Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-03-13
Food and Consumntion.

Pbysicai MAN Is Composed Of-HOw to
Make Light Without a Matcl-Othsr
Curious and Instructive Facts.
Food and Consumption.
Friend, you and have dear ones we
know must leave us soon by means of
that devastating American plague,
consumption Let us reason together.
At the tables of how many farmers
and mechanics, L wonder, is the buck
wheat breakfast gone into disgrace?
We all readily can recall the time
when countless multitudes vf families
broke their fast of twelve hours, and
faced the work of clustering winters
day, with nothing but greasy buck
wheat cakes and molasses. They
might almost as well have eaten saw
dust. And what had they for dinner?
Salt pork and potatoes. And for sup
per? Potatoes and salt pork for
change-sometimes cold, and made
palatable with vinegarl Oh, forgot
the pie-the everlasting pie, with its
sugary center and its leathery crust
the one titillation of the palate that
made life tolerable. Good bread and
butter or milk, abundance of fruit,
beef, mutton, and nutritious puddings
all these things are within the
reach of people who have left
the East, and at this time these
sturdy Westerners are noted for being
the most progressive farmers in the
world; but they have cost something.
and have not really been deemed
necessary. The people have not real
lied thaj what they regarded as
luxuries were necessaries, and that the
food upon which they have depended
for protection from more rigorous
climate, and for the repair of the
wastes of labor, has been altogether
inadequate, and is leaving them with
blood impoverished and lungs tuber-
culated. After taking into account all
hereditary influences, upon which doc
tors place great stress in treating of
the cause of phthisis, insufficient nour-
ishment is alike responsible.
In most instances the deposit of tu-
bercle and the inflammation to which
it naturally gives rise is directly trace
able to poor food. There are many
men who by change of living render
the tubercles already deposited in their
lungs harmless. Vitality becomes so
high in it's power that it dominates
these evil influences, and they live out
a tolerably long life with enemies in
their lungs that are rendered powerless
by the strength of the fluid that fights
them. [ have seen consumption cured
again and again by the simple process
Of building up the forces of vitality
through passive exercise in the open
air and the supply of an abundance of
nutritious food, and have not the
least doubt that it can be prevented in
most instances by the same means.
No human being can long endure the
draft made upon it by cold climate
and by constant labor, unless it is well
fed, well clothed, and well housed.
Somewhere deterioration will show
itself, and in all countries where peo-
pie are poorly fed consumption deci-
mates the populace. There should
be by this time some improvements in
the West and North in consequence of
the increased intelligence of the peo-
pie, but so long as so many of them
are unsettled, moving and moving,
leaving good places vacant to be taken
by ignorant, often filthy, foreign popu-
lation, it is not likely that statistics
will show much less tuberculosis for
years to come.
When we are sick we hire physician
who can live only by people being sick.
If we could hire doctors to keep us well,
if code of ethics could be adopted that
they would only be paid for preventing
disease, and could be permitted to pre-
scribe for each family its way of living,
there would be but little difficulty in
routing from its stronghold that most
fatal and persistent enemy of human
life which We call consumption, but
which is not, it being just the oppo-
site. Consumptives do not consume
Man.
Demonstrations in chemistry have
shown that man, the being that per-
forms these marvellous things, is formed
largely of condensed air, or solidified
and liquetied gases; that he lives on
condensed as well as uncondensed air.
and, by means of the same agent
moves the heaviest weights with the
velocity of the winds. The strangest
part of the matter is, however, that
thousands Of these human beings COM
posed of condensed air and going about
on two legs, on account of the
production and supply of those forms
of condensed air which they require
for food and clothing, or on account of
their honor and power, destroy each
other in pitched battles by means of
condensed air; and, further, that many
of the peculiar powers of the bodiless,
headless, conscious, thinking and sem
sitive beings, housed in this building of
flesh, are the result simply of its in
ternal structure and the arrangement
of its particles or atoms; while chemis-
try supplies the clearest proofs that,
so far as concerns this, the ultimate
and most minute composition and
structure, which is beyond the reach of
the intellects of even this marvellous
age, man is, to all appearance, identi-
cal with the OK, or even the lowest
forms of animal creation.
Eyes.
By far the most remarkable arrange
ment regarding the eyes of animals is
observable in the vision of the insect
races. In this instance the eye is fixed
to the head, whether because another
provision is better is of nc consequence ::
but such is the fact, and see how ma
ture has compensated the lack of NOV
ing processes. In the common fiy,
which offers ready example, are seen
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