Dietwhich nature adapts for man and food
A historical summary discusses how diet adapts to climate and culture, noting that tropical fruits provide more proteid and that tropical and polar regions rely on fats and animal foods. It cites figs dates bananas as proteid sources, compares nutrient units, and contrasts Arctic meat and fat with temperate plant foods. It also critiques librarianship in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Stanley
Fogishman
Cheivela
Peter
Gether
Arctic
Alaska
New York
Trittune
Not Lady but Fierce Football Shoes Bar Rebel
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt depicts a woman who defies refinement by wearing her little boy's football shoes to the bar and using spikes to clear a path, challenging social expectations with bold, confrontational style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Library Slow Pokes and a Frontier Scout Tale
A humorous vent of public libraries versus foreign ones and a folk tale of Jim Bridger returning to Missouri. Bridger explains why he left the plains and retired to the east and notes Missouri now has railroads and ranches within reach, while complaining the air is not pure and he misses beaver meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Bridger
Plains
Missouri
Russell
Bridger
Cap'n
Cap’n
The Wrong Horse and Clever Escapes in Tales
A Paris tale recalls a laundry maid Bridget who loads a horse with ironing to please her mistress. A second anecdote recounts M Claude's misdirected pursuit of a famed criminal who evades capture by being mistaken for Beranger, provoking a fan farewell of flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Bridget
Paris
M. Claude
Napoleon III
Lovels
Beranger
Claude
Rascal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Europe
New York Telegram
Boston
Germany
Baron Make
Hewes
Lese's
Klingenberg
Aschaffenberg
Wavaria
Westminster Gazette
Dover Strait
St. Jean 'S Panillae
Cadiz
Cape
Cape of
Susta: the
United States Court of Claims
Webster
International Dict
Alese
Charles
Notts
Ncnl
G.& C. Merriam CO
Springfield
Websters International Dictionary
SULES
Rockford
Ill
H. W. Buckbee
Chicago
Great Western Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Dubuque
Des Moines
Kansas City
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Lyle, Manly
Mason Wd
Mason City
Lyle
A. W. Allen, M. D
St. P
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