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1.2.0. ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVEEY-DAY LIFE.
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if systems of taxation would allow hiin tlms to obtain a harmless and leasant substitute for fatal gin or stupifying beer .
p A small collection of household utensilsthough promising great , future usefulnessis as yet too insignificant to claim much notice ,
and we therefore , pass at once to the great feature of the Museum , Alimentary Substances , and especially food supplied by the
vegetable kingdom , and here , within the compass of a few feet , we may learn more about the " daily bread " man asks from heaven than is
often acquired in a lifetime from books or scattered observation . Specimens of the various kinds of wheat from which the chief article
of our own diet is prepared are accompanied by samples of the anal ground ysed meal composition , classified of from each " bran set " forth to " in pastry large whites figure ; " s , while fixes im the
pressively the folly of preferrin , g the over-refined white bread of city consumption to the more wholesome and nutritious brown loaf
of the cottager . In adjoining compartments we have presented to us consecutively a complete view of the staple of consumption in
almost every country ; the raw material ; the prepared food , "when of a nature to be exhibited ; pictures of the mode of cultivation and
preparation ; printed details of the chemical composition , and even minute culinary directions as to how it may best be cooked in order
to develop its agreeable and nutritious qualities . And it is intended , toothat this information shall not have to be laboriously sought for
in , a purchased _catalogiie , but it will be exhibited in large-typed lacards close to the objects indicatedso as best to arrest the eye and
fix p itself in the memory . Here we , may compare the Scotchman ' s oatfitted for its humid habitat by the sheltering eaves of its loose
s down outhern , -looking climes husk of , the with meal the whereof erect sunsh the ine American -seeking makes maize his of ;
" mush" and the Italian his " polenta ; " or pass from the rapidgrowing rice the Hindoo or Arab boils fresh for each repast , to the
hardy rye of which the Northern peasant makes a loaf that will keep for months or yearsand serve as food alike for his horse or for
himself . Here too we , have bodily before us foreign articles of diet whose names alone have been hitherto familiar to us , such as the
edible lupin , lentils of birthright-buying celebrity , or the multumin-chickpeawhich forms the fare of the desert-traveller ,
as parvo affording the , greatest amount of life-supporting food in the smallest possible compass . Or we may learn the mode of growth
and the history of substances daily seen , but of whose origin few are awareasfor instancethe Manna Krqupe , which made a sudden
, , , debut a few years ago in every grocer ' s shop , under different names , and offering conflicting statements as to its " antecedents . " We
see it here in its primary form as an elegant feathery panicle of tiny grainsand are told that it does not dispute the soil with plants of
hi could gher be , pretensions cultivated , but wi grows th the best addition in the of water the , instructive where no other fact food that ;
it was from some observant student of nature remarking with what
1.2.0. Illustrations Of Eveey-Day Life.
1 . 2 . 0 . ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVEEY-DAY LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/48/
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