The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-11-20

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

DIR. Oidfield, Famous EnKnSn c0c-
tor. says you can live los years i
you will live on dandelion leaves,
grapes, milk and honey.
Cornaro. famous Italian, lived to lo4
on red wine. meat, fish, fruit,etc.
Some would prefer Cornaro's re-
cipe to the dandelion leaves. But
there is thus far no prohibition on
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 "cir-
Gle the earth eating raw vegetables"
Perhaps he will, but what Of it? Any
donkey can circle the earth eating raw
vegetables. but he can do little think
ing as he goes. Tolstoi and Wagner
both tried vegetables found
they could live nicely, but they could
not work with their heads.
The dark gentleman can row a
heavy boat up the Nile on few hand
fuls of grain. But meat eating, al
cohol using Englshman 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 pro-
duces grass; the OK spends two years
digesting the grass, turning it 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 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 hav-
ing them arrested. They are angry at
first, then ask the judge to let the hus-
band 60, just this time.
However, the really great problem
the world is far away from prohibi-
ton. 1t is locked up in this question:
"Will the nations of Europe, all
of the big ones, England included go
into bankruptcy? There is danger
that it may happen, and very ser
ious danger. If German mark, par va
lue % cents, is worth about two cents
If Germany can't pay, France can't
meet obligations. II France goes,
England will have hard work surviv-
ing, and only heavy cut into CAPT
tai, legal confiscation of accumulated
wealth, can save the day. And that
may not save it."
The plight of France is desperate,
for the Frenchman, paying nine francs
for one dollar, when he buys in Ameri-
ca, his only big market, must pay in
francs, even at our high prices, eighty
per cent more than the apparent cost.
1t used to be said, glibly, that
world war would mean bankruptcy.
The glib saying may become solemn,
serious fact.
The selfish question here is: What
will happen to us with Europe bank
rupt? 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 working alluvial
/ 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 fic-
tion-the natives eat dead human
bodies Superstitution does not let
them eat each other within the tribal
family, so one family exchanges it's
dead person for some dead human out
side the family group. And civiliza-
ton. working on creatures not ready
| fort, establishes something worse
even than cannibalism. 1t is hard to
make people perfect overnight. Some
times, with the best Of intentions, you
make them worse.
An intelligent young woman sends
!! this request: please start the fol-
lowing discussion: When, at what age,
is woman most attractive to men 2"
The discussion ought to be started
undoubtedly. somewhere, with plenty
Of room for the subject. A general,
almost satisfactory, answer is that it
depends on the man. Cleopatra, old
and ugly, not a bit like Theodore, was
loved by Anthony, because he wanted
her Egyptian money and her empire
You ought to read Ferrero, in his long
history, not the recent short one, on
that subject.
Here follow extracts from an inter-
view with a wise woman:
"A foolish man, not able to appre-
ciate Intelligence. admires only half
| developed woman. Wise men look for
/ intelligence, care little about the age
/ Wise men are few
/ Plato thinks women should wait I'M
i til after thirty to have children. Ma
| ture, lacking sufficient population.
pushes all into matrimony as rapidly
1 as possible She NAV sion that uhan