Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-07-24
THE JOY OF GOOD EATING.

There is something incNprcssibly rcassuring and encouraging in the wave of protest which is sweeping over the country against the forcing of the so- called health foods on an unsuspccting and easily bcguilcl public. There is n refreshing bitterness in the way great,
 many newspapers and magazines gre attacking the dyspcptics and malcon- tents who for several years have been dc. voting their efforts to making eating unpopular and to increasing the rev enues of the patent food manufacturers.
 At recent fashionable meeting of so-callcd scientists in London, we are informed that professional dictists recommended as food for all the world a two-coursc, thrcc.tmcs day meal, consisting of bean porridgc and wnolc wheat bread. At the same time bitter protest was lodged against those dclicac. ies which nature provides and in which man has been accustomed to rejoice un- -" '"' past '''a'', huii"H Nhi'h WV have learned as q people that our stomachs were made purely for orna. mental purposes and to add to the grief
 mankind is heir to. We are being told now that Cicero and Socrates, and Con. fucius and company, all acclaimed against good eating and that all lc. eepted philosophy and science is against 1t. Cicero and Socrates and Confucius, however, have not furnished the basis on which the world is being operated; ehey were not even the entire cheese m their own periods. There is reason Co believe that each of them lived through n period of considerably aggra- vsted unpopularity and that they have survived chiefly because they had n bent for the use of well seasoned parch. nent.
 What would it profit the average American to conduct himself after the manner of Socratesi He might get a half-page illustrated story in one issue sf Sunday newspaper, but that would be about all. And Socrates, if all we lave heard about him is true, would probably have waged magazine cam. paign himself, if he mad been compelled te live out his days on breakfast foods and whole wheat bread. One wonders what kind of an oration Cicero would lave been able to deliver had he been sour'shed from childhood up on patent concentrated milk and condensed saw. dust, toasted.
 For the man who wants to become dried mp and sad.cyed, who seeks to achieve reputation as a pessimist, it | is safe to recommend the diet pre-. scribed by the London society. Bean porridgc and whole wheat bread will do the work as quickly as any other influence, unless it be some of our own American breakfast foods.
 Let the campaign against predigested provisions go on. The man who pre- fers his breakfast out of n pastcboard | box rather than from the vine or tree or out of the good green earth, has n | perfect right to his individual taste. | But for those of us who cling to the | foods that nature mas provided, there | should be some relief from the eternal preaching of the experts in diet and the patent food manufacturers, whose theory seems to be that man was ere. ated with disordered stomach, chiefly | useful for tho trouble 1t can make.
 When tho waiter at the hotel begins to go over his lingo about "oatmcal, force, corn hakes," etc., we always want to answer him in tho words of Artemus Ward. Artcmus says he had heard so much about MT. Astor's tav. srn that when he got to New York he went there and put up, and then he Iays; "Whcn I went to breakfast here wash t tarnel thing on the table