FOOD THAT INSPIRES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17645, 23 December 1922, Page 9

FOOD THAT INSPIRES.

Kean, the actor, is supposed to have taken food to agree with the part in the drama he was playing (observed the j "Weekly Telegraph"); mutton for lovers, beef for murderers, and pork for tyrants. Beef hud many and varied supporters, among them Burke, Crv.den (who compiled the "Concordance' 1 to the Bible), the Duke-of Marlborough, and Vandyke. Oratory,patience and application, soldiering, and pointing; all, as it yrere, built on a. foundation oE beef! On the other hand, Fuseli, the. painter, ate raw meat vitlrthe object of raising horrible imaginations. Raphael's diet chiefly consisted of dried fruits, like figs and raisins, eaten with bread: lie believed that meat was not suitable for a painter. The Spanish artist-, Murillo, contended that a man who ate coarse food could not have the soul of an artist. Gibbon, writer of the "Decline and Fall of the Horn.in Empire," had a. weakness for toasted cheese, often toasting it lief ore his own fire. Leonardo da Vinci, "one of. the greatest all-round geniuses the world has known," carried his liking for oranges to excess. Rosebuds and cherries if served by the women he loved, would suffice for Robert Herrick, 60 he said; while Mohammed wanted only a handtul of dates and a mouthful of water to sustain him.for a lhird day's work, and Bunyan's breakfast and supper was a piece of coarse bread and a bowl of milk.