The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-02
Food Faddists' Foolishness.

Foir aigs in pasteboard boxes is on tap.
| New York Times.
| Food Faddists' Foolishness.
The only American type approach
| ing the old monks of Mount Tabor,
who spent their lives contemplating
| their stomachs, is the modern food
| faddist
| He contemplates the needs of his
stomach with constancy which ought
to work miracles, but which unfortun-
| ately does not
The average man has long been in
Inundated. but not convinced, by the
food faddist's pseudo science. He can
not rid himself of the idea that our
healthy forefathers were not all wrong
on the subject Of foods.
And now comes support for the view
or the average man. Sir James Crich-
| ton Brown, an eminently respectable
authority, president of the Sanitary
Inspectors association of England,
takes stand on his side.
Sir James denounces food faddists,
| one and all, andd lauds the virtues of
| mutton chops and sirloin of beef And
American Medicine indorses what he
says, in the following words:
ut is quite likely that public health
would be immensely better If the
whole clan of dietists were muzzled,
and the public would listen to Sir
James wholesome advice, which he
qquotes from Byron and the Bible:
Take the gifts the gods provide thee
Nothing is common or unclean. 1t
will take the science of dietetics a
| long time to outlive the odium into
| which 1t has fallen as a result of the
present fad of the foolish"
The ascription of the first quotation
| to Byron, who didn't write it, is, of
course, wrong; but there are thousands
who are prepared to welcome the rest
tA4 a~fv al -,
embodying a wholesome and consoling
truth.
Dietetics has it's place, but its ex-
aggeration is foolishness. Nothing
gives a man ailments like thinking
about them. And the food faddists.
or that food to keep this or that organ
in order, help to create an unhealthy
mental state.
They do more than that, according
to Sir James. He says he found semi
starvation among large classes of ev-
cry nation; further. that this is the
cause of the physical and mental de-
rangement of the poor. Now, most of
the new food "fads' follies and falla-
| cies" insist on deprivation and thus
tend toward semistarvation. If per-
sisted in why shouldn't degeneration
| follow Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Hen Laid Egg While In Flight.
A big red touring car sped along the
Hudson county boulevard from Jersey
City to Bayonne yesterday. In the car,
besides the chauffeur, were a very
pretty woman and two men.
AS the car approached the bridge of
| the Morris canal it scared a dozen
chickens nesting under bushes. Some
| of the foolish chickens squawking,
ran; others flew right across the auto S
| path.
s.-1~r IoI
| flew over the car and at that instant
| laid an egg. which fell in the pretty
woman's lap. The egg dropped gently
| into the voluminous folds of her silk
| coat and was not even cracked. Sm1l-
! ing, the pretty woman picked up the
| egg and looked back at the yellow hen.
1t was cackling loudly, as If to say:
stop those autoists! They've kid
mapped my eggr'-New York. World.
Cranks and the President.
Cranks, like death, love a shining
| mark The most conspicuous man in
the country is the man most in their
disordered minds. The secret service
men calculate that about two cranks
| a day try to see the president. He is
| the man who owes them money. He
is the man who can turn over the con-
tents of the treasury to them. He can
give them the one opportunity needed
| to renoyate the world. Fortunately,
] lew OF these persons OF uHS6lll6Q
minds are dangerous. Some are, and
| there are some dangerous men who
| are not cranks, but most of the unwel-
come visitors to the president are
| harmless Record.
As to British 'sUnfairness''
One American who got back from
| the Olympic games recently was with
| Haynes, the Marathon winner, in a
party of Americans one evening fol-
| lowing the race On the subject of
| British unfairness'' he tells a story
| Hayes told that night
| ST was just entering the stadium
said Hayes, land 1 slowed to walk,
thinking it was all over and I had
| lost. policeman stepped up along
side of me and, touching his hat, said:
You'd better 'urry on. sir. The other
chaps fallen down.'-New York Sun.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.J
The only good husband is when he
has widow.
When a man likes to eat hash he
can lie about other things, too.
The most successful love letter is
the one that means the same thing
| over and over again.
| A woman can never understand how
wearing some of the baby's hair in
his watch chain locket doesn't keep
her husband from catching cold.
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