The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-06-29


One remnant of barbarism from
which we are suffering in this gen.
Grafton is the habit of serving ices in
the middle and at the close of the
meal, a fashion that cannot too
quickly explode.
In the generation gone by, when
persons in the middle walks of life
kept but one "maid of all work" it
was the daily thought of the house
hold head, woman of brains, what
she should give her family to eat,
and how it should be prepared. 1t
was not only her thought, it was her
occupation, her business of life. The
members of her family were not sent
to their labors on slop coffee, fried
steak and fried potatoes, heavy bread
! or hot cakes, as the cook chose to put
it on the table, but the breakfast had
been given thought the night before
and she had given it her personal
attention, that her family might not
be ill. But just now we have fallen
into these other days and we are run
ming very fast against the wall which
bring us all to our thoughts. Boys
and girls at the age of entering col
lege break down, not having the
physique to go ON with their studies,
although their brain powers are per-
fectly developed. The mother in
building this foundation has forgot
ten to put in the lasting stones. Not
because she wishes to do it, but be-
cause cooking has fallen into the
hands of the ignorant and she has
been willing to trust her family to
the same. What sad mistake, but
she finds it out too late. The health
is undermined and cannot be re-
stored. Physician after physician is
consulted, but all of no account, and
when boys or girls enter the work of
life they enter it tired and worn and
do not find themselves at forty with
a Gladstone physique at eighty. Not
rich nor costly dishes but simple food
so we'll prepared that the satisfied
body shall not think of itself from
one meal to another. 1t is the dis
comfort and hankering of an ill-fed
stomach that drives some men to
drink and others to the insane asy-
lums.
bills of Fare.
Medical colleges do not, as they
should, teach diet. Of course, man
cannot in four years scarcely study
the human body and the medicines
that are to keep it in repair, but if less
medicine and more food was preached
our salvation would be greater. In
the twentieth century our cooks will
be college graduates, women of posi-
ton. All bills of fare will be made
out with an object. The right and
proper proportion of all materials will
be converted into each meal, SO that
the muscles, bones, and nerves will
be equally fed. And if for any rea-
son child be born whose equilibrium
| is not perfect, line of diet will i'm
mediately be prescribed to square
Hmm up, las it were. The modern
cooking school is the stepping stone
to this result. l notice in my lecture
rooms in every city the same class of
people appear,-the educated, refined
and cultured. We must know GER
tain amount before we know how little
we do know. Another class of peo-
| pie feel that they can cook all they
can buy and that cooking lessons to
| them are of little account. This class
largely fill the State insane asylums,
not because they are overworked, but
because their food has not been care
fully studied in accordance with their
duties. 1t would be suicidal for a
man in an office to eat food that would
be the proper sort for farmer, or
vice versa. Consequently, what is
one mans meat is another mans
poison" and line of diet for the uni
verse cannot be prescribed. But
line for individuals and their occupa-
tions can be prescribed and would
greatly benefit the laboring question,
perhaps settle it. The average man
who strikes for the enhour system,
strikes because his strength is INSULT
cient to work longer. If you will OBJ
serve the dinner kettles of these men,
and see hard-boiled eggs, pie, piece
of cake, chunk of ham, fried, between
two slices of white bread, you can
hardly wonder that they ask for a
ten-hour system. When you look in
to the lunch baskets of children, who
make their entire noon meal from
cake, bread and jam, you certainly
cannot wonder that they are blood
less and obliged to leave school sew