THE A B C OF VITAMINS

Evening Star, Issue 19844, 18 April 1928, Page 13

THE A B C OF VITAMINS

Oh, fine, and fat was Ralph the rat, And his eye was a clear, cold /grey. How mournful that ho ate less fat As day succeeded day, Till he found each cornea daily hornier, Lacking its Vitamin A. “ 1 missed my Vitamin A, my dears, That rat was heard to say, “And you’ll iind your eyes will keratinize If you miss your Vitamin A. ’ U. N.ow polished rice is extremely nice At a high suburban tea, But Arbuthnot Lauo remarks with pain That it lacks all Vitamin B, And bc'ri-beri is very very Hard on tho nerves, says he. “ Oh, take your Vitamin B, my dears! ” 1 hoard that surgeon say; “if ] Hadn’t been fed on standard bread, I shouldn’t be here to-day.” 0. Tho scurvy flew through the schooner’s crew As they’ sailed on an Arctic sea. They were far from land and their food was canned, So they got no Vitamin C, For “Devil’s the use of orange juice,’’ The skipper ’ad said, said he. They were victualled with pickled pork, my dears, Those marincrv bold and free. Yet life’s but brief on the best corned beef If you don’t get ABtamin C. D. The epiphyses of Jemima’s knees Were a truly appalling sight; Km ; Cue, rickets strikes whom it jolly well likes If the Vitamin D’s not right, Though its plots we foil with our ood liver oil Or our ultra-violet light. So swallow your cod liver oil,_ my dears, And bonny big babes you'll lie. Though it makes you sick it’s a cure for the rickets And teeming with Vitamin 1).

Now Vitamins I) and A B and C Will ensure that you’re happy ami .strong; Bui that’s no use; you must reproduce Or tho race won’t last for long. So Vitamin K is the stuff for me, And its praises end my song. AVc’ll double the birth-rate yet, my dears, If wo all cat Vitamin K. We can blast the hopes of Maria Slopes Bv taking it with our tea. C.H.A.