Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-21
No Cooking In the House; 20 no,
Stove In the sum.
mer.
DIET OF RATIONAL MAN
Nuts. Fruits, Eggs, MIX, Honey, olive
OIL and "Unfrcd eread"-Avcrasc
Wife a Slave and Imprisoned Vas.
sa,-Her Throne a Furnace; tler
scepter the Dishras.

Back to Nature!" Is the maxim of
raw foodists. Primitive man, they
tell us, took his meals uncookcd. Eve
wore no apron soiled with grease spots
and did not spend laborious days bend
Ing over hot fires and welding the
dishrag. She INT her husband were
happy in the diet of nature and ate
everything raw. The Cooking habit"
1t Is argued, is the curse of modern
life. n reform consists in substitute
ing the iceboX for the stove. This Ices
not mean that the true hygienist will
consume raw potatoes and blood-rcd
beefsteak, but the principle is laid
down that the use of fire In tho pre-
paration of food is s~uperfuous. Nuts,
fruits, eggs milk, honey, olive oil and
"unfired bread will be the diet of the
rational man. He will take his cereals
ground and soaked in water. If he
values flavor he will obtain 1t by
grinding nuts and grains together, dry
ing them in the sun when crispness
is desired. Vegetables will be shredded
for salads. For breakfast lie. will have
apple, pecan kernels, banana and
cream IL n glass of milk; for lunch
con, pears. pecan kernels, pulled figs,
cold slaw with olive oil. a cake of un-
fired bread, prunes, butter and egg
nog. Dinner will consist of grapes,
mixed nuts, salad, crca cheese, dates,
bananas, a pint of milk and a cake of
TIC raw brcaG. The CHARMING feature
OF the raw food system Is that It, selves
the cook problem and gives the house
wife freedom. The average wife. it is
contcnded, is a slave, an imprisoned
vassaI. '"rhe fires of the morning
are hardly put out before those OF noon
are kindled. and the labors from
luncheon, often lap ver into the even
ing, and those of tho evening into the
night. The throne over which the
woman dreamed of welding her queen
ly scepter has beer transformed into a
fiery furnace; gilded with greasy pots
and plates, blood and homes, over
which she has unfurIed the dishrag,
and, by tho common custom OF her
country, it ave over her. helpless
head as an ensign OF her rank and
profession under which she is really
a slave"
1t is all cry true that primitive man
took his food uncooked, and was glad
to get II. II Is also true that mon who
lead active lives out in the open air,
with plentiful exercise, find the nice.
ties Of modern cooking unnecessary.
Fruits. nuts, even walnut kernels, are
digestible and sleep Is dreamIcss. The
modern man who works out under the
sky all day long. every day of the
year. has no need for "predigcsted''
foods. but, like primitive man, can
eat anything. The goats enviable. Gu
pacity for dlgesting tomato cans is in
telligible when it Is remembered that
his mode of life and habits are as I'm.
artificial as his taste is catholic. Ami
mails In a state af nature take their
food raw, and are all the better for
it;.they need no sauce, pure air, exer-
else and hunger making the stew pan
II boiler superfluous. But 1t does
not follow that cooking is snporfiuous
for persons leading inactive or sedcn-
tary lives. The average mans occu-
pations nre not much as to cause him
to initiate his lungs to their full
capacity, to aeratc his blood, to In
yigorate the heart and keep liver, kid
e and stomach in good working con.
dition. The daily life is. sluggish
physically, and mentally perhaps too
active. Activities are abnormal and
disappointment. 1t results that he
functions of digestion, assimilation
and exertion are imperfectly perform
ed and clogged organs become dis
eased. Help Is needed. Cooking IS
supposed by most hygienists to facili.
tate digestion. This Is It's value
that 1t renders easy to tho artificial,
sluggish, modern ma what primitive
man or man living tho primitive life
never found difficult. In this view the