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Show INSUFFICIENT NOURISHMENT Prof. Rubin, in a recent dissertation on the question of feeding tho human hu-man race, which, ho maintains, has como to a critical point, says that there has been a distinct step back ward In tho organism of tho working-man working-man and that cooking Is a lost art. He deducts from this that the greatest great-est problem confronting mankind is that of providing tho race with proper prop-er nourishment. Tho professor recommends 'that each city should havo a department in its administration clothed with powers of caring for this branch of the peoplo's welfare. Tho growth of our cities and the industrial work-era work-era as a class has complicated tho problem to a poiut where it is becoming be-coming necessary for municipal go ernments to maintain a watch that the inhabitants receive proper nourishment. nour-ishment. Dr. Rubin believes also that school children who fall to get sufficient nourishment Bhould have the deficiency defi-ciency mado up. An insufficiency of expensive food is not near as good as an adequate supply of plainer but nourishing food. |