Evening star., 1897-03-05
EATING AND ABSTINENCE.
How to Live on Eghty-seven Cents n
Week.

week.
From the Salt Lake Herald
There is one man at least for whom the
present hard times have TO terrors for he
knows how to live on S7lz cents a week.
This up-to- date professor of economics is
the Rev. Miles Grant Of Boston, an active,
hard-working evangelist, who does not
spare himself in his work, and yet, though
keeping strictly within the limit of the ex-
penditure named, suffers neither physically
nor mentally as result of his unique sys-
tenn.
While at the first glance it would seem
impossible that full-grown healthy being
could live well on such sum per week an
examination of the Rev. Mr.. Grants ac-
the contrary. Here is his list of articles.
many Of which can be easily varied, AMI
still keep within the fixed limit:
One pound Irish oatmeal. .O5
Two quarts flour at &c. quart 10
For unleavened bread.)
Beans, q quart. Observation-Disclosures. .O5
Peas, u quart. ......................... .O4
Figs, "A pound Observation-Disclosures. .O4lA
New cheese, X pound. Observation-Disclosures. 10
Raw eggs, dozen. Observation-Disclosures. ~
MIX. 3 quarts, at cents "a
Total ............................ .S7lz
Great saving may be made in some of the
articles. as, for instance, when he tires of
oatmeal porrfdge the Rev. Mr.. Grant varies
1t with cakes of Indian meal, a ten-pound
bag of which costs 10 cents; or = cents a
single pound Grapes may be substituted
for figs, and prunes for dates, without in
creasing the total output. For the un-
leavened bread all that is necessary is flour
and water.
OF course there is quite trick in pre-
parlng such simple articles of diet as those
on the Boston minister's list in such a way
as TO maFe them palatable. This the rev.
ed, but. better still, one can soon become
accustomed to unseasoned food.
Take for instance. the unleavene,i bread,
Whfch Mr.. Grant makes mis- principle ar
tcie or diet. 1t is made by the simplest
process, the flour and cold water being
stirred till the combination is about thick
enough ,1 I 1or griddle cakes 1t is then bake i
IN cast iron gem pans. This bread is placed
al the front of all healthful food, OH which
the doctor declares he lives we'll at a cost
of S71a cents g week.
There are no two things he saws, whicI,
VIII enable one to accomplish so much
WORK. either mental or physical as will
bread and oatmeal porridge, made after the
same formula as hasty pudding. No natter
hlll OF rare, certain articles are never al
loved to pass the Rev. Mr. Grants lips
On the prescribed list there is neither flesh
nsh. fowl, pies. cakes, tea. coffee, sugar
specs or pepper and salt.
The Rev. Mr.. Grant has made the oues-
ion OF proper and economical eating a
study for years and his rules of diet have
he says:
In relation to the healthy quantity of
rood. l became satisfied that most peopIe
ate TOO much. When / came to decide on
the quantity that my system needed 7 frst
let my appetite decide: but it soon occurrel
to my mind that my appetite had neither
reason nor judgment. and therefore was
NOT competent to direct in the matter The
late DR.. Dio Lewis of Boston gave me
u-bS bS,,b
was to decide on the quantity before
mouthful is taken. After weighing and
i measuring my food, and noting the effect
upon my stomach, I arrived at the ouan-
.ity ana quality of food adapted to a
nealthy system. / found that when / fol-
lowed that my stomach made no more
oompialnt com about its work than did m,
eyes when seeing. ears when hearing, D
Eeart or lungs when breathing / have no
had the sick headache once in forty-fiy.
years. '''
concerning the manner Of eating soon
learned that fast eating was common ba
naDit OF the American people. and one spe-
tiai cause or indigestion. 1 had been in the
haplt o. eating a meal in five or ten min
utes Instead of moistening my food with
saliva l washed 1t down with tea and cof-
Zee MY rule is not to eat a meal in less
,han half an hour. but I am usually mucn
longer. All the food should be converted
into a complete pulp in the mouth before If
enters the stomach. 1 drink nothing when
eating.
AS to the times of eating. In my early
lie l ate whenever l felt an appetite fo~
1000, which might be dozen times a day
! became satisfied that this habit would
lead to the ruin of health. For thirty-fva
years I have eaten but two metals q day
ana nothing between meals. I take break
last al o'clock and dinner about 3 O'clock
l nave no desire for iood except at these
hours.
AS l grow older I feel younger I can
preach every evening and three times Sun
day, and feel as fresh at the close of the
day as In the morning."
THE KING OF BENIN,