The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-26
A eAsTRoNoMIc GROWER
Thinks We Need a Kitchen Reform-The
American Eater and His Dyspepsia.
Boston Budget. !

American Eater and HIS Dyspepsia.
Boston BudgetI
Eating is not particularly aesthetic, but
it is a tri daily acknowledgment to our.
selves and others of our mortal feeb.enesS
Were not the practice of eating general, it
would be held disgraceful yielding, and
we should feed shyly, with shame at
being SEEN like that of munching lunch
sea ed OH a curbstone What a piece IF
work is man how noble in reas0nl how
infinite in faculties in form and moving,
how express AID admirablel in action,
how like an angel in apprehension, how
like god. the beauty of the world the
paragon OF animals ct thrice day
this aragon and godlike animal INDUCES
IN apprehension Of quite another sort,
for it is feeding time. and there is a
snarling and swapping and a teshy wag-
ging OF Jaws 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 it because eating is ungraceful that it
is so little honored? a lady looks leest
like an angel at the dinner table; is that
the reason she loves the kitchen so little?
Is 1t for such a reason, or by an Inherent
vice in national chara ter, that the repre-
sentative American is a sallOw, lean, loose
jOinted man, who began life with good
contribution. which he treated as if he had
a grudge against it, who every day steps
over mountains in his path, and at %
finds out, for the first time, that he has
an internal" stomach, thereupon goin =
into the doctor S hands and afterwards
eating food from one hand and pills from
the other!
In the New World tyre nature ven
tured upon an experiment. ard put in one
more drop, of nervous tiUjd; but the Anne. 4.
lean treats the drop as f it were stamiI u
and not impulse. boiler and not pressure.
80 we are Old at 30 We have not time
for dinner and throw III at to our st0m-
achs with the same TASTY jerk as to dogs;
making them sap it in the same haslY
way. We all carr 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-
@ word that suggests the spectacles
Dyspep sia is not nervousness, or we
light owe something to it in literature
II is far unlike that depression under
y hich De quincy pitifulIy says, "Uom-
position of any sort was ineXpressibIy
palnful-a burden which became public
gain. Dyspepsia would have crushed
l'Omwell and deferred the fail of Charles
d lnerva springing from Joves head, that
p'eternatural antic. may have been but
al undigested morsel under the imperial
glrdle. Dyspepsia is author of many a
doubt and gloomy doctrine in theology;
1t may ha e been the devil that veXed
Luther and the saints. 1t has lost
battles. 1t has strangied 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 superintend
the culinary departments of their future
households. 1t is time we realized that
nothing useful is vulgar or undignifed
If cooking is vulgar, so is eating; and let
rs dispense with both or make both OBJ
iects Of study. 1t is no materialism 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.
How an Ohio Battery Captured Supplies.
lCor Cleveland LEADER
We knew it would be night before the
slow paced baggage wagons reached
Bowling Green, and perhaps morning
before we could find them. The thought
made the soldiers ravenous. Clearly,
something must be done to procure
ratiops for supper. ar of down the
Dad in front we could see a negro driving
IN OK team, making his way home,
probably scared into an ague fit by the
sudden appearance of Yankees. 1t was
the first time, the reader must remember,
that the Federal troops had penetrated the
south. and the ignorant people regarded
them with comicaI terror. The negro was
making what haste he could to avoid being
overtaken. At this moment a wheel ran
off from the leading gun carr age and the
first detachment halted, drawing to one
side to enable the battery to pass. In
minute or two it was rep aced but by this
time the battery had thundered by the OK
team, leaving the negro half paralzed with
fear, ting in his wagon b. the roadside
A hurried consultation in the detach-
ment resulted in the sergeant giving it
one minute to convert the O en- into beef
We approached the team on a run,
halted, and while the negro still sat on
the wagon with staring eyes. shivering
with fright. twenty men fe to the work
Of slaughter. They worked like wild
men fear of losing their rati0ns. In
minute or two it was all over. eight QUAR-
ters of beef adorned the caisOn chests. the
ciattered on the run to over.
take the Lattery. aGd the negro still sat Jn
MS wagon, gazing alternately at the
hides. heads, and debris incumber-
ing the yoke and wagon tongue, and
The flying artillery disappearing down the
road
NTillr1nan's TlIe0ing Trick.
toThe I-lvS of the Tni1tr1nor orn no St find.