CHAPTER V 



THE GREAT FOOD QUESTION 



FOR us to show how important the food 

 question is to life may remind some of 

 Artemus Ward, who, in an illustrated lec- 

 ture on his travels, drew the particular 

 attention of his audience to the fact, shown 

 by his picture, that the highest part of a 

 mountain is its top! That earthly life 

 depends on food is equally clear and in- 

 disputable. But after all, things most 

 commonplace may hide behind them some 

 of the greatest and deepest mysteries of 

 the world. Thus the ancient Greeks, after 

 carving an Apollo Belvedere out of stone, 

 placed the choicest viands and the finest 

 wines before this statue of the god on his 

 feast days. They well knew that this 

 procedure was altogether a pious make- 

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