DYSPEPSIA PROOF.

Northern Advocate, 26 August 1913, Page 3

DYSPEPSIA PROOF.

Much is said about American dyspepsia, but there is one native race of America that is certainly not greatly troubled by the modern curse. The sturdy little Esquimaux defy all the laws of hygiene and thrive. The Esquimaux, like the ordinary dweller in America, eats until lie is satisfied, but there is this difference, that be never is satisfied while the shred of the feast remains unconsumed. His capacity is limited by the supply, and by that only.

He cannot make any mistake about the manner of cooking his food, for as a rule he does not cook it, nor, so far as the blubber or fat of the Arctic animal is concerned, -about his method of eating it; he ciits it into long strips an inch wide and an inch thick, and then lowers the strips down his throat as one might lower a rope into a well.

And after all that he does not suffer from indigestion. He can make a go.od meal of the flesh, and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that in cutting up the animal th? knife must be continually sharpened

The teeth of a little Esquimaux child will meet in a bit of walrus skin as the teeth of an ordinary child would meet in the flesh of an apple. And that when the hide of the walrus is from one-half to one and a-half inches in thickness, and bears considerable resemblance to the skin of an elephant. The Esquimaux child will bite it and digest it, too, and never know what dyspepsia means