At a recent meeting of the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations an appeal was made to all members and their friends to ave orange peels, dry them, and hand them over to the B.W.A, the International Y.W.C.A., or the American School, from which places they will be collected and dealt with. It appears that important vitamines can be extracted from this and it is needed now for the refugees in the Nantao Safety Zone.
What interesting things one learns about foods and vitamines these days. How did those of us who knew nothing of the latter in our y youth, ever manage to survive?
Readers have probably sympathized with Susan Spray, who in her poverty, had to eat raw turnips and other vegetables, having not the wherewithal to buy fuel to cook her food, but, lucky Susan, she was, according to modern dieticians, getting all the mineral salts, the roughage and the garbage which, it appears, are so essential to health, But one wonders, except in cases where poverty obliged folk to eat roots raw, how people kept alive in
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