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50660If, at the close of every life, the question,"What has brought most happiness?"
50660LESSON XIX EVOLUTION OF MAN WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
15237An important point is, can a man on such food be fit for physical work?
15237Certainly he has the choice, but does he avail himself of it to any considerable extent?
15237Do you think that a Burmese boy would be allowed to birds''-nest or worry rats with a terrier, or go ferreting?
15237If the ape tribe can thrive without added salt why should not man?
15237It may be asked, says Professor Chittenden, was this diet at all adequate for the needs of the body-- sufficient for a man weighing 165 pounds?
43943How may we avoid the painful maladies that are prevalent, and escape the surgeon''s knife?
43943How may we be delivered from further participation in all this needless shedding of innocent blood?
43943How may we live out our full length of days in health and vigour, instead of dying of disease?
43943="Is Flesh- Eating Morally Defensible?
43943="Shall We Vivisect?
43943How can we consistently sing and talk of''Peace on Earth''when we are participating in ruthless warfare against the animal creation?
48746Why all this struggle for mere existence?
48746Should we not, therefore, take good care of, and heed the warnings of so wonderful a piece of automatic mechanism?
48746What mechanical engineer in all the world could then make it work if something went wrong?
48746What would be the difficulties, then, if the machine were enclosed in a case that could not be opened, with only the keyboard exposed?
48746What, then, shall be done?
22829All these and many other questions are answered in Prof. Andrews Great Book What Shall We Eat?
22829But when he sees the grazing ox, or the wallowing hog, do similar gustatory desires affect him?
22829Can anyone deny that Nature intended the cow''s milk for the nourishment of her calf and the hen''s egg for the propagation of her species?
22829How much does the ordinary individual know about nutrition, or about obedience to an unperverted appetite?
22829Is it not evident that it is because of this lamentable ignorance so many people nowadays suffer from ill- health?
22829Is it reasonable to suppose that Nature ever intended the milk of the cow or the egg of the fowl for the use of man as food?
22829May it not be that wrong feeding and mal- nutrition are at the root of most disease?
22829Moreover, what effect has the work of a slayer of animals upon his personal character and refinement?
22829The first question about vegetarianism, then, is this:--Is it the best diet from the hygienic point of view?
22829What animal possesses the enormous strength of the herbivorous rhinoceros, who, travellers relate, uproots trees and grinds whole trunks to powder?
8521I think everybody ought to eat some raw carrots every day; do n''t you?
8521Again the question will be asked:"How much shall I feed my child?"
8521And why should they do otherwise?
8521But how many people are willing to indulge occasionally?
8521But what is the difference?
8521How about being in the fetters of disease for disregarding nature''s law, which is just and simple?
8521How are we to know the truth among so many conflicting ideas?
8521How are we to obtain good milk?
8521How is it possible, you may ask, that this is true?
8521How long should a fast last?
8521How much do I, individually, amount to?"
8521How much should the baby be fed at a time?
8521How much?
8521In the Technical World for March, 1914, appeared an article by Byron C. Utecht, entitled,"When is Man Old?"
8521Is excessive indulgence in liquor any worse than overeating?
8521Is it worth while?
8521It is true that some children can take care of them, but what is the use of taking chances?
8521So why object to paying for health education, which is more valuable than all the drugs in the world?
8521Some exercise is needed and the question is, how much is necessary and how is it to be taken so that it will not degenerate into drudgery?
8521Surely this is so, they say, for is not typhoid fever due to the bacillus typhosus and pneumonia to the pneumococcus?
8521The question is, can anything be done under the circumstances?
8521True, normal people can take boiled milk without becoming constipated, but how many normal people are there?
8521What good does the birth of the army of 425,000 children which perishes annually accomplish?
8521What is a man to do when he has reached middle age and finds himself degenerating?
8521What is better, to give children good foods upon which they thrive, or denatured foods which taste well to a perverted palate, but are injurious?
8521What is the easiest way to satisfy him?
8521What is the result of this close housing?
8521What shall we eat?
8521What shall we feed?
8521Who hath redness of eyes?"
8521Who hath wounds without cause?
8521Why are babies cross?
8521Why are they so subject to stomach and intestinal disorders?
8521Why ca n''t I sleep?"
8521Why continue impoverishing foods in this way?
8521Why do little children suffer so much from eruptive diseases, whooping cough, tonsilitis, adenoids, diphtheria and numerous other diseases?
