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Interesting' Hits of News Gathered
at the National Capital.
Civil Service Commission Wants Home
f
WASHINGTON. Buffeted from pil
lar to post for a quarter of a ceu
(my, the United Slates civil service
commission Is crying at lht doorstep
of the committee on appropriations of
the house of representatives.
"Give me a home of my own," Is the
plaintive appeal of this national waif.
Although established permanently In
the affairs of the government, the civil
service commission is a homeless wan
derer without a place to lay its weary
head. Five times since its establish
ment in 1S83 It has heen turned out of
doors and forced to seek new livlns
quarters. Now it is asking congress
for $300,000 wiih which to build a mod
est dwelling place where it may be se.
cure from eviction and where Its work
' may be carried on in a proper and dig
nified manner, in asking congress for
a home the commission has not been
content to follow the conventional
practice of pointing out how much
money will be saved in rentals. The
moral element In the proposition Is im
portant, also, according 10 the olttcial
communication addressed to the presi
dent by the commission and by him
transmitted to congress.
"A man id hardly a respected head
of a family until he owns a roof un
der which he may gather that family,"
says the commission. "Anv bureau or
Leaders in Congress
MORE than half the membership of
the I'nited States senate and not
quite half of the membership of the
house of representatives in the. pres
ent house come from cities and towns
with more than 10.000 population. Of
the members of both houses who
come from cities and towns 51 arc in
the senate and 185 in the house of rep
resentatives. Of the senators 38 are
from the northern states and only 13
from the southern states, while among
the representatives 145 are from the,
iforth and only 40 from the south.
The leadership of both the house and
senate on the Republican side is
'argely confined to men from the
cities, wlilie the Democratic leadei
jhip, in the house especially, is divided
imong men from the smaller commit
ilties. Sectionally the states of Mary
and, Kentucky and Missouri have
ieen included among the southern
Automobile to Supersede the Horse
AUTOMOBILES will become a part
of the White House equipment In
the administration of William II. Taft,
taking the place in a measure of the
horses and carriages now used as a
means of locomotion in and around
Washington by the members of the
Roosevelt family. One of President
Roosevelt's pet aversions is the auto
mobile. He has declined to purchase
a car and only in two or three in
stances has he ever consented to be
a passenger in one. On the other
hand, Mr. Taft Is veiy fond of the au
tomobile. In the late polltlcul cam
paign he made many tours in high
power cars, notably on his visit to
New York, where he was compelled
to make long jumps in accordance
with arrangements made for him by
the national and state committees.
Carriage for "Uncle
"U
NCLK JOK" CANNON, plain
farmer and tin frilled speaker of
the house, will soon blossom out and
put on more airs that a humming bird
with two sets of wings. He Is going
to have a carriage with two prancing
horses and a colored coachman.
He will dash along Pennsylvania
avenue like u real plutocrat and throw
dust In the eyes of the common toller
plodding along on his weary way. For
all these years "Uncle Joe" lias occu
pied the rear sent of a trailer and
smoked his Porto RIean cigar In peace
and content.
Then some foe of rural simplicity
slipped over to the senate und wills
iiered that Speuker Cannon should
Lave a carriage. To make consistency
TV
Whisperings
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depaitment of the government wholly
peripatetic and without permanent
quail erings is subject to suspicion and
to slighting considerations. We want
ed to be helped out of that situation."
It i.i nearly t went six years since
the commission was organized. The
early meetings in iss:i w ere held in I be
apartment of Dorman 15. F.atou In the
celebrated but dilapldaltd Wormley's
hotel. Later the commission reined
two rooms in a residence in Fourteenth
street. From there it moved to the
seed building of the department of ag
riculture. In ISSo it moved to a wing
of the city hall building. In 1Sts it
moved to the Concordia building, and
in F.100 it moved to its present wholly
Inadequate building.
The commission wants quarters
that are permanent, that will be a
creditable monument to the work fl
has done and an honor to the public
sservlce that It Is performing. An ap
propriation of $300,000 will provide a
proper site and building and this ap
propriation is recommended. In trans
mitting to congress the commission's
letter and the draft of a bill for the ap
propriation. President Iloosevelt says
he approves the commission's recom
mendation, The force of the civil service com
mission consists of 191 employes, of
whom 1.17 are constantly employed In
Washington. These employes super
vise and complete the work of 1,550
local boards, composed of -l.iiiiO mem
bers, distributed throughout the terri
torial extent of the United States, Ha
waii, the I si hm us of Panama, and the
Island of I'orto Rico. Last year there
were 1!7,:!0I applicants for examina
tions. Come from Cities
states, else the representation of that
region among the members from the
cities would be still further materially
reduced.
