The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-18

rad some curious half-grown plants with
him as specimens, but did not sell these.
Instead. for several dollars a package,
he would sell minute seeds from which
lie said any one could raise the wonder
ful plant in short time by merely lay
ing them on pads of moistened cotton.
A good many brokers and bankers bit, ."
and ne went away with a good sum of
money The seed turned out to be COM
mon grass-seed. About a year ago THIS
man came back to begin work again.
His first call was at the Sub-Treasury.
Mi. Braley recognized him as the same
old Mexican, and OWNED that he came
to sell "cozeta" seed. He did not sell
any this time
vegetarian diet is scarcely suited to this
country, no less a person than the Pope
mas recognized. For sedentary occupa-
lions and literary workers it cannot be
defended for a moment. The agricultural
laoorer, however, obtains his carbo-hy-
drate for muscular work from vegeta-
bles, and the large proportion of water
they contain transpires through his skin;
ne certainly thrives on it. 1t is a more
or less mixed diet, remember Still we
never associate the idea of energy with
the agricultural laborer. The last genera
ton has seen a great change in their
diet. An immense number have butcher
meat at least once week. May not this
account for the growing restlessness of
the countryman? No one dreams of in
GLIDING the farmer in this catalogue.
Most of them, we take it, are unaware
that they eat a great deal more than
Ssndow does.
More important to the Eglishman even
than his food is his drink and 1t is with
considerable relief that many of us will
hear that alcohol in moderation is an aid
to the running of the human machine. 1t
spares the combustion of fat and is itself
used up in the body; it is food; indeed,
an ounce of alcohol furnishes as much fat
as an ounce of butter. So that once and
for all alcohol is entitled to rank as a
1000 But its value is dependent on the
quantity taken, for if 1t exceed the pro-
portion absorbed in the body 1t takes eff
fect as a poison and the percentage of
waste raises. The individual may not take
it to intoxication, but his tissues suffer,
and his brain, that most delicate and
hlighy organized tissue, suffers most of
all. To this degeneration the motor
centres are less resistant than the SEN
sorry" This also we knew before; nothing
Is more striking that the cunning and
the caution of the drunkard. II think,
too" says the doctor, that one can re-
cognize in the habitual alcoholic a GER
tain degree of paralysis of the moral per-
sense of TRUTH
what Is Moderation
How much ought a self-respecting man
to take? Here comes the crux; for two
very important factors, personal idiosyn-
Grassy and the dilution of alcohol, modify
the fact that experiment seems to limit
the amount of oxidizable alcohol to one
and half ounces a day. The standard
limit is apparently more hopelessly left
behind than the standard diet is. DIR.
Hutchinson lays emphasis on the large
variation between individuals, which
does not seem to be connected with any
determinable popularity of physical or
ganization." Abiding to the three bottle
men" he says: zone is almost tempted to
think that the power of our tissues to
oxidize alcohol has actually undergone
a decline"
The notion that "fusel oil'' is the dele
FERROUS agent in bad and unmellowed
spirits is exploded. A volatile oil is sus-
pected but it is only fair to hold 1t in
nocent till it is proven guilty. Old sherry
our author places next to old cognac as
a restorative in brain and heart exhaus-
ton, as it develops with age nearly as
large a proportion of volatile others. DR..
Hutchinson is a firm believer in old sherry
and bottled stout. and quotes an authori-
ty who declares he scarcely ever met
any one who could withstand the sopori-
flc effects of bottled stout. at is far
better than opium and produces a more
nearly natural sleep" 1t is even sug-
gested that it should be given to those
liable to attacks of homicidal mania.
A safe allowance of wine for a seden-
tary individual, If a bottle of claret con-
tains two fluid ounces of alcohol, would
be half bottle. This is in proportion to
their acidity and strength; whole bottle
would be enough for an active man. An
imperial pint of bottled ale supplies this
allowance very nearly. The use and eff
feet of wines are, of course, complicated
by the action of the others; all, in fact,
that gives wine its aesthetic value Wines
retard digestion, both in the mouth and
in the stomach, more than spirits and
water of the same alcoholic strength.
Gastric digestion. however is not so
much affected as salivary digestion. DIR.
Hutchison has a good word for cham
payne, it's mechanical action neutralz-
ing its retarding of the digestion. Medi-
Gated wines and all their relatives he
abhors, and he gives very good reasons
for banning them. Beer drinkers place a
heavy tax on their heart, and in Bavaria
there is such a complaint as a beer
heart" Now, though beer is the best of
all alcoholic liquors, viewed as a food,
and scarcely retards digestion at all
nay, even assists 1.-THE alcohol in it is
an expensive food even In Bavaria, cost
ing eight times as much as bread.
As YOu Get Older.
We search in vain and without hope
through the pages of the doctors able
and comprehensive study of food for any
golden rules of diet. Frivolous conversa-
ton as an after-dinner amusement is a
sound mixim. This we knew. Be careful
of your diet as you grow into middle
age, for the more rotund you become the
faster will you roll down the hill of life.
SO says the doctor. Are you sleepless
and nervous? Drink bottled stout. 1t is
better to eat too much than too little,
vet always remember that you are pro-
badly eating enough for two. Do not try
to live on bread and water for a month,
or for a fortnight on "Old Tom" Keep
your fortified wines for special occasions,
not as a running accompaniment to
meals. Do not be led away by wholemeal
bread and cocoa, good as they are. If
you think you can live on cocoa, prepare
to drink seventy-five breakfast cups Of
IL day, and fancy yourself another
Marquise de Brinvilliers. Avoid high
teas" when much meat is eaten. says the
doctor You are not compelled to eat
much meat. however, and II seems to us
that high tea with a little meat is
better than a dinner with much meat and
all sorts of rebellious liquors thrown in.
That way lies govt. Millions Of English
men have tea with every meal, and would
feel very miserable without II.