Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1915 — Things That Have Been Condemned. [ARTICLE]

Things That Have Been Condemned.

If we banished from our tables all the commodities which like potatoes —have been condemned in print our diet would be decidedly monotonous. “Food faddists are most aggressive persons,” Henry Labouchere once complained. “In my time I have known them preach that we should give up meat, tobacco, alcohol, soup, starch (including bread and potatoes), salt, tomatoes, bananas, strawberries and bath buns. I have also witnessed movements for giving up boots, waistcoats, hats, overcoats, carpets, feather beds, spring mattresses, cold baths, linen clothes, woolen clothes, sleeping more than six hours, sleeping less than nine hours and lighting fires at the bottom.”