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WARNING AGAINST NONXCIEN-
TIFIC DIET SYSTEMS.
Off lea of Information,
r«|*orts coma of g*xxl raaulla. The
duration hua been naked by some teach-
are If the ersdlts are to ba marked
oa the pupils' report rarda. and If there
la a uniform ayetem, which must be
followed In giving credlta
Alan if
prince must be offered, etc.
By a careful reading of the booklet
by Huperintondant K
R
Alderman,
which appeared In the Farmer laauee
of Heptember 7th and l«lh. It will be
eeen that methode of giving credit#
and the question of priaea rnuat be left
largely to the trualeea and teacher# of
the various «J|atrl<-ts to aattle a....... 1
Ing to the condltlona prevailing In their
particular location.
There would bo
no objec tion to having a uniform eye-
tern In whole counties where the in
dustries of the people run along elm
liar linen.
For Instance a county In
Oregon, which recently took un the
system, devotee Ita attention mainly
to dairying and dairy methode
It la
aald that while the abstract principle#
Involved In the Babcock milk teat, cre
ated
no particular
Interact
an a
athool lesson, when the pupils were
given the opportunity through the in
troduction of the nchoul credit #ys-
tein to make a pra> Ileal uae of the teat
with milk from their own home cow»
It created the greatest enthueiaam
Ho If the school district ahould lie
In g farming country, where the raising
ut graine la the main Industry they
might drab'with the testing of gralna
aa to vitality. If In a poultry aectlou
the In ulatflon of eggs. If in vineyards,
or orchards or rice or cotton field# the
eludt of and a* lual liandllng of these
Induatrlea would appeal to them.
In the city of Portland the municipal
«■rdlnnncee prohibit the keeping of
eowa, plga, chickens, etc., in the city
Their waa not much left of an outdoor
nature for the children to do. con
sequently they took up gardening un
til every back yard and vacant lot wua
a garden, and no aa-con* push'd what
year» of effort along clvb pride, clean
up and beautification lines have fulled
to do In some citiaa
All thia, of course, In <-«>nne< lion with
the < horea and home dutlca, which are
much alike the world over.
Tha Giving of Rriaoa.
The giving of prises for beat standing
must neaeMaarlly tie left with the indi
vidual districts to deal with.
There
la a great difference of opinion In till#
regard, ami whether or not the giving
of priaea will great more Inlerrat of a
desirable nature must be proven b«
trial
it would areni from Superintendent
Alderman'# first e»perlrnce that no
prise# were offrr«-d or even though!
of
FYom hl# report the very fact that
the chlldr«*n were doing aometntng real,
something with their hand# aa well
aa with their brains, something that
taught them In practical result» the
u»e to which their sch«»>l knowledge
might l>e put, was Incentive enough.
It would seem reasonable that the
estuldlehment of this system In the
country schools would have the effect
■>f creating In the country boys and
girls an Interest In country life that
would stop In great measure the drift
to the cities.
Country life I# unln-
tertatlng because not understood With
an Intimate knowledge of common
things and the wonders that may be
accomplish* I by the sppllcatlon of the
three H's and other education branches
Io the elements Immediately about u«,
there will be no great desire to try th*-
unknown city life for the one that 1»
*self satisfy log
II G K
United States
Ltepartment of Agriculture
•v«r the system baa been tried
1IK United Htates Meparlment of
T
Agriculture
lias
reeeutly
had
called to Ita attsntlon, by letters
from people all over the country, se
rious misstatements as to the effect#
of foods or certain diets recommended
by self-styled "experts tn dietetics"
As a result of three I#tiers, the Dopwrt-
menl specialists have secured the lit
erature and recommendations of a
number of three people and nave made
a
careful
study
of
tbe
things
they
Madam
When the problem of “what
recommend iu diets.
Th# specialists of the twpartment
have issued the following statement
covering this matter:
presents itself — just remember what
"In view of the wide spread of
• zest
literature and advice of so-called 'diet
experts,' it seems desirable to warn
people against adopting the dietary
recommendations of those without real
scientific standing In tbe community.
