Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Pie. [ARTICLE]

Pie.

Pie is the bane of the American household, the lurking devil of the cupboard. I, beguiles childhood by seductive appeals to the uneducated palate, and by gradually vitiating the taste it becomes a cherished weakness of the adult, in the end, if adhered to, banishing all the peace and joy of the head, heart and stomach. Of mince pie a close observer has not inaptly said: “Moist and indigestible at the bottom, flaky and indigestible on top, with untold horrors between." Other pie has the excruciating characteristics of mince, with a differ ence in the degree of the horrors deftly hidden between the upper and nether crusts. And this concentrated dyspepsia is carried everywhere. The poor child is allowed by thoughtless parents to take pie to school and munch it six times a day, thus darkening its whole future. Married couples become sour and morose, and at last separate. They pronounce the cause incompatibility of temper. They are wrong; it is pie. Promising homes are broken up;. the young man goes out into the world in anger and the old man’s curse follows him. Pie again on both sides. What an absurdity for a reformer who carries in his shrunken face the distorting, tell-tale marks of pie to rave about narcotics and stimulants. Eradicate the imp of the larder and there will be one less influence at work to drive young men to seek the imp which lies in the bottle. Let us have a genuine cookery reform. — N. Y. Evening Post. - ' ■ ■