The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-10-21
A PLEA FOR PLAIN Q o
Hints That May Save Many Doctors Bills
and Valuable Lives.

and valuable Lives.
It is not a 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
m~illionaires who would no more be
permitted to partake of such meals as
are given to the children Of many a la
boring man than they would be allowed
to use articles hat were known to be
poisonous. Many O mechanics little
ones live on meat, warm bread. all the
butter they want, and that OF an inferi-
or quality. coffee as much a 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
or cereal and milk, with bread at least
"a hours old. a little, very little, butter.
sometimes none at all. The breakfast is
varied by corr bread, we'll done, q little
zwieback and sometimes stale bre ad dip
ped in egg and cracker crumbs and
Drowned with butter. A fresh egg 10
often the only article outside Of farina-
ceous food that they are allowed. For
dinner. which 10 the middle Of the day,
they have some we'll cooked meat, one
or W vegetables, a cup Of milk if they
like it, or weak cocoa, with plenty Of
bread and butter and o simple dessert.
Supper, which is a very light meal, FREE
quently consists Of graham crackers or
brown bread and milk or the pudding,
eaten with a little molasses OF maple
strip.
A few days ago, in o call at the house
Of a workingman, there were five chill
dren seated at a table, on which was q
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, gu efficient
to fill q good sized four quart measure.
stood on one corner of the table also
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lard that they looked absolutely greasy.
There was. coffee, dark and rank look
ing and worse smelling. and this the
children were INDUCING in quite a.
much as they pleased. They ate like lit
tie wolves, with an unnatural and fero-
cious appetite. Two of them had pasty.
unhealthy looking compilations; one
was evidently suffering from some skin
disease; the elder Of the group had All
ugly looking eruption IN his face and
ears, and the entire lot were living ok
amples Of the results of a mistaken sys-
tenn of feeding. 1t vas nc surprise to
the visitor to hear, a few days later,
that two of them were very i'll, one
hopelessly 80. with cholera morbus.
That the death rate among such peo-
pie does not increase with frightful ra-
pidity is the u thing that the thought
full persons and philanthropists never
cease to wonder at.
The parents Of these children would
undoubtedly have said that they gave
the little one the best they could af-
ford, but this was just exactly the
cause of all the troubles. They gave
them too much and too expensive food.
A proper diet would have cost a third
Of the money and would have saved
health and doctors bills, to say nothing
of their lives.-New York Ledger.