Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — Eggs as a Diet. [ARTICLE]

Eggs as a Diet.

Would it not be wise to substitute more eggs for meat in our daily diet? About one-third of the weight of an egg is solid nutriment. Tliis is more than can 'bfe said of meat. There are no bones or tough pieces that have to he Ijtid aside. A good egg is made up of 10 parts shell, 59 parts white and 30 parts yelk. The white of &n egg contains 86 per c6nt. water, the yelk of an egg 52 per cent The average of an egg is about two ounces. Practically the egg is animal food, and yet there is none of the disagreeable work of the butcher necessary to obtain it. The vegetarians of England use eggs freely, and many of these men are eighty and ninety years old, and have been, remarkably free from illness. Eggs are best when cooked four minutes. This takes away the animal taste that js offensive to some, but does npt so harden the white or yelk as to make 4hem harit: to, digest. An egg if cooked very hard is difficult of digestion, except by those with stout stomachs; such eggs should be eaten with bread and masticated very finely. An egg spread on' ‘toast is food fit for a king, if kings fie-, serve any bctfcr food than anybody else, which'is aoubtftil. "Tried-eggs are less wholesome than boiled ones. An egg tirdppfed into hot water is not only a clean and Ihttffisome but' a delicious morsel. spoil the t taste of their'eggs by adding pepper and salt. ‘ Alhfie svtyqt. butter is the best dressing. Eggs, iquch, phosphorus,,which is to beusdTm'ro thbse Who-use ffieir braiins —Nine have few’ pointed by the deneral Conference of the Methodist (not Episcopal) Church' to meet nine commissioners appointed last year by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church to devise a basis of union. A meeting of the joint commissioners will probably be held during the presept summer,