La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05


perfectly Strindbergian in his at
titude toward women. The Poet
demonstrated. woman, in any
sphere, is 40 being not of one,
but a hundred souls. One good
wife equips a man with a whole
spiritual harem. She is mother
she is sweetheart, she is friend.
Whenever her loved ones were
concerned he trusted her to diff
ferentiate calory from a bean
or a bug. Since the day Eve had
handed the first raw Skookum
to Adam, woman had been busy
making over this same fruit into
various delectable, profitable,
and nutritious love sauces for
the table, thereby fairly driving
medical men to other occupa-
tions. Yes clearly the burden
might be safely added to wo.
mans shoulders"
The argument then shifted to
the value of the diet itself. The
Director explained that scien-
fists were wont to consider bodi-
ly needs in terms of calories and
proteids. The first being a unit
of strength, or heat measure
ment; the latter such foods as
make for growth and repair of
the body. The lay mind, of
course, approaches the subject in
terms of bread and butter, meat
and eggs. Happily there are
those who have translated these
food values into chart forms con-
venient for kitchen use. He
suggested that, in the face of the
constantly increasing high cost
of living, there was a growing
disposition to emphasize the
cheaper carbohydrates, in the
form of cerials, rather than the
more expensive fresh vegetables,
meat, eggs, and oil, the prices Of
which were almost prohibitive.
The Sociologist arose in affir-
nation. He cited the dOggedly
self-approving Scot as having
contributed largely to civiliza-
tion and all on porage. He refer
red to- many notable peoples who
had made even greater contribu-
tions on other celebrated brands
of Force. Especially remarkable
are the Italians Had they not
evolved Leonardo da Vinci, a
Raphael, a D'Annunzio, and last
but not least, had not the music
of the world been cornered by
Caruso and all on spaghetti.
The Financeer was dubious.
Feeling a cavity in his rotund
stomach, empty OF its usual
image of good red steak, he said
that from the CRADLE up he had
been encouraged to know and to
demand what was good. Here
the Psychologist frowned him
down. He thought to develop
brain-power people must eat
more brain food. Nonsense, in
sisted the Director of Physical
Education, "Brain-food, social
ed, develops not brainy men, but
fat-heads. The man who tries to
feed himself into strength, will
acquire only a storehouse for
food and accumulate fat. Food
SUPPLIES the material for energy,
It's what we do that makes us
what we are. For instance, fish
has always been considered
brain-food, but if the brain is not
exercised, all the fish in the At
lantic will not increase its size OF
force" The Personal Hygiene
Professor supported the PhysicaI
Educator by showing statistics
that proved the rich were swift
| ly coming to eat their pie with
tears. Here the Sclerotic Finan-
ceer moved uneasily and breath.
ed hard. This was the psycholo-
gical moment for the Socia
Service Representative. He saiC
impressively that he had a vision
of the poor coming to renOunce
their dreams of higher gluttony
and he saw himself guiding then
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