The Washington times., 1919-11-07
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Living on Vegetables.
Eating the Dead.
National Bankruptcy
The Attractive Age?
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Or. Oldfeld, famous English
doctor, says you can live los years,
il you will live on dandelion leaves,
grapes, milk and honey.
Cornaro, famous Italian, lived to
104 on red wine, meat, fish, fruit,
etc
Some would prefer Cornaro's
recipe to the dandelion leaves.
But there is thus far no prohibition
concerning the latter, so we should
be grateful to the Englishman for
his information.
There is another gentleman
With a diet theory. He says he will
Circle the earth, eating raw vege-
tables" Perhaps be will, but what
OF IL? Any donkey can circle the
earth, eating raw vegetables, but
he can do little thinking as he
goes Tolstoy and Wagner both tried
yegetables-both found they could
live, nicely, but they could not
Work WIN their neads.
The dark gentleman can row a
heavy boat up the Nile on a few
hsndfuls Of grain. But a meat eat
ing, alcohol using Enghshman Is
his boss, and other meat eaters,
syer since the days OF Augustus,
have bossed him. Ages turn rock
into soil, make IL fertile, soil pro-
dnces grass, the OK spends two
years digesting the grass. turning
: IL into beef that you digest In forty
\ minutes
A man with as much leisure as
an OK, and with as little mental
work to do, can make a perfect
success Of a raw vegetable diet
Now even Ohio Is said to be wet
The country seems to feel about
the old rum demon as so many
wives feel about their husbands
after having them arrested. They
ara angry at FIRST, then ask the
Judge to let the husband go, just
this time.
However, the really great prob
lem OF the world Is far away from
prohibition II Is locked up in this
question:
VIII the nations OF Europe, all
OF the big ones, England included,
g into bankruptcy? There is dam
ger that it may happen, and very
serious danger. The German mark,
par value 35 cents, is worth about
two cents. II Germany can't pay,
France can't meet obligations. IL
France goes, England will have
hard work surviving. and only q
heavy cut into capital, legal con-
nscation OF accumulated wealth,
can save the dzy. And that may
The plight OF France is desper-
ate, for the Frenchman, paying
afne francs for one dollar, when
he buys IN America, his only big
market. must pay in francs, even
az our high prices, eighty per cent
more than the apparent cost
1t used TO be said, glibly, that a
world-war would mean world bank
ruptcy. The glib saying may be-
come solemn, serious fact.
The selfish question here Is,
what will happen to US with Europe
bankrupt? A merchant is not
happy when all his customers are
In bankruptcy.
And there are worse things than
Bankruptcy, as you might have
learned yesterday from an Italian
gentleman. Just come from Nigeria,
in very hot Africa
There, in the land of the Chow
Chow tribe, the English are work
ing alluyial deposits of tin, in a
barren land swept by tropical
rains.
Loss of their tin does not worry
the natives; they have no need Of
it. They live stark naked, men and
women. and carry no dinner pals.
But they miss their food supply,
which used to consist Of men and
women captured in war. England
has ordered, dig tin, don't fight"
Now, this is dreadful truth, not
ncrlOn-Lne natives eat DEAD hu-
man bodies. Superstition does not
let them eat each other within the
tribal family, so one family ex-
changes its dead person for some
dead human outside the family
group. And civilization, working
on creatures not ready for it, es-
tablishes something worse even
than cannibalism. 1t is hard to
make people perfect overnight.
Sometimes, with the best of inten-
lions, you make them worse.
An intelligent young woman
sends this request: please start
the following discussion - When,
at what age, is a woman most at
trsctiye to nenT
The discussion ought to be
started undoubtedly somewhere,
with plenty of room for the sub
ject. A general, almost satisfac-
TORY, answer is that it depends on
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