Identifier: howtolivemanualo00knap (find matches)
Title: How to live; a manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islands
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Knapp, Adeline
Subjects: Hygiene, Popular
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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CHAPTER III. ABOUT FOOD. ;HALL we go to market to-day?Let us go to one of the largenew buildings that the govern-ment has put up in Manila, tobe used as markets. They are well fittedfor this purpose. They have cement floors,which can be washed every day, and clean,well-built stalls, where goods are sold. Thefloor of a market should be washed often,and every bit of waste matter should becarried off. If this is not done faithfully,the food sold there spoils and becomesunfit for use. What quantities of fruit! It would takea long time to count all these bunches ofbananas. The mangoes are in season now,and look very tempting. It is not well toeat too many of them at the beginning of 30 ABOUT FOOD. 31 the season, however, and we shouki be surethat those which we do eat are ripe and
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A Badly Arranged ^Iarket. sound. Unripe fruit is very hurtful, and sois fruit which is too ripe, which has begunto decay. Some of these bananas, for in- 32 HOW TO LIVE. stance, are so black and so soft that no oneshould think of trying to eat them. Insome countries a merchant who tried to sellsuch fruit would soon find himself stoppedfrom selling any fruit at all. The law wouldnot allow him to offer poison for sale, anddecayed fruit is poison. We will buy some of these sound, clean-looking bananas, and a few oranges thismorning. We will choose oranges that areof a fine, rich green, not too hard, but firmand of good weight. Oranges that feel lightin the hand are dry and not wholesome. Here are radishes and lettuce, for salad;but if we buy these, we must be sure thatthey are well washed in boiled water beforewe eat them. There are little creatures, sosmall that they cannot be seen without astrong microscope, that live among the let-tuce and other green leaves. These tinycreatures are th

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