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Show WILD ANIMALS ALWAYS LEAN. Surplus Fat Would Mean Destruction by Their Enemies. Among wild animals, where the struggle for existence Is most severe, surplus fat 1b very rarely found. The wild boar la lean, fleet of foot and powerful In strength. The razor-back hog of the Bouthern states, lean and gaunt, Is nothing more than the domesticated do-mesticated hog which has been permitted per-mitted to run wild. Tho same hog when penned so as to restrict bis exertions ex-ertions and fed on fattening foods, stores tho unspent energy In his body as fat, nnd becomes the almost leg- I less ball of fat wo see pictured in feed catalogues and live stock jour- nals. Such a hog has no duties to perform In Its struggle for existence. ! Its food Is furnished it without effort on Its own part. It has no enemies to oppose and overcome. Such a hog ! would be Impossible In a wild state. for as soon as the helplessness from J fat began to manifest Itself tho anl- mal would fall a victim to some of Its enemies. j The flesh of a man Is very similar to that of the hog, and this Is why the eating of swine was prohibited by the ancients and Is yet forbidden by the Jews. Many people whose struggle for life Is lessened by ease and plenty, whoso food supply comes without effort, who have little work to perform, and who do not enter into the battle of life, attain a condition very similar to that of the fattened hog. ' |