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

Greek physician-Who learned a deal of
his art in Egypt-forbade the eating of
beans. Also, Aristotle wrote an entire
treatise against beans, while as TO wheat,
he reproached the Athenians that. hav-
ing invented both the use of wheat and
just laws. they kept the wheat and let
the laws go!
Again. the Koran. which preserves
much antique lore, shows Adam and
Eve, with permission to eat of every
fruit except that of the Ez-zakkoum. In
another passage it declares man to have
been originally a fruit eater. Plucking
and eating delicious fruits in the para
disc of Islam, the faithful exclaim: This
was our sustenance Of old"
What, then, was Ez-zakkoum? The
present rumor. after quoting Sale, fore
most English translator of the Koran.
reads this conversation from it, of the
faithful in the Islam paradise:
rs not this a better repast than the
fruit of Ez-zakkourn? Verify, we have
made it for a subject of discord to the
wicked. Its fruit is, as it were, the
heads of Satans. Verify. the fruit of
Ez- zakkoum is the sinners food. Like
dregs Of oil it shall bubble up tfer-
mentO in their bellies!''
And what other fruit than wheat, they
ask, resembles the heads of Satans?
Sales in note to his translation OF the
Koran, states that learned Mohamme-
dams believe the forbidden fruit to have
been an ear Of wheat!
Also. they say that the nature of the
forbidden fruit is not stated in the holy
Bible. 1t is called the fruit of a tree.
as in the Koran, though nobody has
yenture6 to adopt the Mohammedan in
Nevertheless, certain details of the last
judgment, in the book Of Revelation.
read strangely in this sense Babylon
Is fallen. The merchants of wheat and
fine -four stand afar off, witnessing her
destruction and lamenting that no man
shall henceforth buy their merchant Sc;
and a mighty angel casts a stone. like
a great milestone, into the sea. Babylon
is destroyed. And the sound Of mill
stone shall be heard no more in her.
What do you think?
Has the goat a messenger
Observe, the objection to wheaton bread
in particular. all cereals, and all pulse
foods is no new thing in modern scien-
tific times.
About the middle Of the nineteenth CEN
fury DR.. Rowbotham of Stockport, in
England, published book to prove them
the main cause of all illnesses. His OBJ
lection. like that of the Ethiopian king
in Herodotus who refused to 6at dirt,
was based on the excess of earthly matter
which they introduce into the body. He
found that the bodies of old persons are
characterized by rigidity from large de-
posts of calcareous earthly deposits. The
accommodations were greatest in those
who fed chiefly on wheaton bread. cere-
ais and pulses. Bread in general, he
called 1.-The staff of DEATH Half a CEN
fury before Metchnikoff he found that
the hardening of the arteries is postponed
in those who eat little of such foods.
One other curious thing he proved. The
curse Of Eve for eating the forbidden
fruit was that women should bring forth
children in sorrow" Well-look you
women not eaters OF the starchy foods
(of which the principal is wheat he
proved do not bring forth their children
in sorrow!
Another notable attack on bread was
made, some twenty years ago. by DR..
Enmet Densmore of New York, formerly
a famous vegetarian. Knowing nothing
of Rowbotham's book. little of Her0dotus
and least Of all of the goat, he finally
concluded from his own experience that
cereals and pulses cause most illness and