Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — Practice Versus Preaching. [ARTICLE]

Practice Versus Preaching.

Surgeons are not healthier than solicitors, and wo are not aware that their children are more robust than the offspring of less scientific societariaus. The worst-drained house in Belgravia was owned by an eminent sanitarian; and to witness four men at a medical club supping on deviled crab and lobster salad is not a reassuring spectacle to the trusting pat ent who has been starving six months* on a certified dietary or gorging himself on sauceless cod in tlie hope of nourishing his brain with phosphorized food, of which all the fish in Billingsgate contain about as much as is dipped on the end of a lucifer match. —London World. There must now l>e more than 50D descendants of Benjamin Franklin in the United States, some of them poor and obscure as liis wife’s family, others in the navy and science 2 one of them is said to be the wife of Attorney General Brewster, another is a school teach er at Port Chester, N. Y,