8521Why do the organs of elimination fail to act?
8521Why do they have skin eruptions?
8521Why do they soon show catarrhal symptoms?
8521Why do they vomit so much?
8521Why should we be guided by the wit and sarcasm of indolent voluptuaries who daily desecrate their bodies through ruinous indulgences?
8521Why wait until the first of the month or the first of the year?
8521Why?
12238''But what do they live upon?'' 12238 An''gin we''re no spared, will we hae parrich?"
12238An''will wi hae tea to breakfast, mither?
12238But why is lard called shortening, pa?
12238Do you not drink wine?
12238Is there anything you would like to drink with your soup?
12238Pray what is your ordinary diet?
12238What meal do we have in the morning?
12238You think it unhealthful to eat that?
12238_ Unhealthful?_exclaimed the Hidalgo, with a withering look and a gasp for a more adequate word;"No, sir: I think it an unnatural crime!"
12238--_Colton._"What does cookery mean?"
12238--_Oswald._ Good for Dyspepsia.--"Really, do n''t you think cheese is good for dyspepsia?"
12238A meal-- what is it?
12238A mother and child were passing along a street in Glasgow, when this conversation was overheard:--"What day is the morn, mither?"
12238After an unsuccessful search in the pantry, he called to his wife,"Mary, where is the pie?"
12238An appalling silence fell upon the crowd when Tommy cried out,"Mamma, is that the old sore- headed turkey?"
12238But how can we expect the children to reform when the parents continually set them bad examples in the matter of eating and drinking?
12238But who their virtues can declare?
12238Do you know what that means, pa?"
12238Has Nature indeed given us so insatiable a stomach, while she has given us so insignificant bodies?
12238He handed the cob to the waiter, and asked,"Will you plaze put some more beans on my shtick?"
12238He was well answered by an indignant Scotchman who replied,"Yes; and where can you find such fine men as in Scotland, or such horses as in England?"
12238SIGNIFICANT FACT.--_Lady_--"Have you had much experience as a cook?"
12238Said her husband,"Then where is the cake?"
12238The ordinary salutation,"Che- fan,"which answers to our"How do you do?"
12238They can not afford oranges, yet can afford tea and coffee daily.--_Health Calendar._ What plant we in the apple tree?
12238What are bakers for?"
12238What next?"
12238What wonder, then, in the absence of sunlight, there is a lack of sunny temper and cheerful service?
12238What?
12238When Johnnie sits down to the table, the mother says,"Johnnie, what would you like?"
12238_ Indignant chorus_--"Bread?
12238_ L._--"What of?"
12238_ L._--"Why did you leave them?"
12238_ Tramp_--(frightened)"What ye say?"
12238means,"Have you eaten your rice?"
12238what worthier work than to help in the building up of bodies into pure temples fit for guests of noble thoughts and high purposes?
15069And you are a good sport, are n''t you?
15069Peggy,I say tragically,"Peggy, do I look like my reflection?"
15069What''s irritating you, Dockie?
15069Yes, Mrs. I m a Gobbler?
15069_Is there anyone else who would like to be recognized?
15069( common- sense?)
150692 Key to the Calories Some one page the thin?
15069After the holidays?
15069And what could you have left off your menu and kept from gaining all that weight?
15069Are n''t his little figures the dearest ever?
15069Are n''t you supposed to be some shark on the subject of ideal weight?"
15069Can you see now why fats are valuable?
15069Clever?_] You may prefer many more calories for breakfast, or none at all.
15069Did not I know the desserts were the most fattening part of the meal?
15069Do you suppose Mr. Darwin could explain that?
15069Eat what you like and grow thin?
15069Gobbler?"
15069Have I not been nice to you?
15069How dare you hoard fat when our nation needs it?
15069How importance discovered?
15069How many C. per day do you require?
15069How many calories has he averaged daily over his maintenance diet?
15069How many calories have you averaged daily over your maintenance diet?
15069How many calories of bread and butter do you daily consume?
15069How much excess food have you stored away?
15069How much of it is in excess of your needs?
15069I m a Gobbler_][ Sidenote:_ Doctor Dear_]"But, Doctor dear, what''s the use of dieting?
15069If there is one thing more important than another, what is it?
15069Knott Little_]"But, Doctor, is it not true that some individuals inherit the tendency to be fat, and can not help it, no matter what they do?"
15069No?"
