The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-09-15
THE ETHICS OF FOOD.
Georges Experience with Prof
Spatlings Course OF Lectures.

Spatling's Course Of Lectures.
Soon after our marriage, my wife.
who is somewhat Of stickler for by
giene, found the advertisement Of a
course Of lectures on the Ethics Of
Food" under our knocker, and brought
It In to me-
'.George, dear, isn't It fortunate?
You know you were telling me the
other day that disease Is often com
mnnicated by food-and here's the
very thing we want A course of six
lectures on the something or other OF
food; only guinea the course. and by
Prof. Spatling. too. Don't You think,
rs you are always SO busy writing, I'd
better 20 and see what the lectures are
like? It'll be so useful to know what
one is eating"
The only occasion on which had
spoken on the subject at all @as one
Sunday afternoon. when ] had read
from the British Weekly q question
from correspondent whether toma-
toes were ever the cause of cancer?''
and had remarked ON the improbability
Of such an event But then was new
iy married, and unused to the ways Of
women. or possibly unduly tolerant;
80 made only a faint murmur at ''the
expense
Expense? But wouldn't it be false
economy TO study that when our health
Is concerned? Why, we don't know
what suffering and disease we may es-
cape by taking little care"
Well, the long and the short Of It was
that my wife was present at the lee
ture, while remained at my fireside
to thump out on my typewriter an
article for the Olympian Review be-
came so absorbed In this that when
gust Of cool air blew into my room, and
my wife, with the usual outdoor smell
y that one notices I'M winter about her
clothes, came in. II seemed but few
minutes since she had left me.
s-Oh, George dear, am so glad saw
that handful Its so providential; for
II hadn't gone tonight, goodness only
knows what might have happened"
what on earth do you mean, 1ove?s
My wife was too agitated to answer,
but went into the next room and rang
the bell for Pauline As matter OF
fact, Pauline's kitchen is almost as near
as the next room, and she might have.
called her much more easily than by
ringing the one perfect bell that we.
possess But the principle of style was
involved; and to that my wife is ready
to sacrifice any amount of personal
comfort
Pauline, after repeated tinklings,
came up smiling from q novelette,
she had just been reading. Pauline is
good girl. with character which
some day intend to work into novel
But that as Mr.. Kipling would prob
ably say, j. quite another story
Pauline" said her mistress take
that meat away" The table was al
ready laid for supper. aud attempted
. feeble protest against having my
meal spirited away thus before my
eyes. But my wife was determined,
and said; DO you know, George, what
the consequence Of our eating meat
may be2 Its quite possible that we
may 20 Into consumption. Prof Spat
ling says that mea: is prolific cause
Of consumption, owing TO the capacity
Of animals to contract that disease
The 'basilica', or whatever you cal
those horrid little insects, get from ths
meat into your system, and do the mis-
chief jews are much freer from con
sumption than we are, solely owing /,
the fact that their food is always rigid
ly inspected by the rabbis before beinl
used
For human consumption" sug
liar lT-l R1f4 "a
very much in earnest
Then those pickles, too. Pickle
are simply poisonous Sulphate Of COP
per Is largely used in their manufac
ture, accounting for their bright gree
colorA You can give the beef an
pickles to Mrs Priggs tomorrow, Pau
line, to take hoMe to the children
my dear" ] ventured to sugges,
IF these are to disseminate the germ
Of consumption and to poison their n
cipientS do you think it quite tn
thing
was going to say ITO give the1
to our washerwoman," but a vision {
mothers-in-law fitted across nv brai
and was about to suggest that he
mother might be glad Of them whe
my wife continued Them that baco
every body who eats bacon gets tricl
inosis. And you know you said you
sell George, dear, that tomatoe
brought on cancer
But, my love" ventnred mildly /
suggest, N we mayn't eat meat Of AZ
kind, or tomatoes. or pickles, what Q
earth is there left to live on9'
oh. heaps OF things egrs fisl
poultry, vegetables, everything. .
most And am sure II wouldn't
right 70 ny in the face Of Providen,
attef Prot Spatlings lecture
20 Tor the next week we were liyiI
on eggs, vegetables and fiAh, and !