The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-04-12
THE ETHICS OF FOOD.
Georges Experience with Prof
spatiina's Course or Lectures.

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Soon after our marriage, my wife,
who Is somewhat Of kticlSler for hy-
piene. found the advertisement 81 .
course OF lectures On the Ethics Of
Foodr under our knoclser, and brought
it 10 70 me
George, dear, isn't II fortunate2
You know ven were telling me tho
other day that disease Is often com
mnnieated 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,
as you are always so busy writing, I'd
better 20 and see what tho lectures are
like2 It'll be 50 useful 70 know what
ono Ii eating.
The only occasion on which Ind
spoken on the subject at ali was one
Sunday afternoon, when had read
from the British Weekly d question
from correspondent, whether toma-
toes were everthe cause Of cancer7p
and had remarked on the improbability
Of such an event But then was new
ly married, and unused 70 the ways OF
women, or possibly undnly tolerant;
so made only faint murmur at the
expense z
"Expense7 Bat wouldn't it be false
economy 70 study that when our health
is concerncd2 Why, we don't know
what suffering and disease we may es-
cape by taking o little care.
Well, the long and the short Of il was
that my wife was present at the lee.
ture, while remained at my Preside
TO thnmp out on my typewriter an
article for the 0lympian Review be-
came so absorbed in this that when a
gust Of cool air blew into my room, and
my wife, with the usual out .oor smell
that one notices in winter about her
clothes, came in, it seemed but few
minutes sinccNshe had left me.
'.0h, 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 Ihean, loye2,
My wife was too agitated 70 answer,
but went into the next room and rang
the bell for Pauline An matter 81
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 a novelette,
she had just been reading. Pauline is
a good girl, with character which
some day intend to work into a novel
But that as Mr.. Kipling would prob
ably say, i quite another story.
Pauline said her mistress, take
that meat away" The table was al.
ready laid for supper, and 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 meal
may be? It's quite possible that we
may 90 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 the
meat into your system, and do the mis-
chief Jews are much freer from con
sumption than we are, solely owing X
the fact that their food Is always rigid
" inspected by the rabbis before being
used
For human consumption. sng
gested, jocularly. But my wife wal
very much in earnest
Then those pickles, too. Pickle.
are simply poisonous Sulphatc OF cop
per Is largely used in their manufac
ture, accounting for their bright greer
colors. Yon can give the beef and
pickles to Mrs. priggs tomorrow, Pau
line, to take home to the children. /"
My dear" ! yenturcd to suggest
IF these are to disseminate the germ.
of consumption and to poison their re
eipients do you think it quite til.
thing"
! was going to say ito give then
to our washeEwoman," but vision o
mothers-in-law fitted across my brair
and was about TO suggest that he
mother might be glad Of them wher
my wife continued Then that bacor
every body who eats bacon gets trich
lnosis. And you know You said your
SELF George, dear, that tomatoes
brought on cancer"
But, my love-" ventured mildly Il
suggest, If We mayn't eat meat Of AM
kind, Or tomatoes, or pickles, what OF
earth is there Left TO live on?''
'oh, heaps Of things eggs, fish
poultry, vegetables, everything, al
most And am sure Il wouldn't b
right to fly in the face 81 Providence
after Prof Spatling lecture"
So for the next week we were livint
on eggs, vegetables and fish, and 81