"Temporary drinking of alcohol in moderate doses, by those accustomed to it, increases the appetite and causes an improvement in the assimilation of the nitrogenous constituents of food. The decomposition of protein in the body decreases strikingly under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol exercised no bad effect on digestibility, even when 60 grains (nearly 2§oz of absolute alcohol) per day was consumed. The conclusion is reached that alcohol is a food, and can take the place of fat as a protector of protein." This conclusion, reached in a ,book called "A Digest of Metabolism Experiments," by Professor Atwater and Dr Longworthy, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, basaroused the anger of American Methodism. Professor Atwater, in addition "to his duties in the Department of Agriculture [says the Sydney Telegraph) is professor of chemisti y in the Wesleyan University. He is admittedly one of the foremost scientists in America. His book embraces the results of many years of special study and exact search. The experiments carried out by him refer not only to alcohol, but to narcotics and foods of every kind, and have been regarded as the most thorough inquiry into a subject of supreme importance that has yet been made. At the beginning of the New Year the new regulations under the Old Age Pensions Act came into force. The regulations provide for more searching investigations into claims for pensions than has hitherto been ths case.
"One would have thought it as impossible to extract a joke from £ God Save the King' as to get sunbeams out of a cucumber," says the Kobe Herald but the wit of an American journalist has been equal to the occasion. He said that when His Majesty on a recent occasion sat down to play bridge with Mr Pierpont Morgan the keen witted bandmaster at once began to play "God Save the King."
WADE'S WORM FlGS—the Wonderful Worm Worriers — are a safe a?td sure remedy, z?i is boxes ; sold everywhere.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 146, 13 January 1903, Page 4
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