Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES z. TRACEwELL.

to be a sort of backing-up process. a.
what used to be called "biliousness'
occurs. A weeks abstinence from cof-
fee will work wonders. As rule people
more than 80 years Of age ought not tc
drink coffee after IL o'clock In the
morning or IL noon.
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Meat, white bread, cake. csndy-wC
will take them as fairly representative
Of all other food5tuffs which sometimes
come under the ban of the reformerS
They are said to lack certain vital sub
stances, or have too much Of something
or other. or load up the system, or dc
something else.
Their unacceptable merit is that they
studied even slightly the history and
art Of preparing food for human con-
sumption knows that the taste has a
great deal to do with it, especially in a
civilization where so many persons dc
not indulge in the old-fashioned sweat
of the brow" which made even a crust
Of bread taste good.
The truth is that thousands of people
today do not know what 1t is to be
hungry. They are surfeited with food
Almost any one In young middle age
can surprise himself, If he will, by how
little food he can live on comfortably
eyer, according to the best wisdom OF
such food scientists as DR.. McCollum OF
Johns Hopkins University.
IT he uses his head in regard to his
stomach. he may eat his cake If he
likes cake, or eat his meat and not
suffer anything in particular which
may be traced directly to any one GER
tain foodstuff. Consider candy. Candy
is a concentrated food. Even the man.
ufacturers today are advising Their
patrons to eat sweetmeats at the END
of meal, instead Of sitting down with
novel and q pound or two of choco-
lates. They realize that discretion Ii
the better part of valor, and that mod.
Grafton, widely spread out, is better than
stunning, for all concerned.
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The modern minded person accepts
with a grain of wholesome salt all great
claims for or against anything. He
permits himself to believe that II q
thing has held on for hundreds Of year;
there is perhaps some good in 1t some
where.
He is willing to concede that the mis-.
use Of q commodity often deserves the
blame which Is placed, willy-nilly, upor
the commodity ITSELF. Yet ne reserves
the right to reject In his own case Il
experience seems to prove to him thai
o commodity is harmful to his being
constituted as he is.
The Golden Mean-"not too much o!
anything" as the Romans put tire
mains the standard of the man OF
woman who takes an intelligent interest
in intelligence. Every one short Of ar
idiot has some sort of mental equip
ment, but many act as If they did not
Experience teaches them nothing They
seem TO be unable to deduce anything
even when 1t is as plain as the nose or
their face.
The person who takes a normal pride
in his brain power, of whatever quality
and quantity it may be, will prefer Il
Judge the foodstuffs. among othel
things, upon their own merits in hi
own case. He would not care to be
either a food crank" or a food booster
He eats and drinks with his eyes open
and II something or other-or too much
Of that something-gives him indigeS'
ton. he Is willing to "let up" on 1t fol
a time, or forever II he deems 1t neces'
sary. He likes to remember that many
widely abused foods do have a mighty
good taste, and that where there Is SC
much taste there must be some good.