A SENSIBLE SCIENTIST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8940, 14 December 1907, Page 6

A SENSIBLE SCIENTIST.

EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY.

We have lived through years of food faddism, and now Sir James OrichtouBrowue has sailed iv with encouragement to the people who enjoy their food. Thousands of people who have for the last tweuty years beeu secret eaters of all they could see will welcome the great physician's prescription of sirloin or mutton chop. We all eat too much. That has been the cry for years. This Admirable Chrichtou announces that the fad is mere folly. Girls have lived on vinegar iv quest of pale faces; men, presumably sane, have tried to live on nuts or cabbages, or milk, or some quite uninteresting commodity. We have sat for years with our eyes upon our stomachs, wondering what those stomachs required, and thinking that we were feeling very ill. Now comes the preaching of the Gospel of tho birloiu. It is very difficult to follow the medical fashiou, and tho mau who thinks he can eat nothing but nuts today has to confess that ho must have nothing but raw beef for breakfast tomorrow—for that is one of the fads! The solution is simple enough if you only have the courage to adopt it. Do not worry about your diet, aud even a grape-stove carries tho possibilities of appendicitis. But life is not worth living if you are continually bothering yourself about your digestion. Your* attitude should be that of the mau iv the parable who had me under him, aud said 'Do this, aud he doeth it.' Treat your stomach in the same way

A man. on tho average, eats three times a day, and loves but once, or at most a dozen times, iv a lifetime. Therefore, food is more important thau love, ami he should at least be allowed to set his pleasure from the process. Dear reader, do not fidget yourself at all about what you shall eat until you have consulted your appetite and obtained the answer. Then reply in kind. That is to say, if you are an ordinary man iv decent trim (and in this case man embraces woman). If you have followed the specialist's advice for tweuty years, there is nothing that is not forbidden, from oread to coffee, from fish (which was said to produce cancer) to cheese (which has been said to digest everything but itself). Don't worry. Somehow your grave must be digged. And you may just as well dig iYwith your teeth.