It Is noteworthy that of the city
membership sent, to congress 16S are
lawyers and only l8 belong to other
professions and avocations.
Two of the best all-around legisla
tors in congress Theodore K. Hurton
of Cleveland .and John V. Weeks of
Newton, Mass. come from the cities.
They are equally posted nu currency,
the tariff, the navy, agriculture and
rivers and harbors. Representative
Mann of Chicago Is a recognized au
thority on the pure food and drugs act.
F. P. Gillct of Massachusetts Is the
best-informed man on the civil serv
ice;' Charles K. Townsond of Michigan
on the interstate commerce laws, It
being generally known that lie practi
cally drew the Hepburn railroad-rate
act; James A. Tawney of Minnesota Is
the authority on appropriations, and
Sereno K. Payne of New York on tho
raising of revenues to pay them; John
Dalzell of Pennsylvania Is the apostle
of protection; W. S. Hennct of New
York the strong man on tho Immigra
tion laws, and Charles N. Fowler ol
New Jersey on currencv.
The urgent deficiency bill recent!)
reported, authorizes un appropriation
of- $12,000 for the purchase, care and
maintenance of automobiles at tlx
White House. Thin appropriation be
(onie.s aval'abie Immediately. It will
cover the initial cost of the machines
which Mr. Taft will doubtless pur
chase and ulso provide for the care ol
the machines for tho remainder of the
current fiscal year, which will end
on June 30. in the new fiscal year
beginning July 1, the White House au
tomobiles will be provided for by an
appropriation becoming available on
that date, carried In the executive, leg
Islaiive and judicial appropriation bill
This appropriation approximates $31.
000 and provides for the nmluietianci
of the While House stable.
According to statements made at
(.he Capitol Mr. Taft Intends to use the
automobile exclusively In bis move
ments In and about Washington. The
provision In the urgent deficiency bill
authorizing (he use of automobiles at
the White House was inserted in that
measure at the request of President
Fleet Taft.
Jce" in the Future
a Jewel It was suggested that the gov
eminent outht to keep a i hide foi
the vice-president.
The bull was swallowed in connec
tion with the line and nolo and the
lsglslative executive and Judicial ap
propriation bill provides that the
vice-president and speaker shall each
have a carriage.
It was figured i hat two prancing
horses lor each, with an appropriate
conveyance having four wheels and a
varnished body, would cost the gov
ernment $.1.(100. and that lump sum
was allowed lor ihe Intimation.
The Item, which Is Incorporated foi
the first lime, docs not specify wheth
er either of the officials shall have one
or two horses, a rock.iway, victoria
tiap or phntcou. Ii simply specifies
horses and carriages. That, is cer
tainly sulllc'ent lor one of Hie plain
people like "Uncle Joe" Cannon.
Up lo this time the president and
members of the cabinet were the only
ones Uncle Sam provided wl'h horses
und rat i iiit;v.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Warden Armstrong of the stale
prison at Jackson, Mich., was arrested
on a charge of accepting a bribe.
Miss Martha Finley, well known as
the authoress oT tho "Klsle" books, Is
dead ai Klkton. Md.. aged J.L' oars.
The house of icpresoinativcs voted
$75i.O0O for army purposes, of which
100,000 can be used for building air
ships. Kdward Lanterbach has sued the
it y of New York for f lf.0.000 for the
death of his son in an automobile tie
cideui.
Wesley Price, sexton of the ceme
ery at Ainsworth, la., dropped dead
on the grave he was digging for his
sister. ,
llloodhounds were put on the trail
of burglars who stole $:!,.1uo worth of
jewelry front W. II. Poole's store in
Montevlsla, Col.
Two children cd Nathaniel Work
man, living near Lexington, Ky., were
burned to death when his house was
destroyed by fire.
Gust Johnson, who crawled seven
miles through snow, is in an Omaha
hospital in a critical condition. One
hand and foot have been amputated.
The widow of Father John of Kron
stadi, the well-known Russian priest
who died about a month ago in St
Petersburg, has been given a yearly
pension of $2,(100.
