Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06
DRIVE MEN TO DRINK.
Mrs. Ewing Points Out the Evils Result
ing from Bad Cooking

ing from Bad Cooking.
The feelings of some well meaning
temperance advocates received Il wrench
at Chautauqua when Mrs. Emma p. Ew-
ing, the lecturer on cookery, fatty de-
clared that bad cookery and NOS natural
depravity was responsible for drunken
ness in America.
"The drink question:" she averred,
"lies contiguous to the food question. A
deranged stomach longs for stmulants.
OF the so, 900 drunkards who die in the
United States every year, a large proper
ton have the appetite for Intoxicating
drinks aggravated, if not implanted. 10y
the food which constitutes their daily
diet Grease soaked meat, watrry wee
tables, sloppy coffee, and bad bread. in
lants. With such conditions, why should
anybody be surprised at the drink habit?
Poor coffee produces unnatural thirst for
lager beer, and there is terrible affinity
between sour bread and sour mash
whisky. A healthy stomach has no alb
normal craving for either liquor, cigars.
candy, or chewing gum. Bad cookery
is foe to everything that elevateS and
ennobles, and friend to every thing that
debases, whereas good cookery and
Christianity aid and supplement each
other. Good cookery is indispensable to
the highest type of Christian life, and
everywhere makes for righteousness.
You may have a school house on every
hill top, a church in every valley, and a
summer assembly in every county of
every State of the Union, but you can't
elevate the standard of Christianity to
its topmost level until you elevate the
character of your cookery. This coun-
try is overrun with bad cooks. The ira
ditional plain cook is a culinary charla
tan, and plain cook and poor cook
are synonymous terms. The greatest
need of the United States is 500, 900 plain
cooks, men and women, who understand
the principles of baking. boiling, broil-
ing, and frying. When | think of the
abominable messes on which all classes
of society feed daily, am not surprised
that the world gets on so slowly in re-
formatory movements, and when plOus
women come and tell me they are so ac-
lively engaged in benevolent work that
they have no time to attend to the
kitchen, | say to them. as | say to you,
no church work, no temperance work,
no missionary work can be done effect
lively without the aid of good food, and
not until you have the most perfect union
of cookery AID Christianity can the no.
bIe,t works of Christian effort be attained
in this world OF in the world to come. !"
Il say amen to that" cried Bishop
Vincent ferventlv. "Ihope the time will
come when we shall train our boys to be
Judges of cookery so that none may
marry women who are bad cooks. Fried
beef! Good Lord deliver us. Weak
coffee, when you might as well have
strong coffee, but that it wastes its aroma
on the third floor of the house As min
utes before the breakfast bell rings.
Heavy bread, or bread made light by ar
tificial means! When shall we learn
wisdom and lay the foundation of good
health and COOL morals and good order
by system of COOL oooking?"
The Number Seven in the Bible.
On the seventh day God ended His
work.
In the seventh month Noah's ark
touched the ground.
In seven DAYS dove was sent out.
Abraham pleaded seven times for
Sodom.
Jacob mourned seven days for Joseph.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel
And yet another seven years.
Jacob was pursued a seven days jour
ney by Laban.
A plenty of seven years and a famine
of seven years were foretold in Pharoah's
dream by seven fatand seven lean beasts,
and seven ears of full and seven ears of
blasted corn.
On and after the seventh day of the
seventh month the children of Israel
tasted seven days and remained in their
tents.
Every seventh year the land rested.
Every seventh year the law was read
to the PEG. lie.
In the destruction of Jericho seven
persons bore trumpets seven days; on the
seventh day they surrounded the walls
seven times, and at the end of the sew
enth round the walls fell.
solomon was seven years DullulnB Gne
temple, and tasted seven days at its ded-
ication.
The golden candlesticks had seven
branches.
Naaman washed seven times in the
Jordan.
Jobs friends sat with him seven days
and seven nights, and offered seven bull
locks as an atonement.
Hundreds of other Biblical references
to the number seven could be given did
space permit.-[St. Louis Republic.
Spontaneous Combustion of Man.
Dickens has been very much criticised
for his apparent acceptance of the fact of
human spontaneous combustion, but the
late Sir William Gull testified to sur
prising case before a committee of the
house of lords during the summer of
1886. A large bloated man, who was
suffering from difficulty of breathing
and great distenson of the venous
system, died at Guys Hospital. At the
post mortem of the following day there
was no sign of decomposition, but the
body was distended with what was
thought to he gas. "When punctures