Year: 1878

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From The Golden Rule, June g.
| FISH FOR SUMNER EATING.


The tremendous sarcasm OF Mark
Twain, in his reply to correspondent
who asked if it were true that fish is the
best brain food,-to the effect that this
is scientific fact, and advising him at
once to begin on whale: mot one of
the biggest kind, but just fair medium
sized whale" has become familiar to all.
A veteran classical professor whose opin-
ion on this point was once asked, snorted
contemptuously at it. "There is phos-
phorus in the brain, and also in the fish, !"
said he, "ergo fish as food must make
brain. Very good. The grass, at GER
tain times, is rich in phosphorus. The
COWS eat much grass. Therefore they
must be very brainy. 1t is strange that
some OK has not been appointed to a
! ! quasi scientific Professorship P'


But whatever may be the direct in
fuence on the brain, of fish as food, there
can be no doubt of its excellent effect on
the trained palate. and on the discrimin-
ating stomach. Nice fish, properly cooked,
always relishes. 1t is easily digested.
1t is very nutritious and quite harmless.
This meets about all the requirements of
good food. Anything that makes good
blood and healthy tissue, and that is
readily assimilated to meet the wastes
and the wants of the different parts Of
the system. will give the brain its full
share.


Any one who has taken speckled
trout from the spit within an hour from
the time when it came flashing from the
water,-or who has eaten sea fish on
board the boat on the same day they
were caught-knows how difficult, nay
impossible, it is to get perfectly fresh
fish in any distant market. Even cod.
and the commonest fish, suffer loss in
this way, though the free use made Of
ice and refrigerators keeps them sweet
and moderately firm for several days
1t is an excellent thing to "know your
fsh-man" when you buy at this time Of
year; for unless you have good grounds
for faith in him you must yourself look
at the ish's eye for signs of "age," and
feel if the flesh is firm and not 6berless
or you may have poor mess. In sup
plying your table provide variety from
one week to another, SO as not to weary
of fish diet.


And this brings up the matter of sal
and canned fish. We confess to finding
little satisfaction in the canned salmon
that is sold for. its FRESHNESS. Tht
most that can be said of it is that it il
good when one can't get either fresh
caught or ell-pickled fish. The differ
ent kinds of boned fish are very conven
lent and nice if cooked without too mucl
regard to ECONOMY" We confess to ;
partiality for a really good salt fish,
judged on its own merits, experimentally
regardless of the brand. Freshened from
twelve to twenty -four hours, as required
nicely broiled, and served hot. we do no
know of any more appetizing dish TO


breakfast or supper. But there are "isl
and fish - and the most delicate, tende
and fine-favored salt fish we know of ar
the Labrador Salmon Trout. By thi
we 10 not mean young salmon or lax
trout, nor any other of the fnny trib


that are sometimes sold under this name
but the silvery- sided, bright-spotted
pink-feshed gamey trout of the northern
sea waters, the handsomest of all sal
water fish. They are fit for an epicure
and have been, in favorable seasons, sol


at prices which put them within tn
reach of all.


When one can get trout he doesn'


need to go any farther for fish for tn
spit or the oven; and in their labors t
protect, introduce and propagate fish fo
the people, we hope the commissioner
will not forget this prince of America
fish.


Henry Mayo s. Co., wholesale is
dealers, 54 Commerce street, Bostor
Mass, have these fish in stock, and ar
prepared to supply the trade in an
quantity.