The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-16
A PLEA FOX PLAIN FOOD.
h'nts That May Save Many Doctors bills
and Valuable Lives


h'nts That May save Many Doctors Nils
and Valuable Lives.
IL Is not generally understood fact,
out TACT nevertheless, that some of the
wealthiest and most luxurious appear.
ing people live on the plaincst food.
There are children in the families II
miliionaires who would no more lie
permitted 20 partake of such meals a.
are given to the children OF many la.
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
or cereal and milk, with bread ut 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 I'D 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 well cooked meat, one
or two vegetables, a cup of milk IL they
like 1t, or weak cocoa, with plenty OF
bread and butter and a simple dessert.
Supper, which is very light meal, fire.
quently consists OF graham crackers on
brown bread and milk or the pudding,
eaten with a little molasses or maple
sirup
A few days ago. in call at the house
OF workingman, there were five chill
dren seated at table. on which was {
large dish Of meat, swimming with
gravy, in which potatoes had been cook
ed. These potatoes were saturated will
fat and almost impossible Of digestion
by any person Of ordinary constitution
There were hot rolls. soggy looking
and smoking from the oven; parsnip
fried in lard and reeking with tn
grease. A pile of cheap cakes, su fficien
to fill a good sized four qdart measure
stood on one corner of the table; ais
two pies, with crust containing 10 mucl
lard that they looked absolutely greasy
There was coffee, dark and rank look
ing and worse smelling. and this tn
children were indulging in quite q
much as they pleased. They ate like lii
tie wolves, with an unnatural and ferC
cious appetite. Two of them had pas ~
unhealthy looking compilations; on
was evidently suffering from some ski
disease; the elder of the group had q
ugly looking eruption on his face an
ears, and the entire lot We're living ex
amples of the results of mistaken sys
tenn of feeding. II was no surprise
the visitor 10 hear, a few days late,
that two Of them were very Ill, on
hopelessly so, with cholera morbus.
| That the death rate among such pes
pie does not increase with frightful II
pidity is the one thing that the though
full persons and philanthropists new
cease to wonder at.
The parents Of these children woul
undoubtedly have said that they ga,
the little ones the best they could q
ford, but this was just exactly q
cause of all the troubles. They gay
them too much and too expensive foo,
A proper diet would have cost THU
of the money and would have save
health and doctors bills, TO say notbir
Of their lives. New York Ledger.