The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-09

more, president of the Natural Food
Society OF England, in an interview at the
Grand Hotel yesterday afternoon.
Furthermore he asserts that bread. in
stead of being "the staff of life," is the
staff of death.
This is the sum of his propaganda, and
though he has been hurting it against the
public for many moons, it is a matter of
news to the wild and woody denizsns Of
this western shore.
They acknowledge that man cannot live
by bread alone, yet they want it on the
bill of fare, and that it is proclaimed the
staff of death will! fall upon them like a
japanese she'll in Chinese camp
Lo, the poor Indian, who has distended
his stomach with riotouS feeding Oh acorns,
would rebel should Uncle Sam grab on to
the natural food proposition and knock
bread from his ratiOns.
Yet there is one redeeming feature to
the doctrine that will strike in deeply on
the heart of the Kentucky colonel and
radiate thence to the various points of the
compass. The doctor states that tea and
coffee have killed more people than
whisky, wine and beer.
Hence the doctor is the only real friend
that the Kentucky colonel has known for
years.
In the face of the temperance crusades
from all sides the colonel should embrace
him like a Iong-lost brother whom he had
run across in whangdoodle land.
Thousands of people will hear with
chattering teeth and shifting knees that
they have been lettering on the brink of a
dietetic abyss from infancy to away be-
yond the allotted period for man to masti-
cate bread here below.
Not only have they been consuming the
product Of the cereal, but they eat pOta-
toes and such things which carry a large
percen age of starch, and they revel in
meats of various nationaities.
The doctor does not object to meats, for
he partakes of the latter himself in limited
quantities.
1.-The Natural Food Society,"" he de-
clares, sis founded on the belief that the
food of primeyal man consisted of fruit
and mus of sub-tropical climes, sponta-
neously produced; that living on those
fruits man was, and may again become, at
least as free from disease as the animals
are in a state of nature"
These foods, it Is contended, are In a
great part adapted TO digestion in the main
stomach, whereas cereals, pulses, breads
and all starch foods are digested in the in
testines, and hence, IL is maintained. are
the chief cause of nervous prOstratiOn
and broken down health.
Yet long before Ruth garnered the
sheaves from her love of Naomi the human
race has been running headlong to de-
struction, even as an unruly tr0lley-car
on down grade, through the controlling
influence of bread. Starving thousands
have been known ia the excitement of the
moment TO lift up their voices and wall
for it.
The natural-food people have disgruntled
the boisterous vegetarian and have caused
the German wing of that society to fire
vOlleys of invective at them.
1t was caused by this little paragraph in
the statement of the natural food system :
"All persons about to experiment with
the antl-cereal food system are urged at
first not to use nuts, but to use instead
whatever animal food they have been ac-
cuStomed to"
At lunch yesterday DR.. Densmore had