The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-06-18

Wanted. a New Diet.

your life. III your tastes leau you 10
the tomato, another authority re-
marks, you will surely die young
Beware OF it, for the insidious cancer
turks in every ovule. And now the
learned savants tell us that even in
the succulent and delicious oyster,
grim death lies concealed. That BIZ
valve after all these years, has been
found by science to be infested with
the deadly typhoid bacillus, which
lives and thrives inside the shell.
How we have managed TO live SO long
and eat 80 many oysters must remain
matters of startling surprise. In do
ing so, we have unconsciously imped-
ed the work of the investigator, and
seriously trifed with one whose beau
tiful experiments in bacteriology are
at once the Joy and delight of the
world. Accounts of them are pub
lished now, 80 that all may read, heed
apd run. 1t has long been known
that appendicitis, one of the most
aristocratic and fashionable COM
4 'plaints of the period, may be pushed
to unpleasant extremities by indul-
gence in the juicy raspburry unreliev-
ed of its cluster of chronic seeds.
Life has been made burden to some
because the caterer of our animal
wants occasionally mistake the wild
toadstool for the tender and nutriti-
Gus mushroom. But even mushrooms
vhave slain their thousands, for are
a they not members of the fungus fami-
HIy ? and we all know what an over
Hose of fungi will do for US, unless the
khiily physician is on hand. 1t was
Ia dish of lampreys, of which his Ma
Y jesty t.was Unfortunately fond" which
did for an English liking and what the
lamprey accomplished with ease SO
long ago, he is fit to do again in this
age of high living. Beans will pro-
dg&Atheir bad spells upon frames too
weak to resist their seductive en-
Z crog.hments, and peas, whether split
or whole, yellow or green, will pro-
yoke calamitous consequences. The
clans, the prawn, and the lobster vie
with one another in tormenting the
bnner man, so to speak, and tie
&hrimp inspires visions that are hide
Gus. No one can forget that that am
liable aud foolish bird, the partridge,
is often loaded with a bane which
creates distress; and there is no balm
i'm Gilead which can soothe the un-
Happy mortal who, sooner or later,
Xeels his fate in the canned meats and
vruits to which his more or less de-
PRAYED taste has led him. Too much
meat saws one, makes men vicious and
cross. Triple and onions produce in
some the bovine qaality; and though
tie sausage possesses distinct charm
of its own, it TOO has the power to
hakedisturbance in otherwise happy
81 nDmes. Irs twin brother, the humor-
81 producing bologna, may be eaten cold
without harm; but imprisonment
& makes him restless, and gives one
&. III hat tired feeling. Pork, though one
4 Tfight preserve yardfui of moly as q
safeguard, suggests trichinosis and the
x trick of Circe. The haggis is shroud.
u41ed in mystery, but, fortunately, we
ware condemned to make a dash at q
!. lksh of it only once year. Fish will
a Ehulate the blood Even with the
Xng OF the tribe, salmon. we are
s. &yer quite safe, The eruptive quail.
q fiSs OF the rash oatmeal are too famil'
Ian 10 be questioned.
Mas What are we to eat, wha
are we TO forego? Vegetables have
e their devotees; but in the potato
& there is gluteni in the fiery horse
4 radish are the seeds of indigestion anC
II indignation; in the cabbage or thu
caalifSYers there is often agony. I'm
sect lite dwells complacently in IN,
{ golden pippin, and proaigates in tn
northAH spy A new diet, surely, i
needed, if we must keep pace with tn
xpprogress os science and the results o
Sthe investigations Of the doctors. Tn
4 fold foods must go. They have kille'
4 too many. An appeal to the Gran,
Diet of Worms might be made 70
succor, bat we do not know that ever
the worm will turn ?--Atlantic.