The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-03-26

lie dinner, eat their meal beforehand,
and then at the dinner merely make a
pretence of eating They do this IN
order to devote all their energies and
attention to the social side of the
function. Personally, l never let the
knowledge that / may be called on 70
speak interfere with my meals"
WASTE ONE CAUSE OF HIGH
PRICES.
"Wnat is your theory of the high
cost of living?"
well, we waste great deal in the
kitchen for one thing. The French
people would live we'll on what we
throw away. Another thing, persons
OF meager means have too much false
pride. They try to emulate the rich.
A man who invites a friend to dinner
is ashamed to take him to a moderate
ly priced restaurant. He would rath
er take him to some other place
where the same meal costs twice as
much. In London, for instance, Sin1p-
sons. on the Strand serves as good
a meal as anyone could wish-soup
and meat and a couple of vegetables
and coffee-all well prepared. Yet
most Americans go to the Savoy or
such places. Simpson charges about
GO cents for his meal. The Savoy
charges about SO for the same thing.
For myself l always prefer a simple
meal to an elaborate one.
FOOLED BY PREPARED FOODS.
Another thing, we buy SO much
food in packages nowadays. How do
VIC know how much or how little we
are getting? We think we are pur-
chasing pound loaves of bread when
really we are getting only twelve or
fourteen ounces. I have opened cans
of corn or peas which were one-third
water. Think of it! Buying canned
water!
Canning establishments should be
made to fill can with peas or corn
first, and then put in only enough
water to fill in the chinks, leaving
room, of course, for the food to swell
when it is sealed.
"Then. take breakfast foods. How
much do you think bushel of wheat
costs a poor man who buys it in the
form of breakfast foods? About $40.
He could buy bushel of wheat for
81 in the market and if we had old
fashioned mills, as we ought to have,
he could take his wheat to be ground
for a few cents.
EGGS TOO EXPENSIVE.
Take eggs, too. In the spring,
when they ought to be about Is cents
a dozen, we pay 20 cents, because
storage companies are competing with
each other to buy up the supply In
the winter when we ought to pay 45
cents for fresh eggs, We pay 40 for the
storage eggs-little less, you will no.
tice. That kind of thing is in def
ance of the Sherman Act-it is a COM
bination in restraint of trade. Yet it
is almost impossible to get any laws
through Congress on these subjects.
Whenever you try to do anything, all
the food dealers come down on the
capital in a pack, bowling like so
many hounds"
do you believe a man can live be-
fittingly on a strictly vegetable diet?"
MAN NATURALLY OMNIVOROUS.
''He can live, of course. But man
is naturally an omnivorous animal,
Take away one-half of his natural
food, and you have only half a nah.
He loses power in proportion The
English probably eat more meat than
any other nation the English and
the Germans. And look at them!
They are the greatest colonizers, the
most aggressive people in the world.
They are best fitted, too, to live in
any climate and under any conditions. |
Why, if we should all take to eating
vegetables only in this country it
wouldn't be long before our neighbors
were walking all over us. The Japan
csc are often pointed out as fine ex-
amples of what vegetarian diet can
do. But the Japanese consume enor- I
nous quantities of fish,
Nearly all persons who profess to
be vegetarians eat milk and eggs
which are just as purely animal food
as a piece chicken or beefsteak,"
went ON the doctor "If we ate only
vegetables, our whole digestive system
would have to change in time, and we
would be shaped differently. Even our
brains would be affected 1t is, of
course, impossible to say precisely
whether this change would be for bet /
ter or for worse, but l am convinced
ii would be much for the worse"