8 THE STORY OF BREAD 



and some other things better or worse. But we 

 don't have to learn to eat wheat bread. It is the 

 staff upon which strong nations lean. In point of fact, 

 to eat wheat once is to desire it ever afterward. As 

 the advertisements say, " the more you eat, the more 

 you want." But " there's a reason," to further quote 

 from the advertisements. Nature never does her 

 work by halves, and so she knew what she was 

 about when she dropped that blade of grass wher- 

 ever it was dropped, or caused the lily to fall from 

 grace and bloom again in the wheatfields of the 

 world. At the same time nature put into man a 

 liking for bread, e'en though history tries to make 

 out that the first couple to set up housekeeping had a 

 particular fondness for the apple. If this were true, 

 would not the exact location of the Garden of Eden 

 be somewhere out West — say in Idaho, or Oregon, 

 or Washington? 



We have mistakenly called cotton, king. It is not. 

 Wheat is king, for it contains all the fifteen essential 

 elements of nutrition, and food is more important 

 than clothes. Were one compelled to go through 

 life on a single diet, wheat bread would carry him 

 farther and better than any other one article of food. 



Notwithstanding that some people live to eat, all 

 people eat to live. On this point I trust there will 

 be no dispute. But it makes a difference what we 

 eat; for, to recall an old friend, "Tell me what you 

 eat and I'll tell you what you are." Black bread 



