Show americans eat too much beef A large proportion of our steadfast people who do not drink at all ruin their health by eating A few years back I 1 took dinner with an old french wine me merchant reliant he had four pints of wine set out in the snow for it was winter when it came to the burgundy I 1 turned my glass down saying that it to my feet no said the old man 1 I drink wine all my life my father kept a hotel in switzer eiland land before me icamen I 1 came to fo this country a waster waiter at Delmo nicos and now I 1 am a wino wine merchant I 1 have never had tho the gout in my life but I 1 never eat meat more than once a day the americans eat too much beef it makes too much blood for them and that brings on the gout what do you oat eat said I 1 1 I eat fish and chicken and birds light viands I 1 take veal in preference to beef as it has less blood in it mr bookwalter of ohio who lias has been a good deal abroad some time ago remarked that lie thought the intensity and want of serenity and peacefulness in the american nature was due to its carnivorous habits babits said he 1 I have been studying for some time the natural history of annuals animals and I 1 notice that those animals which resemble the americans in their avidity their leaping at business or breakfast in the same way are the meat eaters we e are a carnivorous people and if we confined ourselves more to farinaceous food herbs and oils end cad such things as have been approved by antiquity we would be a happier race I 1 george alfred townsend |