Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-05-25

was sent up to my bedroom with PEN
Gil and paper TO report on tho appear
ance and location Of any 'spots" 1
might happen TO possess.
"Oh, I'm so thankful" said my wife
when she was told that but few pim-
pies that had existed long before the
era Of food lectures, my skin had n
clean bill OF health. II am glad that
our folly has not, up TO the present
had any serious consequences DIR.
Hutchinson, the greatest surgeon In
England, says Prof Spatling, has
proved couclusively 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 -four
ishes to any considerable extent, finds
In fish its staple food. And oysters
oysters for support Good gracious,
George, how could you be so foolishr
Pauline brought them in" ex-
planned, feebly aud rather meanly. OF
course ] had given Pauline the money.
~ 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 the-the
breast, have you, Gcorge?"
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-
norancc Of the laws OF healthy dietet-
les, typhoid or some other dire com
plant should carry us off before the
conclusion of the course OF lectures.
at Is comfort TO have ones eyes
open at last" 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 n melancholy interest In discov-
ering fresh facts and arguments, show
ing some new association of eating and
i'll 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
| Oh
Then butter, according to n medical
journal, was known to carry the germ.
of consumption; eggs were responsible
for serious arrangements OF the liver
and fruit and vegetables meant cholera
at the very least
bore up as best could under thes,
deprivations thinking II wise TO humol
my wife while the fit lasted and con
soled myself in the meantime with tn,
pipe and drinks that had not yet beer
taken away. But their day was n
to these subjects; and Immediately
afte;, the corner of my mouth was vic
lently seized and examined by my viii
for signs OF cancer; blindness wa
threatened unless tobacco was instant
ly relinquished; and as for drinks
well, with typhoid caused by mill,
govt by beer, loss OF nerve power b.
tea and coffee, and fatty degeneration
by cocoa, not to speak OF indigestion
and sundry other evils, man would b.
criminal indeed to run such risk.
For the last week have been livinI
on bread and water and haricots, an,
a a
n struggle. llaricots were concede,
doubtfully, with n pcnsive statemen
that perhaps IL might not do an.
harm, and haricots were certainly YER
nutritious" 70 that since then, thi
white, fatty, insipid vegetable ha
made its way to the table IN every con
ceivable form and on every conceivu
BILE occasion. Water, my wife though,
we should be better without; the pre-
fessor had said "the less one drink
the better" and II certainly follow
that IL one does not drink at all, n cor
dition OF perfect health Is likely TO b
attained. With regard to bread, II
properties are so fattening, that IN
wife, who has slight tendency TO ZEN
bonpoint," and whom once discoy
cred running surreptitiously up an
down stairs with the object OF redu,
ing her weight, called upon rue o
those grounds to relinquish its use, re
minding me that, as Byron used vine
gar for this worthy object, so ought
TO deny myself little for the sake @
health, economy and above all, as
literary man, the preservation OF
poeticnl and professional appearance
Here, however, put my foot dowr
and she did not insist.
Tomorrow is the last lecture, an
then, after acting for week or 30 Tn
part Of Succi or Of Tanner, we sha
probably resume our usual RECKLESS
habits / ventured 10 remark Just no,
to my wife that our bill OF fare was a.
suming rather narrow limits, and tha
a a