Dr. Fred Peacock, a physician of
Cathlamet, Wash., was shot by Mrs.
Madelalne Loiigtalne, mot her of a
young girl who died in a hospital un
der tragic circumstances.
George Husse, brother of Mayor
Husse of Chicago, who accidentally
shot, and killed Mrs. Lucius Tucker
man, was exonerated by the coroner's
jury which investigated the tragedy.
The supreme court of the United
Stales denied the application of the
Consolidated Gas Company of New
York for a rehearing. The case In
volved the validity of the NO-conl gas
law.
Wit hunt amendment the senate
passed the house bill making Febru
ary 12, l'.too. the one hundredth anni
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coln a legal holiday and recommend
ing ii-t celebration throughout the
Culted States.
HUNDREDS PERISH AT CANTON,
Fleet of Flower Boats Destroyed
Fire In Harbor.
by
Canton, Feb. 2. At least 2.10 lives
were lost In a fire which occurred yes
terday In a licet of flower boats. The
charred bodies of 170 victims have al
ready been recovered, hut many per
sons are still missing.
Tlie disaster occurred in the harbor
shortly after noon, and the persons on
shore lied In wild panic lest the flames
apread ,to the small wooden buildings
which lined the harbor front. As a
result there was no effort on the part
if the municipal authorities to go to
the rescue of the hundreds in the har
bor for some time. When finally aid
was sent more than 200 liven had been
snuffed out.
WALL PAPER TRUST IS HIT.
Loses Suit for Debt Because It Is an
Illegal Combine.
Washington, Feb. 2. The case of
the Continental Wall Paper Company
vs. Lewis Voigbt & Sons of Cincinnati
was yesterday decided by the supreme
court of the United States In Volght's
favor.
The suit was brought by the com
pany on a debt of $.17,000, the payment
of which was resisted on the ground
that the paper company Is a trust.
In effect the decision holds thai -n
admitted trust organized contrary to
the Sherman anti-trust law cannot usi
the court to collect debts.
Auto Blows Up; Three Hurt.
Rock Island, 111., Feb. 2. The gaso
line tank of the automobile owned by
Otio Huber, secretary of the Rock
Island Plowing Company, blew up as
the car passed from the government
bridge to the arsenal. Mrs. Huber
Miss Llllle C. Huber and James
llouldsworth, chauffeur, were painfully
burned.
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DIET AND
HEALTH
Dy DR. J. T. ALLEN
f ood Specialist
Author of "Eating for a
1'urpost." "The jVrfco
Gospel of Health."
Etc.
ii opyrlulit, liy Joseph ll. Howie)
ECONOMICS OF EATING
Desire Is the stimulus that nature
tiseu to lead to obedience to her com
mands. And so long as the desire is
gratified naturally there is harmany,
health and growth. Hut when the de
sire becomes depraved and its satis
faction abnormal, there is iiibarinony,
lllitiTppiucES, disease and death. "Fat
what you like," Is, therefore, as we
have already concluded, the best rule,
In splie of pure food law, food reform
er and prohibitlonlsj so long, that Is,
as you like what Is good for you.
Certainly the axerago man cats
what he likes, without considering
whether it Is good for him or whether
lie is getting the most for his money.
Now Is this wise? Would it not be
very much better to have a system of
eating for at present xv? have none,
especially In America, where we eat
anything, any time; nny way, almost.
I was trying to show the members
of a woman's club awhile ago that tho
Chinese system, living on rice (entire
ricel almost exclusively, la bettor
than ours, because It furnishes better
nourishment, avoids sickness nnd
raves dish-washing. To which one
woman replied when the time came
for questions and criticism; "I sup
posf; they live in that poverty-stricken
way In that povorty-strlcken country
because they have to. For my part,
I'm glad I don't have to live on rice
all the time. And If it Is true that a
man Is what his food makes ldin, I
think China Is a good warning to the
rest of 1he world."
1 have not advised living on rice,
not even on unbolted rice which dif
fers from the rice we use, as whole
wheat differs from fine white flour.
Rice is a one-sided diet. Tho system
of the Japanese, who eat also fresh
fish and beans, is much better, lie-
cause it supplies, besides heat and en
ergy, an adequate proportion of flesh
and nerve food. Hut the point is
the Chinese, like the Japanese, and
most other nations, have n system,
and any system in better than none,
especially In eating. The Chinese Is
tho opposite of our extreme, but 1
hesitate not to say that tho average
Chinaman Is better fed than the av
crago 'American, so fnr at least as the
laborer, who needs the least brain
food, l.i concerned.
