The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-02

/think hot griddle cakes
stand IN the front rank
Is it not extraordinary how little people
ever seem to consider what is best TO feed
their children with, what will make best
bone and muscle. best blood, produce
greatest vitality The farmer studies
what will produce these results with his
cattle, but for his family there seems to
be but one standard-they all eat what
tastes good"
All indigestible things that can be con
cocted-pies, doughnuts, hot breads and
cakes, pickles, sweetmeats, nuts, strong
tea and cofee-enter into the daily diet Of
the prosperous American farmer or me
chanic. Sugar, eggs, butter, coffee and
tea, luxuries that the prosperous farmer
or mechanic of other lands deals out to
his household with a sparing hand, or de-
MES them altogether, here are no longer
regarded as luxuries, but as necessities.
1t is entirely matter of education and
of prejudice, and one is surprised to find
that the farmers and the mechanics
draw the line Of their economies at fresh
meat. There is no rational explanation
of the fact that, while there is not any
limit set to the supply allowed Of butter
sidered a distinct extravaganza TO in
dulge In fresh meat.
Millions for defense, but not one cent
for tribute" millions for dessert, but
not one cent for beef and mutton. Far
be it from me to counsel any one to ex-
travagance, but I think, if the estimate
were made, it would be found that the
amount spent for horrid pies and pud-
~ L~k
rups in any ordinary family would sup
ply the same family literally with meats
from the butcher and chickens from the
farm. Overnutrition is the curse of our
population. They are not underfed, but
they are illfed. They want coarser food,
less salt meat and more fresh meat, few
er sweets and more fruits. Oatmeal,
hominy. wheaton grits and, above all,
graham" bread, W.,h plenty of milk
and with good meat, would make the
children pictures of rosy health and save
the tired, sallow mother from the sick
bed, the lunatic asylum or the grave.
1t is sad that as nation we don't
know how to cook. The frying pan and
the baking powder, Satan has put into
the hands of the young housekeeper. He
has also made the piano and the sewing
machine of more interest to her than the
oven and the broiling iron. The children
wear clothes out of Harper's Bazaar and
eat food that contributes neither to their
health nor beauty. Hot breads and
sweets actually burn up the stomach.
The power to digest decreases as the
years go on. and by the time the child is
grown it is confirmed dyspeptic. In
no other land are children allowed
sweets as they are here.
There are unnumbered ways in which
Indigestion affects one. 1t is not neces-
sary to have pain, to feel weight of
lead. More often stomach that refuses
to assimilate the food put into it ex
presses its revolt by feeling of excessive
weakness. The poor, jaded beast can't
60 any farther; it wants to lie down and
rest. Then the driver whips it up, gives
it tonic or more food, and it struggles
on a little farther, and finally breaks
down and goes to the wall. 1t is foolish
to think that that sense of weakness
comes from a want of food. 1t comes
from too much food, too rich, too con-
centrated, too nutritious.
Why, what an outrage we are putting
upon nature in giving it such quintes-
eence of nourishment. If the human
body yielded to the efforts of man to i'm
prove upon nature, it would grow up
into the sky. But instead it has been
growing smaller and smaller as the CEN
turtles have passed, showing that nature
had better have been trusted to feed
what she had brought forth. AT this
momene the healthiest nations of. the
world, believe, are those who live the
simplest lives and eat the coarsest food
under the open dome of heaven.
Horses are foundered by overlooking.
Human beings are as much injured by
it. Take an ordinary farmers break
fast-the coffee, the ham and eggs, the
hot cakes and strip, the pickles, per
haps the dOughnuts. Now, these things
are very nourishing, all of them-very
stimulating, some of them. There is
nothing of the waste" needed for
healthy digestion. Everything is con
centrated. You are burning your stom-
ach up; you are giving it too much to
do. IL you are a strong man and are GO
ing out into the cold air TO active exer-
else, you may manage to live through it,
but IL you are delicate woman, obliged
10 work all day in hot, close room, &c
10 you don't get on with it, but find
yourself IL with a headache and unable
e. eat another meal that day.
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