Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — The QNLOOKER HENRY HOWLAND EATING and LIVING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The QNLOOKER HENRY HOWLAND EATING and LIVING

The busy professors are always Explaining old notions away; They tell us that people may fatten On less than a quarter a day. 'One says that an egg or an onion Contains enough strength for a meal, A cupful of rice, says another, Will furnish us muscles of steel. .. . 1 We hear that sea water will give us The life everlasting we crave; They tell us that things which tasta pleasant All hurry us on to the grave. Whatever appeals to our palates They earnestly warn us to shun; We are told that the pancake Is deadly. That suicide lurks In the bun. We must chew every mouthful a minute* If we drink at our meals we will die; The wise men of science Inform us That bombs are less deadly than pie; They say we must turn from the oyster And also eliminate fish; Torpedoes and mines are as nothing Compared with the dread chafing dish. Perhaps they are right, but no' matter; Processions still wind to the graves, Therefore let’s eat, drink and be merry, Let the appetite have what It craves; For, with flretraps, trolleys, grade cros*» 1 ings, The switches misplaced, and the gay, Glad assassins out automobillng. What show could we have anyway T