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Show " ABSTAIN FOR STOMACH'S SAKE. The turn events are taking in the industrial world, particularly in the great stockyards and packing plant3 of the country, has its good and bad features. Bad, because of the waste of time, money, even life, in a prolonged strike. Good, if we apply the meat famine sure to come, in efforts to tone up our stomachs and live like rational beings. be-ings. We should reflect that a meat famine in summer sum-mer is a bagatelle compared to a coal f amino in the midst of winter. There is a natuVal but unpleasant disposition on the part of many retail meat dealers to take advantage ad-vantage of the public, and increase the price of fresh meat arbitrarily' rind with slight reference to the wholesale prices. As yet there is no scarcity scar-city of fresh meat, and the packers have made but a 6 per cent advance. In some places (and perhaps in this city) retailers arc charging 25 per cent more. This may or may not be good business but it operates harshly on the public, who have' felt for some time that the price oflncat is excessively high without the additional impetus of the present fear of shortage. But there is an easy ay to get around all thi3 apparent discomfort. Defy tho butcher by abstaining abstain-ing from, meat altogether. Boycott the sirloin, the chop and the cutlet, Have you ever observed the rosy checks of the Irish "geenhorn" just landed in' America; the lithe step and borinie look of the "colleen?" The writer is informed that a ?asher of bacon on Sundays, with potatoes eiitbraces all there is of animal food set before an Irish peasant the wholcyear 'round. On Tib's Eve (which is neither before nor after Christmas), Paddy might chase a goose or a chicken to kill and cat with a pig's jowl. But no such medicine as dyspepsia tablets tab-lets circulates in that country.. To the American housewife of resource there need by no increase in the table expenses of the family by reason of the stockyards strike and the increased price charged by local butchers. She may find many substitutes for fresh meat at this season of the year. When the potato crop fails in Ireland it is a serious matter, for the reason that potatoes are the main food product of the country. It is impossible to get a substitute without greatly increased in-creased expense. But in this country the resources are so varied and the foods so manifold that the curtailment of tho sunpTyof an article so Important Import-ant aa. meat need inflict not wily no suffering but no extra expense. All that i jH-f-.i.T ' telligcnt study of the P'sibiliti-.., f ., " a.n 8 Few peoph; realize hw indcpcml-nt fj;, v . ' ' V meat until they try to get a lour v.-':; i,..,',, ';'!" Commenting on this same .-ni.j,.,. ;;,.. ,'. Tribune observes: "Xov that ii. ;; f has challenged the independent. , "';n j wife let iter how him how ;,,;,. counts in the domestic vr,::-ir. . "y ' also urprise tho other numbers (' t:(!. !' ' a bill of fare at m.eo : ;!.!.. - V :! inexpensive, but in which little -,tl. ,;- ,. , this way what threatened to ! n,. ;j ;.,.,!. ,:' become i i event of cniiHderai.'o ,.,;,..,.; ,' ', " and lead to a broadening of - ;.. "." can i';:milies." " . . f |