HEALTH AND CIVILISATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 11

HEALTH AND CIVILISATION.

to tex r-Diioß or "Tsa: rs*-*--Sir,—Yr:.r sub-leader to-day is < -v i" dcntly a, broadcast bait 10 fur lp,,;ifood 7r:orTre»s. 1; is q"i:e vour ' ;STIP -J the Christmas pudding. °'' ?i;rc -' cannot fn - ;i"w that screed 1:1 t. ; ' - " vYork > : Tw": Those : *p' ;v f monkeys! 1"0"V long sin-e r ".'\* ■'-■ their na:ivr L.-titai? How v.-.r? ■" f y ' ran?portcd ? lie"" wen: t :.•.';•' ; ;; ~'- : . :,i: , iv kept, ivarm? I'low v.ir. t i:> , y I '"_ : _ How did i.faey re is? their ■v ibrat.ions and ultra-violet rays o: ;-. tronica! sun* Mr Editor, v> v" l)r S(HU you know perfectly food «■> day of civilised vr.ark.nd, ' ";'"'' ',\' scientific advcrtisnig. ;s vnr.-'U. ,\''' ' preserved, purified. ] '0:;s:it... pie.wiW. canned, extracted disti.li'd. eonacii'nned, heated, dried, frozen, thawed. T ° cd, and the stale aud mu-.ry ?;'* out first pushed by the fresh alreaay petting stale. You kr.o'.v, <oo. that; these commercial are a merciless combine and f. 10 ™ parasiting on mankind, i- v:; ' ;11 S r V lionaircs on the one hand and tionary anarchists on the ot).•'']'. t ne real cost, of living is man's CI .ira U.i and-food exploitation. (In atiotaer letter, bv your kindn-ss, I MI your gentle readers of ' 'clone! - V! '" < -; ir " rison's experiments on -"o .Madras Twkf monkevs at his laboratory at Conner.) If vou will come out of your terroconcrcte dug-out and support your "sophisticated foods" of the "angel type,"—sweet cakes, -heap ?cib<-?, rained 3prieots, or pineapple s-rved wiili tinned milk, fried fish and. chip?, then we can hold up our end by quoting the diet and "back to Xature regimen of those fine men of the late war, who, on leave, wcro wont to say "Vc are in the pink." They had rudp, robust health, though they had been in these "nervy, overwrought periods" vour leader spca.k? of, ami had they not been taken r:glit bacK .o the "simple life" we would now have been making salaams to the Kaiser. Help us, Mr Editor! And assis. the industrial worker, to get more fresh, live food?, and. lens tea, emasculated white bread, and margarine, bomn ot the food stunts done by wily technical advertising (on hoardings, too!) ioist, on fo the people foods that would never be. eaten but, for the general, ignorance of what if. a. natural.diet and a vicious credulity that can only bo dispelled by education. And the Press can educate. Think of boils, ptomaine poisoning, All Blacks' dope! Be merciful, and aUend our tiesbair picnic, wilh Nature's live foods, at Mrs tSimpr,ou's, Burnsido road, tins coming .Saturday afternoon, November lßt - Y ° Ur £ E C &r T. J. THACRETT. Christchurch, October r.oi.U, IS-J4.