The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-14
KANSAS COMAENT
BRING ON YOUR FOOD FAD.

BRING ON YOUR FOOD FAD.
If you have any substitute for eat
ing now is the time to bring it on.
Ihere are more fool schemes to beat
the BODY out of its nourishment be-
ing tried now than at any other time
IN the country's history, and the man
VINO can suggest anything to take the
place or meat and potatoes Will get
wider hearing now than he likely
will get little later.
The Cost of Living which nobody
thought was loaded has just gone off
ana Knocked tie wits out of lot OF
people who really ought to know bet
ter. Not, mind you, that the Republic
wants TO set itself up as an authority
the field is crowded just now with
It's advocate of nuts as a steady diet
and a sure panacea for human Ills,
the vegetarian who points to the OK as
humans should libble the verdure In
stead of sitting down to square meal
the man who argues that because
person fasts from O'Clock in the ev-
enlng until z o'clock the next morn
ing IS an unanswerable reason why he
should continueing his starvation until
noon, and IL the other various theories
of Gieting.
The funny things about all these
fads, too, is that they probably every
one are good and whOleSome-fOr
the person for whom they are good
and wholesome. The mistake is in the
idea that what happens to be sauce for
the goose will cure the gander of govt
and relieve him of brain flag. But
that doesn't keep the reformer from
gong bllthely on in his altruistic de-
sire to bring health and happiness and
peanut butter to the laboring man who
tales his corn beef and cabbage with
plenty Of cayenne pepper and acfd
vinegar and wouldn't know dyspe psia
from a case of the house maids knee.
It is possible that men and women
do indeed eat too much-or rather
exercise too little for the amount they
eat-but an attempt to do a days
work on water creSS sandwich and
nabisco wafer is more than likely
to result in failure-if the days work
really amounts to much. The writer
woman's club under whose auspices
one of the leading domestic science
teachers of that city was lecturing.
She was giving direction for prepar-
ing "hearty monday lunch,' and the
menu consisted of bunch of grapes,
water-cress sandwich, a sandwich of
bread anu peanut butter and several
other articles of like virtue. Her
parting shot was: eff you want to vary
the lunch from day to day cut your
sandwiches in different shapes And
the little lady, who rode to her lecture
engagement in a cab and made her
living by talking to clubs, probably
found ample nourish-nent in that bill
never h ard of her giving those direc-
tions to the wives of the Polocks down
in the stock yards district.
But the fad is now for fads in eat
ing and a little foliage might be all
right in its place-Ottawa Republic.
AN ICE TEA RIVER.
The Marais des Cygnes has been a
good many different things at differ
ent times, ranging from babbling
brook to a raging torrent: it has
been a menace to the town and a
joke for the Kansas press, but never
until yesterday did it ever claim to be
an ice tea river.
1t took Chemist L. w. McEwens of
Chicago to discover that the far-famed
stream was surging with water tang
ed with tannin, the active principle
| in tea, and that the amber color to
which the residents of the city have
been making objection, instead of be-
ing injurious, really was the label of
healthful and palatable drink.
AS result of the learned gentle
mans investigation, Ottawa is now
need pay no more tribute to China for
her afternoon beverage, but may fill
from the stream her cup that cheers
without inebriating. With the river
still boasting an occasional cake of
ice, all that remain necessary is to
sweeten to taste, add a bit of lemon,
and serve.
This really ought to increase the
immigration of English to this sec
tion.-Ottawa Republic.