Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
Yesterdays Proceedings at Chautau-
qua Enliyened by Mrs. Ew-
ing's Paper on
COOKERY AND CHRISTIANITY.
10 the Improper Preparation Of Food May
be Attributed the Principal Causes
Which Lead to Intemperancs.
INFLUENCE OF THE COOKS DOMAIN,
Diet Which is Adapted to Our National Needs
Earnestly Recommended.
rsrEcIAL rELEeRAM TO THE p1srArcu.1 ]

rsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH,1
POINT CHAUTAUQUA, July 11.-At 2:30
q good share of Chsutauqua's movable pop
ylation gathered to hear the lecture of Mrs.
Emma P. Ewing on "Cookery and Chris
tianity." Mrs. Ewing had chosen a prac-
tical subject and dealt with it with practical
common sense.
The first sign Of organic life is q mouth
seeking nutrition. From birth to death we
are dependent upon the victualing de-
partment for our daily existence. The
greatest need of the century is the need of
good cooks. Bad cookery is the rule every
where. Can anyone then doubt the cause of
our being a nation of dyspeptics? Many a
bright mind has been blighted because Of
dyspepsia, caused by ill-prepared food.
DYING OF STARVATION.
The improvement of cookery among all
classes is the question Of the hour. II needs
improvement among the rich as much as it
does among the poor. Thousands who live
in houses that put TO shame the palaces Of
old are dying slowly day by day with starva-
tion-dying of starvation in the midst Of
their abundance through the ignorance OF
II
ft the food 10 the demand of the body is the
cause OF untold injury to health and happi-
ness. Badly prepared food cannot be di-
gested and assimilated, and force must be
expended 10 eliminate il from the human
system. People who are properly fed seldom
die Of work or worry.
Prof Atwater hit the keynote when ne
said: "The way TO provide for the welfare
of the brain is TO see that the rest of the
body is in good order" The sins and
crimes OF the world are largely due to an
improper diet; and a dyspeptic stomach is
responsible for many misdeeds that are at
tributed TO q carna] heart. The quality of
the food we eat gives tone and color to our
reflections, perceptions and sensibilities.
The average individual is a tolerably cor
rect reflex Of the food he feeds on and the
home he lives in.
COOKING AND THE DRINK HABIT.
The whole territory of the drinking eues-
tions lies contiguous to that of the food ques-
tion. A deranged stomach longs for stimu-
lants and drunkenness often has its origin
in what one eats. II is almost impossible
for human beings with appetites depraved
and vitiated by a miserable diet to live
clean, pure lives. The footsteps Of the cook
pave the pathway to the saloon. What we
eat contains within it the principles of come
illness or deiormity, health or disease, life or
death. Nutritious, well-prepared food sat
isfes the stomach perfectly. Then there is
no desire for stimulants ofany kind.
Cooking and Christianity should be in
seperably welded. The highest type of men,
tai and moral life can only be had by good
digestion. 1t is almost impossible to estimate
the potency for good or evil that is in the
cooks domain. No one need want for food,
for it is abundant, only il is not well pre-
pared. The simplest things skillfully pre-
pared tempt the appetite of the most fastidi-
ous epicure, while the daintiest viands un-
skilltully prepared are eaten without relish
by the most voracious gourmand. Poor cof-
fee induces an unnatural thirst for lager
beer.
FOODS BoUNDLESS SUPPLY.
We are surrounded with an exhaustless
wealth OF magnificent food material. The
scope of our culinary possibilities are limit
less. Why not devote some of our energies
to perfecting a diet adapted to our national
needs and educating cooks to prepare it?
Cooking has formerly been carried on in the
interest of the epicure and the glutton.
You may have q scnoolhouse on every
hilltop, o church in every valley and q
summer assembly in every county of every
State, but you cannot elevate the standard
of Christianity to its highest level until
YOU elevate the character of the cookery in
our kitchens. No church work, no temper.
ance, good work of any kind can be done
effectively without the aid of good food.
And only by the most perfect union of
cookery and Christianity can the noblest re-
suits of Christian effort be attained in this
OF the world 10 come