Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — The Doctors Unmasked. [ARTICLE]

The Doctors Unmasked.

But, if the editors are unmasked tonight, what shall we say about the doctors? If vou are finding out by his poor words and halting manner how little and unimportant the mysterious “we” of a big newspaper may be, what do you think of your own exhibition ? There are, here present, at least a dozen of you from whom I myself have heard the most solemn and magisterial instructions as to how one should live. Avoid late dinners; avoid crowded rooms; eat simply; drink sparingly; don’t smoke —three courses for your dinner and a single glass of wine; keep your dining room cool,avoid draughts,be sure to have the air pure and fresh, never sit over an hour at table! Ah, yes; those are familiar formulas. Every one of you remembers them; every one of you has given them a thousand times, and taken a good fee for it every time. Now we’vo got you out from behind the screen. This must be what you meant by it. This is where the fees go. The united skill of 200 doctors, concentrated upon the single problem of hygiene, how to produce for themselves the best and most wholesome way of dining, has resulted in this. Well, well; it may be naughty, but it’s nice; and we are more obliged than we can tell you for being shown at last, so satisfactorily and on the highest medical authority, just what “Plain Living and High Thinking” mean.— Wkitclavo Iteid, at Holme*' banquet.