The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06
} MAKE LIFE BRIGHT.
HOW MUCH OF HAPPINESS DE-
PENDs ON PROPER EATING.

Reasons Why Variety of Foods at
One Meal Is Bad-Unyvise Combina-
tfons That Ruin taste and DfgeS-
tion-The Few Foods Plan and the
One and Two Meal Regimes Dis
cussed.
Copyright 1902 by Eustace Miles)
The Greek work for Cooking" was
the same as the Greek word for "di-
| gesting." The pep" which is seen in
''peptone," ''pepsine" and other deriva-
tives. was once connected with the
Latin root in coquo, whence we have
our English word cooking and that
is one of the functions of cooking-to
do some of the digesting for us, as well
as to improve the taste.
The best kinds of food should be care
| fully selected; they should be as fresh
as possible and as clean as possible.
and they should be cooked with their
natural properties preserved. We must
keep that which is usually thrown
away, and we shall need few, if any,
seasonings.
Besides this. we get the full taste and
have not the same craving for variety
We do not demand half a dozen fidvors
IN a single dish, especially if we eat our
food carefully
When We combine a number of foois
the chances are that at least two of
them will quarrel. That is the objec-
ton to great variety at a single rneal
As yet We nave not studied variety
Certainly no such study displays its re-
suits at big dinners. The last which |
lad six years sgo-cost, think, seven
dollars for myself alone Quite apart
from the irritating condiments ana
Nenomous waste products, l wonder OF
how many i1ieccr cilable combinations
of focG l was the victim.
The I{indus know the art of prepar-
ing and cooking food. With them the
cook is kind CT priest; and why not?
AS the clergyman is supposed to pre-
pare food for our minds, so the cook
actually prepares food for our bodies.
The Hindu as a rule, will not combine
fruits and vegetables at a single meal,
even though that meal may be a ban
quet of many courses. He will ltink
cut what foods should or should not
go one with arcther Does any hostess
ever Go this in America? 1t would e
Interesting to give a series of dinner
parties based on scientific principles of
food combination MS and food values and
see how much more the guests enjoyed
it. Taste Wtuld be considered even
more carefully than it is now, but
health for the first time would be con-
sideied also
Choosing Ones Food.
1t is easy to say that each individual
should choose his own food We tank
about freedom. In practice we are
slaves. 1t is a'Int st useless to urge
persons who live in families to be a law
to themselves.
But, fortunately, we can say some
thing practical. Discard whatever is in
d1gestible to you; except on very rare
occasions, let nothing induce you to
take that which will cause you discom-
fort. 1t is not worth while. No one
has a right to make you i'll, not even
your own family, day after day. with
the very kindest intentions. Get free
from that yoke. You can get free from
1T if only you show that YOU are
healthier and more agreeable COR less
disagreeable) without errors of diet.
Realize this: When your devoted fam
lily says to you, You must take So
and-so, or you will die" YOU have ONLY
one answer that will appeal to them.
and that is, II am in better health and
in better temper living in my own
way" To that there is no repartee
gin to ask you to- be unhealthy physi-
cally for their sake, they might as well
| ask you to commit gradual self-mur-
der. Surely it is time we realized that
a man has no more right to poison
himself that way than he has to poison
| himself any other way
One hint here The food should not
be served in it's orthodox order. Let
the proteid come early in the meal.
n hn nd - h.
mistake. If the foods be wet, let dry
foods be eaten at intervals. In Ger
man nature cure establishments of
the best type this rule is insisted on.
In English households it is consid-
cred "ungenteel" to deviate from the
| regular mode of procedure. How ut
terly stupid we are to sacrifice vitality
to silly custom
The Dry Food System.
Whereas, that which is watery may,
as it We're, flush the body as a flood
will wash away filth, a dry dietary
may absorb Objectionable poisons, and
at the same time nourish the system
well. The dry diet has effected innu-
merable cures; it must be eaten slow
| Iy-that Is physical necessity. No one
can drink a hard biscuit, though some
people may practically drink "a plate
| full of porridge or an orange
There is the story of woman who
went to a nature cure adjustment
in Germany. She was taken out early
on her first morning there. At the
end of a long walk to the woods she
felt tired and hungry. All that was
offered to her was a, piece of brown
| bread, dry and hard. She refused il.
and refused also to walk step fur
Their. The doctor who had accom-
panied her told her that she might
stay there. This, of course, she did
not care to do, and she began to walk
back, and soon asked for the bread
again, and ate it with comparative
gusto. For a long while she was con-
| fined to this dry bread regime, with
plenty of exercise and cool water and
soon she recovered complete health
and refused to go back to her old way
of living. With sufficient hunger the
dry foods became desirable and de-
sired.
They need not consist solely of
bread, though dry bread or biscuit or
something free from moisture should
be added to wet foods that we takes
for otherwise we do not excite our
saliva, and thus we do not digest our