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I love It, I love it, let those who please 



Enjoy a diet of nuts and peas. 



Let Shaw compose his dramatic scenes 



On cabbage, tomatoes and kidney beans, 



Let Eustace Miles find muscular force, 



In carrots, cutlets with plasmon sauce, 



Or other equally messy slop. 



But give me my good old fashioned mutton chop. 



I love It, I love it, and hail with glee 

 The sage remarks of Sir Crichton B. 

 A Daniel, a Daniel, to judgment come, 

 To right the wrongs of the injured tum. 

 To give the faddists who swear by greens, 

 A dose of metaphorical beans. 

 And like a thousand of bricks to drop. 

 On all who'd suppress my mutton chop. 



THE PENNSYLVANIA MEAT INSPECTION LAW. 



By DR. LEONARD PEARSON, Harrisburg, Pa 



I am to speak to you this morning on the subject of "The Penn- 

 sylvania Meat Hygiene Service." A State meat hygiene service 

 is new in this State, and, indeed, in the United States. Penn- 

 sylvania is the first state to do anything important with regard 

 to meat inspection, but now it seems to be probably that the meat 

 inspection movement will spread over the entire country, very 

 much as the pure food movement has. 



While the meat hygiene law is new, the idea of meat inspection 

 is by no means new. The Jews had a meat inspection law laid 

 down by Moses, and it is most interesting to study these regu- 

 lations, and how they have continued to enforce them, and how the 

 Jews have profited by them. It is well known that the Jews have 

 lived under very adverse conditions. They have been forced into 

 ghettos, they have been poor, and have lived in crowded tenement 

 houses and have lived as cheaply as possible, and yet, they are 

 today one of the healthiest races. In the crowded tenements of 

 Philadelphia and New York, and other large cities, tuberculosis 

 has a strong foothold, and it carries off a very large proportion 

 of the unfortunate of the poorer classes; yet the proportion of Jews 

 who die of tuberculosis living in the same conditions as those other 

 people live, is less than one-third— usually about one-fourth of 

 the average percentage. Although the Jews are a small people 

 physically, they are well developed, and when they are well fed, 

 they are strong and hearty. It is well known that the Jews of 

 Russia and Poland have developed in this country a people very 

 much in advance, physically, of their ancestors; and it is believed 

 by these people that the care of the Jews regarding their food, 

 especially their meat supply is largely responsible for their health 

 and longevity of the race. Of course, too much stress must not 

 be placed on this, but no doubt it is one of the important influences. 



In this country, it was not until relatively recent times that any- 

 thing was done regarding meat inspection by the U. S. Govern- 

 ment, and it is a well known fact that it was in connection with 

 questions as to meat prepared for export that the Department 

 of Agriculture was obliged to first take part in this work. The 

 action of other countries is regard to the meat coming from this 



