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THE CHINA MAIL.

BATURDAY JUĽŸ 5 19:4.

FOOD EXPERIMENTS ONRATS

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BUY FED

Food Scientist Has Devoted Many Years To

the Study of These Animals-Some of »

the Lessons They Have Taught.

TRY NORMAN C. MELOUD]

UNEXPECTED RESULTS

JUMAN belings are lite rats. Neither; to their king. Just as a child preférs con bể tem ted. In the choice of Lyandy to substantials the rodents went Things to eat dogs is real dander in in heavily for green corn, in spite of allowing either men or the lower the presence of other fondate in animula to fallow individual

gerdrous variety As long as the vorm. Mis available the remainder of the

These inclusions the inevitable afier

A talk with De Elms V. Met lum ofaget was ignore. After the fashion

Johns Herkins University, Batinore, DE hiroin speaks with mathority In matters at del he is an investigathiz Piuttons Joritory is the source af epohonating dia avèries, god he is widely court of met resin nyoblems concensing the flame what we eat.

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of human lungs the reimals tard up for thers and specialized on the single their noses at things which were good

jefe of food,

The result was much the same as that which comes from allowing a child to dull his appete with excessive swepta. Proin the standpoint of hesht und kappiness the trumb was disastrous float of a decline in the belief the The enru-gorged nits become fat "und. inminart is a safe guide to the diet of the day with physical condition seriously lower and 19. We mard the crops impaired, nad readily subject tis peculiar turve as mimane in the lure of food | allprents, none of which offertą, wonald dangers created bị màn bài his own! have resalted if they had taken of.

dangers with

which frustumble quantiad's of the other palat- civilini hest i mirselves and ourable dishes served with the corn, children. We gre apt to consider them That was onesde df the picture. On foetuimte in mot having to battle with the other, was & setinf rats fed accord- Burch empfshions as checkte enosms,i ing to the dietatags of Science. For these French pastries, lobster Newburgs and animals the diel was restricted to Kerman palatalten. With their freedom finely ground pistare of 50 parts corn- from those in kindred sinisterinement, de parte affalin and 20 paths duenens, A, took upon them as Creme i molta pus. To have seen the differ- tures to hong to for in following ence Between the two sets of subjects individualektujve of a bill-of-faire. would havevonvinced ung of us that we

On these points Dr. Metolla bas¦ should pay more attention, to what we mules bought an By actual experiments i eat,“ he proto Int animals are no more

to be fert dun man. Isinet and

the file particular finds in the dowe fall of th

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i The ruts of the second sut were the

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chriftiest pinals to be imagined. Under

the induene of the well-balanced 'mation

they grew, sleek, hi-althy and vigorous— supererais of the last type,

Foam of lo amet interesting subjects wer ordinpry nuts. In atauiying the

Tait Rat- Mfford Contrast. Snience of focus on these animals the the anterio was the case of Methilum brought to light much that | fno date subjected in a long "woarse of is of valno lo mankind,

Erruing.

Tüken in hubyhood. thest Rats Do Not Ent WisĒN. Lanimals hryd-side by side it took He found, amag efter slinge, that impunite rands in the gutter of diet. In rals wenn inclined to devote thetaredzeni generid terms the ghills-of-fare were to an exclusive diet of the thùng: must | identical, but the one speciñe varatum.

was the factor that told the tale.

The chief glements of diet for Rat No. 1 were bolted wheat flour, deger- minated cornmeal, coulted and drie potatoes, peas, navy

beans, becti,

کر کریر نے ک کر پھر ہو کر نے ترمیم موسم کے دور کو تم کو

TOP-NO MTAL.

THIS RATS DIET - HE IS OLD BEFORE HIS TIME-B0770 THIS PATS DIET INCLUDED MILK

AND HE A HEALTHY

shattered by this nethority. It may satisfy the appetite-but the appetite i dictation it does a lot of things to the is nothing to co by. In its whimsical

human frame most of them serious.

