The Atlanta constitution., 1896-09-07
WHAT RICH FOOD COSTS
Including the Doctors Bill Which Has
To BE Paid.

II is not n generally understood rac1, nut
a fact nevertheless, that some or the
wealthiest and most luxurious appearing
people live on the plainest food. There are
children in the families of millionaires VINO
would no more be permitted to partake o.
such meals as are given TO the children OF
many a laboring man than they would ne
allowed to use articles that were known 10
be poisonous. Many mechanics lttle
ones live on meat. warm bread, all the but
ter they want. and that of an inferior quail
ity: coffee as much as they choose ana
cheap bakers cake. which is itself enough
10 ruin the digestion Of an ostrich, says the
New York Ledger.
Tho children of one family make their
breakfast OF oatmeal or some other cereal
ana milk. with bread at least twenty-iour
hours old, q little, very little, butter, some
times none at all The breakfast IS Varlcd
by corn bread. wen done; little 2WeiDacN
and sometimes stale bread dipped IN "gg
ana cracker crumbs and Drowned with but
tor. 4 fresh egg is often the only arucle
outside Of farinaccOus foods that they are
allowed. For dinner which is at the mo
die of the day. they have somc well-cooked
meat, one or two vegetables, q cup 81 h'iih
If they like it, or weak cocoa. with lHenty
OF bread and butter and a simple dessert.
Supper. which is a very Eight meal. fire.
qucutly consists Of graham crackers or
brown bread ana milk. and sometimes nasty
puddiug and milk. or the pudding eaten
with little molasscs or maple sirup-
\ fcw DAYS ago in call At the house or a
workingman there were five children seat
cl at q table. on which was a large disH oi
meat swimming i'm gravy. in which potatoes
had been cooked These potatoes were sat
urated with fat and almost Impossible ol
DIGESTION by any person Of ordinary coit'3-
tuition There were hot rolls, SoEsY lnoAl"I
and smoKinG from the Oven raralilp9 iIie"
in lard and recking with the grease Stuie
cucumbcrs shrivcled ana wrinklcd. were
soaking in cheap vinegar. and were liberal
" dosed with salt ana pepper. n nile OF
cbeap cakes. sufficient to fiji Good-sizcd
faur-ouart measure. stood on the corner oi
thc table. ana two pies. with crust contain
ing 50 much lard that they looked anSoiuIe-
l,- GREASY There was coffee, dark and
rank looking and worse smelling aud TINS
the children wee induleinS in quite as
mich ~; thcv pleased. They ate Ike little
woives. with an unnatural and fcrocious
annette Two of them had pastv. uu-
notwithstanding compleNions; one was eFi-
IDENTIFY suffering with some skin disease:
The elder of the Group had an ugly-looklhS
eruption on nj. AGO ana ears. aud the on
tire lot wore living examples OF the results
or "A mistaken system Of feeding. II was
no SUNRISE 10 the visitor 90 hear. a few
DAVIS later that two of them We're very III,
or hooo lcsslv So. with cholera morbus.
That the death rate among such people
does not incrca-e with frightfui rapidity Is
the one thing that thoughtful persons ana
rbiIanthropfsis never cease TO wonder at.
The parents of these children would un-
doubtcaly have said that they gave the
little ones the best they could afford. hut
rnis was lust exactly the cause of all the
trouble They gave them too much and too
expcnsive food. A proper diet would have
cost Al third of the money and would have
saved health and Doctors bills, TO say moth
ING of their lives.