The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

They also knew that with unvarying
regularity he would partake of the in
terdicted food and suffer the conse-
quences. The following instance came
under the observation of the writer:
The old man operated a lumber yard
and was always at his post unless he
had been eating of his favorite dish.
One day he worked hard all day get
ting his monthly accounts into shape.
The next day he labored with zeal un-
til near noon. Then he called his son
and the writer and, contrary to Gus
tom, drove home to the midday meal.
When the party reached the house
the old man said to his son that he
would not go back to the office that
day He gave minute directions for the
conduct of business, went to the
table, rejected the smoking meats-he
always kept a good table-called for a
bowl of bread and milk and devoured
it ravenously in spite of protests. That
done, he left the table and repaired at
once to his room. In short time heavy
groans came from that chamber, for the
old man was doubled up like a jack
knife suffering torments. He was sick
two days and at last crawled down to
his office an apparent ghost of the once
sturdy old fellow. His temper was not
improved by the ordeal, either. But he
was TOO Weak IL nave d1lytnlnE more
potent than tack hammer at his deck
hands, who kept stiff offing the while.
That lobster should disturb the econ
omy of nature is not regarded as sur
prising by medical men. Possibly a far
half of the people would find it a hard
thing to benevolently assimilate But
eating it is the usual process of acquir-
ing brilliantly hued and soul-terrifying
nightmares. Now, in Chicago dwells a
woman who breaks out with a rash as
ruddy as that of a newly boiled lobster
as soon as she comes in sight of one of
these ugly things. She never eats the
flesh, never handles the thing, all that
is necessary is for her to come into Its
presence Disguise is of no avail, for
no matter how cunnngly 1t is hidden
she has the premonitory faintness fol-
lowed by the rash with appalling sud-
denness.
Mutton is possibly-as has been said
the most easily digested flesh used by
man as food. Yet a woman of this city
cannot eat it under any circumstances.
She is affected thereby in the same
manner as another who several years
ago experienced deadly illness If she
partook. The stomach revolts instant
ly. No matter if the cook says with the
meat pieman rendered famous by Sam
uel Weller, that the sauce is the thing.
1t is all the same. ii will be remembered
that Samuel asserted that his pieman
could take any kind of meat and by a
judicious application of sauce beguile
the eater into the belief he was eating
something else.
With a person afflicted by one of
these idiosyncrases this disguise is
nothing. 1t makes absolutely no differ
ence, for the stomach is the best chem
ical laboratory ever designed. and will
separate any article Of food into its con-
stituent elements with unvarying sue
cess. AS a qualitative and cumulative
analyzer, it has no equal on earth or
under the earth for that matter. Hence,
while the five senses Of the victim may
be fooled by a very learned cook. the
stomach speedily resolves all doubt,
the sickness is present and the cook
brought to shame and disgrace. So 1t
is with the woman in question. Nut
ton is mutton to her and no skill can
prevent her digestive organs from de-
tecting It. So her friends avoid sheep
for her sake.
There is a man in Chicago who has
an idiosyncracy which causes him to
suffer untold annoyance He suffocates
and suffers acute stomachic neuralgia
when he comes in contact with the
fumes of vinegar He loves apples and
will eat a peck at a sitting unless his
wife withdraws the supply before he
vinegar in salad dressing and in other
combinations, but as soon as he enters
the house. If the cruet happen to be
open, he will sniff, feel faint and beat
a hasty retreat to outer darkness-if it
happens to be after shutdown.
This same man is very fond of acidu-
lous fruits, revels in strawberries,
gooseberries, raw and cooked, apple
cider, lemons, oranges, etc He Is able
to play strong hand against any OF
them excepting fresh cider. For some
unknown reason the juice of apples
squeezed therefrom by something but
his teeth is productive of dismay. If
the cider has commenced to turn and
is yet far from the end of the long
Journey which makes vinegar, he can
drink it freely But let him get Whit
of the fully developed acid in vinegar
or wine barrel and he slumps as If nit
in the plexus by heavyweight.
This same man never sits down to a
table in a hotel or restaurant if a bot
tie or dish of pickles is thereon. He
has been known to call waiter to re-
move the pickles and place them to the
lee. Then he will touch the cloth where
the dish was sitting and If it is moist
will either have a new cloth or leave
the place. His wife and all his friends
might not be able to detect the fumes
or know that vinegar had ever been In
the ROOM but he can find it instantly
Cooking pickles or sauces fills the room
with fumes. A year ago his wife put
in the forenoon in this occupation.