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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,; SUNDAY - MORNING. MARCH 9.-. 1913.
Copyright; 1913, It the gta Company, Great Britain Right Reserved
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The GOOD . .,
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Combinations
Vhy It Isn't "Something" You Eat, But "Everything" You Eat That Hurts You
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Of
food
By EUGENE CHRISTIAN, F.S.D.
vtt tHETHER our food will give good or bad results
rX depends upon three laws: : , ' "
- Firsts-Selection, ' ; '
. Second Combination, end - - 1
Third Proportion. - " '
Food must be selected bo as to give the body all
the elements of nourishment It requires. It must be
combined so as to produce chemical harmony. As a
. Each article of food not only produces a definite re
sult In the body but It has a certain action npon other
foods with which' it Is combined at the same meal The
more one studies the food question, especially with
the view of making it remove the causes of stomach.
. and intestinal trouble, the more Inclined we are toward
simplicity in feeding. Some scientists are now claim
lng that the Mono-diet system that Is, eating only one
thing at a meal is the true and scientific, way to lire.
This may be swinging the pendulum of food reform too
far in one direction, but there is no question, but what ,
the ordinary "table d'hote" and "course" dinneT Is also
swinging it too far In the other direction: - ,
- Hoods, all that are needed by the body, might tie
divided Into eight classes namely, fata, , eggs, milk,
nuts, grains, vegetables, fruits, sugars. v 1
The body demands a certain amount of sugar, but
sweets should not be taken at the close of the meal
after we have eaten quite, enough of a dozen other
things. No better way could be devised to produce
chemical inbarmony than the Introduction of sweets at
the close, of the meal.; When, one has a craving for
sweets they should eat a' meal composed of nothing
else. Take two or three ordinary services of Ice cream
and then drink three or four glasses of water, enough
rule, the appetite, or, more properly speaking, hunger, ' .t,, neutralize the sugar and prevent supersecretlon of
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unless these senses have been perverted, aid us greatly
' In selection, but we have no guide in combining our
food that Is, selecting the different things that go to
make up a meal, except common sense, or knowledge of
the chemstry of fool ' s ' '
Every article or food we eat possesses a definite
.chemistry, and if eaten1 alone will produce In the body
a definite result; therefore eating can be reduced to a
science If We would give to It as much study as we do
to other branches of learning. . .
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TABLE OF DIGESTIVE HARMONIES.
' Key to Table.
2. Especially beneficial.
2. Good combinations. ,
a. Somewhat undesirable. -4.
Particularly harmful. . '
FATS.
(Such as Butter, Salad Oils, Cream, Etc.)
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.Fats and eggs
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' Fats and milk
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iFats and nuts
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Fats and grains
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' Fats and vege
tables with....
Fats - and acid
fruits with.;.
Fats and sweet
fruits with...
.Fata and sugars
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hydrochloric acid. ' A meal of this kind would be en
tirely agreeable, and it would satisfy the craving for
sweets. ..-' -
The following table gives a method by which both
good and bad combinations of food may be shown. I tmmmTm'-
can only give one table as a sample. In order to make After the Stomach Hat Cried "Enough,''
this system complete It would require eight tables, or Swoota Will Tempt Taato to Cry
as many tables as there are articles. Each table would f "More," but the Stomach la
show sixty-four combinations; : the eight tables would , ., ' Always , Eight and More
snow over are hundred combinations. . ; ; . . ; v Would Be Harmful.
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We like to see a large number of things on the
dining table, just because we have been raised that
way. For many thousand years woman's field ot use-'
fulness and sphere" of action were "confined to the
kitchen. She bad no outlet for her ambition except to '
excel as a cook. This led naturally up to the "groan-"
tog table." The woman that could prepare the most
things in the greatest number of varieties was con- '
eldered the greatest woman In the community. The.
' ten-course dinner Is the lineal descendant of the old
idea of "a feast at every meaLT, v
The treating habit,' our prohibition friends say, 14
largely responsible for the evil of alcoholism. In eat
ing, tte .treating habit Is a"; little more" genteel, -but '
fundamentally the same. Eating does and should give
os pleasure, and our pleasures we like to share with
our friends.' Thus the banquet Idea, ' -
The "groaning tabie"! was the ffrst or primitive form
in which wealth was displayed, and the pleasure of
possessing wealth. comes largely from' displaying it to
others. This habit led logically from the private feast
to the banquet hall, and our present habit of discussing
great social and politico-economic problems over the)
dinner table is the shadow of this ancient custom.