Home of the advocates of freak diet#
are sincere, but are tbetnaelves de
luded. while others are fakers, wh<>
seek to make monetary gain by ad-
v laing peculiar systems of diet. Neither
* lass can offer trust worthy advice, in
most of the re* ommendationa of these
self-established experts*, there Is bard
ly a shadow of reason, though they
may seem plausible.
One of their
adds to any meat It ix ready at a moment’s
methods of reasoning Is to uae isolated
notice, it is liked by every member of tbe
and often unrelated facts of science
as evidence that their peculiar sys
family, it is easily digested—it is, on the
tem Is of value
That Is, they gen
whole, a perfect home beverage. Yet it is as
erally »tart out with a certain Idea,
inexpensive
as anything of its kind you can
and thru strive to prove that they are
right by seeking data which seem to
buy. Thirty cups to every pound.
e«tabllnh their theory, but they com
pletely ignore statements In current
You're SURE of the quality
arid
historical
scientific
literature,
if
you insist upon getting
which would mgallve their contention#
GHIRARDELLJ’S
In other words, they completely over
look or do not see tha Importance of
discoveries by scientists which go
counter to what they want to beiieve.
It Would be easy, following this same
system of taking Isolated facts away
from their context, to produce Just
us much of the same kind of svldrnce
that those f.xxl experts* are wrong aa
they adduce to prove t bat they are
right. In neither -ase however, would by the advocates of raw food, their
EVOLUTION AND TIME.
the method lead to real scientific con- corr«*apondent# are urged r.ot to eat
< lusiona
By Luther Burbank
animal foods because they say meat
"As an example of tlielr methods of is filled with bacteria. This Is not true
reasoning can be cited their use of The surface of meat Is not sterile, but
These lines were penned among the
the fact that some one tried to raise tbe Interior la, except In rare cases
heights of the Hlerraw. while resting ->n
rabbit# whollv on c«>oked food
The We do not ent raw meat, except dried the original material from which this
■ abiiits «nd not thrive on such a ra beef, or something similar, but cause planet was made. Thousand* of ages
tion. nor could II be expected that they It to be rooked, and thia sterilises It. have passed, snd it still remains un
would on a diet purely artificial to In most cases where people have suf changed. In It no fossils or any tracs
#u«h animals
From this the 'pseudo' fer«^. ur think that they suffer, from of past organic life are ever found,
' >P* rt draws the deduction that be- eating meet or any other normal ar nor «-ould any exist, for the world cie-
Among
• uuse the tabbits could not live wholly ticle of diet, the trouble Ilea not with atlve heat was too intense
on cooked food, human beings should the actual article but either In the th«*ae dtxxy heights of ntek. ice-cleft,
we
confine then*»e|v<s to raw food
No imagination of the consumer or In the glacier-plowed, and water-worn,
stand face to face with the first and
such deduction is warranted
Raw
fart that the food has not been kept
food is natural to rubbits, and this clean, or properly prepare«! and prop latest pages of world creation, for now
we see also tender and Iwautiful flow
l# perhaps a fortunate provision of na erly handled after It 1» cooked.
ers adding grace of form and color to
ture, because the average rabbit would Th# Fallacy of tha Enxyms snd Par
the grisly walls, and fur away down
probably have » good deal of trouble
ticular Chemical Substances.
the slopes stand the giant trees, oldest
lighting a fire or a g.ia stove to cook
"Several of these f«M«d experts base of all living thing«-, embracing all of
food; but It do*-» not follow that man.
human history; but e'en their lives ¡«re
their argument for a raw food or other
who has proved cooked food whole
but as a watch-tick since th«* stars
some by un<*>unt«*d centuries of use. sperhillxcd diet on the theory that raw first shone on thes<> barren rocks be
ahould give It up because of some one's food supplies the b.xly with necessary fore the evolution for« ex had so glo
theory.
enxyma; or that a c«rtaln food, such riously transfigured the face of our
Raw Food.
aw whole wheat hr.ad, supplies lime planet home.
