Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — A Natural Inquiry. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Inquiry.

A number of men gathered In the smoking-car of a train from Little Rock to another point in Arkansas were talking of the food best calculated to sustain health. One Arkansan, a stout, florid man with short, gray hair and a self-satis-fied air, was holding forth in great style. “Look at me!” he exclaimed. “Never a day’s sickness in my life! And all due to simple food. Why, gents, from the time I was 20 to when I reached 40 years I lived a regular life. None of these effeminate delicacies for me! No late hours! Every day, summer and winter, I went to bed at 9; got up at fi; lived principally on corned beef and corn bread. Worked hard, gents, worked hard from 8 to 1, then dinner, plain dinner, then an hour’s exercise, and then ” "Excuse me,” interrupted a stranger who had remained silent, “but what were you in for?”—Housekeep-