The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-15


very fattening. are good tissue builders and
are entirely healthy.
One of his favorite dishes is boiled rice
and brown peas, to which he adds a tiny
slice of pork or bacon.
Natives of the three creole cities of the
South have a famous dish made of steWed
oysters and boiled rice with a little sea-
soning The two are mixed together, the
oysters in the center and the rice outside.
You are served with this in all of the native
homes of the creole district. But oysters
cost money, and therefore the poorer classes
of these towns often substitute the little
brown pea for the oysters cook them with
a piece of pork and bacon and pile them in
the center of the dish with little mounds of
This man has adopted the same plan. The
idea was given him by a sailor who came
up from New Orleans to Philadelphia,
WHEN HE GIVES HIMSELF A TREAT.
One of his rarer treats to himself is milk
He does not drink much, not because he
cannot afford it, for he could do without
other things if he thought his stomach real
ly needed it, but he finds it makes him a
little bilious. as milk does with many per-
sons.
He thinks beer is a very good thing for the
digestion, and on Saturday night he always
treats himself to drink. He takes a very
little, and he gets it at a very small price.
Way down on Twelfth street a man does
not pay club prices, where the slums arc
used to rushing the growler" in the YER
nacular of their paVements and all classes
buy beer that is not expensive. A little
in a tin can goes long way, and costs
small sum.
He regrets very sincerely that he is un-
able to make corn bread of yellow meal and
water baked over the fire, which has been
such staple food for the Middle States.
One has to go down into Maryland or the
first part of Virginia, before one can buy
real corn meal-that is, the nutritious corn
meal that preserves the sweetness of the
cob, likewise it's strength producing quail
ties.
He has tried the ccrn meal that one buys
here, but he does not find 1t exactly what
he wants, end it IS not the corn meal Of the
South by any means. Any one VINO has
tasted the two knows the difference at once.
He is very fond of cheese; he says 1t
does not give him indigestion in the least.
Once in a while he buys the American
cheese, which is the cheapest, and the
grocer generally manages it for him IN
most economical way. The people of that
district buy much cheese, and the grocer
has a constant demand for it. During the
day the small pieces and uneven Jumps
fall to the counter, he picks them up and
keeps them in a little tin box. When the
old gentleman comes in and has few cents
extra to spare from his 80 cents allowance,
the cheese is ready for the price in his purse.
The Storekeeper would really have to throw
the pieces away, so he is glad to get any
thing for them, if only cents.
This cheese he eats on his bread, and
often cooks potatoes with it. He is no un-
skilled cook, and knows a thing or two
about the daintiness of his art. He knows
how to boil an Irish potato, and take the
meat out of it, and then mix little grated
cheese, and put 1t back In the SKIN, and let
it bake for while. You see what delicious
tidbit he has for his breakfast.
AS ] said before, he does not give him
self over TO the intemperate habit of tea
drinking that predominates in the lower
part of the city
one small child in the lower districts told
me that she often drank ten cups of tea
q day, and she also told me that for many,
many days at time their family only took
soup and tea and bread and they were
very healthy looking little lot,
HE DOESN'T DRINK TEA AT ALL.
She said the family ate whenever it got
ready, but she often went upstairs and
made herself some tea and drank it at many
times during the day.
When you think of how a child can grow
UP healthy and strong on this fare, it does
not seem so very tremendous a task to live
on the diet this old man on Twelfth street
has laid out for himsellf.
He eats knowingly; he eats well, and he
says he never had a moments indigestion
in twenty years; that while he is not fat
he never was fat, but that he is strong
sleeps well. and is never hungry. You GER
tainly cannot satisfy a mans blood and
stomach more than this.
He did not limit himself to 80 cents a
week when he began, but just tried to see
how little one could live on, and live with
decency and in order. His prices ran so
he began with much amusement to himself
to prescribe the '35-cents-a-week" k" law.
Expenses" he says, ARE habit. You
may either spend as much or as little as
you wish in this world, and it is not half as
hard to keep a man living as one seems to
think
His manner of domestic living is quite as
odd and economical as his method of feed
ing himself. He has rather large room at
the top of the house, for which he gives $3
This room is kept clean and he has the
sunshine the year round. He has planted
some flowers in pots in the window and
has vine running up to keep off the sum-
mer sun. He does not do any regular sal
aried work, but the certain odd jobs of the
amount to live on
He has an open fireplace in which he
cooks; he has an old-fashioned crane and
two iron baking pots, such as were used
in the day Of the old cookery, which are
seen now and then in some of the old places
of Virginia and Georgia and South Caro-
The best chef in the world when inter
viewed on this subject will tell you that
nothing gives so fine a flavor to food rs
this cooking in iron in the ashes. 1t made
the Old-fashioned cookery famous, and the
finest chef l have ever talked to in America
told me that he considered this the most
admirable way to cook.
The firewood he gathers around the
streets from the new buildings that are
going up and old buildings that are being
torn down around League island between
South street and the river. He always has
Il Gu6eIy IIG SOlilS LlldI GOSlS MIN HOIilliS.
He is his own servant his own cook. his own
butler and his own laundress. He has a
| large tub by the side of the window where
he washes his clothes. A private clothes
line runs by the side of the house on sun
ny part of the roof, where he dries them
He pulls his ironing board from under the
| bed, placing it on two chairs, and he knows
| how to put gloss on linen.
WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY OF 1T
talked about this man to several doctors
who are exceedingly interested in the ques-
ton Of blood and muscle making. I told
them his bill of fare
DR.. Orville Horwitz agreed that men do
eat too much and that all individuals could
do with less, a much less amount, If that
were well chosen. After considering it Sc
riously. however, and saying 1t was possible
to do it if the man did watch his food care
| fully, he slyly added, though ! think !
should keep a very close watch on his door
to see II he did not patronize free lunch
counter once in a while, which still leaves
him the 35 cents a week TO live on.
DR.. J. Weir Robinson was very Interested