The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-05-02

dinner was ready.
"What cut of beef is this?" he asked
as he prepared to carve the meat. ut
doesn't look like roast"
at 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 calo-
rics."
Mr.. Carter groaned.
"Then," went on Mrs. Carter, not
noticing the groan, 81 add potatoes,
bread aud fruit for the carbo- hydrates
and we have a meal perfect in food
value, containing protein, fat, starch
aud sugar. All for the same money
that n roast would have cost us, she
wound up triumphantly.
well, for tomorrow" said Carter,
'lets have roast pork with potatoes
and cherry pie"
Mrs. Carter stared at him moment,
and then said pityingly: John, you
are as ignorant as most people con-
cerning food values. It won't do, my
| dear. This is as much for your good
as mine. Roast pork and potatoes
contain five times as much carbon as
you need. As for cherry pie"-she
made an expressive gesture as II it
we're not worth mentioning, and con-
tinued --"you will soon get over these
yearnings of falsely educated ap-
petite. and then you will be all 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 n bang.
''If you mean in regard to calorics,
proteins and all the rest of it, yes; l
was"
"Oh, Johnl" Mrs. Carter rose from
the table with her handkerchief to her
| eyes. 'You are c-cruel, when you
know I'm doing the best 1 can"
What could he do? He had not been
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, if 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.
"See here, Carter" said friend,
meeting him one day on the street,
whats the matter? You look like a
shadow. Come in and have some
thing"
II don't care if / do" said Carter,
suddenly feeling the need of some.
thing stimulating. 'Tm afraid
don't feel up to much lately"
He lifted the glass to his lips and
then set it down suddenly.
"What is it? Isn't it all rightP
asked his friend ,
"It isn't boiled" ans Carter,
family, who thought he ID crobes
bubbing up through tn. 4ervescence.
"Boiled" calculated the other in
disgust. "Well, l should say not
You'd better take stimulant, Carter.
mo, thapk you, 1 don't believe that
I 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 oi
the drink being boiled?"
"I 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
mouthful of supper. Finally he Wen
to bed and fell asleep. While he slepI
he dreamed.
He was in an immense dining room
Great roasts of beef and pork, thanked
by steaming vegetables, loaded the
tables. Pies of mince and cherry
were on the buffets; fruits, salads
water with huge chunks of ice floating
in it, milk cooled also by ice.
Carter's mouth watered; but alas
when he approached the meats, pro
tein and calorics appeared to rails,
from them. Carbohydrates reared
great heads from fruits and vege
tables; bacilli ieered at him in the ic
water; microbes looked out from tn
milk.
A feeling oil herce anger se.Zed holt
of him. Was he to starve because o
these creatures? Well, let them d.
their worst! A drink he would hav,
in spite of them. Catching up cup
he started to the water. lnstantl
bacilli, microbes and bacteria OF al
kinds surrounded him.
Suddenly an enormous bacillus tina
he had not seen before darted towar
him and was upon him before he coul
, take step. Carter gave a shriel
and sprang wildly from his bed.
"Nhy John! What is the matter?
4 asked Mrs. Carter, sitting up.
. "Mstter," growled Carter, piekin
himself up from the floor, where h
had landed. ''Matter enough, to-
you. Tomorrow begins q new stat
8 OF things at this house. I'm VI
to live decently If eat all the bat
. teria in the world Calorics anl a
the rest of them have to go. The