The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-27

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drug stores at $1.00 for a large bottle; six
bottles for $500
continuous communion with nature
and natures God
The Dutch have always lived very
materially upon milk, milk products
and what are known distinctively rs
milk dishes. The Dutch have made a
history replete with great and heroic
deeds, of marvellous triumphs in art
and science, but the greatest of all
their work has been the creation of
the ideal domestic life.
Every Dutch maiden is schooled in
domestic science and thus made cap
able. if need be, of earning her own
livelihood as well as knowing how to
manage to the fullest possible advan-
tage, home of her own. All the world
is today admiring Hollands young
queen, Wilhelmina. She was taught do
nestle science in all it's branches. She
has on many an occasion prepared the
morning meal for her mother and per-
formed the work of the household. One
hears nothing of socialism or anarchism
in Holland.
Going from Holland into Italy for the
purpose of a study of Italian character
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picture the direct opposite of Dutch
contentment, peace and prosperity is
presented on the very threshold of the
country. She is more than eight times
the size of Holland, has six times her
population, and besides, the Italians
had Italy made for them, nature doing
the work, while the Dutch had to make
almost every acre Of Holland
What are the foods of the Italians?
D,sin MOI fa ri
olive oil and sour bread. Their drink
sour wines. The Italians, for some rea-
son or another, like their bread and all
-four prepared in a stale or sour state.
Stepping across the northern boun-
dairy line of Italy one enters Switzerland
the very name of which is emblematic
of freedom, progress, prosperity and
contentment. The country is the only
real republic in the world, and, If it be
possible it is all the while becoming
more democratic. while the tendency in
the United States is more and more to
a centralized government.
In regard to the foods of the Swiss,
they live today as they have for CEN
turtles, upon milk, milk products and
vegetables. Switzerland grows annu-
ally 345.000 acres of vegetables. The
Swiss COW is to Switzerland what the
Dutch cow Is to Holland the sheet
anchor of it's material life. The Swiss
are not white flour eaters. They grow
limited acreage of wheat, and the
flour made from this retains a greater
per cent Of the grains nutrient prin-
ciples than the white -four of the Unit
ed States and Italy The Swiss. like
the Dutch, are essentially vegetarians,
and like that of the Dutch, theirs is an
enlightened domestic science.
A look at Spain shows another pic
ture of the same nature as that of
Italy, but perhaps a trifle worse. There
is practically no true home life in Spain.
SeVenty-five per cent of its population
is rural, and yet its agriculture is
hopelessly backward. The Spaniards
are small eaters, whether from neces-
sity or inclination, I do not know.
Gaunt poverty, degradation and dis
tress stalk abroad in the land. The
condition of her women is deplorable.
Bull fighting is the great national
pastime, and the carcasses of the bulls
killed under the most pernicious of
conditions are sold to be eaten. Is not
the viciousness and cruelty of the
Spaniard explained by their eating the
meats of bulls killed under such revolt
ing conditions? Every detail of a de-
scription of Spanish cookery is to most
people repulsive. She is, in
brief, a nation without do
mestic life; a country in which
unnatural foods constitute the main
diet. In Sweden we find domestic
| science but no strikes no heggars no
tramps, no paupers to speak Of Every
child is taught to cook as a part Of
the sloyd system Of education. which
has been so long in operation in
| Sweden. In the main the Swedes live
upon naturally organized foods.
Returning again to our own country
and study Of its domestic life I am
going to venture the assertion that the
world has never known a domestic
science that was al once so wise, so
prolific of good to the mental. spiritual
and physical natures Of a people. so
intelligently directed and so complete
" in consonance with the laws of M
ture as regards the principles of nv
giene and dietetics. as that which OBJ
tanned in this country from the settle
ments by the Pilgrims and Puritars
down to the beginning of The present
century I am now talking of yoiir
grandmothers. I Will venture second
assertion that rarely, If ever has there
been a household economy at once so
subtle in its RIGHTEOUSNESS. so harm
full to the physical, mental and spirit
ual natures of man, and so swift and
far-reaching in its mischievous indu-
ences. as that incident to American
life in the past sixty years. fortunate
IL. however, we are peop'e quick TO
discern a mistaken path. no matter
across what field it leads. people in
which the love of life is strong, and
people that recognize TO an apprecia-
BILE extent its mission upon earth. and
these and other factors are leading us
TO formulate changes in methods Of
living as regards foods and their prep
aration. l wish here to digress so far
as TO commend those women's clubs
throughout the country that nave en-
tered upon the work of disseminating
a better knowledge Of household eeon-
omy. for with them like the grand
mothers Of old. this whole matter rests.
Certainly. this is a living issue of he
dav. and one deserving Of the utmost
announcement, for without an en-
lightened domestic science no nation,
no community. no family, no indiV.d-
ual. can be strong. no people contentcd
enduring