Milford chronicle., 1931-10-16
GLENDALE
InlprOpe: Diet

is caused by improper diet.
We often speak of the health Ol
our fathers and mothers who lived
in the early ages, and how hearty
and robust they were, even when
old.
But we must take into cOnsidera-
tion the food used in those early
days and compare it with the food
now being used.
We know the doctors prescribe a
diet which if adhered to would prove
beneficial to the human race, but
how often the American people es-
pecially make a diet of their own,
which generally proves disastrous
to the users until the people have
become almost a race of dyspeptics.
This living on canned goods, as
many now are doing and often the
quality of the goods they use. IS not
any too good, producing as it often
does ptomaine poisoning which endS
in severe sickness or death.
The farmers of the old days seem
to have thrived well on the food us
ed in those times Hog and hominy
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dishes served in many of the lar
mers' homes, while the farmers III
the old days raised about what they
needed to keep their families. Hogs,
beef. chickens and vegetables of all
kinds were freely used in the sum
mer. and the same meats were used
through the winter months, with a
plenty of cabbage, turnips, potatoes
of both kinds, with few parsnips
and carrots to give the meats their
proper flavor.
Then the farmer had his sausage
and scrapple add a few buckwheat
cakes and you have a breakfast fit
for any man to eat.
Perhaps some one has said that
hogs head and cabbage or hogs head
and turnips are a very fine dish. We
agree with them. Nothing could he
better, only we have neglected to
mention hogs jOwl and turnip
greens, the best of all, the one Gish
that has the power to smooth down
our ruffled dispositions, to take the
frOwn from our brOws, and make
us feel at peace with our fellow
men.
Moreover, the farmers had his |
canned goods put up by the faithful |
wives, who are always on the look |
out to do something which will give |
the tired husbandsmen pleasure and |
they knew by whose hands they |
were packed and while eating them
there was no fear of ptOmaine pois-
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things which the early farmers had
to eat, hut in those early days they
seem to thrive we'll on what they
had
The walking which they INDUCED
in behind the plow, harrow and
other farming utensils kept their
systems in fine condition, and able
at all times to digest the heavy food
which they had to take to keep their
strength from diminishing - but
since the advent of tractors, riding
harrows and other improved ma
chinery which causes the farmer to
have to ride and takes away from
him that exercise which he used to
have by walking and in consequence
we now hear the farmers say they
are bother with stomach trouble or
other diseases, which were scarcely
known in the early days.
The business men, clerks and la
boring men now ride to their work
in automobiles where in the old
days they used to walk and breathe
that life-giving air which nature
furnishes to all those who desire
it.
The walking which they did kept
them in fit condition and their ap-
pearance was what nature intended
them to be, robust and qualified at
all times to accomplish first class
work. Now some of them under the
new system, riding instead of walk
ing. look like the last rose of sum-
mer and a ghost like appearance at
tached to them at all times.
This plan if continued will gener-
ally end in illness. which if not
abandoned and the old routine
mode of living resumed, they will
not live half their days out.
Yes, the American people have be-
come a race of dyspeptics. The far
mers in the old days seemed to be
exempt, but since abandoning walk
ing as an exercise, they, too, have
much illness to contend with.
We don't need a physician to tell
us what to eat and what not TO cat,
but common sense should teach us
some things, and one of them is that
we cannot eat heavy food without
sufficient exercise in digesting it.
Nor can we use with safety some of
the foreign canned goods which are
not good perhaps for the human
system. We don't want to become
one of those class of people who
are constantly complaining of sto-
mach trouble and whose life by the
presence of this diseases and we
cannot eat any food without filling !
ourselves with pepsin, charcoal. or
other drugs which are said to aid us ,
in digesting our food.
Let us take up the old routine of
living which was in vogue one hun !
ired years ago and sec il ourselves
and our children don't show u more
healthy appearance than they do at =
he present time. 1t is worth try
ng. =
The ChrOnicIe-Ol And New ,
The writer was very much pleas
I'd to receive a facsimile of the Z
irst copy of the Chronicle, printed L
IN October 1, 1878. I
We do not think tIat Messrs.
Scott and TOWngpnd nsrd n bo Il