The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-09-29
Cooks VERSUS ALCOHOL.

uAAluEr4 tlA1l-dul Ou -ublA nJtlCr.
and according to the latest and most
approved plan Of the women who
belong to the W. G. I. L., Tor evil
dence Of which assertion 90 to our
next neighbOr. Alcohol j. terrible
thing ard i twin BROTHER to hell
;.nl other bugabOos.
Chiliren's school books reek with
gore about alcohol, and the County
Institute l. a special institution to
create literature against king alco-
. hOl. Lecturers 90 gala hOotln
over this great country of ours ca
yoring against king alcohol and
warning everybody. Leg, latures
pass laws every two wears 10 regu-
late the liquor traffic, which com
pounds and dispenses the servants
OF king alcohol, wine. beer, whisky,
cider, root beer and 20 on, ad tini-
turn. TO be drank I'D lIbtum, pro-
viding to pay a license to run the
affairs OF the State.
- a ArARAOAE AAE4tAlC
Of destruction. Daring a practice
OF twenty five years among the good
people Of Dubois county, | have
met with one death due to alcohol.
aud the victim had to freeze TO
death TO even accomplish that fact.
Hi. widow sued the saloon keeper
who sold him the alcohol and got
several hundred dollars damages.
And now she knOws not whom 10
praise more, king alcohol or jack
frost.
Alcohol i awful. especially If it
i adulterated with tobacco spit and
sawdust. 1t l. terrible, especially
If drank in the form Of root beer
and otHer abOminabIe cOncoctiOns,
made by temperance advocates and
for those who abomInate liquor. 1t
Is fearful, especially if it i no good
But good, genuine stun i hard TO
beat
For eight thousand years accord
ing to the bible, and for several
million years according TO science,
king alcohol has been marching up
and down this broad land, in some
form or other, to stimulate the sick,
cheer the afflicted. and TO enliven
wedding guests. And no one a. yet
has been able TO stop it, and the
reason Of il l.. man or woman must
have il. will have il, and has il to
swim in If necessary. The DID feI-
low has come TO stay and why, be
cause man wants ii.
The system Of man requires alco-
hol, in a small quantity to be sure,
and in the right way, at the right
time, and of the right quality. And
a. long a. the system Of man i well
nourished and in good shape, so
long will he not use more alcohol
than i good for him.
But man does use too much alco-
hOl. and who il the fault of it2 The
cooks.
The newspapers Of the day are
CRYING out that there j. a famine of
hired girls and cooks. In other
words there are not enough cooks
to 90 around. And those who are
around don't know how TO cook and
dish up decent square meal.
Just start out tomorrow morning,
Mr. Newspaperman, a defunctl
Peter Longsho.t calls you, and take
the woman who runs the W. e.. Il.
U. department Of your paper along.
and eat your way promiscuousIyl
Dubois county. Such stuff
with the name of food and suchl
grub in the name of nourishment
which will be dish.d up before you
by the cooks OF Dubois county, will
make you wish king alcohol would
do more killing than he does, and
the cooks.
The crying question OF the hour
and the day IL not the Philippinel
question, nor the is to hurrah.
nor whether Dreyfus is innocent.
nor whether Bryan will beat Nc
kinley in 1900, EOr whether the
free schools are better than private
schools, nor whether Peter Long
shOtt wrote that letter from Hades
or whether il was a plagiarism and
a fake, but il how AMI where to get
better cooks.
The man who is well fed needs
no saloon to nourish his languishina
nervous system, but If he il fed sour
bread, doughy biscuits, spongy
pies, fried meat, burnt potatoes.
dirty coffee. half done soups. n
NUT drink alcohol 10 keep the stuff
within his stomachical dimensions. |
Matrons, and other fellow -citizen-
teach your girls how to cook, for
one good cook, 10 the form of a hir.I