Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-21
DIGESTIVE pEaENERAcY.

DIGESTIVE DE1ENERAcY.
 i One by one the old standbys of our daily diet are feeling the heavy hand of condemnation. Now, 1t is the pie. Dr. Wiley, the government chemist, says the average pie is a death-deal- ing machine, full of stomaehache and terror, indigestion and lard. He thinks it woeful weight for the di- gestiye apparatus to carry and advo- cates its abolition.
 How far right or wrong Dr. Wiley is, goes for naught just here; the point Is this: If the man or woman of the United States can DO longer eat pie with impunity, as he or she has done for centuries, wherein is the fault? Is it the degeneracy of the pie that is to be blamed, or has mans own di- gestion been so pampered and impair ed by presolved and semi-digested breakfast foods and the like, that he can no longer stomach strong meat and stronger pastries?
 For certainly no argument will de- stroy the fact that for many genera tions, our hardest people, the New Englanders, have lived and thrived on pie; on inordinate quantities of pie; in fact ,on pie for every daily meal and for the snack before bedtimes. And if these people of what has be- come known as the pie belt have turned out the sturdiest of American men and matrons, pie, per SC, as an article of diet, must be favorabIy reckoned with
 Then is it the pie or the human receptacle of it that is to be con demned? Argument points to the lat ter conclusion.
 The pie, as such, is simple prop osition. The crust is constructed eas- fly; lard and four, in themselves gen erally used ingredients of all cookery, are it's mainstays. And the "fillin's" are fruit, cooked at that, or such things as squash or pumpkin, health ful vegetables. (This, of course, takes no account of that mystery of mys- teries, the mince pie; it is in class by itself). Given, then, the simple crust, which is merely shorter, crisp CT bread, and the fruit or vegetable establishment, which no one will de- cry. and who can say aught against the combination in pie form-with or without a lid? This is all there is to the pie; our grandsires and forbears for centuries have eaten and enjoyed and grown fat on it; why not we?
 Is not the human stomach to blame, after all? Haven't we of late so weak ened and effeminized our digestive fac ulties, as it were, that we no longer can tolerate the heavier and heartier meals that men crave? Are we not so devitalized through the predigested foods and fads that we are no more capable of assimilating real eatbaIes?
 Marry, it looks that way! There is nothing of the weakling about pie; 1t is full grown specimen of diges- .tion tester. But man or woman with organs properly developed and in ac- tive working order can double discount any pie that ever was boiler-plated, and come out of the ordeal well and happy The pie is friend of hu. manity; a strong and able one, withaI, but good one, nevertheless. But a sturdy humanity is needed to appre- ciate it.
 We eat too much baby food; that's the trouble. We must have our oats rolled and crushed, our wheats shred ded and cracked; our corn faked and crisped; our barley and rye sprouted and brewed. We no longer can take natures growths as nature intended they should be eaten: we are too deli cate and refined and emasculated. The