Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-15
TINE JOY OF coon EATING.

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There Is something inexprcssibly
reassuring and encouraging in the
wave Of protest which Is sweeping
over the country against the forcing
Of the so-called heaithfoods on an un-
%suspocung and easily beguiled public.
There Is a refreshing bitterness in the
way a great many newspapers and
magazines are attacking the dyspep-
ties and indictments who for several
years have been dcvoting their efforts
to making eating unpopular and to
increasing the revenues Of the patent
food manufacturers
At a recent fashionable meeting Of
so-called scientists In London, we are
informed that professional dlctetlsts
recommended as food for an the
world a %two-course. three-timcs a day
meal. consisting of bean p%orridge and
whole wheat bread. AT the same time
bitter protest was lodged against those
dellcacies which nature provides and
in which man has been accustomed to
rejoice until the past decade, during
which We have learned as a people
that our stomachs were made purely
for ornamental purposes, and to add
10 the grief mankind is heir to. We
are being told now that Cicero and
Socrates, and C|onfuciuA and company
an detained against good eating and
that an accepted philosophy and
science Is against It. Cicero and Soc
rates ana Confucius, however. have
not furnished the basis on which the
world Is being operated; they were
lot even the entire cheese In their
own periods. There Is reason to be-
licyc that each Of them lived through
a period Of considerably aggravated
unpopularlty ana that they have sur
tlved chiefly because they had a benz
for the use of well seasoned parch-
ment.
what would It profit the average
American 10 conduct himself after the
manner Of socratos2 lie might get
a half page illustrated story in one
issue Of a sunday newspaper, but that
would be about all And Socrates, u
an wo have heard about HIM is true,
would probably have wagcd a maga-
zlnc campaign himself II he had been
compelled 10 live out his days On
breakfast foods and whole wheat
bread. one wonders what kind Of au
Grafton Cicero would have been able
Go deliver had he been nourished from
childhood up on patent concentrated
milk and condensed sawdust toasted
For the man who wants 60 become
dried up and ~sad-cyed. who seeks to
achieve a reputation as "a pcssimist, %
is safe to recommend the diet pre-
scribcd hy the London society. Bean
porrldgo and whole wheat bread viii
do the work as quickly as amy other
Influence. unless &c be- some of our
own American breakfast foods.
Let the campaign against prcdigcst-
ed provisions go ON. The man who
prefers hts breakfast out of "a paste
board box rather than from the vine
ot tree ot out of thc good green earth.
has 70 perfect right to his individual
taste. but Tor those OF us Who cllug
to the foods that nature has provided.
there should Dee some relief from tho
eternal preaching OF the experts Boo
diet and the pltcut food manutactur-
ers whose theory seems DO ho that
man was created with q d]isordctcd
stomach. chiefly useful tor the treu-
bic 30 cam make
When thc waiter go the hotel be-
Gins Loo goo over DIS lingo about "oat-
meat. force. corn flakes. ctc, vc
always want io answer him Dee tn,
words OF Artpmu. Ward Artemus
sa,- %, had heard so much about Mr.
>s,nf'- tavern that when boo rut t'
Sew york Doc went There and quit uu
5ud ihcn h, says. when 0 won't boo
breakfast There wasn't s t1ruol fhiue
ou tho table but a. towel ana O. srIii
spoon and o. handhul. bat after while
H daudy nlegcr au dressed tu ki.
Val,zod up to me- and. says be-
Whbtu SOU havee aud putin ou
mn., -ternost look Z says, 'NItu,s
darn ,oe. and be quick about ill.,
While ft would n1t Dee polite to st>
De-. I'd mau with O. normal stomach gau't
beIu nr "Victuai- darn ,Ha