Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — CHAUNCEY’S COMMON SENSE [ARTICLE]

CHAUNCEY’S COMMON SENSE

The reputation of Chauncey Depew as an orator, and as an after-dinner talker, or perhaps world-wide, in extent. Chauncey is. generally very level--headed, and was never more so than Tn a'recent atTdressHTefore an~assd-“" ciation of farmers in the interior of ■ the State. Various papers had been read by members of the club on tuberculosis as connected with milk. Mr. Depew, speaking'to the same subject, said that in his early life he lived on a farm, and mil k was a common food, and was considered the healthiest. No one ever heard of tuberculosis or microbes. The. milk was obtained from what would. now-.a-days_.be termed scrub cows ' that were turned ouu in the sum- | mer to browse for what they could ' get, and in the winter to exist if they could, and the children of the day were brought up on the milk. ( In conclusion, Mr. Depew said: “I think I may add? without fear of > contradiction, that the children i brought up in this way made the sturdiest, most indomitable and most intelligent race of men the world has ever seen. It was rough training both for the cow and the bov. but it was effective; and it is just as effective today. The tend-

ency of the times, and the great danger of the times, whether to man or our domestic animals, is over refinement, increasing de'icacy, and the lack of constitutional vigor. Our ancestors and their domestic animals all suffered more than is now necessary; but a larger infusion of primitive simplicity, and a larger use of nature’s best food, produced under natural conditions, would render unnecessary so careful a watch over the germs of disease.”