"Hut why," I am asked, " If the
Chinese monodiet, is so good, lias
China been for centuries a by-word
for unprogresslvcness?"
The resources of the Chinese are
not yet understood by the rest of the
world. Food, moreover, la but the
material factor in life; the mind Is
the fundamental factor, as I have en
deavored constantly to show. The
Chinese have? had. from time lmniem
orlal, a mind-dwarfing system of edu
cation that bus effectually retarded
their progress, but all that is being
changed, which with the gradual
abolition of the death-dealing opium
habit Will bring in a new China, an
other light of Asia.
In the course of an investigation
Into the relation between food and
health, a few years ago, I discovered
two interesting general facts, from
the statistics of the state boards of
health: Death from cancer, which
according to the late Dr. Nicholas
Senn and other good authority, is n
disease caused by indulgence in eating
(especially, I think, In meat), In
creases rapidly among Germans and
Irish Immigrants and their descend
ants, the two races who most quickly
adopt our habits of catlnqr. while there
Is little increase among Italian
Greeks, Bohemians and others who
continue, In the second generation, to
live largely on their native simple
diet. Tho average foreigner na' orally
tlilnks that the chief benefit of high
er wages is not better schooling but
greater variety of food, Including meat
every day, a thing possible only for
tho rich In Ms own country. Surely
good is not ahxays unmixed with evil!
Herbert Spencer says that the
most valuable knowledge Is that
needed for self preservation, which
Kurely Includes knowledge of food, lis
first essential. We have already con
sidered the constituents of various
foods and the uses of each. Let us
now consider some of the leading ar
ticles of food not already dealt wiih.
and their comparative values.
Apples contain but a small amount
of solid matter, chiefly sugar, but
their minerals, being perfectly assimil
able, and their malic acid being bene
ficial In most cases, they are to be
regarded as a most valuable food. In
a few peculiar cutitlltlons of tb" liver
and in excessive acidity ihey tuny be
injurious, but they are especially
beneficial In torpidity of the" liver and
rxccFstve alkuline conditions (the op
posite of acldl. The peach differ li'
tie from the apple, but It spoils cu.lly
while the apple keeps good for
nintith There U inure or l.ss il. nicer I
In spoiled or unripe fruit, and a b: d
tpeck indicates that the entire fruit
Is spoiling. Polling of cour.-e coun
teracts fermentation, but If petfectly
toutid an apple Is best uncooked. Ap-
pies are best eaten in the morning,
with other fruits, not with cereal (,
yegetables or meat.
Deans coutuln 25 per cent, proteld
for flesh building and r0 per cent,
starch for muscular energy and heat.
They are richer than any other food
In minerals, except a few of the nuts,
though the excessive toasting to
which they are usually siibmlltel to
mak.' I hem palatable and to muk"
tle'ir starch digestible, largely preclpl
tittcr. tho mineral elements and co
agulates Ihe albumen In them. It
would hardly be possible to tiud a
better diet for hard physical or men
tal work than beans. Few other
foods, except brown bread, ore com
patible xvlih them, and especially not
fruit, milk or eggs. The addition of
fat is an advantage, but olive or pea
nut oil would be better than pork.
Peas, beans and lentils, contain
every clement of food necessary for
vigorous phslcal and mental life, it
Is no mere coincidence that they are
used, commonly, as a staple in the
logging camp nnd have come to be as
sociated with the name of the Athens
of America. The bean Is especially
rich in potash ami phosphorus, two
lending brain foods, besides having a
larger percentage of Iron than milk.
1 have had an opportunity to watch
the physical and mental effects of an
exclusive CO days' diet of beans, which
clearly proved them a most complete
and substantial diet for physical or
menial worker, even though they are
not included In the Ideal dietary.
llean starch Is much more easily
digestible than wheat starch and Is
far lesj likely to cause such bowel
troubles as appendicitis. An exclusive
diet of beans, long continued is, how
ever, liable to cause rheumatism and
kidney troubles, oxvlng to tho excess
of iilbuinen they contain. Peas and
lentfls differ little from beans, the
former being the richest of this class
of foods. A few slices of toast or
add fruits only In the morning and
uncooked cabbage, lettuce, cucutii
hers, etc., alternating with prunes,
dates or figs, for the evening meal,
would be an ideal dietary for a labor
er eating beans xvlth coarse bread for
the principal meal, at noou.
