HER REFORMED DIET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11396, 13 April 1899, Page 3

HER REFORMED DIET.

MRS NEWLIGHT'S SERIES. OF AS-

TOUNDING DISCOVERIES.

"It's just awful how criminally ignorant I've been.regarding our food," said Mrs Newlight to her husband the other day. "I can never be thankful enough that I joined Prof. Scarein's olassiin' domestic science. My! It's a wonder we're not all dead; ignorant as I've been. There's oiie thing sure, George Newlight, there'll'be no-;.more tomatoes on my table.''-- • :.•-.- ' ■■■ '

" "Why?"'- . "Because Prof. Scarem explained to us today, how tomatoes caused a marked arrest of vital activity in those who • eat, them, and. he proved that the acid of .tomatoes acts almost like poison: on the membrane, of the stomach. .Thei} I'm done,with any berries that have seeds.in thein;pn my table." ~ 7 .

"I'd like to know why? "

"You'wouldn't ask.if you heard the professor's talk on appendicits and its cause. A single dish of raspberries or strawberries may bring OH'that awful trouble. It's fearful to think of the risks people will run just to'gratify the palate. And here we've always allowed our children to have sugar and cream on their oatmeal I " ;

, "What of !>?". ."Well, you'd say 'what of it?' if you could hear the professor explain how the combination of' __.t'me_l and cream, and sugar causes dreadful .gases to arise in the stomach and utterly retard digestion. I've not the slightest doubt..hat the awful spasm our little Mamie had last year was due entirely to 4his cause. Then there's bananas! Why George Newlight,, they're simply rank poison! And you'll get'no more white bread at my table." "Why not?"' ■■

" Because there's Ho more nutrition in it than there .would be'in bread made out of pure starch. ' Every "bit otHhe nutritive element has been'refined out of it. It makes thoi-e who eat .it thin .blooded.'' . "Do I look thin-blooded or as if I lacked nutrition?" asked , Newlight, who weighs 1991b. , ; : - ' That: doesn't signify. You don't know what day you'll begin to break down under such bread. We'U hay- nothing but graham or whole-wheat; flour hereafter. And I've done with coffee, too. If you eoiikl see and hear Prof. • Scarem" demonstrate iust how poisonous it is to the whole human, system you'd shun', it,as you: shun opium. He says that cocoa shells is the only real safe warm, drink.": - .-.

"I'd as soori drink-dishwater," said New;

light, ... "You'd better drink dishwater than your poisonous: coffee.. If you'd only take a little time to study domestic science and look into this .food business, a little bit it would be a good thing for your health and the health of your family. There's a lot more things we've been jeopardising our lives by eating in our criminal ignorance, and I'm going to cut all of them off our list." Ann sho did, which is the reason that Newlight lis taking most of his meals down town at present.^Detroit Free Press.