Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1911 — Cabbage and Potatoes Make Men. [ARTICLE]

Cabbage and Potatoes Make Men.

A steady diet of cabbage and potatoes for breakfast, dinner and supper will make a stalwart and brawny race of men, according to Rev. V. Losa of Coraopolls, who spoke before the Outlook Alliance. Rev. Mr. Losa, who Is superintendent o# 20 missions for foreigners supported In the neighborhood of Pittsburg by the Presbyterian church, said that the average wage In their native land of the big, sturdy Slovaks and Ruthenians who come to Pittsburg Is about sixteen cents a day. and that cabbage and potatoes Is their chief diet, with meat perhaps .two or three times a year. Rev. Mtr. Losa Is a Bohemian by birth and has labored among foreigners In and around this city for 12 Pittsburg Dispatch.