The most entertaining function of modern scientific discovery in the departments of applied physiology, domestic science, and the like is to find out not what ought we to do, but why we do what we do, says the "Lancet." We know now—more or less—why we should eat cabbage; we know why a man cannot run a mile as fast as he can run 100 yards and cannot hope to do bo; we have a rationale for loafing in the sun. We do not know why we use soap to clean ourselves with, nor how to wash woollen socks without shrinking them; science has addressed -itself to these problems, but has failed to find a solution satisfying to the housewife. No serious attention- appears to have been given to the problems of why no one can eat rabbit daily, and why a white silk shirt must not be dried in the open like a cotton one for fear it will go yellow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 5
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