Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-02-10
Copyright, 1914 BY A. S. Cray
FOOD INSTINCTS.


II all men and women had sufficient
work, mental and physical, to give
them healthy appetites and the means
to crafty them with simple foods,
the greatest happiness of the greater
number would be established on a
thoroughly sound basis. We only ex-
pect pleasure and comfort to be exper-
fenced where ancestral habit through
long ages Of use has established a
sensory track to a center and where
that sensory center is permitted to
function freely within the scale of its
development. Happiness consists es-
sentially in the free and normal use
of our functions and any restraint in
the normal use of those functions
must inevitably lead to unhappiness
and Ill health.
Life itself Is very tenacious and re-
sistant and If the changes are not too
abrupt, any given species will quite
easily adapt itself to practically any
condition. Under insanitary condi-
tons, of course, the deterioration OF
a strain Is marked and quite abrupt;
but even under the worst states imag-
Unable, normal incubation being per-
mitted, chickens will survive, the line
quickly and simply adapting to the
environment This is true of the hui
man species. 1t is stated that the
last annual report of Doctor Thomas,
health officer of the Finsbury district,
London, England, just published,
shows that in Finsbury district, the
most congested of the London
boroughs, where 5000 families live and
sleep in 5000 rooms, babies are i'm
mune to the filth diseases.
: Some of these babies." says the re-
port, "as soon as, or even before, they
are able to crawl, are placed on the
sidewalks early in the day, to be
watched or nursed by girl of four
OF FIVE years of age. They are true
gutter children. Sometimes the imma-
ture nurse falls asleep wearied by
her. task, and the baby crawls to the
other side of the road, needless Of
traffic. Both are filthy and gutter
stained. But they seem to live. In
fact, the stock from which they have
sprung rises superior to the ordinary
diseases of childhood" The problem
Of humanity in general is largely a
matter of quality rather than of guam
tity and to secure this requires
thought on all Sides Expert breeders
of chickens and of other lower organ
isfns,, both animal and vegetable, ap-
pear to have learned solution, at |
least, they make practical application
Of principles productive Of highly de-
sirable results, while humanity at |
large. Intellectually seeks life solu.
ton by means OF "eugenics," or some
other equally vague method.
We have noted that wheat begins to
terminate at Al degrees Fahrenheit,
and that each stage in the develop
ment of the plant comedies with
definite heat absorption, the plant
going forward to complete maturity
under a mean temperature of about
80 degrees. Chickens require mean
temperature Of 103 degrees for 81 days
and man q temperature of 98,6 degrees
'or about forty weeks. The more COM
olex the species the greater the
amount of heat or energy required to
De absorbed to develop it., the more
complex the food or fuel required
o maintain the organism in efficient
and the more, serious any
IN the fife1 cycle is Ger.
ain TO- be- ID HtHEt 's9fTt@& Il
A properly fed Organising ii, always
IN efficient eorganfsm9 !" If chickens,
logs, horses, cows or men are. prop
srly$ fed they are efficient machines
md II they are'hot properly fed moth
gee1se can make them efficient.
With chickens the ration and work
determine the quantity and the vital.
ty 81 the eggs. and once Matched or
,orn,' al with D all other Organisms.
ndividual success becomes d matter
I bodybuilding material. "A def
lent diet with, chickens produces
many peculiar results. L., 80, ''.@ - T.
or course, the hen does rot, know.
S We dor as we can and Should
hat ccarbonic acid. water. ammonia
nd salts from the inorganic world
re manufactured p, into complicated
starches, gums, fats. salines
nd water combinations suitable. for
nimal consumption ;. ,Neithe,, proba-
ly, does she know that the animal
,orld. including herself, takes In these
roteins..,, amylaceous matters. fats.
Ats and water OF vegetable construc.
on, land. extracting the energy from
hose, particular cqmpinstions for in. Il
ividual use, converts them back into !
arbonic acid, water. ammonia and