Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1915 — MAKES ATTACK ON DESSERT [ARTICLE]

MAKES ATTACK ON DESSERT

Ohio Newspaper Classes It Among the Undesirable Superfluities of Human Life. A man has come to this country from abroad to advocate vegetarianism. He is a hale and hearty fellow who has never practiced anything but vegetarianism. It is a good thing and we are in favor of everybody not eating any meat who doesn’t want it. But there are other reforms just as good. We might discard the dessert and fare better. The reason for resorting to dessert is to enable one to eat more than he ought to eat. For instance, after eating roast beef, potatoes and bread, can a man resist a piece of pie? Morally he ought to, but physically he couldn’t. Eating too much is materialism in its worst form, and it does more to blnnt the senses and to squelch noble aspiration than buy of the other habits, and the dessert is Its guardian angel. So dessert is a superfluity, if one has had enough of the piece da resistance et - cetera, and the super* flultles are the danger points of life. More than enough is a moral, social* physical ill. Socrates was against the dessert when he prayed: “O God, grant me what I need and no more.”— Ohio State Journal.