Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1914 — Clever Wife. [ARTICLE]

Clever Wife.

Food faddists cause Mr. Ralph Nevill to make some rather piquant remarks In his latest book, “Fancies Fashions and Fade” (Metuen), and he tells an amusing story at the expense of one of them. When at luncheon with a friend he observed “that he touched no meat, but ate only certain strange vegetarian dishes, which had evidently been prepared for his special consumption. Later on,” says Mr. Nevill, “I inquired of his wife if this new diet agreed with her husband. “ ‘lt didn’t at first,’ she replied, ’but it does now.’ “ ‘From his looks he certainly seems to thrive on it He never looked more robust In his life:* “ ‘I take case of that,* she went on, ‘though I hopikjie* won’t find it out No man partakes of a more carnivorous diet than he. Every one of those vegetable courses you saw today was full of the strongest meat juice, which, by my orders. Is nut Into everything served to him before it appears on the table.’ ”