The New York herald., 1922-10-08

the world" when it was Saturday by crying
out for baked beans-and have them cold
for Sunday. Plymouth Rock persists
But the gospel spreads America, for
hundred years so noisily content with itself,
is becoming aware of the rest of the world.
1t is withal learning the simple wisdom Of
vittles which older peoples have worked
out through centuries of experience, albeit
most of them with far narrower range of
raw material. Science. as might have been
expected, finds that the workers of the
Old World have been going right along on
perfectly balanced schedule since good
ness knows when, without ever having
heard of a calory or a vitamine.
Food science is a good deal like agricul-
ture Coburn of Kansas made an enor-
nous splash some years ago by introduc-
ing alfalfa to the West. He added mil
lions to the agricultural wealth of the
country and in his home State is almost
canonzed. But go to the library and get
book called-if 1 remember rightly
Roman Farming" 1t is merely a transla-
ton of the writings of Cato and Varro on
agriculture. All the fine inventions that
the Department of Agriculture proclaims
in bulletins, the use of clovers to draw nj
trogen from the air, and all the rest of it,
were old in Cato's day, and alfalfa-alfalfa
was the key of the whole agricultural bus
iness in ancient Italy, just as it is of Kan
sas to-day. The farmers of the world had
forgotten their one best bet
There's noise about soy beans, too. They
are new tangled cow feed, which seven
eighths of the farmers Of America look
on as a freak but they hold some "a per
cent. of protein, and the man who has
world knows that China has used them for
thousands of years in a thousand forms,
in the feeding of it's 400, 1000, 900 of highly
provocative people. They even make can
dy of them. China is old and wise. Its
knowledge of how to live on little is what
enables it to ship eggs to the United
States at ten cents dozen. You've eaten
Chinese eggs, but you didn't know it, for
"hens is hens" whether they cluck in
Human or Greene county.
What 1 should like to see-but assured
fy never willis a food show where there
was no advertising booth for this or that
Grano-Grapo -Grits, or anybody's sausage
or bacon or petrified plum pudding sold by
all dealers; a food show where people of
all the worlds races should prepare for the
enlightenment and amusement of the null
titude their racial foods in their own way.
and eat 'em with whatever substitute for
chopsticks they may be in the habit of
using. Then let the food analysts get to
work and figure out the calories and cap
ture the vitamines and embalm the re-
suits in a comprehensive memorial for the
good of future generations. They would
be able to tell to a dot what rice and fish
do in the building of the nimbe and mus
cular Japanese and why. They would solve
what to me has always been a mystery
how the French Canadian fisherman can
live the hard life he does and for six or
eight months of the year go practically
without sleep, fight the sea, drift for bait,
clean his catch, load and unload, and for
half the day haul two Goldfish at every
cast up through $50 feet of water-and do
1t all on diet of nothing in the wide
world but hot tea and bread and butter
1 know the chemistry of the diet is
sound, because if it We're not the Canadian
fisherman would have been extinct long
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