Feeding:

At the season when the British paterfamilias is sending his children on their Christmas visit to the dentist it must occur to him to wonder why the noble savage never has any trouble with his teeth. It is said that they kept healthy by the hard work they have to do in tearing tough meat without the help of Knife and fork. These implements and, the art of cookery, are reducing man to a toothless animal, and are perhaps, responsible for such evils as appendicitis and cancer, from which savages hardily suffer at all.

            This is only a sample of what civilization is doing to us, and civilization, for the majority in every nation, is not yet a hundred years old. until quite lately the housewife used to bake her own bread, make her own jam, and offer her friends home-brewed wine. Now she can do none of these things. The laborer, before the industrial revolution, was a handy man, almost self-sufficing. now he understands only one thing-perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles interests.

            Mr. Austin freemen, whose observation of savage people have made him keenly alive to the evils of machinery. Describe how his caravan was overtaken by a storm in central Africa. The natives set to work in the forest, and in a few hours a row of serviceable waterproof huts had been constructed. The despised savage would no more ask the government to spend a thousand pounds in building a house for him than he would ask it comb hair.

There is general slackness and dislike of unnecessary exertion among our younger people. It affects their religion, which they like to have given them. This is certainly not the way of the cross and it compares badly with Michelangelo’s words: