Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
NEW Use iO.s WHALES.

1t is on record that a schooiboy
essay;s- once aoiemnly stated that the
sheep is famous for its mutton
chops; soon another cen follow sui
and tell us that the whale is re-
nowned for its outlets. In CalifCr-
MIA waters a Whaler has been equip
ped with canning installation ana
expects in one voyage TO pot about
20, 900 pounds Of flesh of the leylath-
an of the deep. Whale, IL is aver
red, makes good feeding, somewhat
rich and even greasy. but eminently
sustaining and on the whole tooth
some. Hitherto, as soon as the
blubber was secured and the bone
priced out, the flesh was thrown
away as useless and that practice
sets up rather prejudice against
the dish. 1t now appears, however,
that the only reason for letting the
flesh go adrift was the impossibility
of storing it ;once that difficulty Is
overcome, it is expected that whale
outlet will be first wonder, then
delicacy and finally common item
OF diet.
A paean of praise of fish as a uni
versai article of food has recently
been sung by Sir James Crichton-
Browne to meeting Of the Sanitary
Inspectors association, held, appro-
priately enough, in the London Fish
mongers' Hall. In particular, he
I'D al.
tentative Of the great white plague,
tuberculosis. 1t will come as revela-
ton to many to learn, on authority,
that the despised bloater offers the
largest amount Of nutriment for
given sum of any animal food, and
that two salt herring contain as
much animal protein as need enter
into the daily dietary Of an ordinary
Workingman.
A new terror was indeed added to
those to which the sanitary inspect
ors are already exposed. AS fish
often signaliZe by trifiing change
in the odor they emit the point when
they have ceased TO be edible, Sir
James proposes that the inspectors,
in addition to the other tests they
have to undergo, should be required
to pass q nasal examination. Some
men he said, are born without the
sense Of smell-even great poets
have been known to be thus affict-
ed. The sense may be abolished by
disease and quickened by education.
The spectacle OF the candidate tun-
ing up his Olfactory organ to the
requisite pitch will be a sight for
gods and men. A new force will be
added to the nickname by which the
sanitary inspector is even now
knoWn--namely "smeller-out."
But to return to our whales. There
is some doubt as TO whether the
whale can or cannot be properly
classed as fish. He is in much the
same case as the crab, which some-
one once defined as "a red fish that
walks backward" whereupon those
who were more intimately acquaint-
ed with the crustacean retorted that
he was not red, was not fish and
did not walk backward-all OF which
shows the danger Of dogmatism In
| definition. The point, therefore, has
| been raised as to whether, If you are
| debarred from eating meat on Fri
! day, you can fall back on whale. 1t
is a subtle question, and will. we
| suppose, have to be settled by the
| theologians. For our part we lean to
| the belief that for long time TO
come those who can have whale flesh
during the remainder of the week
will willingly dispense with it one
day out of Observation-Disclosures Post,