Pananas aro the most nourishing of
fruits, except ralFlns and currants
Properly ripened they are easily dl
gcBted. Put as wo ordinarily find
them In our northern market they are
difficult of digestion and likely to
cause constipation. Danana flour Is
superior to superfine wheat flour and
could be produced more cheaply, If
transportation facilities were ade
quale. Tho ripened banana, with tho
peanut, form a perfect ration, on
which the population of the world
could be fed by the product of Texas
nnd the other gulf stales and the
Ironies. Only a suitable method of
preserving the banana and an inex
pensive method of transportation be
ing necessary, to solve Ihe food prob
lent.
llacon Is almost pure fat and is
therefore, a good source of ., heat
muscular energy and fat, but it is In
ferior to olive or peanut oil, which are
purer and more easily assimilated
IL should bo eaten only In winter, in
cold climates, If at all. Tork products
In general, are tho most objectionable
of the flesh foods. Tho flesh of wild
animals, the goat, sheep and fresh
water fish, fresh ure the best of anl
mal foods. Fish spoils quickly and
mnv become more poisonous than
meat. Vegetable-cooking oils are pre
ferablo to lard.
Oysters (tho edible portion, I mean
for it Is as necessary to clean oysters
as chicken or fish), are comparatively
nutritious raw, but fried they are in
digestible. They contain nothing that
cannot be obtained from vegetable
foods, eggs or fish. Often they are
dangerous, causing serious bowel
trouble and even typhoid and typhus
fever.
Kggs, eaien in their natural state or
only slightly cooked In water, not
fried In fat, are very nutritious and
easily digested. They are, however,
stimulating and undeslrablo unless
eaten sparingly. A whipped egg with
zwieback is a suitable meal for an in
valid; but the curative use of foods
will be dsalt with in subsequent artl
clcs.
Figs, dates and prunes aro the most
substantial of the fruits, next to the
banana. Klther of these, or all, makes
a suitable evening meal. The chief
objection to them is, they are very
liable to be spoiled, by fermentation
ami worms. Prunes can be obtained
In cans free from contamination
the objectionable ehorulcala used
the dried fruit, and as Hiey are chiefly
sugar the injury done by cooking is
Immaterial, as compared with the dan
Rerln fermentation in tho spoiled fruits
Cocoa Is less objectionable than tea
or coffee, being only slightly stimulat
ing. It contains considerable fat,
more than chocolate. Cereal coffee is
harmless.
Grain s are. next to the apple, for
all general purposes, the best fruit.
There should be a grapo arbor In
every garden. i'nfermented grape
Juice Is a dellclou and highly-nutritious
drink, of which we shall have
more to say In treating of the cura
tive values of foods.
1'ltie apple is a true fruit medicine,
very valuable In some digestive disor
ders. Potatoes are chiefly water and
s'arch. but uro rich In the mineral
i elements of food.
They are best
baked slowly, at a low temperature;
ihi-y should not be fried in fat or
boiled slowly. It they must be boiled,
they fdiould be dropped in boiling wa
ter and when cooked allowed to dry on
a hot fire after having the water
drained off.
Cheese, If fresh, Is a rich proteld
food, and an aid to digestion, but old
cheese Is dangerous and it should not
be tasled. Cheese, like milk. Is ex
tremely lnconipa:lbie wiih the small
t fruits, blackberries, stiawberries, rasp-
berries, etc., xvhlch need not be
eaten at all, except alone, In the
inorniii:;. friah, in summer. It is also
Incompatible wiih m:!s Full cream
cheese, fresh, would make a better.
combination with beans than pork.
With bread It is especially compatible.
flraln work requires mora fresh.
easily assimilated protelds than man
ual labor, but in either case the less
raft made upon the stomach for di
gestion ihe more vitality will be left
for work, of whatever kind. This is
the physiological side of the economy
of eating, not forgetting the relative
llgestlbllity of foods aud the great
difficulty of excreting the waste of
albuminous foods ub compared with
sugars, starches and fats.
Weston's recent great walking feat,
known to every newspaper reader, Is
a good example of the requirements
of physical endurance. Mr. Weston's
diet was far from Ideal, but the one
great lesson, constantly taught was,
that if a man Is to do his best work
he must eat only enough to furnish
heat, energy and bodily waste. If he
Is to win In a contest, he must eat
protelds sparingly and lose in weight.
