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Show Nuts Now in High Esteem as Food. Nuts have alwaya been food, but never with such esteem as now. Modern medicine, at last eschewing mineral poisoning poi-soning and lcrocious bleeding, cutting and hewing, is substituting common sense in the place of many outgrown creeds and mysteries of the curing cult, so long imposing upon the world with the priestcraft of science. It has taken to the more natural methods of diet and sanitation, and nut food is the most Important Im-portant element of this new regime. In the up-to-date vegetarian restaurants the staple for soups and stews and roasts of newly-Invented scientific titles is the nutrient matorlal of nuts. ISdlble nuts are very rich In oil, with only a small percentage of the so-called carbohydrates, such as starch or sugar, and they also contain a large proportion propor-tion of nitrogenous constituents. They are thus the most highly concentrated form of nutriment, and nature knew what she was about In providing such wrappings and casings as make it dlfil-cult dlfil-cult to come at these most precious bits' of food. Evidently her Idea was that If Adamic men were to undertake to live by nuta alone, under tho greenwood tree, they would ruin their stomachs with too much richness. So Adam had to tnkc plenty of time for getting at tho nufg meat, and pick away, If on nut diet, at his food all day, us the birds and fowlo do. Boston Transcript, |
