The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
THAT is IMPORTANT TO SAVE
MEN FROM TEMPTATION.
FOOD PREPARATION AN ART
The Want of Proper Nourishment Has Ten
dency TO Lead Men 10 the Saloon
Kitchens Should do Noble
Work.

Deur me- II Is II Simple SpuliblLS NON''-
ton! Yet really in Importance, and in
far reaching influence, and conse-
quences; it ranks the majority OF Secu-
lar occupations.
Indeed do not think | am hcretical
when | declare that it takes rank with
the professions! Listen while | tell you
why / think so, and then | am sure that
all of the noes" that sprung to mind
at my assertion will promptly turn to
yeas verify" What is Il housekeeper's
province?
Amongst myriads of other unimportant
things that most responsible duty of pro-
viding proper food. A duty that takes
into account, not only mortal bodies, but
immortal souls. Does this seem a
strange mingling of the solemn and Pc
cular? Yes, but | do mingle them
here, for just here lies the rash import
ance of so considering it, the great
danger OF ignoring this view of it.
There are hundreds Of thousands of
people to whom eating has never pre-
scented itself in the light OF a factor for
good or evil, in the moral world. Yet it
most unqueStionably is. No matter how
ignorant we may be of the fact. or no
matter how we may dislike to realize it,
the wants OF the body have most de-
pressing effect ON heart, and mind and
soul!
An exalted Christian may be able to
put down the body and keep it in
tubjection,'' hut with the average man,
and woman, especially amongst hard
working people, the starved body beats
down heart and spirit and lays upon
them burden of inexorable depression.
If man has worked hard mentally or
physically, so that he is WEAKLY and ex-
hausted, and feels the need of repair
ing the waste places" he will not be
sufficiently restored by poor, i'll cook
ed meal! And then the discomfort and
physical depression will react upon the
soul, and life's horizon will seem to
close in and sort of inpatient endur-
ance take the place of the cheerfulness
and hopefulness that should mark the
average life.
There is no falIacy so absurd, or
so productive of serious results as that
that which we eat is of minor import
ance That it should not be tire subject
Of constant thought and desire, and that
people should not be gluttonous or ex-
trayagant 1 do admit But that it is
matter of grave and vital Importance 1
AyO w By a dScCll II AANS ia
the fact is disastrous to many homes,
that when food is poor and insufficient
for the daily toll that is putting away
the body, there comes the great and
often over mastering desire, nay necessi-
ty 10 supply that which is lacking by
the use of stimulants.
Many a man has been driven to it to
shake off the wolf that was gnawing his
vsA m. hn-
come Incorporate, he would not have
drank, but that he was literally driven
to it, Can you blame him wholly? Are
there many OF us who are morally so
strong thhat we would necessarily and
courageously drag th;s WEAKNESS and
want through all of our days Of hard
work and care?
1t is quite easy to say what a man
| should not do-and really he should not
do it-but put yourself in his place for
just a few of all Of the days of his
hard life. Take up all of his cares and
| wants. Experience with him that sense
of loneliness and exhaustive, and then
find some excuse for, though you bitterly
leplore, the moral weakness that was
the distinct outcome OF physical want
and mental depression.
1
| food so that there was no waste OF
strength, no unsatisfed necessities; there
| would not be so many causes of irresis-
table longing for artificial stimuants. 1t
| would be a desire with some, but not
necessity, as in cases where people are
| i'll fed
There are those who would be intern
perate, no matter how satisfying their
| uyara Ruf fbapa GRO many others
| who would never drink, did there not lie
| in them the inexorable necessity for
working, and an equal necessity for
strength to work with.
May the day be not distant when wo-
men will think that the time spent in
| learning how to plan and prepare COM
| Portable meals is more than we'll spent!
The intensely poor have in this-as in
everything else-but little chance. Lit
tie that ia written on the subject ever
reacheSt Them, and if it did what could
they do? They cannot get half Of what
they need. Nor, is it possible, situated
as they are, to properly prepare what
they have.
But that class OF people who can get
the necessary comforts OF life are the
| ones who could, by careful thought and
a little more trouble, make their meals,
not only sufficient and nutritious, but
| comfortable ais we'll
1t is troublesome like everything else
in the world that is to bring the best
results. 1t requires thought and care
and extra work. The doing Of some
things yourself, or the personal super
| vision Of them!
But it is worth it: and beyond this it
Is ones duty, and as such must bring
more or less evil consequences If neglect
ed more or less blessing, if taken up and
done brayely. THE temperance move
ment must begin in the kitchens il it is
10 succeed! People. must learn how to
make the best use OF their meals. They
must nourieh the body so that it will not
! be beset with foundations which war