The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-19
The Lake Shore
TABLE AND KITCHEN.
and Michigan Southern Railway.


Conducted by Ida Ames Willis, Mar
quette Building, Chicago, to whom all
inquiries should be addressed.
The Influence of Good Cheer.
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Chicago.
When studying the many-sided pha-
ses of human nature we do not make
due allowance for effect, in relation to
food and individuals, in developing
them mentally and morally we'll as
physically. DR.. Johnson says some
people have way of not minding, or
pretending not to mind, what we eat.
For my part, mind very studiOusly;
for / look upon it that he who does not
mind this will hardly mind anything
else
There can be no question that the
food and the manner of serving it very
directly affects mans action, ability.
disposition, courage and direction of his
mental activity. The kinds of food man
eats and the time and manner OF eating
it determine greatly the amount of hap
piness and productiveness of good in
this world.
MENTAL SUNSHINE.
What may be termed the sunshine of
the soul cannot be expected to enanate
from an individual whose nutritive or
ganse are not capable of normally and
regularly performing their functions.
is a person suffering from gastritis and
there is undoubtedly a close relation be-
tween the indiscriminate ratings
against humanity and an insufficient
supply of gastric juices; therefore we
should place a higher estimate than we
do on the value of a thorough knowl-
edge of the culinary art and acknowl-
edge it as most important factor in
all that makes life worth living" and
place the power to make or mar ma
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petent only.
One does not have to seek far for the
problem of Carlyle, the writer who
must have been at perpetual disagree
ment with life, and who has handed
down through his Literature of Dys-
pepsia'' his sincere convictions as he
saw them in the almost eternal gloom
that clouded an otherwise unobscured
intellect. At rare intervals when his
haunting demon, that rdommed dyspep-
sia,'' as he termed it, released him from
its power, we catch a CLEAN of the rare
sunshine that the world cannot have
too much of.
To an excess of ilI-chosen and improp-
erly prepared fare in student days is
traced the bitterness of his ratings at
humanity; the trials and mental and
spiritual agonies Of Herr Teufels-
drockh-
TENANCE.
We cannot cheat nature. Though the
stomach will for long time submit to
indignities heaped upon it in the way
of strange and unsuitable sustenances
it never fails, sooner or later, to bring
the sinner to account. It is said that
1--WE grow like what we eat. Bad food
depresses. Good food exalts US like an
inspiration
It may be interesting as a study of
cause and effect to follow the course
of the impoverishing and meager
dietary of a student who lives on II
Tae7-d lar n1. an nj
one who INDUCES lin foods utterly I'M
suited, and untitled by bad cooking, for
their needs. But we long to warn the
deIuded victim of the inevitable result
and show him the face Of the gastric
Nemesis, sure to avenges this sacrifice
of natural laws. 1t may be fortunate
for humanity that among these mis-
guided beings who seem to imagine that
Intellect grows and is fostered by the
fires of its own desires and ambitions
we have few born with the intellect of
auent repetitions Of .sSartOr Resartus''
and Herr TeufeIsdrockh.
THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD AS AN
INSPIRER.
While admitting the influence a good
dinner invariably has upon wit and
oratory, we do not advocate gross feed
ing nor do We consider dinner that
is merely pretentiOuS good cheer, no
matter what the viands may be, if the
dinner IS not we'll cooked and is badly
served.
But look back to the days Of the earl
Ter style of American cookery, the
homely. good eating when the brain and
hand of the mistress was competent to
train others in the art of the prepare
ton of plain and simple foods, or she
could do SO with her own hands.
To the excellence of those meats
cooked before the open fire, retaining
all their juices and gaining in most ap-
petizing flavor; to the bread that was
never sour; the soups and broths that
gave nourishment to the body as we'll
as pleasure to the taste, may be attrib-
uted much Of the greatness, wit, charm
and eloquence that distinguished long
list of notable and mastery men, who
have made America. fam Gus and un-
rfvaled in every field where there has
been a demand for the highest order of
intelligence. Even great men who have
been abstemious to an extreme in re-
gard to their own diet have shown in
the splendid banduets they have given
their appreciation of the art of enter
tanning.
It is not an indication of grossness
for a man to be sensible of the charms
of a good dinner, though he need not
make it his religion to dine well ac-
cording to his opinion further than to
have a due and conscientious regard
for his digestion and physical we'll