The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-07-28

fully anxious.
George, darling, DO you. have you
are there any-9any spots about your
said had no doubt | conld oblige
4 her, but could not tell with any GER
tainty. But She was evidently severe,
Z ly serious.
I Please. don't joke. George dear; It's
matter Of life Or death. Do run up
stairs and sec before IL Is too late"
/ So finally, after useless protests,
+ was sent up 70 my bedroom with PEN
ell and paper 70 report on the appear
ance and location 81 any spots
might happcR-tD Possess.
4 ''Oh, I'rnso thankful" said my wife
/ when She was told that but few PIN
pies that had existed long before the
era of food lectures, my skin had a
clean bill Of health II am glad that
our folly has not up 10 the present
/ had any serious consequences. DIR.
/ Hutchinson, the greatest surgeon in
/ England, says Prof Spatling, has
! proved conclusiyely that leprosy Is
solely caused by eating too much fish;
coast districts are always the parts
! principally affected. Norway. the only
European country where leprosy flour
1 ishes 10 any considerable extent, finds
in fish It's staple food. And oysters
oysters for support Good gracious.
/ George, how could you be 50 foolishlg
Pauline brought them il. ex-
planned, feebly and rather meanty. or
course hal given Pauline the money.
~ suppose you don't really want 70
get rid 81 me, George? suppose you
I haven't got them with the deliberate
inteution Of giving me blood poisoning
or typhoid fever? Yet surely you ought
70 know that Thames nysterssalways-
4 fon haven't any pains about thethc
breast, have You, 1;eorge?'
When had satisfied my. wife on this
point, she went, over her notes of the
lecture, and onesby one knocked most
Of the principal articles off our bill Of
/ fare. To cut five LECTURES into one,
week after week she did the same, ter
ribly agitated about the III effects re-
snlting from this or that article Of food,
and in mortal fear lest, through orr ig-
norance Of the laws 81 healthy dietet-
les, typhoid or some other dire COM
| plant should carry Us off before the
conclusion Of the course Of lectures.
'It is comfort to have ones eyes
open at last, she said, time after time,
as this disease or that frightened her
nearly y out OF her senses by being
caused by some corresponding article
I Of diet After awhile she began. to
take melancholy interest in discov-
I ering fresh facts and arguments, show
ing some new association OF eating and
III health; and her time was principally
spent in comparing the cookery book
with the dictionary Of diseases.
Pastry was knocked off as bad for the
digestion; sugar in any form produced
7 diabetes; jam was simply turnip
poisonously colored; timed provisions
/ were notoriously dangerous; while
anyone with sense and natural desire
/ for good wind and breathing apparatus
would avoid cheese like pestifcnce.
Then butter according To medical
i journal, was known,to carry the germs
Of consumption; eggs were responsible
4 for serious arrangements of the liver,
! and fruit aud vegetables meant cholera
at the very least
bore up as best | could under these
4 dcprivations, thinking il wise to humor
my wife while the fit listed: and CON
splea myself iii the meantime with the
I pipe and drinks that had not yet been
taken away But their day was at
I hand. A special lecture was devoted
to these subjects; and Immediately
/ afte.., the.corner of my mouth was yio-
lently seized and examined by my wife
for signs of cancer; blindness was
threatened unless tobacco was instant
/. " relinquished; and as for drinks
we'll with typhoid caused by milk,
/ govt Ivy beer, loss Of nerve power by 4
tea ana coffee, and fatty degeneration
/ by cocoa, not To speak of indigestion
/ and sundry other evils, man would be
/ criminal indeed 10 rim such risk
For the last week have been living
| ON bread and water and harieots, and
even these were not obtained without
/ n struggle. Haricots were conceded
beautifully, with pensive statement
#tthat perhaps ii might not do any
7 harm, and haricots were certainly very
/ nutritious SO that since then, this
/ white, fatty, insipid vegetable has
/ made its way tolthc table IN every con-
| ceivable form and on every conceiya-
I BILE occasion. Water my wife thought.
T. NC Sll0dld bt 0tEAGE NllIfpHls Ine DrO-
! fessor had said ''the less one drinks
1 the better" and it certainly follows
/ that if one does not drink at all, a con-
dition of perfect health is likely to be
l attained. With regard to bread, its
! properties are SO fattening, that my
/ wife, who has slight tendency to ',em-
bonpoint, and whom l once discoy-
| cred running surreptitiously up and
down stairs with the object OF reduc.
! ing her weight, called upon rue on
\ those grounds to relinquish its use, re-
I minding me that, as Byron used vine
4 gar for this worthy object, so ought
4 to deny myself a little for the sake OF
Il health, economy and above all, as a
4 literary man, the preservation OF
lEpoetical and professional appearance.
Here, however, put my foot down,
I and She did MOT insist
I TO morrow is the last lecture. and
y then, after acting for week or SO the
\ part Of Succi or OF Tanner, We shall
! probably resume our usual reckless
\ habits. | ventured to remark lust now
10 my wife that our bill Of fare was as
Stunning rather narrow limits, and that
4 the morrow's lecture would probably
\ deprive us Of even our remaining food.
4 She smiled assent but then said en-
4 copragingly: How healthy Ii will be,
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