St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-09
49,.
Home Health
Club
| By DAVID q. REEDER. Ph. D., n. D.
La Porte, lnd.
DIET AND DRuNKARDs.
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DIET AND DRUNKARDs.
l have not said great deal upol
the subject of alcoholic liquors in thu
Home Health club lectures, but in
stead have constantly taught tenn
perance in all things. l have tried tt
go to the root of the evil. For many
of you know that the beloved tenn
perance worker, Frances E. Willard
used frequently to say that the
kitchen is often the vestibule of the
saloon" and think that little reflec
tion will cause you to agree with her
The delicate nerves of growing
boys stomach can be so irritated by
highly-spiced and greasy foods
doughy bread, coffee, tea, ETC., that
fermentation takes place before the
food can possibly digest and it is, as
DR.. Paulson says, not to be wondered
at that he Graves the paralyzing in
fluence of alcohol and the nerve-dead
ening effects of the cigarette.
''Dr Brunton, the eminent English
physician, tells of drunkard who
complained because 10 temperance
people were forever telling him about
his drinking, but none of them told
him how to get rid of the thirst that
compelled him to drink. What would
we think of a farmer who spent his
time trimming the tops of his trouble.
some weeds instead of pulling them
up by the roots?''
There is cause for a drunkard' s
thirst, just as there is cause for
the fever patients temperature.
Divine Writ declares: The curse
causeless shall not come II our mod
ern dinner tables could be cleared of
those things that create a craving for
liquor there would be more vacant
| places at the bar; for the saloon, in
| stead of being the first step in the
drunkard's career, is frequently the
devils hospital, sought out by those
who already have had abnormal tastes
| created within them by fond moth
er's cooking
'"The mother who prepares such
food for her boy is unconsciously the
best friend of not only the cigarette
dealer, but also of the saloon keeper,
for she is developing business for
both of them. How useless for her to
implore providence to deliver her
boy from the curse of the cigarette
evil and the liquor traffic while she
is daily placing before him food that
must physiologically create demand
for their effects, just as the eating of
a large quantity of salt would devel-
op in him strong and almost irresti-
BILE desire to patronize the water.
bucket. The Divine declaration:
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap is as unerring in it's
operations as is the law of gravita-
tion."
DR.. Paulson says further: '3Our ex-
Of drunkards in our Chicago life boat
work has thoroughly convinced us
that the partaking of an extensive
variety of vile and indigestible foods,
saturated with substances that blister,
burn and sting as they are swallowed,
that are added for the purpose of CIV.
ing the palate twist, also twists the
nerves, and even the temper and
character, and almost drags the poor,
struggling victim of the drink habit
into the saloon as he passes its door.
Scientific cookery should be re-
garded as an important part of the
education of our young people. In
deed, some one has said that cookery
should rank highest among the high
arts. Yet the enterprising business
man who demands an accurate
stenographer, well-informed lawyer,
and discreet manager, is fully salts
fed that the woman in his kitchen is
q competent cook If she can favor and
put together half a dozen food ingred-
tents SO that they will satisfy his
taste, even though she may have no
intelligent conception as to whether
they will build up or destroy the brain
and other tissues
"The idea that alcohol is a food is
. thinly coated scientific sophistry
which has furnished a desirable ex-
cuse for thousands of moderate drink |
ers. It is true that small quantity
of alcohol will burn or oxidize in the |
body, but it ruins the body while it is
burning, just as quantity of gun
powder could burn in stove, but it |
would blast it to pieces while it was
burning"
''Prof. Kraeplin, of Heidelberg, Ger
many, one of the worlds greatest au-
thorities on experimental psychology, |
has recently made 1000 experiments |
with instruments OF precision in which |
he has scientifically demonstrated |
that as small an amount as one-third |
of an ounce Of alcohol will appreci- |
ably depress sight, hearing, feeling |
and the various mental operations"
Let the mother study the Home |
Health club methods of diet, the prop |
er combinations of food, and how to
prepare it and the result will not be |
favorable to the saloon and tobacco |