Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05

Sometimes it seems rs If nothing that
q person likes to eat Is supposed 10 DC
Cofiee. meat, white bread, cake,
candy-these and scores OF others are
branded Ubiquitous for some reason or
other.
| tangent several years ago on the whole
group mentioned, together with several
other delicious foodStuf1s everybody
likes.
He heroicaIly denied himself flrst one,
then the other; sometimes few at a
time, sometimes all together.
He at last woke up to what ne still
| believes to be the truth Of the matter
| that it is not the eating Of any or all
/ Of them, but the OVERRIDING OF one or
many which causes trouble
Eaten in moderation, there is no par
! ticular reason why a person In what Is
called normal health cannot eat with
propriety any or all of the commodities
which have from time to time been
The word bad is a large one. 1t
may mean almost anything. Quite often
it focuses some ones opinion about some
one else or some thing.
The curious thing, is that what Is
regarded as bad" by one authority
often is held good" by another.
What one age calls bad may turn
out to be good for the next, as time
and fashion change, and with them
mems opinions.
Take the question of the tomato, for
instance. Many persons can recall
! when this fruit was regarded as a curl
osity and called the "love apple" A
cousin Of the potato, 1t was for long
regarded in this country as a cause of
disease. Even the potato in Shake
speare's day was looked upon with sus-
plcion and had a quality ascribed to it
which any one may read about in the
large dictionaries.
Today the tomato is held In high
regard for its vitamin content. 1t not
only furnishes standard salad, but also
its Juice is becoming increasingly popu-
lar for babies. Raw or canned, the to-
mato is household standard food
throughout the country that only few
years ago feared 1t.
While there has been no popular mis-
conception Of cotfee as general thing,
there can be little doubt that almost
every one who drinks 1t comes to regard
it with suspicion sooner or later. This
is Q personal and individual matter.
/ He may even 60 to the extent OF
1OI y Willie I4Adb A4C AAIOSO Save
It UP altogether. He may do so for .
time, but If he likes the taste he Will
ccme back again.
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And it would seem that our hypo-
thetical coffee drinker is right in oolng
so. It Is not the use but the abuse Of
coffee which hurts. Not every one Is q
Beethoven to drink IS cups of an eve
ming, or a Poe to consume coffee all
day long. or even yet q certain Center
Market stand owner who is said to have
drunk 43 cups of coffee q day and
grown fat on them.
As a general proposition 1t may be
set down that each coffee drinker must
find out the susceptibility Of his own
system to the caffein content of the
brew and drink well below this, espe-
cia1ly after certain age, varying with
different persons.
Doctors seem to agree that coffee
without cream Is better for one, but
many drinkers do not gare for 1t
black" The only thing to do, then,
! is to drink it with plenty of cream in
1t, but to watch ones self rather care
fully. and the moment adverse symp-
! toms are noticed to cut 1t out for a
time. With many persons there seems