Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

working man with an income under 81. 300
VINO afords himself and his children a cor
responding amount of the best beef at rs
to 80 cents pound is apt to leave small
provision for his family at his death Peo-
PIE buy the high priced beef, but eat az
little as they can of it, and the result is
seen in nerve and heart failures.
Experience proves beyond question that
the condensed activity of modern life can
not be kept up without ample supplies of
the food which is readiest converted into
nerve force, and that is beef and mutton and
other flesh which feeds on grain and grass.
The average housekeeper would see bank
ruptcv ahead of her if she supplied eener-
Gus provision of really good meat and fish
for all her family. The staple meat of the
la6orlng class is salt pork, corned beef, salt
tsh-a diet they manage to work off, being
much IN the open air. ] have surveyed the
contents of such tin dinner pals as came
under my eye, curious to know lust what
our street members and hodcarriers live on.
THE HOG AS A NATIONAL EMBLEM,
Judging from the almost universal diet Of
the greater class of our people, the hog
ought to be the national emblem. Vow,
there is nothing to be said against what our
Southern friends call hog meat, except tina.
where 1t is the staple tuberculosis and
serofula prevail, with eczemss, erysipelas
and lnflammatory diseases generally, be-
sides the ever dreaded trichinosis and tbs
certain periodic sick headaches and attacks
OF bll1ousness which follow its use
Smoked ham, well cured, protected from
flies and well cooked in thin rashers is least
Objectionable from the antiseptic effects Of
the creosote absorbed in smoke. But in
no case of meat or fish can smokery take the
place Of cookery. To be at all safe, ham
nd ha t-~I "a A.
cures direction-cut thin and fried or
broiled quickly till crisp enough to break
under the knife
The scarcity Of good mutton, bred for the
table, is disgraeeful to our national thrift, If
there is any such quality. The mutton
needed for our great cities might well be
raised within 100 miles of market, for sheep
are just what is required to keep orchards
and fruit lands in finest condition. Their
feeding keeps the turf short and fine, pro-
tectlng the roots of trees without draining
the soil OF its fertility, or allowing them to
grow to rank LEAKAGE rather than fruit.
WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE
It should be possible in every neighbor.
hood to secure ewes milk for consumptiyes
and children with marasmus or the fresh
asses milk, which for motherless babes is
the nearest to their natural food. An in
valid should have choice of dozen differ.
ent kinds OF eggs for breakfast, differing as
completely in flavor and richness as the
flesh of the foul which laid them No mat
ter how fresh, an egg with pale, thin yolk is
poor nourishment, if not decidedly un-
healthy. There is no earthly reason why
we cannot have strawberries grown in tha
open air from the last of May till Novem-
Der In sheltered gardens, if they could be
safe from the heel of the hoodlum who raw
ages our grounds, and when crops are
stripped amuses himself with breaking
boughs from the trees and tearing up the
borders.
don't assail any particular brand in say
ing that any preparation styled health food
is studiously avoided by providers who
know their business. The name affords e1-
cuse for asking five or ten times the worth
OF an article, with no gain over the COM
monest of cereals and home made crackers.
The rates of the common bakeries are high
enough to furnish the best f food at profit
to make the owners rich, if they knew
enough to keep their shops clean and treat
customers eivilly. You may go through
one of these great health food exhibitions
day after cay without bringing home soli-
tary new idea idea for health, economy or
taste.
PLENTY OF NEW FOODS AVAILABLE.
There are things we want for good eating
which 1t is for the interest OF dealers to
furnish. Pure peanut oil, refined, is better
than half the olive oil sold for salads and
very much more wholesome than cotton
seed oil, which is better for soup than food,
having larger amounts OF the bitter and
dangerous principle, acrolein. in it's early
manufacture thousands Of gallons of cotton
oil was sent across the water to be clarified
and mixed with the olive oil yield, as
''purest Lucca oil, +" and the custom has not
died out yet.
Sunfower oil when fresh and pure is very
rich in fesh-forming elements and delicious
flavor. The delicate fecula of our native
arums would furnish pleasant variety Of
food akin to arrowroot ard tarina, while the
camassia bulbs of Oregon would be better
food than the potato. We want eyaporated
food pulps and fine dried fruit, which often
exceeds the canned in richness. Will there
be any peach butter in the market after the
glut OF that superb fruit this year. or any
peach honey, indescribable luxury of food
beyond all classic honey of Hymettus and
Sicilian slopes? Grape growers will worry
over ways of preserving grape juice unfer-
mented, scalding it, adding borsx and sali-
cylic acid and other anti-ferments, digging
wells for it and spending thousands for cold
storage, for want Of knowing the antique
Asian method of boiling the juice rapidly
without sugar in shallow pans to a syrup
which will keep with ordinary corkage to be
diluted when drank. We do not begin to
know our resources in variety of food, ami
nal and vegetable, or in the ways of pre-
pairing it, and if he would hold his place in
he world no other opinion should serve an
American but the old Kentucky majors
aging: 'The best is only good enough for
ne" SHIRLEY DARE.