'Eating should be for a definite purpose. That pui"
pose should be to raise the body to the highest degree '
of energy, and vitality that it Is, capable of taking, and,
if possible, to constantly increase Its capacity If the
food question was studied from this point of view it
would eliminate from our customs the 'course dinner,"
the ."groaning table" and . the habit of insisting "do :
have some more,.' and, on the contrary,' it would have
a tendency to reduce the number of articles eaten at :
each meal to Just what the body required measured by
Us age, the time of the year, and the work it had tcj
perform. 1 1 , ' ,
After one has eaten a sufficient quantity and the
taste has signalled enough, something sweet puts Into
activity another set of taste buds which will accept a
given quantity of sweets after the stomach had given
the signal of enough. 'Aside from the chemical disturb
ance likely to be caused, every pennyweight taken in
excess Is just that much that cannot be utilized in the
process of metabolism, and hence must be cast out ot
the ody at a tremendous expense of energy.
The less complicated that is, the fewer things wet
take at each meal, the more perfect will be digestion
and assimilation, which is, after all, the result we jet
sire, -
The Difference Between a
Rich and POOR MAN'S GOUT
BHTSICIANS really recognize two forms
of gout, which they naturally call "Rich,
man's "gout", and "Poor inan'S gout,
since one form falls to the lot of only the
very wealthy, except In rare cases, while the
other sort afflicts the poor man.
The rich man's gout, as Is well known, ;
comes from a combination ofsOveMatlng, eat- '
lng too rich and indigestible foods and drink
ing too much rare wine; while the poor man's
gout Is generally a combination of not euffl- "
cient really good nourishment and altogether t .
too much malt,' and alcohol from the . cheap V
Uquors he drinks;" 1 0:1
Frequently the -poor man drinks quantities r
of malt liquors instead of . eating a hearty
meal "because the liquors relieve the sensation'
of hunger to a great degree and are pleasant
to take.- Or the poor man may drink the rile
oheap liquors solely because he is discouraged
with his lot. and the stuff helps him forget,
;: temporarily, ' . vi:i,ar;
But different treatment is needed for rtcK
man's gout and poor man's gout, and natu
rally, since they are brought on because of ,
different reasons. Abernethy, a noted English
physician, ones said, ?The rich man can cure
bis gout by living on . sixpence a day and
earning it I Vv " -y-
.Ot course, tbis means that any one suffer- .
lng with gout as a result of over-eating, and v
of eating indigestible foods and drinking too
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rmuoh rich wine, can, find, "a cure by 1 living
upon the simplest and plainest of foods and
taking a great deal of exercise. " ,
A sixpence may' be considerably too low a
sum for the man in these times to hope to
live on, as It is only twelve cents, but If the
rich man of this country who is suffering with
gout would live ou a dollar a day and do the
work that dollar-a-day laborers have to dot he
would soon find his gout disappear, hi ap
petite good, his digestion nearly perfect and
his general health about fifty per cent fm-
In other words, a strict diet of plain food
and little of that, together wrth plenty of
exercise, is the best cure for the gout of the
rich man, . ,
But when the poor , man has gout it is gen
erally called something else, because bo few
people understand that there really Is a form
of gout a poor man can have. The best treat
ment for him is, of course, total abstinence
from all malt and. alcoholic drinks and suf
ficient plain Ait hearty food. ' ,y
f: Tet, when It is said that the treatment for
poor man's gout ajaxgely educational and
political rather tnan medical," it is hinting
that he needs educating more than the Tich
man. , As a matter of fact, tho really poor
man seems to have a bigger and better excuse
for taking to drink than the rich man has for
ruining his health with gastronomlcal solids
and liquids, ,:
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Keeping Out Dampness.
THE best way to keep a bed from becoming dampT If left for any length
of time, is to leave a blanket on the top after It Is made. Take the
blanket off before using, and you will find the bed quite dry, as the
blanket absorbs the molsturOj ' r
: r To Keep Palms Green.
r ALMS sponged with milk and water do not develop the withered brown
7 'Pots on their leaves which are frequently to be seen on them when
: f 1 sponged with "water only. ' " 1
r Restoring Tan Shoes.
A GOOD way to clean brown shoes, when they have become a dirty,
almost black color is to rub them -well with a piece of cloth dlppped
;J " In bentlns or gasoline, r This makes them almost their original
color. ' ' " '-" ' : ".. ';' " .
Potatoes for Flowers.
F LOWERS can be kept fresh for quite a long time by placing their
stems in a pototo. Bore holes In the pototo with a skewer and in
sert the stems and place the potato In a dark bowl and no water
Is required. . '
Just How the Word
"PARADISE" Was ORIGINATED
r-r-iIIE word Paradise Is not found In the
I - Old Testament until the Greek trans- "
lators, who made, the Septuagint, K
translated the Hebrew words for the, Garden i
of Eden by that Greek word, Paradelsos,
which means a garden, and . was then taken
for the Garden, or as it was later; called
"The Garden of God." There can be no doubt f
. that the Hebrew idea was that this Garden -was
located in the East, and that the Garden ;
still exists, and to it all happy souls will some . ..
