Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-01-21
FOUR ARTICLES OF EARLY DIET

FOUR ARTICLES OF EARLY DIET
In his early life his four articles Of
diet consisted of four things, molasses.
skim milk. corn bread and learning a
verse daily from the Bible. He said
ne was bringing up his children in the
same way. His oldest boy does not know
the taste of candy. cake or ice cream
lie does not eat white bread When he
gets older he may have sugar Sugar
is good when one wishes to make great
physical exertion. Said the doctor, "Once
when Harvard was being beaten by Yale
at football. | told the Harvard boys
to carry sugar into the game and have
lump In their mouth at all times. They
haven't lost game since" If 1t were
possible for baby to eat n hundred
tons of sugar It would not add one es-
sential thing to its teeth. it's bone, It's
nerves or its hair. The baby wants nitro
gen, phosphorus and lime Starch and
sugar can never supply their places in
the diet The early decay of the teeth,
the speaker said was the result OF i'm
proper nourishment, too much candy and
ice cream. A man should he fed when
Mt college for the occupation he intends
is fed at the training table.
Children should not be taught to use
coffee or tea The doctor also discour-
aged the use of n certain soda fountain
beverage as it contained the same drug,
caffeine as tea or coffee. He also point
ed out the danger of tobacco and aico-
hol.
In this connection. Or. Wiley admitted
that he ate white bread when he was at
the hotels because he did not wish to
quarrel with the hotelkeepers He also
admitted to drinking half a cup of coffee
in the morning and half of that milk.
He said he had never used tobacco but
he owned to an occasional glass of wine
when his friends came in. He said at one
time he was Of the opinion that he could
perhaps partially neutralze the deadly
effects of alcohol by insisting on pure
liquors and he had proceeded to the point
where he was able to formulate certain
restriction by which the qualities of liquor
would be improved but a president of the
United States came along and with one
stroke Of his pen had decided that all
kinds of whiskey were whskey and should
he treated az such. Since that time he
has been prohibtionist.
DR.. Wiley said n lot of other interesting
things. among them an expressed wish
that the women of Vermont might Join in
the good work of the state by being able
to cast their ballots at election time. He
said the present situation in Europe
showed what a mess the men had made.
Surely men could not do worse
MAN SHOULD LIVE IS YEARS
Pointing out the various reasons why
our foods and our drinks tend to shorten
life, DR.. Wiley said that with the proper
selection of foods, simple, wholesome and
natural, the average life should last until
SIS. The length of an animals life is cal
culated as four times the period it takes
to bring it to maturity. The human be-
ing is mature at o. and many are not half
baked then. Multiply that by four and
We have 81 and with four years put in
for good measure we mako IS, twice
the average lifetime of people in
the United States. The doctor said h.
would have to live longer than that be-
cause he was only Il now. He added that
that eugenics would some time become
realized as a factor of longevity, because
it would bring into the world healthy ba-
bies. If a man found that he should not
he would find the simple life not so bad !
The speaker said he had tried 1t for he
had been bachelor CT years.
DR.. Wiley closed with the wish for the |
New Year that all would enjoy happy and
long lives, full OF service to God and hu-
mainly.