Evening star., 1901-06-18
Table Ahd Kitchen.
'Noble Meat and Drink Can Help to
Make Man wGkk, u Make Him rhink.n

III -
When studying the many-sided phases OF
human nature we do not make due allow
viduals, in deYEobtis them mentally and
morally as well as physically. DR.. johnson
says: Some people have a way Of not mind
ing, 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 yanind lanything else"
There can be no question that the food
and the manner Of serving 1t very directly
affect mans actions, 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 happiness and productiveness
Of good in this world.
Mental Sunshine.
What may be termed the sunshine of the
soul cannot be expected to emanate from an
individual whose nutritive organs are not
capable Of normally and regularly perform
ing their functions. Some writer has said
that an iconcolast is a person suffering from
gastritis; and there is undoubtedly a close
relation between the indiscriminate railings
against humanity and an insufficient supply
OF gastric juices; therefore we should place
a higher estimate than we do on the value
of thorough knowledge of the culinary art
and acknowledge it a most important
factor in all that makes life worth living"
and place the power to make or mar ma
tures plans in the hands of the competent
only.
One does not have to seek far for the
problem of Carlyle, the writer who must
have been at perpetual disagreement with
life. and who has handed down through
his Literature of Dyspepsia his sincere
convictions as he saw them in the almost
eternal gloom that clouded an otherwise
IDnh a int oil Loot S,,ta
when his haunting demon, that "dommed
dyspepsia he termed it, released him
from its power We catch a gleam of the rare
sunshine that the world cannot have too
much Of.
To an excess of iI1-chosen and improperly
prepared fare in student days Is traced the
bitterness of Ills ratings at humanity; the
trials and mental and spiritual agonies of
Herr Teufelsdrockh.
Poor and Insufficient Sustenance.
We cannot cheat nature. Though the
stomach will for a long time submit to in
dignities heaped upon 1t in the way of
strange and unsuitable sustenance, it never
fails, sooner later, to bring the sinner
to account. It is said that I'VE grow like
what We eat. Bad food depresses. Good
food exalts US like an Inspiration"
1t may be interesting as a study of cause
and effect to follow the course of the i'm
poverishing and meager dietary of a stu
dent who lives on II cents per day, or, on
the other hand the one who INDUCES I'm
foods utterly unsuited and untitled by bad
cooking for their needs But we long to
warn the deluded victim of the inevitable
result and show him the face of the gastric
Nemesis. sure to ayenge this sacrifice OF
natural laws. 1t may be fortunate for hu
manity that among these misguided be-
ings 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 Carlyle: other
wise we would have frequent repetitions of
''Sartos Resartus' and Herr Teufelsdrockh.
The influence of Food as an Inspirer.
While admitting the influence good din
ner invariably has upon wit and oratory,
we do not advocate gross feeding, nor do
we consider dinner that is merely pre-
tentious good cheer no matter what the
yiands may be. if the dinner is not well
cooked and is badly served, .- -
But look back to the days of the earlier
style Of American cookery, the homely
good eating when the brain and hand of
the mistress Were competent to train 9th
ers in the art of the preparation of plain
and simply foods, or she gould do SO with
her own hands :. 80. -.-i.,. >,
To the excellence of those meats cooked
before the open fire, retaining all their
juices and gaining in most appetiZing fla
Yor; to the bread that. was never sour;
the soups and breths that gave nourish
ment to the body as Well as pleasure to
the taste, may be attributed much of the
greatness, wit, charm and eloquence that
distinguished a long list of notable and
mastery men who have made America ia
nous and unrivaled in every field where
there has been a demand for the highest
order of intelligence. Even great men who
have been abstemious to extreme in
regard to their own diet have shown in the
splendid banquets they have given their ap-
probation of the art of entertaining
1t is not an indication of groSsness for a
man to be sensible of the charms of q
good dinner thDnph he need ke
his religion to dine well according to his
opinion further than to have a due and
conscientious regard for his digestion and
physical well-being. A man who has dined
well on simple, nourishing and wel-cooked
foods is at peace with all the world and
sees all men as brothers. deserving the
right hand of fellowship spite of all his
shortcomings. The mental sunshine and
content radiates outwardly and brightens
everything that comes within his view
Thus our nature, to be influenced by mate
rial as we'll as spiritual things, and in the
matter of feeding our bodies as well as
our minds we exalt to noble work and
deeds or degrade and stupefy by the meat
iced upon.
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST
Strawberry Omelet, Bacon,
Entire Wheat Mullins, Coffee.
LUNCH.