Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1900-05-25

full OF bacteria :,
81 guess they won't hurt me, )"
laughed John. 'T've always drank
| Ii so"
Don't do ii, Please don't, John.
For my sake" pleaded the wife. ut
is SO dangerous s.
"well, put some ice in this, then,
aud I won't"
"Icei Why, what would be the use
OF boiling it II we're to put ice in 1t ?
ice is full of micro. es.
NJ. Carter drank the boiled water
! in silence, and read the paper until
dinner was ready.
"What cut OF beef is this?" he asked
as he prepared to carve the meat. ut
doesn't look like a roast. "
ut isn't. It's the neck. find I
can get more food value for less
money from the neck than from the
rib. For instance 10 cents worth OF
the neck OF the beef will give me SO
OF pound of protein and 1926 Gallo.
| RIGS"
Mr.. Carter groaned.
''Then," went on Mrs. Carter, not
noticing the groan, 81 add potatoes,
bread aud fruit for the carbohydrates
and we have O meal perfect in food
value, containing protein, fat, starch
aud sugar. All for tho same money
that roast would have cost US, " she
wound up triumphantly.
"Well, for tomorrow" said Carter,
'1ets have q roast pork with potatoes
and caerry pie"
Mrs. Carter stared at him q moment,
and then said pityingly: John, you
afe rs ignorant as most people con-
corning food values. 1t won't do, my
dear. This is as much for your good
rs mine. Roast pork and potatoes
contain Ave times as much carbon as
you need. As for cherry pie"--she
made an expressive gesture as II it
were not worth mentioning, and con-
tinuel-- "you will soon get over these
yearnings of falsely educated APP
petite, and then you will be oil right
am afraid that you have been very
improperly brought up, john"
Mr.. Carter glared at her angrily,
and threw down his knife and fork
with bang.
IF you mean in regard to calorics,
pro- ems aud all the rest OF it, yes; /
was.
"Oh, Johnp' Mrs. Carter rose from
the table with her handkerchief to her
eyes. "You are c-crue', when you
know I'm doing the best can"
| yUl,ok T., LOO III La Il ookh la
married long, and was not proof
against her tears. He arose from the
table, took her in his arms, begged
forgiveness and promised to eat any
thing and everything she would give
him, il only she would smile. They
made up, OF course, and Carter bore
himself heroically for six months
through dietary that tabooed pie,
and was arranged according to food
values.
III.
"See here, Cai ter" said frien1.
meeting him one day on the street,
whats the matter? You look like q
shadow. Come in and have some.
thing" oil
II don't care il I do" said Garter,
suddenly feeling the need OF some.
thing stimulating. ''Pm afraid l
don't feel up to much lately"
He lifted the glass to his lips and
then set it down suddenly.
"What is 1t? Isn't it all right"
asked his friend.
'Tt isn't boileh," answered Carter,
family, who thought he saw microbes
bubbing up through the effervescence.
"Boiled" calculated the other in
disgust. we'll. should soy notl
You d better take stimulant, Carter.
''No, thank you, don't believe that
will take anything. You will excuse
me, old fellow, won't you? IL don't
feel WE'LL"
'Tts all right" answered his
friend. "What made you think OF
the drink being boiled?"
~ don't know. Just fancy" re-
turned Carter, too loyal to his wife to
tell the cause.
Carter went home feverish. Much
to his wife's alarm he did not eat q
mouthful OF supper. Finally he went
to bed and fell asleep. While he slept
lie dreamed.
He was in an immense dining room.
Great roasts OF beef and pork, hanked
by steaming vegetables, loaded the
tables. Pies OF mince and cherry
were on the Bullets; fruits, salads,
water with huge chunks OF ice floating
in il, milk cooled also by ice.
Carter's mouth watered; but alas!
when he approached the meats, pro-
tein and caloyics appeared to raise
from them. Carbohydrates reared
great heads from fruits and vege.
tables; bacilli jeered at him in the ice
water; microbes looked out from the
milk.