The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-02
What Shall We Eat.

IL ne soon becomes nervous and irritable
AZ he does not assimilate enough food Il
supply Its demands, his mind is sure to be-
come weak. The healthiest and strongest
individuals even should eat a far create,
proportion Of meat than Of veget .ble food
Beef should be taken as the standard meat
Ii answers every purpose of the system
Veal and pork are not as easily digested
Pork, so far as its composition goes. is ar
excellent food for nervous persons, but il
Is not readily digested. Yet, in she army
we used to think nothing better for the
wounded men than bacon. As rule. sail
meat is lot adapted to the requirements OF
the nervous individual, as nutritious Juices
TO great extent go into the brine.
The flesh of wild birds is more tender
and more easily digested than that of tame
ones. This is accounted for bv the greater
amount OF exercise they take thereby re-
neWlng their flesh more rapidly and max.
ing 1t younger than that of birds which have
been domesticated This is a suggestion
that might be of benefit to women of Sc
dentary habits, who are DESTROYS of pro
longing an appearance of youth Fish of
all kinds is good for the nervously in
cIned. RaW eggs, contrary to the general
opinion, are not as digeStible as those that
have been cooked
A notion has been prevalent that persons
have Injured their digestion by eating too
moch. The TACT is that most persons don't
cat enough. There are more persons killed
every year from insufficiency of nourish-
meGt tina by overlooking their stomachs.
MANY OF those who do eat sufficient
quantity for the economy of their systems.
The very first thing for any one to do who
has exhausted himself by mental work. or
who has been born weak and irritabiV. is
hro lrri-b ~.
either to repair the damage it has sus-
tanned, or to build it into strong, healthy
condition. People in this condition USUALLY
suffer from nervous dyspepsia. Their
stomachs are unable to perform the work
OF assimilation. Owing to the deficient
nerve power OF the individual the food
lies IN the stomach Enacted upon by the
gastric juice, because there is none, or the
quantity is insufficient to have any power.
Food, instead OF helping to renew the body.
and the nervous system with the rest,
undergoes fermentation, and the BODY and
brain 1t should noUrish may starve The
person is IN a worse state than if the food
had not been taken, for the fermentation
generates acids and gas
Nervous individuals may derive all the
lat they need from sugar and starch Its
better, however, for those of weak diges-
tive organs, or whose nerves are in a
highly sensitive state, to get 1t from the
StomachS, lnteStlneS and papcreas To
create 1t out of these articles. Good bread,
sweet butter and m9at are the best food
for the nerves.
People troubled with insomnia. nervous
starting from sleep and sensations of fall
ing, can oft be cured by limiting them
selves to a diet of milk alone for time
An adult should take a pint of milk and
four meals daily. People with weak
nerves require, usually, a larger quantity
of water than those whose brains and
nerves are strong. 1t aids in the digestion
Of food by making it soluble, and seems to
have direct tonic effect.
BF proper eating and drinking, we should
have fewer broken down, nervous wrecks
and far more vigorous intellects The
present human species cannot eliminate
flesh from its food and amount to a row Of
pins. The fancy that nothing but yege-
&2bles should be eaten is apt to overtake
every one somewhere in life Its due to
some diSorganization, and usually passes
away with the disturbance that created it.
Pa amt turning out the sort of a man
expected" said little 3-year-old boy as he
returned, rubbing his legs, from a wood
shed seanee with his father ''and ma the
next time he whips US let's get a divorce u
Mrs. Martha j. Lamb. the historian, sug-
gests that plays be produced at the New
York theatres on April 80 which Washing
ION saw when President.
Mrs. Lamb is editor of the Magazine of
American History, and is one of the most
unobtrusive women in New York. Years
ago Mrs. Lamb brought out a novel entitled
SPICY" but she soon turned her affection
TO more serious character, and her His
tory of the City of New Yorl1'' is monu-
ment to her talent research and indefatig-
able industry. She is petite, quiet, gentle
voiced, with a kindly and sympathetic face.
Mrs. Lamb lives at the old fashioned Cole
man house, where on the upper floor she
has the contest eyre under the sun. she
frequeats society to a certain extent, and is
d familiar figure during the season in Wash
ngton.
Some time ago Mrs. Cleveland conceived
the idea OF arranging room in the style
she remembered to have seen in the house
of her grandmother in Wyoming county.
N. Y, number of years ago. She at once
wrote to her relative. Mrs. Cushman, VINO
lives at Cowellsville, n. Y, and asked if
she could reproduce a rag carpet of the
design which covered the floor of her
grandmother's room. Mrs. Cushman re
piled that she would try and do so and at
once set to work tearing rags into strips.
coloring them and preparing them for the
weaver The carpet was finished in due
time and sent Oh TO Mrs. Cleveland: it IS a
combination of the ''hit and miss" and
<'fancy stripe'' variety.
The room, by the way, will be a very
unique affair, and Mrs Cleveland intends
to reproduce as nearly as possible a room
such as served the purpose of parlor or
drawing room in the last gt neration There
Is TO be a spinning wheel in one corner, the
fireplace to be decorated with pair of cid
fashioned handirons and there VIII be all
the paraphernalia which went to make up
the interior decorations of a country par
lor. It will be distinctively an American
room. There VIII be no doubt that the ex-
ample set by Mrs. Cleveland win lead to
the adoption of a rag carpet "fad'
among some of our fashionable people
The Philadelphia Carpet Trade says there
is No demand for Brussels carpet. as is
shown BY the fact that one Philadelphia
mill devoted to its manufacture has been
sold and another removed TO Worster
Mass. That the prices of this fabric has
been mercilessly cut down from season to
season there can be no doubt There was
a time within few years when it was
thou 1T that the tapestry mills would be
wined ont of existence by The cheapness
and plentifulness of Brussels, but Just no "
the position of the two industries seems
reversed, ana there is positive bouyancy
in tapestry and tapestry velvet circles Il
has been long time since tapestry velvets
were as popular as now, and the low price
at which they have been sold has. we
imagine, diverted Brussels buyers in favor
of the pile fabric.
For the latest in .'wall hangingsu the
wide friezes continue to rule, and MANY
new patterns in these goods in both twenty
and thirty inch will be produced. The
dado is thing of the past, and the stern
strength in decoration is now being put on
the upper part of the room, where its clear
and unbroken space can give it full effect
Ceiling papers are claiming special atten-
ton as to design and color and the sale is