River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-08-22

contrivance for measuring the ener-
gy produced by various foods. The
food selected for trial-a definite
quantity of it's burned in vessel
surrounded by water. A thermom-
eter of extraordinary delicacy reg
listers the rise in the temperature Of
the water, the quantity of which is
known. Then an equal amount of
the same food is burned in the hu-
man body. OF course, all food d.
gested undergoes a process of chem
ical combustion.
Sir Henry Thompson, a celebrated
English physician, is quoted as having
said: 'More mischief in the form of
disease and shortened life is caused by
bad habits of preparing and eating
food than by bad habits in the use of
alcohol" Although people might re-
gard that as an extreme statement
in fact, an aggeration-the men of
science say that it is only an ascer-
tanned truth which ought to be widely
disseminated. The same authority as
dyspepsia is due to semi-starvation,
because the victims cannot digest bad
ly prepared food. He believes that
any shrewd saloon keeper might OBJ,
tain considerable profit by selling prop
erly made strong beef soup from the
heads, palates and well-cleaned hoofs
of beef cattle, or lentil broth from
lentils. 1t would cost him less than
his whisky and beer cost, and if put
on tap alongside of either would sell
freely in place of the liquor, because
more than half of the craving for slim
ulants is due to want of well cooked
food. The great secret of good cook
ing is slow cooking. The New England
clam bake furnishes an example. 1t
represents a method adopted by the
Indians for centuries before Columbus
landed, when tribes from the interior
visited the coast for periodical fes-
rivals. The whites have simply imi-
tated the process.
At modern clam bake a platform
is made of fiat stones gathered on the
shore, and these are heated with wood
fire. After awhile the ashes are swept
away and layer of wet seaweed or
rockwell put on; on this layer of
clans; then another layer of seaweed;
then sweet corn in the milk; then more
seaweed; then some fish and Holsters;
more seaweed; more clans; finally,
in tin pans, Indian buildings, made of
corn meal and molasses; then a last
covering of seaweed, and the whole
covered over with sail cloth. The heat
ed stones do the cooking. Along the
Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida
great piles of shells mark the places
where ancient Indian clam bakes were
held. The name of a locality in Massa-
Observation-Disclosures said to mean
the place for clam bake.
Temperance in eating is taught by
the department, it being held that peo-
pie eat too much; eat for the pleasure
of eating, rather than for renewing
physical energies. Too much coal
and wood are used in cooking. The
kitchen range will be abolished when
science prevails on all of the people.
Cooking must be done with oil or with
gas. The department has a list of
dietaries, showing how people can live
on from IA to 2S cents each per day.
If one spends % cents per day, that
viii include all luxuries. Just think
how cheap banquets will become when
science takes charge of the kitchen,
and when science goes to market with
basket on its arm and a little bit
of a pocketbook in its hand.
The parish priest in New York who
is preaching matrimony and urging
his young people to marry might help
along his gospel by adding science to
it, as applied by the department OF
agriculture. The young wives will
hear no more about "the pies that
mother used TO make" and, with
wages saved by science, we will hear
no more of the conundrum: rs mar
riage a failure?" The future Paul and
Virginia will buy all food scientifically
and eheaply, and they win have plenty
of time to let their dinners simmer.
You and 1, and some of our children,
may not live to see this branch of the
millennium, but it is coming Just as
fast as the men of science can bring il
to US. SMITH d. FRY.