Evening journal., 1896-10-01
A PLEA FOR PLAIN FOOD.
Hints Thet May Save Many Doctors ellis
and Valuable Lives.


and Valuable Lives.
II is not generally understood fact
but a fact nevertheless, that some of the
wealthiest and most luxurious appear
ing people live on the plainest food.
There are children in the families of
millionaires who would no more be
permitted to partake Of such meals as
are given to the children of many Ia
boring man than they would be allowed
to use articles that were known to be
poisonous. Many a mechanics little
ones live on meat, warm bread, all the
butter they want, and that of an inferi-
or quality, coffee as much as they
choose, and cheap bakers cake, which
is in itself enough to ruin the digestion
Of an ostrich.
The children Of one family make
their breakfast of oatmeal or some 9th
er cereal and milk. with bread at least
"a hours old, little, very little, butter,
sometimes none at all The breakfast is
varied by corn bread, we'll done, little
zwieback and sometimes stale bre ad dip
ped in egg and cracker crumbs and
Drowned with butter. A fresh egg is
often the only article outside of farina-
ceous food that they are allowed. For
dinner, which is the middle of the day,
they have some we'll cooked meat, one
or two vegetables, cup of milk if they
like it, or weak cocoa, with plenty Of
bread and butter and a simple dessert.
Supper, which is q very light meal, fire.
quently consists of graham crackers or
brown bread and milk or the pudding,
eaten with q little molasses or maple
sirup.
A few days ago, in q call at the house
Of worKingman, there were five chill
dren seated at table, on which was a
large dish of meat, swimming with
gravy, in which potatoes had been cook
ed. These potatoes were saturated with
fat and almost impossible Of digestion
by any person Of ordinary constitution.
There were hot rolls, soggy looking
and smoking from the oven; parsnips
fried in lard and reeking with the
grease. A pile of cheap cakes, sufficient
to fill good sized four qdart measure.
stood on one corner of the table; also
two pies, with crust containing so much
lard that they looked absolutely greasy.
There was coffee, dark and rank look
ing and worse smelling, and this the
children were indulging in quite as
much as they pleased. They ate like lit
tie wolves, with an unnatural and fero-
cious appetite. Two of them had pasty,
unhealthy looking complexions; one
was evidently suffering from some skin
disease; the elder Of tho group had al
ugly looking eruption on his face and
cars, and the entire lot were living ex-
amplos Of the results Of n mistaken sys
tenn of feeding It was no surpri.e t
the visitor to hear, few days later
: that two Of them were very i'll, ont
hOpelessly so, with cholera morbus.
That the death rate among such peo
pie does not increase with frightful IA
pidity is the one thing that the thought
full persons and philanthropists neve
cease to wonder at
The parents Of these children voul'
I undoubtedly have said that they CAV
the little ones the best they could at
ford, but this was just exactly III
cause of all the troubles. They gaY
them too much and too expensive food
A proper diet would have cost thir
of the money and would have save
S health and doctors bills, TO say nothin
of their lives. New York Ledger.