Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-24

has been duplicated. thereby destroying
certain so-called facts concerning the
number Of days person can live with
out Observation-Disclosures water ex-
cepted. The Russian Japanese war
has proved conclusivsly that victor
ious army does not need a meat ration.
fresh or salt, either or both.
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So much Tor facts and demolished
so-called facts. Now for some theory.
What we fippantly call christian
science has a decided effect when ap-
piled to the food we eat. Somewhere
the writer once read that no person
ever ate less than he or she wanted to
eat at a meal. and regretted it an hour
afterwards. Some Of us think we need
fresh meat at least once day, to be
HEALTHY, wealthy and WISE" 1t is not
true. The vegetarian has all three Of
these enjoyable and valuable adjuncts
to human existence. The heating
qualities OF pork and corn meal, theo-
torically, make those articles not a
good diet for the hot climates. But
just the same, the slave owners of the
south FED their chattels on hog and
hominy," and as a race they We're
healthier than today, where they exer-
else a choice in the food they subsist
on. A recent writer had much to say
against the eating of half decayed
food, claiming a large percentage of
our bodily disease can be traced di-
rectly to such a cause. yet the writer
has a personal knowledge of the prac-
tice OF some of the Tama Indians eat
ing half spoiled hog meat. and worse
than all, the animal died from disease.
And neither the services of an Indian
doctor nor that of the town physician
We're needed.
It is claimed by the insurance COM
panies expectation Of life tables that
we on this day and age can count on
an average of from TWO to three years
longer on the globe than our fore
fathers. And our scientists say it is
from our better kind of living. Of
course this implies clothing, the kind
CT air we breathe, the houses we live
in. and not in The least what we drink.
end The kind of water and other
liquids we swallow. All of these things
are denatablc questions. 1t is true
"ore mans food is another mans pois-
on and any theory OF longer life.
built upon the one kind Of food. is
faulty. That person with bad case
of dyspepsia. despe rately eats an eror
nous meal, on the theory 'onc might
as we'll be hung for an old sheep as 4
lamb and feels better than on star
walton diet, proves nothing. A SINH
Lar performance the next day may re-
suit in the fortunes of the damned.
All OF this rambling talk is to try
and kill off these cocksure writer's in
fiuence on what shall we eat. Mono
maniacs, and the world is full of per
sons whose waking thoughts and night
~ dreams all center on what they shall
put into their mouths. Eot only that
but whole families are now being
raised" on "sciertific feed" and man
rer Of preparation. Babies the country
over at this moment are crying and
suffering because some up-tc-date
young mother weighed out the exact
portion that child needed, While in
thousands Of trundle beds, sleeping
like young pigs. are babies gorged with
mothers milk. Ninety days ago thou
sands of boys ate green apples to the
horror OF thousands of Young mothers.
Yes. they had the stomach ache. and
hundreds of doctors were called in.
And ninety DAYS ago thousands Of
boys in our large cities. perhaps. had
only ore meal dag. and that from y
garbage can and no doctors We're
called. And the green apple eaters
and the garbage can emptiers. nearly
all of them are jumping bobsleds today
in the country towns and selling rews-
papers and filing the scent theaters
in the cities. Is this an argument for
diet of green apples or a feast Of
garbage? BY no means. But just the
same Mother Nature raises more and
stronger boys than the scientific Young
mother with her prepared food and
tiny scales weighing out the exact por-
ton Of the exact kind OF food.
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