Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — The Nations that Eat Most. [ARTICLE]

The Nations that Eat Most.

Among modern nations the greatest eaters are the English, Germans, French and the Ameiicans—the ruling people of our civilization. The diet of of the Spaniards and the Italians is notably less substantial than that of the English and Germans, just as their brains are le'3s active and original. The Americans are, on the average, the. greatest eaters in the world. Said Carlyle to Emerson: “The best thing I know of that country is, that in it a man can have a meal for his labor.”