Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — KNOW NOTHING OF DYSPEPSIA [ARTICLE]

KNOW NOTHING OF DYSPEPSIA

Eskimo* Apparently Able to Digest Anything In the Form of Food, Without Cooking It. There la at least one native race of America that Is little troubled with dyspepsia. The Eskimo seems to defy all laws In this relation and to thrive. He eats until be Is satisfied, and it takes much to satisfy him, if. Indeed, be ever is satisfied. He eats as long as there Is a shred of the feast before him. His capacity 4s limited only by the supply. The Eskimo, It further appears, can make no mistake in the manner of cooking his food for the very simple reason that he does no? cook It. Nor, so far as the blubber or fat of the Arctic Is concerned. Is he worried about his manner of eating It, Indeed, he may be said not to eat it at aIL He cuts it Into long strips an inch wide and an Inch thick and then lowers’ the strip down his throat as one might lower a rope into a well. Notwithstanding all this, -the Eskimo does not suffer from indigestion. He can make a good meal off the flesh and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that In cutting up the animal the knife must be continually sharpened. The teeth of a little Eskimo child ~wllL It ter who know, meet in a bit of walrus skin as the teeth of one of our own children would meet in the flesh of an apple, although the hide of the walrus is from half an Inch to an inch in thickness and bears considerable resemblance to the hide of an elephant. The child of the Arctic will bite it and digest It and never know what dyspepsia means.