The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-31
in the Beginning.

The apostles of all sorts of crank
isms in the matter of food and
clothing invariably delight TO tell US
what enormous blessings primitive
man enjoyed in the way Of health
and strength. They cannot resist
drawing parallels between modern
conditions and our own. always, of
course, to the manifest disadvantage
of our own.
Only a few days ago one of those
marvellous magazines devotedto every
sort of fad, spookism. and mental
moral, and physical weirdness, pub
lished an advertisement from one Of
the apostles of the simplest kind of
life. headed by him in the Begin
ming" He. announced that lin the
beginning" disease was unknown,
and he thereafter laid down these
entertaining propositions:
Man didn't live in houses. and there
/ fore breathed pure, fresh air all the
! time instead of sometimes or resu-
|
| by the wayD
He didn't eat too much. to thus cause
| such trouble for himself as we haven I
room here to even commence telling
YOU about There was no temptation 10
/ do so because the pleasure Of eating
/ ceased when his bOdys demands were
satisfied lust as with wild animals now
/ He didn't cook his food; fire wasn't
| discovered then But neither did he eat
raw tuTnips,- Cor instance For the same
/ reason he didn't eat meat.
You wouldn't like il raw, would you?
/ Likewise he couldn't dc many other
/ things impossible without fire.
He didn't use alcohol, tobacco, tea or
! coffee. He couldn't prepare them as
/ we do, and his appetite wasn't depraved
| enough TO niOy them.
He didn't use street cars and other
/ cOntrivances TO deprive him of his need
! ed exercise. His limbs brought him
/ where he weut-and besides, he was
/ quite an adept at tree-climbing.
| He didn't wear clothes. and so the
/ air WAS always I'm contact with his
| skin, and the sunshine frequently
Imagine a plant or flower dressed in
/ clothes all day and covered up at night
) and you'll see the point
Now, if it is proper to cite certain
things that man didn't have Gin the
beginning" it is proper to cite 9TH
ers. Let US try a few:
''In the beginning" then, man
didn't travel by swift and luxurious
steam railroad trains. He either
footed it or toiled painfully along
on the back Of jackass.
I'm the beginning" man did not
have symphony concerts of master
full and exquisite music. He banged
on a tomtom and regarded that as
sufficiently esthetic.
In the beginning" man did not
know the delights of great play in.
terPreted by great actors. He lis
tened TO the howlings of a lot oil
frenzied idiots painted like animal,
or wearing hideous masks.
/ 'In the beginning" man had NJ
telegraph to fash messages of cheer
or life or death Importance thou
: sands of miles. He was deaf to al
: that went on a league away from
his little village.
in the beginning man had nC
, telephone. He could not hear a well
: beloved voice miles away, nor realiz,
: or the vast usefulness of the articl,
) for the proper regulation of his
{ daily life.
AS matter of fact, there are ;
good many things that man did no
r have Gin the beginning" that ar,
r very essential. comfortable, an,
! highly satisfactory things to hav,
= now. To say that man did or di'
= not do so and SO when he was