IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



away with impunity ; but in the other classes it 

 is not only foolish, but insolent, and not onlv 

 insolent, but criminal, especially in the head of a 

 family, to permit this prejudice, or rather this 

 stupid and insolent perverseness, to deprive him 

 of the means of keeping his family well fed and 

 in health, instead of being exposed to all the 

 ailments arising from poverty of blood, which is 

 occasioned by poverty of living 5 and to jjrevent 

 him also, in many cases, from making that 

 due future provision for his family, which, if he 

 be able, it is his duty to make. Only think of 

 the conduct, only think of the criminal perverse- 

 ness of the mother of a family, when the father is 

 compelled to toil in one way or another from 

 morning till night ; only think of such a mother, 

 insisting upon expending a penny upon tea slops, 

 which have no nutrition in them ; or a penny on 

 a pound of potatoes, '' I do love a mealy potatoe,. 

 ma'am," which has oidy a tenth part of nutri- 

 tious matter in it \ that is to say, which ha* 

 only one pound of nutritious m.atter out of ten» 

 Only think of such a mother ; and think still 

 more of the cowardly and the criminal con- 

 duct of the father, that thus suffers her to 

 w-aste his substance, and injure his children ; and 

 all because, she does love a "mealy potatoe'' 

 in her heart, and because she has such a '^preju- 

 dice'' against any sort of meal or flour, that does 



