Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-27
HEALTH AND EATING.
WISE WORDS or NOTABLE MEN ON
AN IMPORTANT TOPIC.

Tns Gospel Of Good EAtins-Hew One
4 sheuld Proceed In Order u Take Proper
Care Of Ills Body- How New York
Middiemen 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
Mt least, it Is not surprising that wise men
have said many notable things about it.
Robert u. RooseveIt, ex-minister TO the
Hague, who is known as the successor Of
Sam Ward, the most famous hon vivxnt Of
America. Is perhaps as notable nm exam
Pile as can be cited today Of the quicken
ing. generous impulses which good living
gives to u broad nature. He has said:
More divorces are dine to an Ill regu-
lated kitchen, when the trouble arises
with the man, than from an Ill regulated
morality. No husband ever dexertesl or
abused a wife who always gave him per-
feet dinner, unless driven to 1t by dire
force. Good cooking Is at the foundation
Of all happiness, for there can be none
without IL. and 1t should be taught in our
public schools before even the three Rs'"
Dir. Alexander b. Mott, In one Of his In
valuable kitchen articles, speaks Of wick
eddy ignorant cooks"
Jay Could says, II do not myself believe
that any man can stand the strain Of q
large business unless lie 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 toa person just home from
ho ut he's side nka nh $nbu ta1
Is almost Indecent"
7 E. b. Harper says, %Fhe gospel OF good
living is the most important OF all things
earthly"
DIR. Talmage says, NO man can be q
Christian II 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 Coliyer said. II think the
American people. take them all in all, are
the best liyers Of any people in the world
| was only too glad when got to a land
where could live twice as well as could
In my native country
Charles A. Dana Is seveuty-two years
old When he was asked some time ago
how he preserved his youthful yigor 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
sensible mans selection of his food"
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 II was for
almost century 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 IL 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 fosd
, 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.
the matter of her food supply, but the sys
TEN of distribution in vogue is so wretch
eddy poor that not one housekeeper in g
score, and not one person in a Thousand
j, who is not housekeeper, has anything
like an adequate notion of what may b,
: had In the market There are food centers
The enormous trade necessary to suppl.
} 2,0000O0 of people with their daily ration
L must, of course, be concentrated in certail
{ places These centers or markets, however
:, are so placed that it would he physica
I impossibility for all the family buyers t
l. procure their supplies excepting through
( rniddlemen
s LIVING n THE METROPOLIS
II The consequence of this is not only tina
the cost of living is enhanced, but that tn
people are unable, without special effort
to learn what there is available for food
e 1t would be easy to make up list of thou
d sands of varieties of fish, flesh, fowl, vegt
d tables, fruits and excellent food prepars
/ tious, all of which are available to an
y housekeeper in New York But wha
re housekeeper has a knowledge of one-ha
le or one-quarter Of such a list' The butcher
le and grocers who supply families are read
N enough to furnish any item that mac /
at desired, but few retail dealers can kee
$3.50
III toners even an approximate idea OF wha
b, a range of choice they really have.
I'd Yet 10 item in the long list is neglected
m Among the 100000 there will be enoug
n people who do know of it and who apr
th ciate it to consume the supply. So it hal
IN pens, MS it did in the case OF the famot
ly boarding house keeper, who was such a
lg excellent provder that she knew exact
e how much to cook. There was never
a. morsel left over at her table, Fortuuatel
different people require different food
Men are not us pigeons, that they shou
all thrive best on a diet Of corn only. Fl
vi the New Yorker the vision of St. Peter
- daily an accomplished fact, The gre
- sheet comes down from heaven with 4
~. manner of food in front Of him.
Va What he has to do is to arise, choose al
ne eat, for the staying has been done for hil
New York World.
ng Buying Lumber.
III One of our selectmen was once comm