Many of these so-culled diet sys or some other special substance.
If
The cities have taken such strong
tems lay great emphasis on raw foods. th«- American peoplr llv«-d wholly on
contributions from the country that
Now. there Is no objection to an one's cooked food and ate no fruit or drank
you have to go to them to find the
- .Ilins raw fiuxl If he likes It. or finds
no raw milk. It might be necessary backwoods nowadays.
after experiment that It agrees with
him, provldcil It Is of good quality, to advise them to eat some foods raw,
free from contamination, und whole- for when clean and of good quality,
***»me.
The truth of the matter la. such thing# are wholesome. The body,
however, that man's ehnnees of health however, normally supplies ull the fer
are beat when he eats with modera ment«« tenxyms) It requires, and the
tion a diet made up of dean, whole- average mixed diets of Amcicans give
■'>me, ordinary fluid», well-prepared In them all th«- raw food that they re
the usual ways. Huch a diet will In- quire. Hlinllurly. It the American peo
< hide sonic articles to be cooked snd ple ate nothing but wheat. It might be
capo them. Their life of
loneliness has ended and
others to be eaten raw. such as bread, necessary to advice them to eat whole
all is now joy and run
.creels, fruits, vegetables, meat, ftsh. wheat rather than fine wheat flour In
shine. The impaired or
order to get some of the substances
lacking portions of their
milk, butter. < lu-e«e, eg«»,’ etc. The#*
ear drums have been
articles should be of good <tuallty, free excluded from th«> flour by bolting.
reinforced by simple
Recent
Investigation
Indicate
that
there
from dirt <visible ami Invisible) an*l
little devices, sclent fi-
is
a
valuable
substance
In
bran,
w
hich
c.illy
constructed for
.idulleratlon. ami well prepared.
xv
th’« special purpose.
la lacking In the Interior of the wheat
As a general prop isltlon, raw food
kernel. This substance, called by some Wilton Common-Sente Ear Drums
Is not « leaner thin cooked foods. Prop
Phones for the Ears"
Vitamin, b*. however, present in many often called "Uttlo
are restoring perfect hearing in every rendition of
er cooking sterilises foods, and so ren
other foods, uml there I" every reason de.uness or defective hearing from causes such as
ders Innocu« us pathogenic bacteria and
to believe that an ordinary mixed diet Catarrhal Deafness. Relaxed or Sunken ~
other organisms pos-Ihly harmful. Raw
Drum#, Roaring and Hissing
unds,
supplies all of such material, which Thickened
Perforated.
rvrtorat«-d. Wholly or Partially Destroyed Dnrms,
food« have to be very carefully wash
th«* body m eds. Whole wheat bread Is Discharge
' »charge from
frrmi Ears, etc. No matter what
whal the case
ed and denned before eating, and a«
howlongatanduigit
l**ngst andutg it is.test
is.testimomalsrecei
imothals received show
wholesome and palatable and affords or how
arvelous results. Common
C’HumcnSenaeDrumssrtrvr.gth-
Sense Drums
.« giticrxl Hile simple washln,r. while It an easy way of securing variety In tn«* marvelous
enthc nerves of the ears and con
will get rid of most of the dirt, will diet, which Is desirable as well as cent rate the sound waves on one
not remove all the bacteria, insect eggs, pleasing
The av*rage American who point of the natural drums, thus
s|M>rcs i f fungi, «■<«•., that may adhere usually get*« plenty of the food con successfully restoring perfect
hearing where medical skill even
t<> them.
If the systems of psetido- stituents he needs In bls other arti fails to help. They are made of
rra#onlng followed by some of these cles of diet, need not feel compelled a »oft. sensitised material, com
fortable and safe to wear. They
diet expel I# w ere logical. It would l«e to eat whole wheat bread exclusively, si e easily adjusted by the wearer
prsalbte l*> draw the conclusion that
simply to supply one peculiar ele Mid out of sight when worn.
What has done so much for
no on*- should eat lettuce or other ment
thousands of others will help you.
salads, or raw vegetables and fruits
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