The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-19

HEALTH AND EATING.
WISE WORDS OF NOTABLE MEN ON
AN IMPORTANT ToRlc.

The Gospel Of Good Eating-How One
Should Proceed In Order to Take Proper
Care of His Body-How New York
Middlemen Supply Food.
Since eating is the only subject on earth,
or in the heavens above the earth, or in
the waters under the earth, which engages
the thought of every human being. daily
at least, 1t is not surprising that wise men
have said many notable things about it.
Robert B. Roosevelt, eX-minister to the
Hague, who is known as the successor Of
Sam Ward, the most famous bon vivant of
America, is perhaps as notable an exam
pie az can be cited today of the quicken
ing, generous impulses which good living
gives to broad nature. He has said:
More divorces are due to an i'll regu-
lated kitchen, when the trouble arises
with the man, than from an Ill regulated
morality. No husband ever deserted or
abused wife who always gave him per.
feet dinner, unless driven to it by dire
force. Good cooking is at the foundation
of all happiness, for there can be none
without 1t, and it should be taught in our
public schools before even the three Rs. >"
DR.. Alexander B. Mott, in one of his in
valuable kitchen articles, speaks of wick
edly ignorant cooks"
Jay Gould says, II do not myself believe
that any man can stand the strain of a
large business unless he lives on the SIM
plest food he can get" But Richard A.
McCurdy, the president of the Mutual Life
Insurance company, declares emphatically
in favor of French cookery, and says: IAN
American salad to person just home from
the other side looks absolutely naked. 1t
is almost indecent"
E. B. Harper says, "The gospel of good
living is the most important of all things
earthly"
DR.. Talmage says, "No man can be a
Christian il his stomach is out Of order"
And again, ''One great cause of evil in this
world is irregularity of meals"
Henry Ward Beecher before he had dys-
pepsia himself spoke in a similar strain
denouncing sickness as criminal.
EMINENT TESTIMONY.
DR.. Robert Collyer said: 81 think the
American people, take them all in all, are
the best livers Of any people in the world.
! was only too glad when l got tc land
where could live twice as well as / could
In my native country"
Charles A Dana is seventy-two years
old. When he was asked some time ago
how he preserved his youthful vigor as
marvelously as he has done, he said: II
live well and take rational exercise.
have no hobbies about plain and simple
food, but eat everything / can get that is
good and that know by experience agrees
with me. Theories about eating are all
nonsense. Experience must govern every
H. Il. Il L = f.
Such sayings could be quoted by columns
and would only emphasize the Importance
which every intelligent man appreciates, if
he stops to think of it, of care and dis.
elimination in the use of food 1t was for
almost century a standing reproach to
this nation that its people, richer in food
than any other people on earth, were al
most the worst cooks and altogether the
most foolish feeders in the world. 1t is to
the infinite credit of the present generation
that such thing can no longer be justly
said.
Manifestly, the first duty of him who
would live properly, is to select his food
nicely; the second is to see that it is well
prepared. An 'ocean greyhound" might
as well be expected to cross the ocean with
nothing but peat and kindling wood in his
bunkers as a man can be expected to make
the voyage of life on such food as many
men use
New York has occasion for Just pride in
the matter of her food supply, but the sys-
tenn Of distribution in vogue is so wretch
edly poor that not one housekeeper in a
score, and not one person in a thousand
who is not a housekeeper, has anything
like an adequate notion of what may be
had in the market. There are food centers.
The enormous trade necessary to supply
2O00, 600 of people with their daily rations
must, of course, be concentrated in certain
places. These centers or markets, however,
are so placed that it would be a physical
impossibility for all the family buyers to
procure their supplies excepting through
middlemen
LIVING IN THE METROPOLIS.
The consequence of this is not only that
the cost of living is enhanced, but that the
people are unable, without special effcrt,
TO learn what there is available for food.
1t would be easy TO make up list of thou
sands of varieties of fish, flesh, fowl, vege-
tables, fruits and excellent food prepare
tions all of which are available to any
housekeeper in New York. But what
housekeeper has a knowledge of one-hah
or one-quarter of such list2 The butchers
and grocers who supply families are ready
enough to furnish any item that may be
desired, but few retail dealers can keep
enough variety in stock to give their Gus
toners even an approximate idea of what
q range of choice they really have.
Yet no item in the long list is neglected.
Among the 100000 there will be enough
people who do know Of it and who appre-
ciste it to consume the supply. So it hap
pens, as it did in the case of the famous
boarding house keeper, who was such an
excellent provider that she knew exactly
how much to cook. There was never "A
morsel left over at her table Fortunately,
different people require different foods.
Men are not as pigeons, that they SHOULD
all thrive best on a diet of corn only. For
the New Yorker the vision of St Peter is
daily an accomplished fact The great
sheet comes down from heaven with all
manner of food in front of him
What he has to do is to arise, choose and
eat, for the staying has been done for him.
New York World.