THE MIRROR PUBLISHED- EVERY FRIDAY AT THB . FLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON- TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE 115w PLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATE - $1.00 A YBAR Stratford, December 10, 1926 SECRETS OF GOOD HEALTH A large number of native races avoid eating animal food of all sorts, and are certainly more athletic, ro bust, and healthy than the members of civilized communities who live om a diet which consists largely of fiesh in one form or another, says Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B. It is perhaps unnecessary to insist on the fact that those races who live on a Nnon-animal diet are healthier and capable of expending more energy than are those who live largely on flesh. It is quite open to anyone to assert that, while this is true in the case of the native existing in his normal sur- roundings, it does not apply to the white man livingin a state of civiliz- ation. As an illustration of the fallacy of such a belief we know that Welling- ton, though hard pressed for men, took none under 5 feet 5 i., and every man had to have perfect eye- sight and perfect teeth. These men, before they enlisted, had been brought up on hard wholemeal bread, garden produce, and practically no meat. While serving they received 1 pound of wheat a day, which they ate as it was pounded up to make a coarse bread, and with a scanty quantity of whclemeal flour if it could be ob- tained. Quite a large number of people have long excluded animal food, other than dairy produce, from their dietary, with most marked benefit to their physique and health. The explanation of the advantage which this diet afforded to them is perfectly simple. Owing to our habit, which is practically universal in civ- ilization, of damming back the pro- ducts of digestion in the large bowel, simple and obvious mechanical Changes take place in the entire gastro-intestinal tract, perfectly ana- logous to those which ensue in the drainage scheme of a house when the owtflow from the cesspoal is fon- trolled by grease and other obstruc- tions. There is also assOciated with this mechanical obstruction an ascent from the large bowel of harmful or- ganisms, which then invade and grow on the contents of the small bowel. These contents are the di- gesting and digested food from which the tissues of the body derive their nourishment, The extent of the infection of the food in process of digestion in the small intestine determines the amount of poisons absorbed into the circulation. As a large proportion of the people suffer from such a condi tion, it is clear that great benefit would inevitably result if all such food capable of producing deleterious matter when brought into immediate contact with the agencies which pro- duce putrefaction were discarded. On the other hand grains, fruits, vegetables and dairy produce placed in the same conditions to not de- velop deadly poisons, and are there- fore not harmful. Discussing the question of diets, Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane says. What can be more delicious, stimulating to the intestines, and capable of afford- ing everything required for nutrition and health than crushed wheat made into porridge or eaten with milk? It is very cheap and infinitely better food than the vast majority of faked foods now in the market. It has also the advantage of being very tasty and appetizing. A parent, however limited her cir- cumstances, can feel assured that if she provides her child with a large basin of these materials for breakfast it will provide a most efficient and health-giving diet and at about six- pence a pound. In this way the dif- ficulties of obtaining real wholemeal bread will be avoided. The porridge may be made more at- tractive and varied by the occasional addition to it of a quantity of raisins Or currants. Currants are most nu- tritious. THE LIGHT OF STARS (By Maud F. Jackson, in Sunday School Times) "Sunday School Times") When -lost tonight are shores of home and friends, Far out at sea, at closing of the day; When sunset's glory dies and softly blends 4 The waste of waters with the shadows gray,-- With joy for lonely hearts and peace divine The stars appear the lamps of Heaven shine. The stranger in a city filled with rush And tumult, in the twilight's home- sick hour, Beholds a star, and straightway feels a hush, A sense of God's pervading love and power. The sick look upward to these beacons fair And strength receive of One who set them there. Above a newborn Babe, a star once shone, 4 Proclaiming Him .Who came _ our light to be; ; And ever in their shining to His own Stars tell of Christ the Lord's nativ- ty ° ; Earth's pilgrims find eternal joy in im, Bright Morning Star of Love. that naught can dim. DR. S. H. SUTTER .0975.,0),0:S. DENTAL SURGEON Specialist in Prosthetic Dentistry Majestic Apartments, 93 Downie | f Orrice 602 oe at sag | RESIDENCE 1O51w A Subscribe for The Mirror. To Please HER--Especially For just that purpose were these gifts far the home designed--we will deliver them on Christmas Eve. Carpet Sweepers..... Table Runners Ferneries . + $25.00 End Tables Living Room Table $27.00 Mirrors . 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