Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
EATING FOR HEALTH.
Shirley Dare Hasn't Much Sympathy
With the Vegetarians.
ELECTRICITY FOR BUTCHERS USE,
Not Only the Humane Way of Killing, but
the Best for the Meat.
EGGS AND MAJOR M'KINLEY's LAW
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| WRITTEN FOE THE DlsfATCHsl
The more highly organized the human
race becomes the more sensitive and de-
manding it will be in regard to its food. The
men in the employ of the Hudson Bay Com
pany are allowed ration of seven or eight
pounds Of meat day. The Esquimaux eat
their 40 pounds of uncooked bluober in the
"a hours. Mr.. Kipling's Hindoos diet on
baked crow and rice, with rancid butter In
liquid state.
|. But the man who reads and writes for
| newspapers or furnishes achievements for
| the newspapers to chronicle must have
something beyond this elementary sortAf
| living, for action is translated nutriment
Other factors Of the equation being
adjusted, as the nourishment is, so
will the performance be. The
world is slowly going through its primer OF
nutrition, by adopting theories of food, try
ing them and throwing them away. 1t often
1 throws little kernel of truth away with
the rest, and must afterwsrd grope in the
dust to pick it up again. The past year it
has been born upon some people that they
! have nutritive organs who never were aware
of the fact before. When brain, nerve and
will-the power to originate and execute
have to walt upon their feeder, and are
practically palsled when it suffers, men be-
gin to realize the lnterdependence of soul
and body, and give the latter respect it
never knew before.
THE LAW OF WRINKLES.
When madam reads from eminent author
| ity as follows and fells it in her followed
| outlines of face and form, she too begins to
| query what shall we eat to remain in force
and freshness: "The skin of the face
wrinkles by the same law that an apple
wrinkles. The pulp of the fruit under the
4 skin contracts as the juices dry up, and the
skin, being too large for the contents. shriv-
els and lies in folds. When the fat under
the skin of the cheeks and figure which in
youth is abundant begins to be absorbed the
cuticle, which 80 long as this tat existed re-
4 mained smooth aud even, begins to shrivel
and fall into lines, because it is no longer
fitted to the lining beneath it"
Not an absolutely accurate way of stating
i the case, but true in its limit. How, then, I,
is madam to retain her good looks and the
master of the house keep the free step, alert
mind and general sense of well being as
long as they have use for these things? I
think myself that people should attend a
health class once week or fortnight just as
well as go to BroVning club, an art class
ora prayer meeting. The interest Of the
subject would hold out longer.
WHY DANIEL DIETED ON LENTILs.
1t is singular that no one has thought to
/ quote the example of Daniel and his diet Of
lentils in this connection, and Daniel was
| supposed to see into things as far as most
people. 1t never strikes any OF the vege-
tarians who cite his case that it might in
clude special reasons for the diet. Probably
| the meat of the Assyrian city was prepared
with no more care than that of India to-day,
where we read that Of every three Tommy
| Atkinses one suffers with tapeworm from
| the, detestable meats of that ancient and un-
| changed Empire, where the very cows and
pigeons develop tastes for unclean food,
and where, as Miss Ormerod Wilson, the
entomologist, tells US. the grasses and grain
of the waysides are smitten with rust and
fungus from ground defled by cholera
breeding pilgrimages.
A clean bred, hearty youth might for
| swear such meat while at college without
being vegetarian at heart, and there is
nothing to show that Daniel kept to his
baked beans after his promotion in the Civil
Service, where he could eat of the Kings
meat. The vegetarian question needs closer
scrutiny than it has yet received, none of
the arguments in its favor bearing rigid in
spection. For instance, the nation quoted
as living ON vegetable food never omit meat
if they can get 1t.
| ALWAYS HUNGRY FOR MEAT.
The Chinese, who are stock example,
add to their rice diet all the pigs, dried fish
and smoked geese they can raise; the Hin
doc of low caste will eat anything with a
scrap of meat on it, crow, water rat or mus
sci, and the italian, supposed to live in un-
qualified strength and comfort ON macaroni
and tomatoes, in fact favors it with goats
milk cheese, and drenches his food with oil,
and suffers hideous skin disorders from liv-
ing on polenta and bread without meat.
The English vegetarians Of to-day use
milk, butter, cheese and eggs so freely that
each family would need a dairy to itself,
and if the kline were killed off on some pre-
text there would be more. beeves than
Britons in the island. The more advanced
| of the sect deny the use of bread in any
shape as unnatural. For it they substitute
such fare as this, grayely proposed as days
ration of two meals: Three pounds ripe fruit
two pounds dried, four eggs. one-quarter to
one-half pound of cheese-without asking
whether your brother likes it. or not-one-
quarter to one-half pound of almonds, one
pint of milk. This is the allowance made
out by Mr.. Hardinge, of Weybridge, Q de-
| vout believer in no meat
MUST HAVE GOOD DIGESTION.
The idea of putting 50 much dried fruit
into one daily requires stronger digestion
than most people have to spare, nor is the
amendment of dried fruit soaked in distilled
water or milk much BETTER Crumpets are
not TO be mentioned for filling properties be-
side such diet. The digestion of these vege-
tarians is something abnormal-or their
| stories are.
| Witness the menu of the luncheon which
DR.. Helen Bensmore gave in London last
fall to George Meredith, the novelist of "the
feshly school" The feast was coldly set
forth with dates, prunes, figs, grapes, raisins,
pears and apples, berries, assorted nuts,
! cheese in variety (no mention of crackers
did they eat powdered parmesan ON the
blackberries?) with milk and lime juice for
| beverages. Let US hope they were not
mixed. Just before leaving we are told
that the servants handed round cups of hot
water. With little ground mustard and
salt one can imagine the warm water serving
| a useful purpose after such q monkeys re-
past. One would feel after it as if he had
lunched off a whole grocery. One can see
Meredith taking leave soon after the hot
water in search of immediate brandy and
soda, and ordering very large. well cooked
beefsteak for dinner at the club that night.
A BLOW AT vEGETARIANIsM.
But what strikes blow at vegetarianism
| is the recent detection of DR.. Alanus, the
leader of the vegetarians in Germany, who
formally renounces the diet, declaring that
| in his experience abstinence from animal
food is the source of atheromatous arteries
| a form of heart disease with which no one
wishes to be better acquainted than by name.
1t is no wonder, however, that the ultra
vegetarians eschew bread if it is on the
usual health order, The placard "unfer-
| mented breadu attracts me the other day