; day return. ; That is an idea which scholars
; claim was largely .: borrowed from the Per- f
.elans 'after the Hebrews came In to, contact
.with them. - - " '"
It is Interesting, therefore, to see what the -Persians
teach concerning Creation and Para-'
dlse. In the Persian Scripture, the Zenda
vesta, an evil demon, persuades the first ;
human ipalr that he . has created everything,
and that all good fortune will come to them
from Ahrlman, his patron. After thirty' days
they clothe themselves In black garments and
go hunting, when they shoot a white goat and
drink its sweet milk. Then evil comes indeed,
for evil spirits bring them fruits, and when
the man and woman have eaten they lose all
their virtues.' '
The followers of the Dalai Lama, In Thibet,
have another legend, that in this first great
Garden a sweet-tasting plant grew out of the
ground. One man tasted of this plant, and
the other did likewise, when all virtue and
good fortune ceased. Ages passed, and this
plant grew no more. Mankind fed upon a
kind of red butter, then upon grassland at
last they bad to cultivate the soil. Virtue had
departed from the earth, violence, murder and
faithlessness increased. :
How BABIES Are Relatively
Much STRONGER THAN MEN
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r A Strong Garment Loop.
LOOPS for hanging garments are always wearing out and breaklngTake
a strong cord, cover.lt with the kid from discarded gloves and sew
this to the garment for a loop, It will last as long as the garment
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Removing Mild from Clothes.
MANY people ruin the nap of the cloth In scraping mud from their
garments with a knife or sharp object' Take a coin, like a half
dollar, and scrape the, mud off with his after It is dry and it will
not harm the 'nap lp the least, " " .
Proof of How Our
EYES DECEIVE US
How to Avoid the MICROBE
DANGERS of IVan
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rHETHEB there is great danger in
the little transfer slips handed out'
by street car conductors is a ques
tion that Is mora or less In dispute. It has
been pointed out by medlca men that there '
Is always danger of contagion and especially
in coming in contact . with v saliva front
others. . . - w--,.-
Now the street car conductor who hands
out the transfer slips -by the hundreds every
day has a little block of them and when
people are crowding into his car he, almost
without exception, moistens the tip of hie
finger to better pick up an end of the slip
and tear It off. Then the passenger takes
this slip in Ms hand. '
v In this manner his fingers come In' contact
with the saliva from the conductor's mouth
and people are always placing their hands
Ch their face or handling candy or doing a
thousand and one other things that might
transfer germs fromlhelr fingers to some
' object that Is eaten or to some abrasion of
the skin on the face.
And yet it seems that street car conduc
tors are a rather healthy lot There Is noth
ing to indicate that they are in a business
that shows an unusual per cent of tubercular
victims. They handle thousands ; of coins
. and bills dally. Everyone knows that many
germs lodge on money. (These conductors
handle the money until their bands are
grimy, they continually wet the tips of their
fingers to moisten the transfer slips. Surely
their danger Is ten-fold greater than that ov
any passenger.
It eeems somewhat ironical thaC W thai
backs of many transfer slips is a printeq '
warning against expectorating in street cars
because of the dangers of tuberculosis,, and
yet these conductors must moisten these '
slips. It Is not their fault that they must
transfer their saliva to the transfers. They ,
cannot pick up the little "slips from the ;
blocks otherwise without wasting many mln V
ntes of valuable time.. It has been suggested ,
that these blocks of transfers be made with
, a bevel edge In such a manner that theyl
may be easily grasped and torn off without I
the necessity of moistening the finger and -transferring
their moisture to the slip everyi ,
time. ' '" . rs
It Is always safe, however, to avoid all
- such chances, and whether there la actually!
anr danger or not from these moistened
transfers, it is better to be on the right side
and take no chances. Do not take hold of
the moistened part of the transfer and hold
it away from your lap or magazine or news
paper until you can hand It to the next con-t
' ductor.'- 's--,:;:.,-:v'-.l:'-x. ,
A great many people take these transfers
. and, especially If their arms are full of bund
les, hold the slips In their mouth' for a mo
ment or two while getting seated or putting "
; change back in a purse. This is something ;
that should never be done. One would think;
everyone kne wbetter than this In these dayjj .
but it Is done ever; day,
EDICAL men assert that, according to
well-conducted tests. It is shown that
the new-born babe is relatively much
stronger than a full-grown man! The muscles
of the forearm are astonishingly vigorous." A
fow hours after birth a baby suspended by its
finger to a stick or to the finger of a grown
person can sustain itself in the air for about
' ten seconds in he case of particularly strong
infants for bo long a period as thirty seconds.
