Evening star., 1936-10-05

vegetable. We include under this desig-
nation the various greens" as well as
the fruits. With them may be mixed
chicken, potatoes, rice and 50 on. through
almost the entire list of edibles.
II we keep well in mind the primary
derivation from the word salt" however.
We see at once that many things are be-
coming incorporated in salads which
have no real right there, perhaps.
It Is much to the credit Of humanity
and Its basic common sense, that salads
Of raw vegetables and fruit were the
vogue long before the modern discovery
Of the vitamins.
The basic value of salads lies precisely
in the vitamins, however. They furnish
the real value Of such things, whether
the consumer realizes 1t or not. You
often hear the witticisn, How did people
get along before they knew anything
about vitamins?"
BY eating them, Of course.
That is the answer and very interest,"
ing one. In the old days, before people
had ever heard of the vitamins and
the part they play in the human econ
omy, the person on a fairly diversified
diet got his vitamins by eating out of
the home garden.
Because the foods used in typical
salads are mostly Impressed in any
way, the modern must depend upon them
largely for his vitaminS. While there
are other basic values to fruits and
vegetables. in the raw, such as their
mineral content, and their bulk, the big
thing they furnish is the vitamin con-
tent.
They must be cleaned with extra care
and must be whole and sound in every
way. Even at the best, however, it is
scarcely possible to get all the various
vitamins one needs through the salad
route, since to do so would be to have
a greater capacity for these things than
even the most enthusiastic salad eater
possesses.
Perhaps the famous lotus eater Of the
poem was a salad eater, after all, and
was merely getting his vitamins ahead
of time.
Tomato lettuce. cucumber. green pep
per, hard boiled egg, chicken, tuna
These are some Of the edibles combined
in salads.
Then there are the various straight
fruit salads, particularly relished by men.
lneSe, as class, 90 not IKE tnelr SALADS
too "fussy." They prefer them with few,
rather than many, ingredients.
Many men have not got over the belief
that salad is anything but a conces-
sion to femininity. Perhaps some per-
sonal research into the history OF vita
minis and their present lore would do a
great deal to change their minds in this
respect. A salad is as masculine as
cigar, properly regarded. 1t ought to
help put the "he" into the famous "he-
man." At any rate, good salad is some
thing to think about. Preferably it is
reserved for one meal a day.
One of the best things about salad
is that with most Of them the consumer
can eat as much as he wants, because
they are not filling" in the ordinary
sense of the word. Thus 1t is possible
in a salad at dinner to consume great
deal of singularly good roughage. with
out becoming so full that the remainder
of the meal cannot be eaten. This is a
homely, but very practical thing to think
about. The versatility of the salad is
one of its best features. If a person does
not like the appearance Of the usual
mixtures, let him eat the components
separately and they will amount to the
same thing.