. Who of us,
starved day after day while at work,
or with all the inordinate appetite of
the growing child, but would long for
something to fill up the aching void,
something to make us feel better: and
who that would feel satisfied and sus-
tanned by moral prccept5 and temper
ance maXimsp
Among such, and their number is
greater than most suppose, the need
Is to be taught how to cook. Edward
Atkinson in the Forum once showed
now good, economical cook might |
save five cents worth OF food and
fuel every day, or $19.25 per year.
At the same time the raw nutriment
could be converted into more nutri-
tious and appetizing food, by which
means better, healthier race of peo-
pie would result. The difference in
each community of 6.00O would be
SloO,oOO per year, or about nine per
cent. of the total product Of the typ
lcal community. Now, while this
would by no means destroy drunken
ness, ltwould remove Il great tempta-
ton. Every one knows the physical
satisfaction resulting from eating
good dinner, and the opposite feeling
after partaking of poor one. 1t is
not meant by u good dinner one made
up OF rich food elegantly served, but
'no that is both appotizing and nour-
shlng. 1t may be plain and simple
n the extreme, it must feed the body
md the nervous system.
Now, the number of women who can
make the most of good plain food is
lot beyond computation. There is
he everlasting frying-pan and the
Ubiquitous soda, each of them guilty
# constant dietetic enormities, that
re on the right hand and the left of
light housewives out of ten. Good |
leat is fried into scraps and tough !
leat reduced to India-rubber, and
'hite tDur screened from the best i
art OF It's nutriment, made into sod
en- mass by the use of fat and soda.
Il it lurk the demons OF dyspepsia,
ypochondria, restlessness, nervous c
esS and incipient intemperance. t
Cooklng-schools, founded on the c
ght basis, will be faithful helpers of '
lie Temperance movement. They |
i'll not teach how to make deviled +
bater, diplomatic pudding and rum
lerbet, but how to make soup out of Il
'nos, scraps, vegetables and rem t
ants that would otherwise be thrown t
way; to make light bread and 8
heatcn mush and plain puddings, #
shes that taste well and supply t
aste. The women who will institute 8
ese kind OF cooking-schools in vii o
ges and country hamlets, or wher- Il
'er enough can be gathered to make b
class, will be doing good service TO Il
Union Signal. s.