The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
EXPERIMENT WITH FROG
France Intends to Have Good Exhibit
at San Francisco Worlds
Fair In
1915.
by William Philip simms, Paris cor

PARIS, Dec. 13-f you suffer from
Indigestion, become a cannibal and
eat human flesh. This is the remedy
for stomach troubles offered in all
seriousness by DR.. Hugonencqs dean
of the faculty Of medicine at Lyons.
Naturally, the doctor realizes you can
scarcely go to the butchers and call
for a human steak or chop and expect
to have your order filed. He probably
knows you can't obtain the flesh at
ALL at any price, but in principle, his
advice stands as stated.
DR.. Hugonencq has devoted life
time of study to the proper ailment
for man and he has ascertained that
! the ideal food for him is human flesh,
the stomach assimilating with the
minimum amount of work, food of the
same composition as himself. He
does not intend to quit the realm of
/ theory and he doesn't advise others
to, but he insists that anthropophagy
| is the last cry In science and hygiene,
albeit we must continue to eat veal
4
Europe horse and mule and donkey
these being as nearly human flesh as
the law permits people to eat The
United Press correspondent interview
ed DR.. Armand Gautier, member OF
THE French institute, on the subject.
DIR. Gautier was asked If DR.. Hug
Icnencq's announcement was not some
thing Of scientific paradox.
mo, no. no." he replied. 81 won't
say that DR.. Hugonencq is perfectly
right. The idea is sound enough
From a theoretical point of view it
cannot be gainsaid that man is the
best nourishment for ma, and the
Icannibals diet under conditions sim
liar to those governing the civilized
mans diet, would be precious aid
in the struggle against old age and
death.
"Of course, no actual experiments
have been possible, but Nancy
physiologist, rking upon this theory
fed frogs upon frog meat for months
and at the end of his experiments
: found his subjects in the best of con
dition. The frog-fed frogs were fat
ter and bigger and stronger than the
frogs which had been fed on flies and
the ordinary frog diet This expert
ment proves nothing, however. Still
1t contributes to the proof of the cor
rectness of the theory"
Regardless Of what England or Ger
many may do in the matter of send
ling exhibits to the San Francisco
Panama Pacific exposition, France Il
planning to make her exhibit there
one of the most remarkable on tn
grounds. NJ. Tirman, of the council
of state, and director Of expositions a
, the ministry of commerce; M. Roge
Sendox, general secretary Of tn
French committee on foreign expos'
. lions; Pollerin de Latouche, of tn
: Compagne Generate Transatlantique
Jean Guiffrey, conservator of tn
Louvre museum, and M. Sayy.
French engineer established in tn
, United States, are working like tre
, jams for the success Of the French e,
hibit Members of that committe
: praised the policy Of the San Frar
cisco authorities in not per1nittin
different nations to exhibit under di
ferent conditions.
: In Brussels" French exhibitor
said "the Germans, after first refu,
, ing to exhibit, came in at the las
!, moment But as all space for e,
;, lhibits had been taken, the expositio
) officials permitted Germany to erect
4 building of her own and concentrat
all her exhibits in this. Natural.
Germany made a fine showing, IL
exhibits of other nations being sea
q tered in the various buildings Franc
has been assured that nothing OF TIL
F, kind will happen at San Francisco.
: The new consul general, Alexands