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Show CONSERVATION AS THE DOCTOR SEES IT ' The Conservation of Meat ikvUrgd For Reasons of Health, H Lets ' 4 . Than for Patriotism. J f - , ; The time is passed when intelligent people give the baby a piece of fit bacon to suck, and feed themselves on ? food soaked in grease; they would be horrified by a suggestion so frought with the idea of the slums and the ' mountain fastnesses of Kentucky. But ; -In metroplitan restaurants and diuing' rooms they still Include in a single . meal bucIj foods as oyHters, fish, game,' roast, and cheese. "One-half the pco- ; -pie In Christendom," according to I)r. Henry Smith Williams, the distin-: gulshed scientist and physician who contributes the "Science" section of Hearst's Magazine for February, "shorten their lives by over-eating or by perverse eating." And most of this perversity In the American diet take the form of an over supply of animal protein. Just how dangerous this kind ' of gormandizing can be la shown br j the fact that 3.r,0.000 deaths in the United States each year can be traced , to this cause an Increase of forty per cent, in the faults and the remedif of the American dietary is especially valuable at Oils time of the urging of conservation for the sake of r'on.-U ,X welfare. The apKal of the Food Ad- ', ministration is reinforced by the Judg-5 merit of a medical expert, whose ev)-: di'nre and conclusions no one can afford af-ford to ignore. |