Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1916 — <’hnractci- in Food. [ARTICLE]

<’hnractci- in Food.

According to the San Francisco Bulletin Prof. Jaffa, “the nutrition expert of the University of California, has declared that different sorts of food have distinct, but varying, effects upon the moral character.” If one eats chicken exclusively, it brings out the finest qualities of the person’s higher nature.” Beef makes savage. The lighter foody, such as vegetables, tend to make an aesthetic. Character,’’ says Disraeli, someth a t 'of an epi cu re in his y outh, -“is ’destiny.” But character, as Prof Jaffa tells us, is diet. Therefore, [diet iu destiny. To educate this “truth”: is of 'commanding moment. The fond hopes of parents in regard to the careers of their children need not be disappointed so often. Why were Americans so thirsty a hundred years ago? Because, as many travelers testify, their main food was I salt pork. Had they stuck to vegetables they would have been artists, aesthetes, “precious’’ writers.. Lamb and mutton should be the food of pacifists, or should it be goose? Rare roast beef for warriors, ostrich steak and chicken heart for politicians, oysters for diplomatists, guinea fow] for orators, and so on. Prof. Jaffa’s theory is in perfect accord with the theory and misuaderstanding practice of cannibalism. You ate your enemy to Incorporate his virtues. His heart and liver gave you his courage and frightfulness. Cannibalism was a plan of character formation even more carefully thought out than Prof. Jaffa’s. —New York Times.