The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-08-03
WHAT MAY WE EAT?

Wa are rapidly reaching the condi
tion Of Sancho Panza, when he atain-
ed,his ambition and became Governor
of the Island of Barataria. 1t will
be remembered that when SanchO,
who had an enormous aud omniverouS
appetite, sat down to a table grOan-
ing with d~elicacieS his appetite whet-
ted by their sight he was Mortified to
find dish after dish whiSked away on
the ground that it did not agree with
him. The meat was too heating and
would make him choleric and inter
fere with that GOODNESS and ,Self-cOn-
troll which prore :ly belongs to a Gov
ernor; the fruit too acid and would
sour his disposition; in fact all the
s sd, &c. were removed as unfit for hi"
Mankind is rapidly coming to that
stag. The movement in favor OF
fo Gspurity has unanimous support;
ann So have the precautions to insure
milk Of sufficient richness and free
from any faint of tuberculosis. The
attack on the table of to-day has not
stopped here, but has assailed nearly
every article of food of general con-
sumption, certainly all those that are
popular.
The strawberry is the latest victim
and the campaign against that pleas
ant berry, begun in London, has reach
ed the stage of denouncing it as one
of the greatest enemies of the human
race, the u of many ills and Of
great suffering.
The strawberry, these modern ply
sicianS say, very much IS SanchO'S
doctors did. should not be eaten be-
cause it produces SulklneSS and mo-
roSenesS. This is particularly the
case with women who it seems are
exceptionally subject to the Strawber'
ry disease and are the worse affected
by it,. The disease shows itself by a
Slight dizziness, sOllowed by a desire
to be alone, an unwillingneSS to be
questioned and a general irritability.
A yong mar who treats his sweet
heart to a plate Of strawberries and
cream, is almost certain to arouse her
anger and animoSity towards him and
as a matter of fact, could adopt nc
better means of alternating her affec-
tionS.
1t seems further that the better
the strawberries the worse it's effect.
Large, ripe, luscious Strawberries
will render a woman so ill-tempered
that the only thing to do is to run a.
way and avoid her. The small, in
sipid berry does not exert the same
injurious effect. If one will not eat
more than a dozen little strawberries.
carefully avoiding both cream and
SugaC, no very great harm will be
doneAbut it is infinitely better to a.
void this fruit altogether.
EuStace Miles, the great tennis
player, confirms this discovery. Mr..
MI. Miles gave up meat some years
ago as heating, choleric and wholly
unSuited to a person who wants to
play a good game of tennis. He con-
fined himself wholly to fruit and veg
etableS, only to find that the most
popular of fruits contains no less than
three dangerous or injurious acids,
phosphoric, Sulphuric and silicic.
These produce strawberry headache,
one of abe first forms of the disease.
This is followed by a rash and even
by an irritability that makes the
strawberry eater a hater of the hu-
man race and hated by it.
The strawberry is only one victim
OF the present food crusade. The pine
apple, tomato, cabbage, potato and a
dozen other fruits and vegetables have
already been read off the table.
We shall soon be in the fix of San
cho, Panza or the BARRIERS brother of
the Arabian Nights, who dined with
the Barbemecide on nothiny.-Times-
Democrat.