The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-07

those from anOI ner territory. And so with everything, There must be expense either in the gathering, the transportation or the preparation. Otherwise, why be rich!
 The early Greeks and the early Ro- mans were fairly healthy people, They used many herbs. Then they waXed rich and herbs became too or dinary. Sn scurvy developed among them, not among the rich who got their fruit juices. but among the slaves in the.r households, who were fed only upon the scraps.
 And curious thing happened When the slaves got the loathsome scurvy. their employers drove them out of their houses, and as there was no other place to go, they took refuge in the mountains or the forests. There they had to live upon whatever they could iind-wild plants. roots, herbs, fruits. with an occasional morsel of snake scorpion. toad or worm for llavoring
 The green things of course cured the scurvy, but, as they didn't know that when they returned to the city, they gave the credit to the snakes and the scorpions and the toads.
 Quacks and charlatans took up these cures, and so through the centuries there have been some weird broths and stews recommended for the cure of scurvy.
 Now, though, there is hardly a per son who hasn't heard that vegetables and fruits are very essential If we are to have healthy, balanced diet. There is no mlli0naire-if any mil. lionaires are left-who is so rich that he can get along without the common vegetables on his table. He can't ban ish the cabbage family and not regret it. and carrots and spinach and dande lions come on his table, too. He has learned that If you want to be healthy you have to obey the rules of health and one of those rules is-green yege table the better.
 Indeed, the strange fact is that now the people in this country who use the fewest vegetables are the farmers who make their living from the soil. This indictment does not hold true of course for all farmers. There are many farmers who live most sensibly and intelligently. They set the bes: table imaginable But to each of these there are hundreds whose meals day after day consist of bread and cereals, meat potatoes, beans, jams. pie and cake and coffee. They can go weeks on end without having fresh fruit or T single vegetable.
 The automobile Is undoubtedly part. ly responsible for this limited menu. In the old days every farmer, no mat ter what his major crop was, planted kitchen garden. Or maybe his wife did it. And from that garden went bushels of carrots, turnips, rutabagas, onions, beets and cabbage into root cellars or deep trenches to give va riety and taste to the winter meals. There were barrels of apples. Celery was laid out to blanch. In the fall the kitchen was redolent with the fragrance of pickles preserved in vine gar and spices.
 Now what has happened? Since the advent Of the automobile. no one wants 10 stay home to tend the garden IF to put up fruit. The women argue, | ,rI.F., l nb int nf canning, why should we bother?' And he men say, Modern refrigeration .ars have made it possible to ship green vegetables from California or Texas or Florida all winter now, and they sell very cheapy."
 This is all good logic and it would be fine if it were carried through. But the trouble is the money crop on the farm doesn't always bring in money, and then there isn't the cash to buy these foods from the grocer, for after Ill the grocer does charge more than if you raised them yourself. And then gasoline costs money.
 It would seem logical that farmers md village people who may have clean air just by stepping outside their ioOrs, should be the nations healthiest people. Eut it Is the city people that nave this distinction. And the reason is chiehy-an abundance of green vegetables in the diet.
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