The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-05-22
A oAsTRoNoMlc GRoWLER
Thinks We Need a Kitchen Reform-ThS
American Eater and His Dyspepsia.

American Eater and His Dyspepsia
Boston Budgetl
Eating is not particularly aesthetic, but
Il is u tri-daily acknowledgment TO our.
selves and others of our mortal feebleness
Were not the practice of eating general, it
would be held a disgraceful yielding, and
we should feed shyly. with a shame at
being seen, like that Of munching lunch
seal ed on u curbstone. What a piece of
work is man how noble in reason! how
infinite in faculties! in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action.
how like an angel in apprehension, how
like god. the beauty Of the world the
paragon Of animals Yet thrice day
this paragon and godlike animal INDUCES
in apprehension of quite another sort,
for it is feeding time. and there is a
snarling and swapping and a fleshy wag-
ging of Jaws till the machine which is
confess this weakness to each other and
rush in herds to satisfy it, as though
singly il were an abasement
Is IL because eating is ungraCeful that IL
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 ii for such a reason, or by an inherent
vice in national character, that the repre-
sentative American is a sallOw, lean, loose
jointed man. who began life with good
constitution, whichahe treated as if he had
grudge against it, who every day steps
over mountains in his path and az 80
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 # it were stamina
and not impulse, boiler and not pressure
30 we are old mt 30. 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 hastY
way. We all carry weight in our own
bodies, and live and work in spite of them.
they are the impediments of the marches
of our lives And we are all dyspeptic-
u word that suggests the spectacles
Dyspe psia is not nervousness, or we
might owe something to it in literature
it is far unlike that depression under
which De Quincy pitifuliy says, Com.
position of any sort was inexpressibly
painful-a burden which became public |
gain Dyspepsia would have crushed |
Cromwell and deferred the fall of Charles
springing from Joves head, that
preternatural antic, may have been but |
an undigested mOrsel under the imperial
girdle. Dyspepsia is author of many a
doubt and gloomy doctrine in theology |
1t may have been tho devil that veXed |
Luther and the saints 1t has lost !
battles 1t has stranged ideas
We need kitchen reform, and the es-
adjustment of classes in which not only |
young women can be taught how to cook. |
but young ladies qualified to superintend |
the culinary departments of their future |
1t is time we realized tina !
nothing useful is vulgar or undignifed |
If cooking is vulgar, so is eating and let |
us dispense with both or make both OBJ !
jects of study IL is no materialsm to |
say that the food we eat is the thoughts |
we think. the doctrines we hold to, the |
experiences we treasure or try to forget !
our successes or failures What we con
sumo becomes ourselves. and life is seen |
by every man through the medium of his |
physical being and condition