Show FOOD ap THE autu re A bracer of salt will take the place oi stimulants when the food of the future is buco ia vogue tho food dispensary licensed by tho government will long since have supplanted the butcher shop and tho grocery bjoro well breakfast and lunch aud dine by at a cost of 10 or 15 cents per day per capita doubtless our houses wont bo supplied with power from a ceoly motor at a penny n day additional but iho chemical or artificial food of tho is already a moral certainty for does not marion describe it in omega and has not berthelot its chief apostle been elevated from the laboratory to the foreign of franco given the formula for our food says berthelot Becthel ot he father of the artificial food idea and why not pi it from tho chemists surely the nitrogen and carbon of the may not be aa grateful to the palate if absorbed from a capsule or masticated in u tiny tablet but the bones and the blood the flesh and lie sinews will be just as well supplied with their essential material their own special foods provided always thu prescription is right in proportion and after all the pleasures of the table have ngos on end boon absorbing too much of tho time and inclination of man and woman when the area of chemical food comes we have done with symposia and supper parties welsh rabbits and golden bucks there are certain elementary foods which a man cant do without he must absorb or cat and drink if yon please carbon and nitrogen and calcium for hia bones without going too much into dry detail he must absorb or receive each day to repair the waste cf hia s carbon nitrogen oxygen hydrogen and sodium there are other trifling chemicals like phosphorus which is an awful thing to burn oneself with which the well fed man needs but ho could get along without it he arold got along without sodium were it bot for the fact that salt is chloride of and nobody can get without it a bimble au element but it is absolutely when the i era oath chemical food sets in well all be inthe habit of stopping morning and evening at our favorite dis pen saries for a bracer ot aalt NOT york herald |