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Show WHALE MEAT AS DIET. It I Not Only ?V1iolrofne bat Alo Very I Pain I utile. Talk of butchers' shops. A whale is a whole meat market in itself. It is a floating float-ing Srnithlleld, a marine edition of Copenhagen Copen-hagen fields, an entire Billingsgate. Nobody need ever starve when whales are in season. A few of them would provision a city for a long si ego. Fortunately Fortu-nately , as the world growsolder.it learns to judge more fairly of neglected kinds of provisions. It is a pity that the true value of whale flesh has not been discovered dis-covered long ago. How many poor families might havo been amply fed if only "whalo extract" had come into fashion years back. Gourmands should also (mow their gratitude for the gift of a fresh flavor. It must bo admitted, with regret, but without hesitation, that the list of ordinary articles of food is very limited, and that beef and mutton aronpt to liecomo monotonous, oven when varied with fish ami poultry, and all the eatable eat-able fruits of tho earth as well. The edibility of tho whale is, therefore, an exciting discovery." Tho only drawback to tho pleasant picturo which arises when the mind contemplates con-templates fjil.000 people dining oft one animal is contained in tho thought that whales, when they are proved to be valuable val-uable for dietetic purposes, will be hunted hunt-ed until they become scarce and perhaps extinct. " guard against this danger wo have doubt that whalo breeding would como into fashion. People who found other forms of food culture unre-muncrative unre-muncrative might remove to countries where tho climate allowed whalea to live In comfort and establish whalo farms at tho mouths of tidal rivers. There is, in fact, no end to the opening for enterprise enter-prise and ingenuity wliich are available owing to this remarkable addition to the domestic larder. Medical Classics. |