The Washington herald., 1915-02-21
FIRING HUMAN MACHINE,
BY ORIsON SWEET MARDEN.

| by ORlSON SWEET MARDEN.
friend Of mine recently found that
the engine in his automobile positively
refused to run. After many unsuccess.
full attempts to find the difficulty he had
his car taken to a garage. where they
found that he had put a large can Of
turpentine into his gasoline tank by mis-.
take.
| 1t is said that gasoline used for feed
ing automobiles must be absolutely free
| from dust and all foreign matter. and
must 80 through the most careful refin-
Ing processes. 1t must be strained
! through channels skin in order to keep
/ out every particle of dust
| My friends experience reminds me Of
one We had while living in the country
We had a lot of trouble with a kerosene
lamp. The wick was all right, and We
| could not understand what the trouble
was. when one little girl acknowledged
| that She had filled the lamp with water
| She could not see why that was not Just
as good as kerosene; but the lamp would
not burn.
| How often men wonder why they cam
not make their mental machinery rum
| why they cannot think logically and
clearly. and they go to a physician. who
/ tells them that they have been putting
| SOUnetnlnH INTO thelr digestive tank which
was incapable of running the human ma
| chine,
| II We were as particular about the feed
ing of the human machine as we are of
| our lamps and engines. what ma gnificent
| human beings We would be.
Is it not astonishing that the human
| machine runs well as il does when
people put into their stomachs all sorts
| of indigestible. incompatible fuel. take in
/ NJ mt ,i.Hf avI
| fight one another. which form vicious
| chemical compounds?
| Many man is partial or practical
| failure today. unhappy or even miserable.
| when his whole life would be revolution
lied by simple fare. by eating a few
simple. nourishing articles Of food arti-
Giles which are naturally friends. not in
| imiCal.
We are largely what our food makes
us. Poor food. unscientitically cooked.
| unscientfically taken. cuts down our
/ mental and physical efficiency. and makes
| us inferior beings. when perfect nutrition
might have made us very superior.
| The time will come when the State will
see to it that her children. her greatest
asset. will have scientific instruction re-
| garding the laws OF health. especially the
laws of nutrition. and the immense I'M
portance of food in the human economy
| and in the progress of the race
| How many Of our cooks and housekeep-
| ers today know anything of the science
Of nutrition? How many. for example,
know that wise Nature often puts the
cells which contain the most delicious
| havors and the most valuable nutritive
| salts. the starch cells the cells which
| form the very life of the tissues of the
| body. right under the skin OF many of
our fruits. like the apple. pear. plum. etc?
How many of them realize that the iron
! and arsenic which are necessary TO blood
| building and which are tonic to the body
are largely thrown away in the parings
| of apples and other fruits. and of some
vegetables like potatoes?
| The Irish peasantry. who before famine
decimated their country. lived largely
| upon a diet of potatoes. know more about
| them than any other people in the world.
and they never take of the skin before
cooking for they know there is a ire
mendous loss in doing so.
There is a great truth in the German
| proverb. las a man eateth. SO is he" In
| sufiicient diet. or devitalized food. fire.
quently badly cooked or unsuited to ones
needs. causes slow starvation in the it's
| sues and consequent physical and mental
eat 1t not only affect our efficiency. but
also very materially determine our dis
position. our temperament. and not infre-
quently our characters.
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