Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
DYSPEPTIC HUSBANDS
Need Wives Brainy Enough 10 Learn
the Science Of Cooking.
MANY MEN STARvE AMID PLENTY.
If Coarse Food Doesn't Agree With Them
It's Not Cooked Done.
HEAT IN MOST DIGEsTIBLE FORM
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MEAT IN MOST DlGESTlbLE F0kh
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"what shall 1 give my husband to eat?"
writes woman. "He is out Of health,
though attending to business; has very
weak digestion, but refuses to touch farm
aceous food that would seem to suit his case.
am at my wits end to know what to do
for him."
Run away little girls, rising 16, dewy
Tipped, rose checked, perfection trained, for
this family talk won't interestyou. Go. to
your industrial school, your Kings Daugh-
ter meeting, your lesson in German litera-
ture, politics or whatever is on the cards for
this afternoon. It can never happen that
your Jack, Fred or Max, with the tawny,
dropping mustache and the imperial shoul-
ders, the languid eyes and gentle, imperious
manner will some DAY find himself in dys-
peptic revolt and that devilled crabs and
larded game do not appeal to his nutrien.
forces. He never will grow peaked and
sallow, emaciated in temper and fussy
enough to spoil the comfort of the family
because he hasn't any OF his own. Run
along, little girl, run along. This consulta-
| tion is not for you.
STARVING AMID PLENTY.
But when the money maker and wage
Garner begins to fail in health woman may
| we'll look anxious and ask everybody what
| is to be done. Who should she ask? There
| is her mother, but that prosperous lady has
not yet faced worse trouble than children's
diseases, and if her husband died Of lin
| gering illness he had 'the best of care and
attendance" and all was left to the doctors
most exclusively.
Singular that be died, starved aud worn
out, in the home he had filled with luxury,
with the most expensive wines and malt
foods and prepared foods wasting on the
| table by his bedside. But the doctors did
| all they could for him and that not being
effective it was the polite and proper thing
| for him to die and have handsome funeral.
His widow knows nothing about disorders
but what is told her by the faculty. and she
can only suggest malt, or koumyss, or grape
| milk, or pepsin broth, or one OF dozen
things widely different, for experimenting
on the invalid.
PLENTY OF PRESCRIPTIONS.
/ The brothers wife has just taken the last
| quarter of the hyper r-mental-psyc ychometric-
| sanctifico healing system, which gives no
medicine, no treatment and never fails
more than nine times in ten. One friend
suggests going to Florida for the winter, a
second recommends Colorado-leaving bust
ness at skies and sevens; Irish Ann, taken
| into confidence, prescribes milk, like the
doctor gave me bruder in de fever" the cook
| tries a round of boiled rice, boiled oatmeal,
farina and farinose, pearl hominy and fancy
corn mixtures, till the table looks like a
grocery advertising scheme.
The aunt from the country, who keeps
summer boarders and reads health journals,
| advises strenuously two meals day. no salt
| and fare of baked apples, milk ndbread
| crusts. Medical minded friends send in
brown glass bottles, with yeasty mixtures to
tempt the appetite; emulsions OF cod liver
oil and gum tragacanth, panadas of cream,
| -four and suet cooked together, with little
port wine to disguise them; rich colored
sauces of pounded fowl gizzards, with pep
sin and decoctions of all the weeds in the
| garden boiled to concentration, with whisky
to keep.
AND KIND NEIGHBoRs HELP.
The kind housekeepers of the neighbor-
| hood take to sending in little messes sulta-
| BILE for an invalid-corn starch and cocoa
nut, watery beef teas, rice pudding with
| jelly and meringue. oatmeal jellies-always
those insipidities which lie fiat on the
palate and fatulent in the interior, which
load the stomach like an army ration and
reduce the small strength left to dispose of
| it. Last of all, the cook takes to sending
up baked potato every morning for break
| fast-most likely potato with a green end.
! Then it is time to start for those hot
| springs where a banished friend wrote he
was glad to set caterpillars fighting for di-
version and get his tooth pulled to pass
away time. Better caterpillar fights, how
| ever, than poor potatoes for breakfast.
Meanwhile the mans cheeks grow thinner,
his features sharpen, his temper is excita-
BILE, ne is easily wearie6, grows downcast,
and loses his interest in things which
pleased him. Young woman, If there is
| anything you want to learn in behalf of
your future husband and children it is that
when they lose flesh beyond spare comeli-
ness it is certain sign of something wrong
with health. They may not sicken and die
| for years, but it is the beginning of disorder
which can have but one ending..decay and
! death.
sIGHTLINEss INDICATES HEALTH.
That is the time when you can send the
shadow of life backward on the dial for
many degrees. You don't want to stuff
your family plump, but all living creatures
| under 56 wears of age must preserve de-
cent smoothness of outline and balance of
flesh to keep from losing steadily and fa-
tally in the end. Health and sightliness 60
together in this matter.
People who call on their nervous force as
| Americans do should take the most string
ent care for diet and its preparation. They
cannot spare strength for the digestion to
overcome hard tasks. In point of fact,
they do not get very good quality of food
generally, and with an active business brain
drawing on the nervous supply of the ali
mentary organs they tall into disrepair. The
food which does not digest, which the fluid
of the stomach does not change to a milky
pulp in three or four hours, ferments in the
| moisture and warmth Of the body. The
habit of fermentation grows till each supply
of food sets new ferments as the cook sets
her yeast. Farinaceous food of all kinds
ferments soonest, causing gaseous disten-
sion and distress, and this is why madam's
dyspeptic husband rebels against the wheat
and oatmeal rice and hominy, with which
she mistakenly feeds him.
SOURCES OF NERVE FOOD.
What he wants is nerve food, in meat,
Jelly or gravy, free from fat, but fresh with
the fragrant osmazone, which three hours
cooling will evaporate, brown and thick
with concentration. To this add little
bread or prepared grains in shape least
likely to ferment-parching the cereals or
toasting the bread brown. Baking heat
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