The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-11
BOSTON BALLAD
| boosts THE BEAN
New England Thinks Turck DiagnO'
sis Of Diet Is wrOng-NO Pie at
Breakfast Now.

BOSTON, Mass, Feb ll.-New Eng
lands calm was little ruffied and it
bill OF fare not changed at all toda
when IL read the talk OF Dr. Fento
b. Turck of Chicago on how its die
a was deteriorating the human race. ID
Iurck said the Boston diet" has mad
race OF lank lean, nasal'speakin
lynpeptics.
Boston folks were inclined TO trea
the criticism fippantly. few takin
other than a light view OF IL. Blu
everybody here. no matter what thei
81 form of expression. agreed that IN
| Chicago doctor was mistaken in M
diagnosis.
DIR. George Edmund Stackpole,
Harvard graduate. and successiu
|practitioner since 1870. gave a serious
reply to the Chicagoans opinion. Di
|Btackpole defended the bean and th'
0iBcuit. and made sarcastic alluslol
40 DIR. Turck's fitness for his subject
But most everybody else who saio
nnythIng about il. said II humorously
4 One OF the sort OF replies vas given
by L. D. G. Bentley, who versed MS
-. sSntiments in a local newspaper N
. the following, entitled A Yankee
4 Answer:
We'll maybe DR. Turck Is right.
And eastern folks all wrong
We may consume too many beans
That make as lank and long
.Rerhaps we gorge ourselves on PIE
When palmer food would do;
Eat doughnuts which We shouldn T. put
/ don't mind telling you
LII eating other kinds OF food
VIII change as folks throughout.
There's really no inducement
In what this man holds out
lid much rather be a skinny,
Always talking through my nose,
AIunching tablets for dyspepsia.
Mixing any kind of dose.
III New England / may live IN.
Where we have TO scratch and dig.
Where we may be weak and scrawny.
Where We don't grow very hig,
no. never would be happy. like
Those folks across the sea.
"A peasant IN Bulgaria
lt don't sound good 10 me
They don't eat pie for breakfast in
this region any more. according TO
one statistician who sought 10 put DR.
. Turck right on the diet question.
''Dr. Turck has just heard the ira
. ditions which are part of vanished
and not too glorious past. he said.
|''Mince pie for breakfast is a legend
of the black walnut furniture and
plush covered photograph album
. period: Ii never really obtained a
great bold in New England. anyway.
. and was mainly used as a symbol OF
. ignorance When In a small town il
WAS noticed that any citizen was get
ting rich, the form used by his neigh
4 bors TO express that disgraceful suspi-
4 Clon was TO pass around the rumor
that his family had mince pie for
breakfast.
'sAs TO the rest of DR. Turcks state
ment, the Puritans were lanKier, more
nasal, and less favorably comparable
4 10 the Bulgar than their descendants
nre--they were not so Gyspeptic, be-
+ cause they never went to Chicago. and
20 were never forced to eat Chicago
pooking."
well. OF course" said the manager
of beanery in Newspaper row, 1t is
true that beans are one of our staple
dishes We still sell more beans than
nnything else But doughnuts are our
staple wonder: We make seventy
dozen a day and often have to go TO
Il press with n second edition in the
nfternoon. Still, ! don't see any de-
terioration in our customers IN the last
ten years"
One of the salesladies in another
restaurant said she hadn't noticed any
INCORPORATION in her customers, either,
though she has sold more beans in the
last fortnight than ever before in her
experience.
'Decline?" said she. There's no
nccline about it; my customers never
Decline anything What? Why. no.
they're not deteriorating they're
. nicer everyday. They're eating fewer
beef pies and more beans.
"In the last ten years said
. Beacon-st doctor. Il haven't had hair
. the stomach trOuble-among my pa
. tients--that had in ten years preced-
. Ing. People are eating more sensibly:
\ the anaconda method among business
men is disappearing and folks are
. Fletcherizing more. AS 10 beans,
doughnuts, mince pie-they will never
sap the manhood Of New England
who is this Dr. Turck?' was the
way DIR. Stackpole began. These am
bitious young physicians often get lost
n academic ideas and begin talking
Tor publication with the result that
they make themselves-but nobody
|tise-believe they are originating
something"
Good wholesome food. and God
Knows that good beans. hot biscuits
and doughnuts are wholesome. never
caused any New Englander to have
dyspepsia. New Englanders are the
hardest worked people in the world
md the dyspepsia they are kin 10 was
born OF overwork and loss OF sleep