Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03


M. Carter drank the boiled water
dinner was ready.
What cut of beef is this?" he asked
as he prepared to carve the meat. cit
doesn't look like roast"
''It isn't. It's the neck. find !
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 sc
of pound of protein and 1925 Gallo
rics.'
Mr.. Carter groaned.
"Then." went on Mrs. Carter, NJ I
noticing the groan, 81 add potatoes,
br,1d and fruit for the carbohydrates
and we have meal perfect in food
value, containing protein, fat, starch
and sugar. All for the same money
that roast would have cost us, she
wound up triumphantly.
well, for tomorrow" said Carter,
Tets have II roast pork with | o;atoes
and cnerry pie"
Mrs. Carter stared at him moment,
and then said pityingly: John, you
are as ignorant as most people con
cerning food values. 1t won't do, my
dear. This is as much for your good
as mine. Roast pork and potatoes
contain five times az much carbon as
you need AS for cherry pie'-she
made an expressive gesture as ii it
were not worth mentioning, and con-
tinued ''you will soon get over these
yearnings of a falsely educated ap-
petite, and then you will be all right.
1 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,
proteins aud all the rest of it, yes; !
was."
ooh, Johnr' Mrs. Carter rose from
the table with her handkerchief to her
eyes. "You are c-crne', when you
know I'm doing the best / 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 heroieally for six months
through dietary that tabooed pie,
and was arrange according to food
values.
"See hero, Car ter" said frieni,
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 I do" said Carter,
suddenly feeling the need of some
thing stimulating. "I'm 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 right?"
asked his friend.
cit isn't boiled" answered Carter,
family, who thought he saw m crobes
bubbing up through the effer,es ence.
"Boiled" c. acuated the other in
disgust. "Well, l should say not!
You'd better take Il stimulant, Carter.
"No, thank you, 1 don't believe that
I will take anything. You will excuse
me, old fellow, won't you? IL dom t
feel WELL"
'Tts all right" answered his
friend. ''What made you think of
the drink being boiled?"
81 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 a
mouthful of supper. Finally he went
to bed and fell asleep. While he slept
he dreamed.
He was in an immense dining room.
Great roasts of beef and pork, tanked
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 it, milk cooled also by ice.
Carter's mouth watered; but alas!
when he approached the meats, pro-
tein and calorics appeared to raise
from them. Carlo hydrates reared
great heads from fruits and vege-
tables; bacilli jeered at him in the ice
milk.
A feeling OF fierce anger Sc zed hold
of him. Was he to starve because of
these creatures? Well, let them do
their worst! A drink he would have
in spite of them. Catching up cup,
he started to the water. Instantly
bacilli, microbes and bacteria OF all
/ kinds surrounded him,
Suddenly an enormous bacillus that
he had not seen before darted toward
him and was upon him before he could
take a step. Carter gave a shrek
and sprang wildly from his bed.
"Why John! What is the matter?"
asked Mrs. Carter, sitting up.
"Matter," growled Carter, picking
himself mp from the floor, where he
had landed. ''Matter enough, tell
you. Tomorrow begins new state
of things at this house. I'm going
to live decently If I eat all the bac-