Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — Hominy and Happiness. [ARTICLE]

Hominy and Happiness.

j Washington Post. I “Behold the average colored lab- , on a Southern plantation,” said 1 the Hon. P. B. Winston, of Minne- ' sota and Virginia. “How fat and | sleek he looks; how his shining eyes ; and smooth ebony skin reveals the ; robust physical man. He is a type I of perfect health, and to what does ihe owe his suburb condition? I’ll j tell you in twcr'WOTds’- =r corn "breacE" t There is the grandest food product ih th'g~frorld, and all honor to the ! noble American who is trying to i teach the old world people the vari- | ous delicious uses of Corn, and the many palatable ways it can be prepared* for the table. j “If it were not for corn, I don’t know how many of the poor people I of Virginia, white and black, would i exist. It is in reality the mainstay of life in many localities of the old i State. But to really love corn bread ; I think one must be used to it from childhood. Southern-born men of the old regime commenced gnawing on corn ‘pones’ when they were babies. As they grew older the pone accompanied them on every hunting and fishing expedition, and so, when maturity was* reached, corn in some

form or other was wanted at the table three times a day. This fact will, I think, militate against any extensive use of the cereal as food among the people of Europe 4 —they haven’t been used to it. It has always puzzled me that our own people, outside of the South, fail to appreciate the glories of maize. In the great corn-growing States of the West its use is very limited, and the Eastern mind, so far as corn is concerned, is a howling wilderness.”