"We must to Turkey, Abyssinin And some other remote countries to And the most striking examples of the induener toward bodily perfec- tion. In those Yogions we did phyal- Lunch nun at his best-men and women Fot perfect physique and splendid

health. The reason is not far to nook,, Sour milk and small vegetables con-" stitute a generous share of the daily diet of those people, and with this gutrition it is not surprising that the Ižesults are so strikingly gooi,

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"Should we eat meat? Of course- In moderation. But we should not depend on it as much as most do. That geragę porwan would prob- ably regard as a hungry man's ident a dinner made up of veal cutlets, baked potatoes, peus in «butter, șalud in aspic jelly, head and butter, mince pic. and coffee. From the health stand; point, however, this is no sort of meal, although it may be made so with slight modification. Add a dressing of egg and brend-crumbs to the cutlets, sub- stitute mashed potatoes to which milk has been added, let the peas bercream- ed. instead of cooked 'in butter, and supplant the pic with caramel custard -and there you have a real dinner, equally inviting and providing the ogg milk slements lacker in the original.

The system needs leafy vegetables, such as spinach, lettuce, enbbage, (chard, kale, vollards, beet-tops, turnip- Lapa, dandelions and watercreas—with the onion ineladef because the bulb of this growth is nothing else, than a mass of thickeneḍl bekvos,

to

"We ern» trace 'many diseases faulty die, and, by reversing we can prevent these ailments by the use of proper foods.

no safer guide to the body's needs or as to the quality of the food which should be taken. Evidence of this is daily seen on the street in the pre- valence be fat popli, both men, nud Squrvy Cured By Orange Juice. women-specially the latter. The Many infants, and grown people accumulated experience of all fe too, for that matter, are afflicted with insurance ompanies shows that exces' scarvy, a deade which causes the skin sive weight is detrimental to the health to berumo sensitive that tho and brings about marked decrease in ¦ alightest touch causes severe pain. one's expectation of life,

Among children this is apt to result from the constant use of cheated milk;: and with adults it is due to a lack of

Cure is the proper food elements.

Farm Machinery Hurts.. The des opcient of farm machin- ery has done the race a lot of hurm.

NO

FROM PICHETS, OBUSED BY FAULTY BET-BOTTOM- THIS PAT ARD A DIET

DEFICENT IN VITALTUNG nourishment. lentes much to be desired. Rut No. 2 was given the same diet with the introduction of 'milk. This variation was not in the form of addi- tional volume but through a modifica time to the age- 208 days the waimal related to the potatoes, peas and navy live in this bill-of-fare without varia-beans. With minor reduction of these

iments that have been missing. Orange determining what the appetite willing mechanical equipment for, the

jie is the one melleine required. toy. At the end of the perime with the use of the demand cups Dr. M. Call "Take raising of creps we are now able to ing to the tables of rat-mortality, be extent of ten por rent, of the whole

the simple matter of sweets, fér

rise vist crops at sight labour "Costacising, oranges, strained tomato-juice- should have been in his prime. Trans-

To give a child too much

'cumpared with the cust, that would brings in.ilar results. there resulted a diference that is almost stare. lated into terms of the human rave his unbelievable,, Rat No. 2grew into per candy creates an artificial demand for

have been necessary with the old forms "In this way we have learned that ant therein lies age and activity at that time should fees mihood. At the age of 308 daya scursive sweets

of production. I think this has had rauch liess is unnecessary-and that have corresponded with those of a man he was youthful, vigorous, well-develop envise danger." As further exemple

something to do with causing us to let proper feed is not merely a preventivo 25 or $0. Instead, he was peed auf Terly proportiond-dr just

but a care. Correct, ferding will enable of the force of habit consider, the cerenda play too much of a part in our maturely aid, to be measured by inan of 80. Smail of size, thin of hair and

what should be expected, physically, oftendency of the people of the Southern daily diet as a nation. By rerents us to do away with much ickness, Round do not mean merely breakfast foods shoulders and flat chest among school the man of 5 or 30 who has been generally old auf miserable looking herightly urished and is is perfect trim.

