From New York comes the considered opinion of three doctors, who have been experimenting with white rats at Cornell University for some time past, that there Is no' reason why we should not all live to be over 100. It seems to be a matter Jot controlling the amount of calories Jeonsumed in youth (I have no doubt Jyou know what they are; also carbohydrates) while maintaining adequate nourishment " Newly born rate were divided into two groups, one had their food strictly " controlled, the others ate what they liked, and the superior longevity of the' first group was surprising. Rats which should have died after 600 days lived for 1,008, which in human life would Jeorrespond to about 107 years.
The problem in most countries, unfortunately, is not to see that children get too many colories, but that they get enough to eat of anything, There has been a lot of attention this week for a luncheon at the London School of Economies, attended both by peers and unemployed, which was guaranteed to cost only Sd a head. Guests had a choice of tripe and fonfons and mashed potato or mince and rice with swedes; or fried cod, parsley sauce and "mashed"; and a Second course of either stowed Ags and custard, or steamed plum duff, This is a specimen from a number of recipes devised by scientists for working-class homes.
Since this lunch took place other Jexponents of cheap cookery have written to the papers protesting, that they can do you quite as well at fourpence and even threepence. JAt this rate the poor will be getting like the scholar's horse which had ust learnt to live on nothing a day, when It foolishly died, Two things, however, may be said. It is easy enough to feed a large number of people ata small sum Japiece, much more dificult to do the same for family of four or five. And then, as the "Daily Express" per~ tinenily says, the real question is not, to feed the working-class at" the Towest possible rates, but to get them yer Wages. a "Keep Fit" Campaign Apropos of which I mentally tiered loud cheers on reading. that Mr. H. 4. Greonwvood, chief surgeon at the Great Western Railway's hose ital at Swindon, who is certainly in position to. mow what he. is talking about, has been attacking' the national fines campaign ubjecting the public to. ma lnysteria." He suggested that Keep I trots til Prtiome eft tion and Recancog. as" Srectanad" sys ete den Meni none Sei wel na tocbres easels of Renan" Howes. "Lis wou have compiiny eng at "alcae a, Mal tae a elses." he added. gre \All this much needed to be said, though at present Mr. Greenwood likely to be a voice crying in the wilderness, No one disputes the benefit of physical exercise, but this is a terrible age for exaggerating rything and the national. dines wmpaign has been boomed till one fs sick of it, with no apparent re-Hard for the physical Atness of the victim to be made fit, it is like sun-bathing, swimming" and week-fend hiking, all excellent things and. all in danger of being hopelessly overdone. It is absurd to expect a tired shop-gid or typist to sit ate or get up early in order to do physical jerks. And if you could see the trash that.most of these girls Jeat for their luncheons!
Meanwhile, as an incentive to JAtness, Lord "Dawson, the noted physician, suggests state loans to medically' approved marriages, with jo reduction of the amount to be repaid on the birth of each child, He fat least is under no delusion that If we want national fitness we must begin with good slock. So we move insensibly towards Jerome K, Jerome's "New Utopia" when private marriages are forbidden owing to the hideous inequalities they produce, Jand the required number of children fare bred each year under state King, Queen and People The King and Queen paid a sur. rise visit to some blocks of working~ class fats in Shorediteh this week, talked with the people in their homes, and also visited the Shoreditch Technical Institute and watched the boys and girls being taught cat~ entry, metal-work, dressmaking and embroidery. fu' one flat th Queen found a Bible which she her~ self as Duchess of York had given to Jone of the daughters for her work in connection with the Shaftesbury riety. The Queen recalled the incident clearly and sent to the wrt (who was out at work) a mossi that she hoped she was still being active for the Society. another flat Her Majesty found woman making a beefsteak pie, tasked how she made it and, when told, Feplied "Phot is just how my mother taught me a beefsteak should be made," The consequences sound a little serious. "My. husband can't have that ple nov," said the fter the Queen hud gone.
going to keep it ina glass One wonders how Queen Victoria Jwould have been received if it had Jover occurred to her to visit the East End by surprise, It is not impossible that the people would have resented it, certainly they would have been so Jawestruck that they could never have chatted easily with her about beat steak pies. The picture does not Somehow focus, one cannot see it,
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