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GUESS MARVIN'S RIGHT "THEY WON'T
S. S. Marvin, in lecturing to a big
audience down East, the other night,
presented a rigidly simple diet as the
only refuge from the high cost of
living. "Our mothers," he Baid, "used
to give us a bowl of mush and milk
for supper. They would be no high
cost of living to speak of, if people
would eat mush and milk nowadays..
But they won't."
Most of us grown folks can remem
ber the mush and milk for supper, all
right, but we have to remember
other things of those days in connec
tion therewith. Mother did not pay 8
or 10 cents per quart for the milk,
and we had already had a breakfast
of eggs that didn't cost her Ive cents
apiece, and a hearty dinner of meat
that didn't cost her 25 cents per
pound. In those days, also, mother
got a lot of things, such as liver and
soup bones, for instance, for prac
tically nothing, whereas the mother
of today has to pay about eight rea
sonable vprices for them.
d Had the. mother of 35 or 40 years
ago had to put up with present day
conditions, she would probably have
simplified her supper to bare naked
mush. Still, there's no doubt about
the tremendous waste, nowadays, on
unnecessary and even, deleterious
victuals. The demand is for "three
square meals a day," whereas mother
made us get along very nicely on light
suppers and breakfasts.
The fellow who bases his argu
ment tm what mother used to do for
his stomach is a goner. Thirty-five
or more years ago, a fellow could get
up bn a frosty morning and readily
stow away three slices of fried salt
pork, four baked potatoes and a .half
pint of milk gravy, the same follow
ed by 11 pancakes garnished an inch
deep with maple syrup, and feel that
mother had merely done her duty to
ward her offspring, while that same
fellow, performing that feat today
would be-ripe for the appendicitis
doctor and the undertaker.
Simplified mush and milk may have
done, then, and still make the adult
liver of today work no better than
would a dried apple. That mother
used to do this, that or the other
thing with or for your stomach Is no
argument Conditions have changed.
Sfomachs have changed. Mothers
have changed-
Recommending less eating is about
the longest, toughest road to reduc
tion in living's cost that we observe
on the map. They won't, as Marvin
says.
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THE "STONE AGE"
The earliest period of human in
dustry is called the "Stone Age," be
cause in digging about among the
remains of the past archaeologists
find relics made of stone always 16w
er down than relics made of metal.
The ancient savages were marvel
ous workers In stone. They knew In
each region, what stone w,as best for
their purpose. They found out where
the material abounded under the best
conditions to be"worked. They plan
ned apparatus for mining and quarry
ing It. They transported the material
for long distances, half-shaped to re
duce the weight, and made treaties
with hostile tribes to secure the right
fo visit the coveted spot.
The prehistoric man could tell just
how each kind of stone ought to be
worked and how itwduld do its work
after it was shaped. To such a state
of perfection did they arrive that our
most Bkillful flint workers, aided by
the finest tools of today, are not able
to reproduce some of the perfect
specimens to be found in our mu
seums. (
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Moved by an impulse he could not
resist, he suddenly kissed her. "Oh,
Herbert!" she exclaimed, "that's not
right." 'Tm sorry, Helen." replied
Herbert Tjumbly. "I did the best i
kriew how- Won't you show me the
proper way?" ,
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