id their various forms, but those things children may be prevented by propor was a rat in which no person could'

in which grain products are dominant die. Many adults become prematurely take the slightest pride; and all this in

including bread, pastry, marayoni and old and suffer habitual poor health as spite of the Turt that the diet afforded

rive. It is rufe to any that 50 per cent. a result of faulty food programmes, whle variety, had the appropriate

of the children of working people in This, too can be prevented; In addi chemie components, a far as could be

this country are suffering from some tion to the leafy vegetables there shown by analysis, was palatable, and

form of visketa because of too great should be generous quantities of raw Under-vegetables and raw fruit in the diet. inchaded only natural food products

dependence on cerul diet. "redogenised as wholesome, embracing

weight and defective, children in the Uncooked cabbage and tomatoes and bath animal and vegetable material

públic schools are a rule rather than ripe omnger are especially valuable The results showed plainly that mere

ruid important," - an exception,

turni und beefsteal. From weaning i tion of percentages in slight degree "Habh is a important factor in Beenuse of aan's ingenuity in perfect. I simply a matter of providing the, ele

Countless. Experiments,

In his work Dr. McCollum has made experiments by hundreds. Through the median of this research he has ne entral and specific message for the res) of us---to beware of the old-fashioned diet of meat, bread and potatoes. The havier man's faith in a big porter hose as a proper meal is rudely

States to specialize on cornbread, Dietary study has shower that In the mountains of Tennessee and Georgia brend made from vernment constitutes 22 per cent.alnost a fourth-of the prevailing bill-of-fare. Among the negroes of the South the percentage runs as high us 33% per cent.

"The average person is not com- petent to regulate his own diet. He doesn't know what is god for him-nitr when to stop eating. The appetite is

Mont St. Michel

CELEBRATED (SLATV

[LILIAN HAYDEN HIESTON.].

TN the early days of the Christian 1-ing to escape is cut off and hurrounded. It was the greatest deferice possible in

OF

PANCE

Europe Saint Louis when khg gave

now is untenanted as the monks, were driven away at the time of the French Revolution and many of the buildinge injured and defaced. There has been thing exactly as it was and the whole place now is a vast mascum

CENE IN NAITI

special guard there to protect the mered relics, that one very holy monk cansed a spring of fresh water to gush forth from the solid rock when the

place was in need of water, that after the Hundred Years', War thousands of pilgrims came there to give thanks that the English had been driven out of Northern France which they had held so long.

It was for plenannter to die in battle than in such fendish prisons.. It was are exception for a brave man to he captured in those days. One, had the added incentive for bravery that if one was conquered one's possessions and one wife were immediately annexed by the conqueror. “Lands and duchies changed hands with startling rapidity. in those warlike times. The kings were very doubtful what parts of Great Learning Of The Monks. Franco they held. Warring nobler Mont Saint Miehet had an enviabio. took their duchies from one another reputation for the unsurpassed learn- and from the kings with no compune-ing of its raonks and many came there

to study under them.

The pot has been connected with much of the most Important life of

way to regain lands was by marriage. There were many times, when the men possessions fell to the ownership of Meetings of tremendous import have women and all marriages were planned been held there and momentous doci with this in view. One woman as bride brought the king threu of tho grantent duchtes of France and a of

Rocky height amid the swirling tides that rival, is omelets and she is said to have ver those of the Bay of Fundy. Difficult to escape ifested these so that the whole world many valuable articles to the ranks

tian. Might made right. The Cavourite Cappot produce the like, It is a and borrowed manuscripts from for one is on the sands when once the tide has turned." } repaid If one lingers a few days. There them. These were laboriously coloured a determined effort to restore every of a family were killed off, that vast | France, during fifteen hundred years.

delightful little hatol and one is well eign rulera that the monks niigne copy Magnificent Cathedral on the summit a place of enough to see to keep one busy and illuminated and many of them are

Daring long centuries kings of France still preserved.

alon made there. Prior to that time pilgrimage in the time of Charlemagne. Kings of gave treasures and works of art to the The diolster has two hundred undļ Secret Stairways And Dungeons.

