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most all others combined. A diet of these would certainly be sub- 

 stantial, and yet would not maintain health very long. The individ- 

 ual would become plethoric, and the liver overtasked by so much 

 carbon, especially in hot weather. 



A diet of sugar, starch, gum and oil might make one oleaginous 

 and sleek, but weak and pusillanimous. 



Or feed a man on both of the above groups and send him on a 

 long sea voyage. Your man would probably never come ])ack, for 

 he would die of scurvy unless he could get some lemons or other 

 acid fruits, which would soon restore his health. 



A diet of lean meats and fruits, with no grease, would, perhaps, 

 develope scrofula and consumption. 



Bread has been called the staff of life, and "butter on it," it has 

 been said, changes it into a gold-headed cane, and yet it has been 

 wisel}' ordained that man shall not live by bread alone. I infer, 

 then, that man requires a mixed diet, that something is needed be- 

 side the bare essentials and substantials; in short, that variety is here, 

 also, the spice of life. 



The meat eater of the far north needs sauce. Dr. Hall relates 

 that at one time the natives killed a deer and had a feast in one of 

 their ice houses. The whole deer was divided and eaten raw. He 

 got a piece that was so very delicious that he went near the light to 

 ascertain what he was eating. He found it was the frozen con- 

 tents of the deer's paunch. Truly "when ignorance is bliss, 'tis 

 folly to be Avise." This vegetable compound formed their sauce, and 

 it was healthful and palatable, perhaps as much so as a dish of 

 strawberries or cranberry sauce. 



The fruit eaters of the torrid zone want meat. In Africa, 

 amidst the greatest variety of native fruits, a traveler found a large 

 worm, probably like one of those huge tobacco worms, as thick as 

 your finger. JHe showed it to a native girl, and she clapped it into 

 her mouth in a twinkling as a great delicacy. She, too, liked a 

 mixed diet. 



The natives of the South American plains are great beef eaters, 

 though living under the Equator and among the finest fruits in the 

 world. 



Rice forms the chief diet of one-third of the human family, but 

 the Chinese take rats and mice as a dessert. Another form of 

 mixed diet. 



Then, if it be true that man develops best on a mixed diet, it 

 becomes a vital question what we shall eat and how we shall mix 

 things. Experience has taught man how to do this, and the house- 

 wife who placed your dinner before you to-day knew just iiow to do 

 it, though she may never have studied the science of it. Different 

 nations have different appetites, and we may not all eat out of the 

 same dish, yet we all manage to get some variety, the Asiatic or 

 the Digger Indian in his way and we in our way. A pie made of 



