The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-30
PEPPER AND SALT.
Some Mistaken Ideas About Their Use
I'm Domestic Economy.

Zip" in New York Press.
The common superstition is that salt will
kill birds, and they are the only granivorous
animals that do not voluntarily partake OF
1t. Beasts of the field with the cloven foot
have their ticks, and all other graminivor-
Gus quadruples either find their allowance
of chloride of sodium In the earth, in the
water they drink or in certain grasses.
Feed dog on raw, unsalted meat, and
presently he will be looking for a grass
iodide or alkali. and for his own interna,
ailments the dog IS fine doctor Lions and
tigers. indeed all carnivorous animals. know
where 10 get their salt, whether they earn
Ii or not. The giant pelicans and the fish
hawks of the sea get salt from their prey.
But we never heard of a beast or bird eat
ing pepper. the alleged elixir of life.
One or the odd arrangements OF Mother
Nature is in providing. very hot foods for
people In very hot climates. There are
Cubans back of CienfuegoS, / have been in
formed, so old that neighbors do not even
pretend to guess their ages. They have
hyed on pepper and rum In Mexico, up IN
the foothills of Guanajuato and San Luis
Potosi, where the natives live on chile con
carne, tortillas and tamales, made fiercely
hot with Mexican peppers, men and women
attain great age. Some are able TO work
manana" at rs and 100. Now comes Tenn
pie Houston, son OF the celebrated Sam,
saying tnat the Indians or the southwest
live long because they eat quantities of pep
Per. He knows great many squaws 10
years old, and speaks OF old White Horse,
who was a friend of his father and is to-
day as young and vigorous as at the time
when Sam was roaming over the prairies.
He puts pepper in everything he eats and
drinks.
We have heard of the man Of 'peppery
disposition He carries chips both
shoulders. but wouldn't fight mouse. He
Is merely ''techeous." We have distin-
guisheo churchman in this city who is af-
flicted with ''peppery disposition" The
effect Of diet of pepper on dogs is said
to be To render them fierce and long
winded, which are excellent traits in bull
dogs. Men should be neither the one nor
the other, therefore, they should, for that
reason alone, eschew pepper. Too much pep
per ruins the digestion, but Mr.. Houston
says this is only temporary. / have swal-
lowed three bird seye peppers in quarter
hour, and cried for two days. They are
popularity regarded in Louisiana as little
taste of hell fire before death. We gave
cur carlo red pepper the day Al Sykes
battle was entirely one-sided Bruno never
realized what struck him.
Judge W., man of high character and
brains, drank straight whisky for fifty
years, then, finding that it no longer went
to the right spot" Git failed to Jingle and
glow when coming in contact with the mu-
Gus membrane). began to add cayenne pep
per TO every glassful he swallowed. His
pepper bills were something startling. II
now looking ahead for something hot
ter and stronger than pepper" he would
say. 1.-THE time will come when whisky
and pepper will cease to produce that pull
sating, sensuous emotion which topers love,
and l desire to be prepared with something
more plutonic." The only hope for such a
man is corrosive sublimate.