The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
FROH OTHER PENS
FOOD GRINDING.

That eminent fount of human wis.,
dom, William e. Gladstone, owed his
long preserved vigor, both bodily and
mental to his methodical habits. 1t
solid food should receive 80 chews
before being approved and passed
down. According to the Fletcher
method, % molar impressions are SUI
ficient for masticatory preparation,
and there are many adherents of this
fits to it's practice. But here is DR..
Wiley, chief chemist of the depart
ment of agriculture, who has little
use for the man who chews by rote
and bites with mathematical exact
ness. The chief chemist thinks that
all such painstaking deliberations
leads on to dyspepsia and its many at
tendant ills. According to the doctor,
the race that eats the most, that nour-
ishes itself the most literally, Is the
race that will grow and predominant.
The Americans are hearty eaters, and
so are the English and their colonial
cousins, the Canadians. And these
hearty eaters are robust of body and
large of stature. Incidentally, DR..
Wiley doesn't look with favor on the
suggestion that mankind can support
life on condensed food in capsules, q
strictly chemical menu, as 1t were. He
doesn't believe mankind is prepared
to accept this advanced suggestion.
He seems to think that man VIII con-
tinue to look upon the act OF eating
as a pleasant rite as well as neces-
sary habit, and that the substitution
of a slippery capsule-poised on the
tongue one moment, and the next
moment gone-will not be favored by
the ordinary eater with teeth to ex-
ercise and a palate to please.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
DESTROYING THE SEALS.
There is a sort of poetic justice in
the fact that today Canada finds her
self in much the same situation with
respect to the seal herds Of Boring
cans in some 20 years ago. Then
Americans had a prosperous sealing
industry and were trying to preserve
it by protecting the seal herd. Can
adams insisted on the right of Dies
truction, which was finally confirmed
by the Paris arbitration to an extent
that virtually destroyed the American
sealing industry except on the Pribi-
loft Islands. The Canadians were
bound by treaty, however, to observe
certain rules in deep-Sea sealing which
were intended to give the seal herd
some chance. But of late years the
Japanese, bound by no treaties, have
begun taking seals in the most de-
structive manner, and. as a conse-
quence, the Canadian sealing fleet
has been reduced from SO vessels
to 8.
Now the Canadians are appealing
to the United States and Great Britain
for some modification or extension of
the International rules which shall
have the effect of checking the ruin
Gus work of the japanese. AS Canada
effectua1ly tied the hands OF the
United States, nothing can be done by
this country unless Japan will vol
UNFAIRLY enter upon treaty for the
preservation Of the seals. Even then
the work Of destruction probably
would go on under some other flag.
| If the United States had succeeded in
making Boring a closed sea, it would
| have been possible to protect the herd
| in such manner that the sealing in
dustry could be preserved indefinite
| " not only for this country, but for
lothers.-Buffaio Express