The weekly examiner., 1901-08-24

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 contrivance for measuring the ener- gy produced by various foods. The food selected for trial-a definite quantity of it-is burned in a vessel surrounded by water. A thermom- eter of extraordinary delicacy reg isters 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 di- gested undergoes 8 process of chem ica1 combustion.
 Sir Henry Thompson, 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 xaggeration-the men of science say that it is only an ascer- tained truth which ought to be widely disseminated. The same authority as- serts that fully one-half of the prevalent dyspepsia is due to semi-starvation, because the victims cannot digest bad ly prepared food. He believes that any shrewd saloon keeper might ob- tain considerable profit by selling prop erly made strong beef soup from the heads palates and well-cleaned hoofs af- beef cattIe, or lentil broth from lentils. Tt 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 stim- u1ants is due to want of we'll cooked food. The great secret of good cook ing is slow cooking. The New England clam bake furnishes an example. It a method adopted by the Indians for centuries before Columbus landed, when tribes from the interior visited the coast for periodical fes- tivals. The whites have simply imi- tated the process.
 At modern clam bake a platform is made of flat 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 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 puddings, made of corn meal and molasses; then 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- husetts-Squantum- 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 prevails on all of the people. Cooking must be done with oil or with gas. The department has list of dietaries, showing how people can live ,n from IA to 2S cents each per day. If one spends 2s cents per day, that will include all luxuries. Just think how cheap banquets will become when science takes charge of the kitchen, and when science goes to market with a basket on it's arm and a little bit of a pocke tbook in it's 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 10 more of the conundrum: ''Is mar riage failure?" The future Paul and Virginia will buy all food scientifically and cheaply, and they will have plenty of time to let their dinners simmer. You and I, and some of our children, may not live to see this branch of the but it is coming just as fast as the men of science can bring 1t to us. SMITH D. FRY.
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