Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28
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| to get the most out Of our foods. Cook
| ing Is looked down upon here. 1t should be
! considered one Of the arts, and a cook
| should command high salary. ] know
| families in Washington who live at the
| rate of five or ten thousand dollars year,
and who, nevertheless, will send down into
Virginia and get some ignorant colored
woman to spoil their victuals. They will
spend thousands of dollars on their tables
and waste it all by slimping on the cook. )"
Chicken Salads Made Of Pork.
''Is there much food adulteration prac-
| ticed in Washington
Yes. The chicken salad served at our
receptions here is often half pork cut up
into cubes and so dressed with mayon-
naise that one cannot tell the difference.
We have all sorts OF receptions practiced
upon us. and we frequently know not what
we eat.
How about our drinks?''
They are nearly all more or less adul-
terated, and this is especially so of our
whistles, both domestic and imported.
made a careful examination of Scotch whis-
ky not long ago and created quite a sem
sation when published the statement that
there was not a bottle OF Scotch whisky
to be gotten in this country, excepting in
clubs or private houses. Pure Scotch whis-
ky is made of barley malt, cured over a
peat fire, the peat for the purpose having
been carefully prepared. investigated
this matter while l was In Great Britain,
and found that the Scotch whisky the Eng
lish were drinking was In fact made of In
dian corn imported for the purpose The
corn alcohol was mixed with a little
Scotch whisky to give 1t a flavor and the
whole was sold as pure Scotch The price
of the Scotch was more or less according
to the amount of pure Scotch whisky In
it, and this fraud was perpetrated by maxi
ers whose whisky is famous throughout the
world"
How about Irish whisky, doctor?"
THAT is also adulterated. and the same
is true of American whisky. Indeed. it
is almost impossible to buy a pure whisky
without it Is bottled In bond. Whisky is
hardly fit to drink before 1t is eight years
old. and one cannot keep it more than eight
years in bond. The moment 1t is taken
out it has to pay the revenue tax, and the
result is there Is little surety of getting 1t
pure
Alcohol Not Good for Man.
what do you think about drinks, doc
tor? Are wines and liquors injurious 10
health2"
THAT depends upon ones constitution. A
moderate amount OF wine benefits some
persons, but as a rule alcoholic liquors
are harmful and I should like to see them
wiped from the face Of the earth / don't
believe them necessary to health, and it Is
certainly remarkable that the German pa
pers in discussing why the European ath-
fetes were beaten by our American boys at
Athens ventured the argument that the
Americans won because they were abso-
lutte abstainers from the use of alcohol and
were therefore able to do better work than
the Europeans
Does It Pay to Chewp
The conversation here turned to habits
of eating. and 1 asked DR.. Wiley what he
thought of Fletcherising. He replied:
81 suppose you mean the practice of chew
ing ones food to a pulp before swallowing.
Senator Chauncey Depew is said to advocate
giving each morsel thirty-two bites. and
Fletcher keeps on biting until the food dis
appears of itself. l believe in chewing, but
I think it can be oyerdone. Some foods
should be thoroughly masticated. This is
especially SO with starchy materials, such
as bread or potatoes, which are largely di-
gested in the mouth. 1t is not SO with
meats. When the meat has been so bitten
or torn apart that the. acids of the stomach
can reach it it should be swallowed. The
longer il is kept in the mouth the worse for
it, for the alkaline saliva retards it's di-
gestion.
did you ever see dog eat meat?" DR..
Wiley continued. HE usually bolts it and,
If ne chews at all, he uses his teeth largely
on bread and such stuff. AS to the French,
they eat their bread first by itself and their
meat by itself: they chew the bread well,
but swallow the meat with only slight mas
tication.'
''How often should man eatg'
About three times a day. L am In IA
vor of the light breakfast and good lunch
con and dinner"
do you believe in vegetarianism?"
think the Lord intended man to eat
both meat and vegetables. He has given
him the machinery to digest BOTH
do we not eat too mueh?'
Yes, most of us do, although 1t is Gu
rious thing that the natural man eats Just
about so much each day in proportion to
his weight. We found this the case in our
experiments as to the consumption of dry
foods. Every one of our boarders ate one
per cent of his weight every day of that
kind of food. The man that weighed $50
pounds as rule ate a pound and half
of dry food day. so that it took him Just
one hundred days to eat his own weight"
FRANK g. CARPENTER.