Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27
COOKS AND COOKING.
What People Of Weak Digestion
Should BE Given to Eat.
STARVING AMIDST PLENTY.
Signs Of Failing Health-Nerve Food Needed
for the Money Maker and Wage Garner
The Proper Kinds Of Meat and Vegetables
70 Buy.
Written for the Evening Star.

Written for the Evening Star.
ssWHAT SHALL GIVE MY HUSBAND to
w eat?' writes a woman. HE is out Of
health, though attending to business; has very
weak digestion, but refuses to touch farinace-
Gus food that would seem to suit his case l am
| at my wits end to know what to do for him"
Pun away little girls, rising sixteen, dewy
Tipped, rose checked. perfection trained, for
this family talk won't interest you.
Go to your industrial school, your King 8
Daughter meeting, your lesson in German lite
| nature, politics whatever is on the cards for
this afternoon. 1t can never happen that your
Jack, Fred or Max, with the tawny. dropping
mustache and the imperial shoulders. the
languid eyes and gentle, imperious manner will
some day find himself in dyspeptic revolt and
that devilled crabs and larded game do not ap-
peal to his nutrient 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. The idea Of
that superb creature with the perfectly cut
coats and perfectly fitting sentiments and pas
sionate clasp of the hand going about with a
disordered digestion and breath like a just
lighted match.
Run along, little girl, run along. This con-
| sultation is not for you.
STARVING AMID PLENTY.
But when the money maker and wage Garner
| begins to fail in health woman may well look
anxious and ask everybody what is to be done.
Whom 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 a lingering illness he had
1.-The best of care and attendance. and all was
left to the doctors most exclusively.
Singular that he died. starved and worn out
In the home he had filled with luxury, with the
most expensive wines and malt foods and pre-
pared 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 hand
some funeral.
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 a dozen things
widely different for experimenting on the in
valid.
REMEDIES TOO NUMEROUS.
One friend suggests going to Florida for the
winter, "a second recommends Colorado-leav-
ing business at skies and sevens; Irish Ann.
taken into confidence. prescribes milk, "like
the doctor gave me brudder III dc fever" the
cook tries a round of boiled rice, boiled oat-
meal, farna and farinose. pearl hominy and
fancy corn mixtures. till the table looks like a
grocery advertising scheme.
The aunt from the country who keeps sum-
mer bOarders and reads health Journals, adj
yises strenuoUsly two meals day, no salt. and
fare of baked applies. milk and bread crusts.
Medical minded friends send in brown glass
bottles with yeasty mixtures to tempt the APP
petite; emulsions of cod liver oil and gum
tragacanth, panads of cream, flour and suet
cooked together, with a little port wine to dis
guise them; rich-colored sauces of pounded
fowl gizzards with pepsin and decoctiOEs of all
the needs In the garden boiled to concentra-
ton. with whisky to keep.
The kind housekeepers of the neighborhood
take to sending in little messes suitable for an
invalid-cOrn starch and cocoanut. watery beef
teas. rice pudding with jelly and meringue.
oatmeal jellies-always those nsipidities which
lie Hat on the palate and flatulent in the inter
Tor. 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 a
baked potato every morning for breakfast
most likely potato with green end.
Then 1t is time to start for those hot springs
where a banshed friend wrote he was glad to
set caterpillars fighting for diversion and get
his tooth pulled to pass away time. Better cat
erpillar fights, however, than poor potatoes for
breakfast.
Meanwhile the mans cheeks grow thinner.
his features sharpen, his temper is eXctable.
he is easily wearied, grows downcast and
loses his interest in things which pleased
him.
WHEN TO BEGIN TREATMENT.
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
snare co,oel;,ess Il ia a certain siop Of son,o-
thing wrong with health. They may not sicken
and die for years, but it is the beginning Of dis
order which can have but one ending-decay
an1 deatn.
mat rs .ne 'lhne ~heh you can SEND the
shado" Oh riIe Dack"aro on the aial TOT many
degrees; lom 1on want 10 stun yonr FAMILY
pump. Dut all hVing creatures under hf'y years
OF age mus, preserve oecent smoothness OF
outline ana palance Oh nesi 10 Keep from los
ing steadily and fatally IL the END Health and
slghtilness go together IN TINS matter
People who call on their nervous force as
Americans do should take the most stringent
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 a
very good quality OF food generally, and with
an active business brain drawing on the nerv-
GUS supply Of the alimentary organs they fall
into disrepair.
The food which does not digest, which the
huid OF the stomach does not changed to
milky pulp in three or fou- hours. fernents in
the moisture and warmth OF the body. The
habit OF fermentation grows till each supply of
food sets new ferment, as The cook sets her
yeast Farinaceous food OF all kinds ferments
tress and this Is why madams dyspeptic hus