15069Now, Madam and Madam''s husband, when are you going to begin this important business of reducing?
15069Perhaps I was a little too delicate like in my answer to Mrs. Gobbler''s question,--What''s the use of dieting, she only gets fatter after she stops?
15069Sheesasite_]"Why is it, Doctor, that thin people can eat so much more than fat people and still not gain?"
15069So many ask me that question, with the further pathetic addition,--Will they always have to keep it up?
15069Teacher asked Billie would he share?
15069There was one woman mentioned in my original manuscript and my husband said what have you put her in for Pattie?
15069Tomorrow?
15069Upon what do C. needed per day for normal individuals depend?
15069Was I to blame?
15069Weyaton_]"We have heard you say that fat people eat too much, and still we eat so little?"
15069What are vitamines?
15069What is a balanced diet?
15069What should be done for faulty elimination?
15069Where most abundant?
15069Who knows?
15069Why are fat individuals fireless cookers?
15069Why are fats so fattening?
15069Why are they valuable?
15069Why is a mixture of foods necessary?
15069Why more important than ever to reduce?
15069Why they make fat more than any other food?
15069Yes?
15069[ Sidenote:_ Learned Phraseology_] You remember the painful time that I spoke of when there was so much more of me than there ought to be?
15069[ Sidenote:_ Not_?]
15069[ Sidenote:_ Simple_] Now, how is this philosophy going to help you gain?
15069[ Sidenote:_ Vampires_][ Sidenote:_ Malicious Animal Magnetism?_] I know how you go down to destruction for peanuts, with their awful fat content.
15069_ Are You Thin and Do You Want to Gain?_[ Sidenote:_ Do n''t Read This_] Skip this chapter.
15069do mental workers?
15069fat?
15069of carbohydrates?
15069of protein?
47439Are n''t you going to take your ice now?
47439Do you remember the day of the public funeral of General Grant, when his tomb on the Riverside Drive-- Morningside Heights-- was dedicated? 47439 What will you have?
47439All right for a starter; but what are you really going to have?
47439But it may be asked, was this diet at all adequate for the needs of the body-- sufficient for a man weighing 165 pounds?
47439Can a man on such a diet, even though it suffices to keep up body- weight and apparently also physiological equilibrium, do work to any extent?
47439Come, now; tell me what you want for lunch?
47439Do you not remove cherry pits, grape skins, the shell of lobster, bone, etc., when you encounter them?
47439Fletcher, are you up?''
47439If people only knew what you and I know they would be wiser, would n''t they?
47439If we enjoy eating, and are eating, partly, for the pleasure of it, WHAT SENSE is there in throwing away a morsel until the taste has been extracted?
47439If"dirt"is"matter out of place,"which is the accepted definition, WHAT SENSE is there in calling unnutritious food by any other name?
47439In this connection it may be asked, what were the needs of the body during this seven days''period?
47439Only yesterday he said, in a burst of enthusiasm,"How is it possible for me to dislike any one, feeling the way I do?
47439The question is, do we need such force in the twentieth century, especially when we know that it tends to shorten life and predispose to disease?]
47439Then why not court it and obey, thereby, Nature''s first law of health?
47439Unless a person has a pressing engagement with his own funeral, WHAT SENSE is there in hurrying with his meals?
47439WHAT SENSE is there in calling any glutton"a gentleman"?
47439WHAT SENSE is there in calling any glutton"a lady"?
47439WHAT SENSE is there, then, in demoralising things in the thoroughfare of our life organism by admitting unruly substance?
47439WHAT SENSE is there, then, in smashing the delicate utensils in the laboratory of our Mind- Power Plant by rushing"bulls"past Sentinel Taste?
47439WHAT SENSE?
47439WHAT SENSE?
47439What comes first to your mind?"
47439What is the significance of this in relation to the''No Breakfast Plan?''
47439What will not the same effort effect if directed toward prevention and protection, instead of being squandered in careless and soulless correction?
47439Whether we fully comprehend the best and most economical method of maintaining the body in a state of physiological fitness?
47439Will there be under such condition a proper degree of fitness for physical work of any kind?
47439You remember that we had been invited to Mr. H----''s to witness the parade and take lunch?
47439do you remember how we puffed and blowed when we had run a couple of blocks and how we were red in the face and nearly knocked up?
47439only a baked potato and a bottle of ginger ale?
47439what is the matter with you?