SOCIETY OF CENTKAL ILLINOIS. 141 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



The meeting was called to order, aud Rev. John AUender 

 offered prayer. 



The first on the programme was the election of officers for the 

 ensuing year, which resulted as follows : 



President — C. N. Dennis, Hamilton. 



First Vice President — F. I. Mann, Gilman. 



Second Vice President — H. M. Morris, Rantoul. 



Third Vice President — F. Cadwell, Griggsville. 



Secretary — A. C. Hammond, Warsaw. 



Assistant Secretary — Miss Bessie Nash, Warsaw. 



Treasurer — Frank Heinl, Jacksonville. 



A motion was carried to leave the location of the next meeting 

 in the hands of the Executive Board. 



WHAT WE EAT. 

 BY DR. LYMAN HALL, CHAMPAIGN. 



As we look over the diet of mankind in different ages and va- 

 rious races, we see some queer things that have been used as food: 

 things that appear revolting to our civilization, and we turn from 

 them with an allied feeling as if under the influence of ipecac. Yet, 

 if we compare these foods with some of our modern foods, we will 

 find they are far less baneful to health than much of the food that 

 is in daily use by us who boast of a civilization just a little more re- 

 fined than any other nation on this green earth. 



The object of this paper is to show by comparison what we eat, 

 and how indulgent we are as a people to tolerate the vile impositions 

 that are practiced upon us as consumers of food, dealt out in the sham- 

 bles and markets through our land. Many of these vile concoctions 

 are sanctioned by the patent office granting patents on their manu- 

 facture, so they have the sanction of law enforced by 6ur tribunals 

 as being a legitimate business. 



Vegetables, from the earliest history of our race, have been 

 raised and cultivated for food. They would not grow to perfection 

 in a wild, uncultivated state. Man soon learned, when driven from 

 his beautiful Garden of Eden, he must gain his food by the sweat 

 of his face. Most all creeping things on the earth, fish in the 

 streams aud seas were his for food. The birds of the air and beasts 



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