Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — Jews Free from Disease. [ARTICLE]

Jews Free from Disease.

One noticeable feature about Jewish cemeteries in the South is the scarcity of newly made graves after an epidemic of cholera or yellow fever. Statistics show that fewer of them die than of any other race from these or kindred diseases. During the late cholera scourge in Toulon only two orthodox Jews died of it, while in numbers they equaled fully 20 per cent, of the population. Their immunity from the disease, and the certainty with which they recover when attacked by it, is accounted for by the simplicity of their diet. They are very strict about following the dietary prescribed by Moses. Many tables have been formulated by wise men since then, but none that can compare with it in promoting health and vigor. Isn’t it a little strange that Moses, if he was only a common historian, should have possessed knowledge superior to that of the wisest and best physicians of the present day? He evidently believed in preventing disease rather than curing it.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. The arctif regions are not without their pleasures. The Esquimaux girls are very pretty, dance, sing, and do not care for ice cream. Hot drinks and walrus blubber are their peculiar vanities, and sealskin sacques are sold at two iron hoops and a tenpenny nail. The memory ought to be a storeroom; many turn theirs, rather, to a lumber-room. Even stores grow moldy, and spoil, unless aired and used bei times, and then they, too, become lumI ber.— -J. C. Hare.