Digestion and elimination are work,
of the severest kind, and the more
he saves in that department, the more
he will have to spend in muscular and
mental work.
A few months ago I published in
one of the medical journals the re
sult of some experiments made in "A
Tramp's Diet," showing that the best
walking was done when only enough
food was taken to prevent actual
hunger and that a gradual elimination
of meat was found to steadily increase
the mileage walked. This corresponds
exactly with tho results of the endur
ance tests made by Profs. Chittenden
nnd Fisher of Yale and with all the
results in the great walking contests
In Germany, Kngland and America.
No fallacy In regard to diet Is more
erroneous or more unfortunate than
tho common argument that the work
ing man needs meat. The contrary is
true. Dr. Wiley of our 'federal bu
reau of chemistry, an acknowledged
authority on food, says: "A Japan
ese coolie will carry you around wn
an uay on a pound or rice; you can
not do that on a pound of meat." Mr.
William Jennings Pryan says that the
Japanese 'risklshaw man will wheel
a man 75 mllcB in a day; and his
fond is rice (unmllled, ot course, cor
responding to our whole wheat), and
possibly beans and fish. The Dedouin
Arab, who will run all day by the
side of a magnificent Arab horse,
lives on dates and figs, never eating
meat.
I have nothing to say ot the ethical
objections to meat-eating. I merely
wish in dealing with the economic
side of food, to Impress, especially
upon the working man, that the first
step to economy in eating Is to omit
meat and fine white bread from the
diet. The man who eats rye or whole
wheat and a few nuts, needs no meat,
no eggs, nor milk, though he will do
well to drink a glass of buttermilk
daily. .
Sugar Is the cheapest food for one
doing heavy physical work, because
l. furnishes energy directly with little
waste. Its best source is prunes, flgi
or dates.
A spoonful or two of olive or pea
nut oil should be taken dally. Dutter
Is an expensive food compared with
vegetable oils
What the physical worker needs
most is, just like the engine, ready,
fuel and water. Its cheapest source
Is sugar and fat, rather than wheat,
starch and meat, though rye is easily
converted into glucose or cereal
sugar. A tablespoonful or more ot
peanut oil may be taken with prunes,
or separately. Fat Interferes with the
digestion of protelds in the stomach
but not with sugar. A warm drink
of weak cocoa or substitute coffee
may follow a fruit meal, facilitating
the passage to the Intestine ' where
such food Is digested. The more
liquid the sooner the stomach empties.
The most economical of foods Is
sugar, and yet much harm Is done by
cane sugar, as it is eaten In candles,
especially by young women who have
little exercise, and In tea and coffee
by men and women of sedentary oc
cupation. The evil effects of cane
sugar, including ordinary caudles as
compared with the natural sugar
foods, dates, figs, prunes, currants
and raisins (and perfectly ripe banan
as), might be compared to the dif
ference between fine white and
coarse bread.
Experiments made with men on a
march showed that a quarter to three
quarters ot a pound dally of cane
sugar was utilized readily and caused
no distress, but It is a well-known
fwt that such an amount of sugar
eaten In the way It is ordinarily taken
by one not making the fullest use of
lungs and muscles, requiring the con
sumption of a large amount of avail
able carbon that sugar not quickly
burned in the system for heat and
energy causes catarrh ot the stomach
nnd bowels, unfitting thera for natural
digestion and at the same time over
loading the liver and straining the
kidneys. Similar results follow the
excessive use of starch foods, espe
cially In concentrated form.
As wo have already seen, the es
sential food is albumen, a definite
amount of which Is necessary, under
all circumstances, to Bupport life, at
well as to build new tissue in the
growing child. Put carbon, as sugar,
starch or fat. can be much more quick
ly utilized for maintaining heat and
energy. If a sufficient amount ot car
bon In these forms is not furnished,
beat and energy will be sustained by
the consumption of albumen, and at
the waste products from the consump
tion of albumen, require many timet
more energy for elimination from the
system through the kidneys, the con
sumption of more albumen than la
necessary, is a serious error In vital
economy. Rheumatism. Hrlght'i dis
ease, nnd other diseases result from
the Inability ot the system to eliminate
the excessive waste ot albuminous
food t.