and even as far back as the Roman Important political prisoners were France fled to this fortified and inaccessible island monastery and it grew so rich that twenty columns, each one a work of

power in Gaul the height was held as armies tried to bexlege the place to roburt. One of the residences, for the during many centurler confined here

a stronghold and point of defence. in times of danger. Rich and celebrated monastery it. Every succeeding rular fortified monks has two stories of picturesque as it was conaltered the securest king of England claimed ail

northern France and its throne because It is controlled, kept up aid has the mount more strongly and gatek bow-windows, arx Moorish, arcades, a prison, Franco possessed. There are

of his wife. There is no history more been restored by the Society of Fine with priceless treasures and manuscripts.

and walls were added. until it would fine facade and twenty buttresses, gruesome 'dungeon, where ne ray of

fascinating than that of the Middle Arts, Les Beaux Arts, who resisted have needed a modorá seroplane to get Each bullding, gate and tower has on fight ever penetrates bird the walls

Ages in Franco, more full of wild to the last gasp the finally successful within the place. After gunpowder it somewhere the coat of arms or were many feet thick, but even so an was invented the English came onl special insignia of the king who built additional security was obtained-by-adventure and excitement, culminating attempt to build a dyke so that people The centuries-tila high rock was a pacient warfare as attacking armies them to scorn and their cannon, aban- salamander and other amall animals

means of heavy iron enges too smullin that reckless ako when a maiden could reach it without boate. tried to take it. The tides laughed it.We find the famous porcupine and

for one to stander le down. In these are load in battle.

artista thought it burt the pfëturesque of the mainland and surrounded by at

Famous Visitors.

beauty of the island-rock. It was not forest. A monastery was built upon could work only a very short time at doned to the OD, HOW adorn the used by different kings and so very cages, chained to the walls of the

One would need to enumerate many bulit till, near the close of the last ft and the works te to vary low di There was great Apexi.part

familiar from the rest palaces and stingeins were mea of gentle birth," aboteaux of· Franco' and we know

used to very luxury, and it is ofthe are famous in the Mice contury at amount of work grimage and when they came back they tion to making any connecting causa-

Instantly what king was responsible astonishing how long they existed. It Ages to really cover the list of visitors been done to uncurar decorations that found to their surprise that the strong way and it was not until late in the last

the celebrated fortress-palace, the zeal of the French Revolutionlets : for this or that. The various buildings said ono lived there over twenty to currents of the ses had broken through century that one was built.. The island and that their sacred mount was an is now more of a museum and sight for

belonging to the, monastery seem years. In the immensely thick walle monastery of Mont Saint Michel, but it hid from aight under plaster, paint and island. The salt water spon killed the tourists than residence or fortress.

almost without end, there are so many, of the fortress were all manner of may interest the reader if one specifies wooden walls. It has taken years of that Charlemagno was a constant loving work by artist-experts to trees and left only sands over which

and each one more beautiful than the secret pasanges and stairways. the conflicting and dangerous tides had All tourista come away with an

last. Monks are proverbially judges Like all prisons of ancient times guest and William the Conqueror, and restore the great monastery with its of good living and their refectory is there held an almost infinite variety of the good Saint Louis, that Richard II. myriad buildings and the beartiful.. full sweep The sands are very level intensely vivid memory of Madame and the waters come more rapidly than Foulard's delicione omelets. She keeps

one of the more elaborato and beauti Instruments of torture, and means of was married there to Judith of Brit cathedral as they were in their pristine horse can run. Moreover they carve a hotel on the one steep street of the

ful of halls, Bath French and English killing, people very slowly with astany in 1017, that Henry I, Plant splendour. It is one of the most at ditches and hollows for themselves, place, and every one cate lunch there

Rings have eaten there and many other much agony as possible. No wonder, agenot, besieged it in vain, that treasured sights for tourists now and few leave. France without going there ach tide and a man or animal try or stays for a while, Her specialty

even more famous. The whole place men fought with desperate bravery. Richard L. Doke of Normandy, put

Famous Omelets.

Magnificent Cathedral. Das church after another has bea

this height. One was built upon destroyed by Hghtning, several by fire, and the stone walls were used to re- bulld an ever moro splendid cathedral, One can itace different portions back to the earliest times of Christianity. It was really the church of the monastery and the priceless collection of hand written and illustrated manu scripte was one of the finest in all

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