The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-06-28
IS NOTHING AT ALL TO EAT
FOOD AND DRINK ALIVE WITH
BUGS" SAY INVESTIGATORS.
1t Is Awful, Maria But for All That
People VIII Go on Eating Just as
They've Always Done.

They've Always Done.
The vegetarian declares that all
meats are full of the germs that kill
and that the germs said to be Ieces-
sary to life, and which are foes to
other germs, are in the minority, like
all of the best things. The devotees
of flesh eating proclaim that vegeta-
rians never become so except they are
dyspeptic and that they simply lave
to swivel and suffer on poorly cooked
greens and roots and connections of
garden sass" all the remainder of
their lives. The tmnivorous human
believes the secret of health lies in
a judicious mixture of both meats
and vegetables, cooked in the best
style of the art, which is really the
art of all arts.
From these congratulations the
scientists and germ theorists have
passed a differentiation of all foods
and medicines, and nostrums and
panaceas and appealing drinks and
desserts and CONNECTIONS and delica-
lessons, some of them COndemning as
death-dealing one or more articles, |
some another or more, until the COM
bined judgment is that there is moth
ing we taste or eat or drink which is
not swarming with millions of the
bacilli of disease and disintegration,
and this analysis extends to every
lungful of air we breathe.
Isn't it awful, Anna Maria?
Quite recently Prof. A. Hopewell |
Smith of the Royal Dental College,
London, England, in an address to
the School Dentists Society, exhib-
tied a table Illustrating careful ex-
periments made by himself, which .
revealed that buttermilk, or sour
milk, is full OF bacteria which pro-
mote decay of the teeth, and which
of course are deleterious in every
way; that pepper, chocolate, oranges,
and starch have a similar bacteria
which act with similar effect; that in
apples, grapes, butterballs, ices, all
sorts Of bonbons and sticky sweets .
the growth is luxurious, the bacteria |
of ices being in the flavOring and /
milk that in figs, lemons and pine
apples the bacteria were numerous;
the candies and sticky sweets were
worst of all, while no bacteria de-
Yeloped from glucose, asid drops,
mustard, vinegar or coffee If you
would live therefore, and preserve
the teeth from decay, with a CORES
ponding decay of the stomach and all i
the vital forces, live on glucose, acid |
drops, mustard, vinegar and coffee. |
A few years ago it was a theme of |
discussion in newspapers, magazines !
and medical and scientific journals !
of the world that discovery had been |
made that in a section of the Prov |
ince of Savoie, Switzerland, curds |
made from a breed of Swiss COWS |
pasturing on the mountain slopes /
productive of wonderful strength, |
longevity and robust health. Physi- /
clans had investigated the matter, !
and with curds had plucked patients I
from the jaws of death. Experiment |
made with Curds of other milk treat |
ed in a similar way, the product of |
healthy COWS fed on certain pastures, |
had similar result. The world began |
eating curds. Even schmearkase of |
all kinds and of doubtful production,
had a great boom. In lieu of the |
curds, when they could not be had, |
butterimlk was commended.
But it is asserted by many scient- |
lists that all descriptions of fermenta-
ton of milk, curds, cheeses of a myr-
lad kind, cIabber, buttermilk in all
its forms, swarm with bacteria.
Fresh milk also has been put under
the ban by them unless it is pas
teurized or otherwise treated for the
destruction of disease germs, and on
ly recently there sprang up a group
of chemists which proclaimed that
pasturizatiOn destroyed the nutritive
qualities Of good milk.
In the midst of all this maze of
opinion, all Scientific" and all con-