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For iso or three days past the English newspapers have been spotted with the jy word Peliagra. Until to-day I have avoided the infected paragraphs. To-day I find that repetition, the essential prin ciple of advertisement, has had its usual efect. I do not want to read about gaorss i bat Tam, nevertheless, reading about Peligera. Ag SES? ‘I find something familiar in the wet!ats. TP ssem. to have ‘Ahown. all about Fe Age as this many aer. £ childhown ups are. nest Nas no Pellagra in ous, fursery . nothing worse than chicken-pox, which I myself tactinily escaped. ever came into that haven. But, now that I search toy memory I feel sure that I can trace these less.Pellagra. wo a fat little ecciesticns precwnered hook on a nursery shelf. Tyartotr ® look told you about Euro ope gn that PITTIMS little language which t. 1 Vice aa! fer “ce ch Jes. iv author had invented for the finery instruction. I know at one nursery there that language was notar the dialect of an enemy. hik enough to be instructed against 1.4. was nothing less than revolt your a ingin he gai pressed br a ice and oan porn savant =» as My Dear Chi rensed tee cated a Dear Child ine a went on after giving whole pages to the inhours of Missionary Societies» in Teale, disiate The great local industry of breandive vit one unsympathetic piss 0. . . . . Verumis: have been in this undelight fi nek that Tarst read about Pellagra. Nie gresa book = contention that, ag.a hooey Eagle child, you were favoured how all human deserts, Was supported by nauscanish concerning the less OLY peoples of Rurane. This sation was lalkingly untruthful; this other washed itself rarely and reluctantly. A third and a fourth and a fifth had very bad religions. A sixth was distressingly frivolous-mnimnicled. ALL THESE peoples, in one wat or another, were very naughty: it was clear enough that the author could never bring herself to call them her Dear Children. And, withoit exception, they caught it forther naughtiness.. The author never paid in as many words that the Italians, for their Italianate manners, deserved a jolly good eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with plenty of hot lava. But she left that impression with us, together with the faith as Russians were often eaten by wolves as a direct consequence of their obstinately Russian behaviour. It must have been in the Italian chapter that I learned about Pellagra. Apoet The final origin of Pellagra, or Plica Polonica, or the Turkish Plague=the author of the green book could never have been in doubt. They were all chastise ments falling upon foreigners because of their unpleasantly foreign habits. “I am bound to say that today's reading of the newspapers suggests that, in the case of Pellagra, this patriotic theory cannot be upheld. For Pellagra has been discovered in our own islands! It is highly probable that the author of the green book, during her Italian travels, didot make the acquaintance of the late Professor Lombroso This is, perhaps, well enough: I cannot believe that the two would ever have become friends. Yet today I learn that the Lady and the Pro fessor have, as you might say, gone down with their theories in the samite foundering Wat. Forty years ago Professor Lombroso hatched a iniie theory about Pellagra. Lombard peasants eat maize which is sometimes mouldy maize. Lombard persistet the Pellagra. Therefore ellegr? is«suced by eating mouldy maize. On its theory Lombroso pose up. famous aul en nem. Encouraged by this early Buccxs he went on to formulate other theses, that the man who picks your pocket does n. because of his oddly-shaped tars, that the man who writes a pretty porner paints a good’ picture betrays the reaycinated degeneracy which makes bit nest akin to the person with the peculisr ears. Waiun we bet I did not love Pro fexor Lorshas. Now that he is dead I 'm p24 to belie re, thet all PE oe theories are pershing after ambon hes noe Sit ac here at discovered Pell waere sie neue ia gives to the tickers end the horse. Like the sickness, like the malarial fever of the marshes, agra enters into a man at the sting of an insect.
Newspaper Details
London Evening News
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 26, 1912
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
SE 16 May 2026
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