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Show IMITATION EATING. THE fad for eating imitation things seems to have died somewhat. One does not hear quite so much about imitation coffee or mock breakfast foods. The vegetarian idea seems to be the latest hobby of humanity, for mankind man-kind couldn't live without some kind of an ea.ting fad- At least a part of mankind, or womankind, couldn't. It is probably the mock food faddists who have taken up the newest vegetarian extremes, for, having tired of one hob- by, they must needs adopt another upon which to expound and theorize. It is rather strange with whit impatience impa-tience a healthy person will tk upon such unique theories about eat.4: perhaps per-haps because a healthy persons physical physi-cal being demands all the strength afforded af-forded by a general variety of food, while those who are not healthy are perhaps given to spasmodic desires and capricious appetites. It is generally conceded by the most practical physicians physi-cians that a varied diet is the best. The person who eats everything and who satisfies his appetite with meat, vegetables, vege-tables, salads, fruits, and sweets in I season is the one who is apt to have the j best appetite and most endurance. It's a question whether forced food ever dees any one good. When not hungry the best thing to do is to stop eating, wait for the return of the natural appetite.. appe-tite.. and then eat a good meal. It is curious how vivid is the lmagina tion in regard to one's food. Some people peo-ple get ideas that they can't eat certain things. Tell a man with his digestion on his mindthat he can't eat potatoes, and he'll shun them like poison. "About a year ago." said a clever newspaper man, "I got it into my head that I couldn't eat. I grew thin and worn out. Finally I went to a sensible old doctor and told him I thought I was anaemic. He said: 'Humph: been dieting, diet-ing, haven't you? Go home and cat a i square meal. Eat anything" you want. It may not agree with you at first, but persist and eat regularly until you get the machinery working. When I was a voung. cadaverous medical student stud-ent I thought I had hopeless stomach trouble. I went to my doctor and asked him if he thought a milk diet would be the thiner. He said: "Go home; eaf sauerkraut: live on boiled dinners for a while. Milk is for babies. If you want to get fat you must eat plain food and plenty of it." ..One's' attitude toward, his. food at the beginning of a meal is a really practical' practi-cal' idea of the most sensible theorists. How much of a new faith or scientist theory this may be is not understood. Anyway, it is just plain sense and not a theory destructive of the faddists. A dinner with the right idea is even of greater importance than the consomme. con-somme. Sit down to a meal with the thought that everything is going to agree with you. Now. some faddist will jump upon that and try to use mind cure to digest cucumbers, with milk. However, it is surely true that to pause over every anticipated pleasure in the gastronomic line and imagine it is going go-ing to disagree does surely seem fatal So a cheerful mind toward eating, and plenty of It food as well as cheer seems to be the results of sensible persons per-sons own philosophy. Very material ones, perhaps, but nice- and livable, and these are the kind we need nowadays. nowa-days. The Globe. |