The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-09-15

George, darling. 40 you--have you
arc there any any spots about you?"
said had no doubt could oblige
her, but could not tell with any cer-
tainty. But she was evidently severe
" serious.
Please, don't joke, George dear; It's
a matter Of life or death. DO run up
stairs and sec before it Is too late. III
SO finally, after useless protests, ]
was sent up to my bedrooihl with pen
ell and paper 10 report on the appear
ancc and location Of any spots"
might happen TO possess.
ooh. I'm SO thankful, I" said my wife
when shs was told that but few.pim-
pies that had existed long before the
era Of food lectures, my skin had
clean bin Of health. II am glad that
our folly has not. up 70 the present
had any serious consequences. Pr.
Hutchinson, the greatest surgeon In
England, says Prof Spatling. has
proved conclusiveiy that leprosy Is
solely cnuscd by eating too much fish;
coast districts are always the parts
principally affected. Norway, the only
European country where leprosy -four
ishes 70 any considerable extent, finds
in fish its staple food. And oysters
oysters for support Good gracious
George, how could you be SO foolishp
Pauline brought them In, ! ex-
planned, feebly and rather meaniy. Of
course had given Pauline the money
II suppose You don't really want TO-
get rid Of me, George? ] suppose you
haven't got them with the deliberate
intention Of giving me blood poisoning
or typhoid fever? Yet surely you ought
to know that Thames oysters always
You haven't any pains about thel the
breast. have You, George29
When / had satisfied my wife on this
point, she went over her notes Of the
lecture, and one by one knocked most
OF the principal articles of our bill Of
fare. To cut five lectures into one.
week after week she did the same, ter
ribly agitated about the i'll effects re-
sulting from this or that article Of food,
and in mortal fear lest through our ig-
norance Of the laws OF healthy dietct-
les, typhoid or some other dire com
plant should carry rs off before the
conclusion Of the course Of lectures
1T is n comfort TO have ones eyes
open at last, Z she said, time after time,
as this disease or that frightened her
nearly out OF her senses by being
caused by some corresponding article
Of diet. After awhile she began to
take a melancholy interest in discov-
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
diabetes; jam was simply turnip
poisonously colored; timed provisions
were VIGOROUSLY dangerous; while
| anyone with sense and natural desire
/ for good wind and breathing apparatus
would avoid cheese like pestilence.
Then butter, according to a medical
journal, was known to carry the germs
Of consumption; eggs were responsible
/ for serious arrangements of the liver,
and fruit and vegetables meant cholera
at the very least
1 / bore mp as best could under these
4 deprivations, thinking II wise TO humor
my wife while the fit lasted; and con-
soled myself in the meantin with the
i pipe and drinks that had not yet been
+ taken away, But their day was at
+ hand A special lecture was devoted
I to these subjects; and Immediately
/ aftef, the corner Of my mouth was vio-
! lently seized and examined by my wife
l for signs of cancer, blindness was
q, tAn fsal s,,s -
4 ly relinquished; and as for drinks
well, with typhoid caused by milk,
/ govt by beer, loss of horsepower by
tea and coffee, and fatty degeneration
by cocoa, not to speak of indigestion
i and sundry other evils, man would be
4 criminal indeed to run such risk
For the last week ! hayeA been living
\ on bread and water and harieots, and
I even these were not obtained without
| struggle. IIaricots were conceded
/, doubtfully, with pensive statement
that perhaps it might not do any
harm, and haricots were certainly very
nutritious" so that since then, this
white. fatty, insipid vegetable has
made its way to the table in every con.
ceiyable form and on every .conceiva,
BILE occasion Water, my wife thought,
we should be better without; the pro
lessor had said 'the less one drink.
the better and ii certainly follows
that If one does not drink at all, con
dition Of perfect health is likely to b
attained. With regard to bread, it.
properties are 50 fattening, that my
Y wife, who has slight tendency to "em
n bonpoint," and whom / once discov
VI cred running surreptitiously up ant
down stairs with the object of rednc
ing her weight, called upon rue o.
those grounds to reliuquish its use, re
minding me that, as Byron used vine
gar for this worthy object, so ought
|. to deny myself little for the sake o
health, economy and above all, as
literary man, the preservation OF
. peetical aRd professional appearance
Here, however, put my foot down
and she did not insist
Tomorrow is the last lecture, an
! then, after acting for a week or so tn
part of Succi or of Tanner. We shal
probably resume our usual rockies
!. habits ! yentured to remark just NO,
! to my wife that our bill Of fare was d.
n Stunning rather narrow limits, and ths
the morrow's lecture would probabl
deprive us of even our remaining fooG
She smiled assent, but then said, eli
!, couragingly: How healthy it viii b
: fhouuh! How nNrfentlv oh IN, inc, 1