Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

old. while they who live on cereals
and pulse foods may hope only for
an average life Of fifty years?
And there you are! "Mademoiselle"
is represented as affirming that the
packages of wheat and beans were
marked with particular deaths head!
An anomaly in cereals has been re-
ferred to. Maize, or corn, bears the
1OO-year label And, right here. with
corn, comes in curious coincidence
We believe they've got the goat, you
say. Also. the goat may have been
full of packages. But. you ask, Is this
the true Interpretation? Did the images
Of old Egypt really mean to send t.,
tip on foodstuffs down to remote tu-
ture generations? May not the goat
have been the beloved pet of some lit
tie girl Egyptian princess. IKE the
lamb Of Mary? Indeed, the goat OF
the Gizeh Museum, having been found
with a painted linen tapestry OF a
beautiful young princess, is referred
to generally as the true original or
Mary and the lamb.
But. no; the coincidence of maize or
corn cries that we have. here, a YER
table comparison of food values
whether the work of some unknown
Egyptian crank or q sublime mage &c
ages or the mute witness of some for
gotten ceremony!
Other cereals are barred. Maize,
though a cereal, Is in the leo-year
certion noted by Herodotus when writ
ing Of the food of Egyptian priests
some 2,4eo years ago!
The old Greek historian and trav-
eler says:
The Egyptians who inhabit that part
OF the country which is soWn with
corn tmaize), in that they cultivate the
of past ths events nsai dha N
all with whom I have had intercourse.
They suppose that all diseases to
which men are subject proceed from
the foods which they eat"
Moreover, there is confirmation both
for cereals and beans. The text Of
Herodotus is not rumor; any one can
get volume and consult 1t. Well, In
naming the foods which learned Egyp-
tians considered Objectionable, he
wrote:
Beans the Egyptians do not sow at
all. neither do they eat such which
happen to be brought into the country,
or grow there. nor taste them when
dressed. The priests, indeed. abhor the
sight of that pulse deeming it i'm
pure. Others feed on wheat and bar
ley; hut it is a disgrace for learned
Egyptian to make food of them"
More detailed condemnation of wheat
is found in his travels in Upper Egypt,
which he calls Ethiopia.
X
These philippians" says Herodotus
ARE the tallest and handsomest OF
men,. and their customs differ from
those of other nations. Their king
asked of the Persian ENJOYS what lood
the king of Persia made use of. and
what was the longest age to which a
: Persian lived. They answered that he
| fed much on bread, describing the ma
) ture of wheat; and that the longest
{ life in Persia was eighty years. Upon
/. this the Ethiopian king replied that
he was not surprised that men who
, lived on dirt had such short lives:
Most Philippians attained to a hundred
and twenty years, because their food
) was cooked flesh. fruits. greens.
, cheeses and milk buildings. and their
drink the milk Of kline, sheep and
I goats"
told you that this was a rumor of
t the studieus. Around the enigma of
! the jeweled and gilded goat they dig
j up other learned confirmation of Its diet
} message. Thus Pythagoras. the ancient