PLAIN FOOD.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9552, 20 October 1896, Page 2

PLAIN FOOD.

—^— Hints That Mki Says Many Doctors' Batjl and Vat.uablk Lives. jL It is not a generally understood fact, but a faot nevertheless, that some oi the wealthiest and most luxurious appearing people live on the plainest food. TJjert are children in the families of milliotyalnt who would no more bo permitted to putah of snoh meals aa are given to the- eniidra of many a labouring man than they would be allowed to use articles that wer» knoyi! to bo poisonous. Many a mechanio'i little ones live on meat, warm bread, si] the butter they want, and that of an interim quality, ooffee as much as they~ ohooet, and cheap bakers' cake, whloH Iβ. in Hull enough to ruin the digestion of an ostrich. The children of one family make thiii breakfast of oatmoal or some other cereal V\s milk, with bread at least twenty-four honrt old, a little, very little butter, somatintfi none at all. The breakfast is varied by OOfl bread, well done, a little sswiobaok and ion* times stale bread dipped in egg and ctaolfa crumbs and browned with butUr. ,A frali egg i$ often ■ the only artiole outside ol farinaceous food that they are allowed. Fα dinner, which is the middle of the day, th»j have some well cooked meat, one.or ttre.vegetables, a cup of milk if thoy like It, or weak coooa, with plenty of bread and[ aud a simple dasaeit. Suppoiy which i»l very light moat, frequently consists ofewhstf biscuits or brown bread and.milk, or. tbi pudding eaten with a little molassot or raapli oyrup. " - , A few days ago, in a call at the Iwuee of i working man, there weve five ohlldren BMW: at a table, on which was a large diah Ot mci*, swimming with gravy in which potatoee haa been oooked. These potatoes were saturated withiat and almost impossible for djjpattoa, by any person of ordinary eonstHetion. There were hot rolls, soggy-loOking, Wfl smoking from' the oven; parsnip! frira fo lard and reeking with the gre&ee; eUU oucumbere. ehrivelled and wrinkled, w«* soaking in cheap vinegar, and were literallj j dosed with salt and pepper. ApHe,o*«wap / cakes, sufficient to fill a good sized foupWW measure, stood on one corner ol the WWt' and two pies with' crust containing so mocn lard that they looked absolutely g(W/> There was ooffoe, davk and rank lookiftg»M« worse smelling, and this the children ; \rt« indulging in quite aa much as theypwttt* They ate like little wolves, with an unnetmM and feroelona appetite. Twd tit them W pasty, unhealthy looking .complexions/ W« ■• was evidently suffering with some eW disease; the elder of the group had anW , looking eruption on his iaae an* tow, »»;> tha entire lot were living e«mple*« •«»» eult3 of a mistaken system of feeding. • n was no surprise to the vieltor to bear, b b» days later, that two of them were very ill, pm hopelessly bo, with oholera morbus.- -:_;' *, That the death rate among etto»,fl«Kj. does not inoreaee with frightful »pta»ij« the'one thing that the thoushftfalpenloflsw*, philanthropists never cease to wonder at. ■<•; The parents of these obitdren -fflj»-; undoubtedly have , said that they »w »■! little ones the beat they could afford, Hw. was just exactly the cause of all tW trouDU* They gave them too much and too tap*"" food. A proper diet would bare «oS|*«fl™ of the money, and would have mm J"*" and doctors , bills, to say nothing W w* B lives.— New York Ledger. . ,