The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-08
THE SPINACH CRAZE.
Most Precious of Vegetables" Good
for the Liver

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| for the Liver
| If you want to be healthy eat spinach.
/ The specialists have discovered that
this plant is the 'most precious of veg
etabes." 1t contains salts of POTASH
UNI, iron and other things which con-
duce to good complexion, long life and
cheerful disposition. The man with a
disordered liver and the woman with a
bad complexion should contract the
spinach habit, and these things will be
rectiied If the system needs iron, eat
spinach and the yolk of eggs. The
chemist Bingo says that these two ar
ticles of food contain more iron to the
square inch than 1.-The most renowned
ferruginous remedies French beans
and lentils contain much iron, but spi-
mach beats them both. For the tired
feeling eat spinach. Perhaps, when all
the earths supply of iron has been dug
up and put into railroads and machine
ry, the Andrew Carnegie of that far-off
day will draw his supplies from vast
fields of spinach. This most precious
of vegetables" has heretofore been only
side dish at dinner, but in the future
the real hygienic family should make it
the principal dish, and bring up the
children on it. 1t is said to possess
more medicinal properties than almost
any other article of food. So convinced
has the medicinal profession become
of the value of the once despised spi-
mach that, according to the sanitary
record, lit is already an active ingredi-
ent in several new and salable tonics."
People not so old can reember when
the oatmeal craze began. We were all
going to become hardy Highlanders if
we ate enough oatmeal. So the chill
dren were stuffed with oatemal por-
ridge which they generally loathed),
and in many families they are so
stuffed to-day. So firmly did the oat-
meal habit take hold of the country
that> to this day there are families
where it is considered almost sacrilege
to have breakfast without oatmeal 1t
no longer monopollzes THE breakfast ta-
BILE, but little saucer of the stuff is
eaten from a sense of duty before be-
ginning the real breakfast Nov eat
your oatmeal or you can't have any
steak" is as common an admonition to
the child of to-day as in the old days
used to be the remark, Now, take your
'pik'ry like good child, or you can't
have any doushnuts.' Perhaps this
oatmeal habit is responsible for the re-
cent prevalence of the Scottish dialect
story. Who knows? The power Of the
oatmeal tyrant is broken, even If 1t is
not entirely swept away, and the arri-
val Of spinach may hasten its end
Hereafter we expect to see the chill
Iran on OF Ia re- r+ +o1
each having In front of him large
plate Of boiled spinach, with plenty of
butter and a hard boiled egg sliced up
on top of it. Spinach really has some
taste and is palatable, and after a
breakfast of this "most precious vege-
table, the child can go to school with
out feeling, as see Of us did under the
oatmeal regime, that glue pot had
been swallowed. Spinach is cheerful in
color, and will especially recommend it.
self to the American from the Emerald
Isle
The iron in spinach is easily assimi-
ated and the vegetable is easily digest
3D. The fact that spinach has such a
'earkable effect upon the complexion
will recommend it to the girls, and it's
mend it to the men. For next morn
ng" nothing is so good as a hearty
breakfast of spinach. In short, the vir-
ues of the vegetable are so numerous
hat it would take long time to tell
hem, but if the spinach habit grows to
lnything like the proportions reached by |
he oatmeal habit we shall shortly turn !
nto strong, on-built, fresh complex |
oned, anti-bilious nation.
Another medical discovery has been |
made by a Chinese doctor, which will |
ender it unnecessary for any one to be-
onle bald-headed unless he wants to- |
Tor some of us this discovery comes too |
ate, but it will be Of value to millions of |
baldheads. This Chinaman
avs that the eating Of rats prevents the |
air from falling out and renders it |
mooth and glossy AS the eating of |
arrots by horse improves his coat 50
he eating of rats by human being in
ures fine head of hair. He declares
hat rats are good eating, and as pre-
ervatives of hair are away ahead of
nything the seven Sunderland sisters |
yer invented. He declares that the rea-
on that Chinese women have such
andsome heads Of hair is because they
at many rats. What between spinach
nd rats, there does not seem to be any
sason why we should not become
nation.-New York Press
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