When four days old an appreciable increase
in the Infant's strength may be noticed, and,
the time during which It-can thus sustain it-
golf la about two and one-half minutes for;
ninety-eight per cent of babies. The maxl-
mum is attained in two weeks. Few infants
' can "hang on" for more than one and one-half
minutes, although it is of record that one ex
ceptionally developed child remained sus
pended for two minutes and thirty-eight sec
onds by his right hand. After that he con
tinued to hang on with his left for fifteen
seconds longer. ' v
. Other experiments along this line all went
to show ; that , If , man could keep up his
strength when he reached maturity in pro-liorticn-toe-strength-of-Ws-mfancyrhe
' would be at least twice as strong. ,
HE old tricks of deceiving the
eye by drawing , lines at
slightly, different angles are
easy to explain jhnt It Is not so easy
to explain the latest puzzle of the
bow-legged and ; knock-kneed men.
Here the plaids ;iook?very much
alike, yet there is a slight difference
In the angles of f these plaids, with
the result that one man, seems to
have his knees turn outward and the
"other to have his'turn '; inward." It
only proves how careful your tailor
must be when he makes your next
i plaid suit If your, legs are to look
; Straight.'.;;:; ( -
If you turn the paper so that it is
at a level with your eyes you' will
see that the legs, of both men ai
straight and that It Is only the plaids
.which have given the false impres
sion of crookedness. 1 -
The knowledge of these slight dif
ferences In parallel lines has proved
of great Importance in architecture
ar well as u other departments ot
aril : In Pompeii on the wall paint
, lngs the ancient Romans drew lines
not exactly parallel so that the right
effect would be produced,' and the old
Greeks gave a slight curve to the
columns of their temples in order
that ' they might "appear- perfectly
straight ' In other words we do not
see perfectly, and therefore ' the
artist must make allowance for our
errors of vision' If-he wishes terser
cure the correct effects. '
The Pallor, toormust be an artist
or he will send his customers out to
appear bow-legged or knock-kneed,
1 though their limbs are perfectly
'straight.
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K'V rQ 1 V Of
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Making Raw POTATO CAGES
In Germany FOR CATTLE
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TTEMFTS are now being made In
Germany to save all; potatoes that
would otherwise spoil through lack of
. a ready market by means of drying them, or
pressing out the water and forming these raw
vegetables Into cakes. Thus far the expert
ment has worked well as far as saving the
potatoes and using them for fodder for cattle
goes, but whether this method can be adopted
with potatoes and leave them equally as nour
isbing for human consumption as the fresh
vegetable is a question that has not been
settled by any successful experiments.
. . It was learned that at least five million tons
of potatoes spoil in Germany every year
through lack of a ready market, and so pres
sure was used to extract the water from them
. and artificial heat was used to dry the pulp.
A sort of potato flour resulted aid this In
turn was pressed into cakes. These cakes
really composed . of raw potato , meal, haver
one-quarter ojf the original weight and oo'
cupy one-eighth the space. They taste and'
smell somewhat like newly made bread., .!
The flour may be used or kept in this con
ditlon tor considerable periods. Pressed into ;
cakes, it is used for animal food. In practise '
three and eight-tenths tons of potatoes Ield
about one ton of potato meat at a cost of
about fifty-six cents a ton. ' Twelve cents a -ton
added for pressing makes the cost of the
cake sixty-eight cents, which Is not high for
fodder of such quality. '
' Chemical analysis shows the following per
centage, o,f food value: Water, 11.50; fat, 0.31;
protein, S.'72; ash. 2.06; fiber, L71: carbohy
drates, 80.69. The residual liquor, after
pressing, is about 80 per cent pure albumen!
which has a ready market,
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How the Italians CURE
Their CORNS WITH LEMONS
H
Him Legs Are- Really Straight
UMANITT has suffered with corns ever
since shoes that pinch the feet have ,
been worn, but there- is no need of
even those who will persist In wearing tight
shoes having any more suffering due to this
difficulty.
The Italian people-have less corns than any
other. ' The reason for this fact Is simply be
cause they resort to the most certain corn
cure known In the world. When an Italian
- finds-hls cenr is arpeartsj-ho goejt3"Ci4"
lemon for relief. A piece of the Juicy lemon
skin is tied on the toe completely covering
the affected part, and allowed to remain there
aU night when It Is removed. The new corn)
will simply disappear,' and the old offenderf
"will 'stop hurting, and In most Instances dot
up and disappear. In a. few cases where the
corn has been a bad one of long standing, it
will require more than one application . . Thot
acid In the lemon reduces the inflammation
and the tissues soon becoma normil.
-The nmcdy,.ls safe cheap aai t.7 A
and should be tried by every ri? v ' -
what it 13 to suffer with a com. .