The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-01-31
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"COLD ViCTuAL LS.v
In the Summing Up Of Lifetime Hast.
and Stale Bread Are Not Important.
The representative man dreads cold v;ct.

In the Summing Up OF Lifetime Hasl,
apd Stale Bread Are Not Important.
The representative man breads cold y,ct-
uals.
He breads picked up dinners He groans
at the thought Of yesterdays cabbage and
corned beef, served up for today's entertain-
ment He sees no reason why tho women
folks should not be able to get up freshly
!. cooked dinners every day; ho cannot under
stand now 1t is that washing day must inay-
1tably bring to the dinner table a miscellan-
eous collection of odds and ends. which he ID
expected to eat in silencs and gratitude.
He feels wronged. He feels that It was
mistake that he was born. He wishes he had
the wealth of Rothschild, so that he could
board at tho Fifth Avenue hotel, and never
DC Obliged to eat picked up dinners.
Perhaps he grumbles. Good men often do
under such circumstances. It relieves their
feelings, and their wives expect it and are
not disappointed
woman, on the contrary, has a sort of
lurking fondness for cold yictuals. She likes
to warm things over, and rehash them. and
dress them up anew, and she takes pride in
doing it.
II she succeeds in making something out Of
nothing she is happy. And when She has
hewed the roast turkey up into soup, and
baked the fricasseed chickens into pie, and
!nado the roast beef into ragout, She feels
nke the embodiment of economy, and she be-
lieves that nothing short Of new silk dress
would be sufficient recompense for her skill
full management.
Cold victuals are sure TO bring company to
dinner When there is nothing but yester-
days dinner for today, look out for hungry
visitors. Did you ever notice that the less
you have cooked the more likely you are to
haVo somebody come for whom YOU care.
and who is blessed with good appetite7
When such thing happens, bear it with
equanimity. Life is not all eating. There is
something else besides Don't make apologies
for the cold pudding. Don't fret if the bread
Is stale. People have eaten cold pudding and
stale bread and survived it. There are many
well authenticated cases on record where
men have eaten picked up, washing day din
ners once week for years, and lived to be
reckoned as among the Oldest inhabitants,
Living to eat is not the highest Kind Of ell.
joylnent. When dyspepsia takes hold Of your
stomach, and the demon indigestion gets n
good grip on you, you will realize the truth
OF this assertion. When you feel as il there
was kerosene lamp turned on at full blast
in your episastric region, and when the num-
berless aches and pains that arise from de-
tective digestion rack your brain and send
needle prcks all over your body, you will not
care whether tho dinners are old or new,
fresh Or otherwise, and you will wonder that
ever you made such a fuss over your wife's
economies OF cold vctuals warmed over. 0.a
Take it with philosophy. 1t stands to rea-
son that woman cannot always be cooking.
And it is sinful to waste things. And in
every family there must necessarily be cold
Tictuals. They must DO worked up some
how. 1a 07.f H.. ...& -.2..a"f ,., ..& g.
Come bravely to the front and accept the
situation. Eat the cold ham witt d relish,
BE thankful for the bread pudding and happy
over the hash Console yourself with the
thought thatyou are doing your duty in eat
ing the soup concocted from yesterdays
roast
Smile over the cold victuals, and be glad
to greet them like old friends in a new guise.
You will be happier than you will be if You
grunlble over the unavoidable, and your wife
will tell her less fortunate female friends how
good you are, and all the women iu IOWA
will wish they had husband like you Don't
you seeFs--hate Thorn in New York Weekly.