The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-02-04

They are deserving people, and you
feel ii a duty TO help them along, so
the first thing you know your mail box
is jammed full of literature. Having
paid for it. you feel that you ought to
read ii, and your life is ruined thereby.
When was young, the magazines
tried to entertain people. They had
good stories and Poets Corner, and
department devoted to timely jokes.
and another to household hints and do
nestle recipes. There was some sense
in reading a magazine then. for ii
soothed and sustained you But now
adays the magazine editors consider Il
their duty to harrow your soul and
make your hair stand on end like
quiils upon the porkful fretcupine, or
words to that effect They are always
viewing with alarm, and trying to con-
vince you that you take your life in
your hand every five minutes.
They have lot of health special
lists writing for them, and these health
sharps point out that pretty near ev-
erything you eat and drink is deadly
poison. They didn't scare me to any
great extent, for am most intrepid
man, but they soon had my wife so
ratified she didn't know whether she
was going or coming
Il always was passionately fond Of
good cup of coffee. and my wife could
make the best coffee, you ever heard
of. She went to work at 1t like a
learned apothecary compromising a
prescription. There was no guess
work about it. She took an honest
pride in it and her coffee was a reye-
latiOn to every consumer. / used to lie
awake at night wishing it was break
fast time, so could have my morning
cup Of coffee.
But one morning when went to
the table the coffee was missing. In
its place there was a sickIy beyerage1
had never seen before. asked an ex-
PLANTATION. and my wife said that no
more coffee would be made in our
house The wonder is said she, that
we still live and move and have our be
ing, for coffee is a rank poison. II you
read DR.. Zinkfoogle's article in the
Junkopolitan Magazine. you viii see
that coffee contains a large percentage
of tanAin, which is so deadly that il
you place a drop on the tongue of an
alligator, it viii roll over, dead"
Il told her that had no alligators
on the premises, and consequently could
not try the experiment, but / assured
her that didn't care anything about
the poison. 1 wanted my coffee at
regular hours. She said I'd have to
keep on wanting. She thought too
much of me TO send me TO an untimely
grave. And, anyhow, she explained
DR.. Zinkfoogle had told how to make
substitute for coffee that was perfect
IL wholesome. She had followed his
instructions, and the result was before
me. Perhaps it didn't taste as good as
coffee, but it was wholesome. 1t would
fill my veins with red cOrpuscles and
restore hair to my bald head. 1t was
made of marrowfat peas which had
been carefully roasted In hot oven.
in order TO get cup OF coffee after
that 1 had to make a sneak to the
chop house, and the kind dished up
there made me old before my time. My
wife cut out all my fayorite dishes be-
cause DR.. Zinkfoogle or some other
magazine writer denounced them. and
finally I was living on roasted peas
coffee and boiled spinach. and l con-
eluded that if I had TO feed like the
cows I'd live like them, so came to
the forest Businesses"