Why are many men bad tempered? This {s a baMing problem which many wives have studied intimately—as If many women are not also bad-lem= pered—and many psychologists have Htudied technically, but ike Omar Khayam, they ever came out of the same door in which they went, it has been left to Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser, a British doctor, to come to the rescue of the maligned man and his temper and what a formidable champion the doctor is, Speaking at the Rotary. International Conterence at Blackpool Dr. Chesser defended the bad-tempered ma these forms: "How much of the Jothargy, stupidity, bad temper and ineptitude of our menfolk 1s due 10 the lack of calcium magnesia phosphorous in the fare we provid How can we blame a man for iltemper if we clog his liver and heart, 'MIL his blood with toxins and. auto-Intoxication, starve him of minerals which make for vigour and beauty and are not even aware of the faults?" This sounds like a sweeping indictment of something nobody knows about except the speaker and with blushing ignorance of the medical Implications of the reasons attributed to such a condition, the mere male might mildly remonstrate that a more probable explanation for these defects ight be found in undercooked steaks, stringy chickens, soggy potatoes and rest of the culinary Geficiencies which cause marital Wwoubles and divorces.
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