Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-12-18

Living On Vegetables.
Eating the Dead.
National Bankruptcy?
The Attractive Age?
By Arthur Brisbane


DR.. Oldfeld, famous English doc
tor. says you can live 105 years if
you will live on dandaiion leaves.
grapes. milk and honey.
Cornaro, famous Italian. lived To
4Ui on red wine, meat, fish, fruit,
etc.
Some would prefer Cornaros re
cipe TO the dandelion leaves. Bur
there is thus far no prohibition
concerning the latter, so we should
be grateful TO the Englishman fer
his information
There is anothe~ gentleman with
diet theory. He says he vii
"circle the earth ealing raw vege-
tables" Perhaps he viii, but what
OF i? Any donkey can circle the
earth eating raw veEets bles. but he
can do little thinking as he goes.
Tolstoi and Wagner both tried
vegetables-both found they coula
live, nicely but they could NOT
work with their heads.
The dark gentleman can row
heavy boat up the Nile on a few
handfuls Of grain. But a meat eat.
ing, alcohol using Englishman Is
his boss and other meat eaters. ever
since the days OF Augustus have
bossed him Ages turn rock into
soil; earthworms eat the soil. make
it fertile; soil produces grass; the
OK spends two years digesting the
grass, turning 1t 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 sue
cess of 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
are angry at fist. then ask the
Judge 10 let the husband go, just
this time.
However. the really greet prob
lem Of the world is far away from
prohibition. 1t is locked up in this
question:
will the nations OF Europe, all
OF the big ones, England included,
go into bankruptcy? There is dan
ger thai L may happen, and very
serious Z 1ger. The German mark,
par yalue Is cents, is worth about
two cents. IL Germany can't pay,
France can't meet obligations. If
France goes, England will have
hard work surviving. and only a
heavy cut into capital, legal con
fiseatiOn of accumulated wealth, can
save the day And that may not
save it.
The plight of France is desper-
ate, for the Freachman. paying nine
francs for one dollar. when he buys
in America, his only big market,
must pay in francs, even at our high
prices, eighty per cent more than
the apparent cast.
The selfish question here is:
What will happen to Us with Eu-
rope 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 alluvial deposits r. tin IN
barren land swept BY al rains.
Loss OF their tin dc OF worry
the natives; they have no need OF
1t. 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.
J Now, this is dreadful truth, not
hction-the natives eat dead hui
man bodies. Superstition does not
let thom 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 il. e5tab-
fishes something worse even than
cannibsism. It is hard to make
people perfect overnight Some
times. with the best Of intentions,
YOU make them worse.
An Intelligent young woman
Mend this request: please start
H. following Discussion: When. AZ
ga age, is woman most attEae-
Give to men "
Tho discussion ought to be start
ei. undoubtedly. somewhere, with
plenty OF room for the subject. A
general, ALMOST satisfactory, ans
wer is that it depends on the man.
CLEOPATRA, old and ugly, not bit
like Theodore, was loved by An
tony because he wanted her Egyp-
tan money ana her empire You
ought to read Ferrero. in his long
history, not the recent short one,
on that subject
Here follow extracts from an in
terview with wise woman:
"a foolish man, not able to ap-
nreciate intelligence, admires only
half-developed women Wise men