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VITAMINE EXPERT
SPEAKS TO TRINITY
COLLEGE STUDENTS
Johns Hopkins Professor Treats
Subject in Interesting and
Scientific Manner
By HENRY BELK '
DURHAM. Jan. 13.—The word Vita
mines now means something to Trinity
college students and to a number of
c itizens ot Durham. Dr. E. V. McCol
lum. professor of biochemistry at the
Johns Hopkins university, told them
all about it in the annual meeting of
tlie Crowell Scientific society in Cra
ven Memorial hall Frfday evening. He
must have known what he was talking
about, for he discovered the subject.
The officials of the Scientific society
had announced that the scientist would
speak on “The Relation of Diet to
Physical Development,” and the prize
fat man went out expecting to be told
how to get lean, while the 87-pound
student went out to learn how to get
fat. They did get an exhibition of a
great mind in action and a broad^de
of facts that kept them stralping to
’ keep abreast of the speaker in his
rapid-fire thought.
■Without a note or. a scrap of paper
to give confidence. Dr. McCollum
plunged into his subject, omitting the
preliminaries. Ancient Egypt, - the
Orient, thh pastoral life of our fore
fathers. Biblical characters, Lapland
ers. Eskimos, Chinamen_ and doctors
from Borneo all went into the lecture
to, mould the theory. And .to.. convince
the spektical.
In the end everything centered
around the fact that the great increase
in the consumption of grain fods, made
possible through modern inventions,
coupled with the enormous consump
tion of canned peas, vegetables and the
like with too little of mild cheese, but
ter fats, raw fruits ftnd leafy vegeta
bles had brought many defects in the
physical make-up which only propel
diet, beginning with the pregnant
mother would remedy.
“Eat more leafy jpegetables,” advised
the vitamines expert as he outlined
what he termed the three possible diets
under which mankind had developed
and would develop to full physical ca
pacity.
"For ydars it was found, or thought,
impossible to raise a young Hen in cap
tivity, simply because the flesh fed to
him was not as he had sought it in
the jungles All carnivorous animals
in devouring their prey first eat the
blood, then the glands (a§ the liver
and” kidneys(, the bone, and finally the
muscle parts. When zoo keepers found
this out they were able to raise as
healthy lions as could be^ caught in the
jungles.” This was spoken of the first
type of diet. ,
The Orient supplied tne second
declared among the best by Dr. Mc
Collum. The Oriental diet was the
name given by Dr. McCollum to this
approved combination. "It Is much like
our own, but importantly different in
the amount of leafy vegetables con
sumed. They eat from ope to 20 times
more leafy vegetable substance than
we do, he said.
The animal kingdom was then turn
f-d to prove that leafy vegetables were
most efficacious. “No animal eats seed
plants alone,” said the professor.
The pastoral life of the middle ages
supplied the third and last diet ana
was termed the pastoral diet. It con
sisted chiefly of milk,, sweet and sour,
a minimum of vegetables and a maxi
mum of meat and cheese.
Dr. McCollum advised his hearers to
combine high quality proteins w'ith the
best elements -of the Oriental <3*®t y1 ®
excess of leafy vegetables—for the diet
which would bring the best develop
, But the statements as to what was
the best'was not based upon state
ment alone. Dr. McCollum had started
in the beginning and completely re
viewed the progress in tl)e science or
nutrition from the time that it was
hardly known until it came in*..* gen
eral acknowledgement in recent y*ars.
The rapidity which the new science has
made its way in a little more than 50
years was commented upon.
The audience was given the »tory of
how he first became Interested In the
subject. On becoming connected With
the University of Wisconsin ip 1906 he
found that cattle for experimentation
purposes had been rationed on food,
according to the old analysis standard.
One group was given the food from one
plant source, say wheat; another from
oats; and another from corn. Using
the analysis system,-care was taken to
give amounts of each grain which
would equal in food value. Although
the food values were supposed to be
equal, a year’s time found the subjects
of the experiments which had been fed
food derived from corn much more ad
vanced in development and sleeker
and healthier in appearance than the
subjects which had been fed upon a
wheat food, ..
“Find ou£ why this is so, was yj®
command* given to Dr. McCoilum. In
his search for the reason he advocated
attempting experiments which would
entirely .depart from the old antUysis
standard’- and » Mr ..reco*ntnendati<>?ir
were not at first accepted by the at
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LONDON NEWS LETTER
By Cable to the Associated Press
1/JNDON, Jan. 13.—(By Associated
Press.)—John "Singer Sargent, the no
ted American painter, is being de
scribed by the British newspapers as
■an “old master,” although he is still
very much alive. The reason is that
the national gallery has waived its
iron-dad rule admitting only pictures
by artists who are no longer living to
include nine portraits by Sargent of
Asher Wertheimer, his wife, sons and
daughters.
This exception in favor of Sargent
by the gallery trustees, who form the
highest art tribunal in Great Britain,
is a tribute no other painter has ever
received, but it only confirms the esti
mate set upon Sargent’s work by the
art world in general and anticipates
what British artists believe will be the
certain verdict of posterity.
Wertheimer was a prosperous art
dealer, albeit a very unpretentious
man. He could be seen with skull cap
on head, standing at the door of his
Pall Mall shop on fine days up to the
time of his death, a. few years ago. He
paid Sargent large sums for the por
traits now on exhibition and deft them
to his wife wifh the stipulation that
upon her death, which occurred re
cently, they should pass to the nation.
The national gallery trustees had no
hesitation apparently in brushing aside
their rule and tradition to allow of
acceptance the gift. Although the com
paratively humble Worthemers would
in the natural course of events have
been little known and soon forgotten,
Sargent has destined them to pass
down the centuries in the company of
the great sharing the walls with the
kings, generals, ^duchesse^ and the
famous beauties pictured by other
masters of portrait.
England is getting back to the so
cial conventions and properties which
have been greatly neglected“durtng and
since the world war. Social observers
of greater experience say the tendency
is the resume the pre-war habits with
the exception of their extravagances.
Social life/ in London at the present
time is said to be simpler and less
expensive than in 1913, and the most
exalted people have not the slightest
hesitation in admitting Jhey cannot
afford this or that, while the crav
ing for luxuries, if it is still smould
ering, goes ungratified.
In Paris the old ft-ench families
neither go out nor entertain except
very quietly among themselves, and
something similar is felt to be happen
ing here.
At the same time, what many con
sider to be the refinements of life are
returning; the influence of mothers
over their daughters has to some ex
tent been resumed and Londoners ap
pear to be a little more careful in
their dress.
Really the English folks are trying
to breaks themselves of their “restau
rant habits” formed in recent years,
while luncheons In private houses have
become shorter and fine win^s are no
longer considered necessary or even
correct.
The English people like to believe
that the war had one lasting effect, at
least, and that in the matter of punc
tuality Some insist that the only
unpurictual people for social entertain
ments now are the American women
visiting' here.
London Bridge is n.ot yet mums
down,” but Its ancient neighbor, the
Tower of London, which is visited by
thousands of Americans annually, is
moving up and down daily with the
tides in the Thames river and grad
ually the enormous built of the former
fortress is shifting its position, ac
cording to scientific investigation con
ducted by the National Physical lab:
oratory. ' , .
The riverside wall, It was found,,
moves one-thousandth of an inch daily,
but the tower is not endangered and
Americans are expected to have no
difficulty for some time to come in lo
cating the crown Jewels, Sir Walter
Raleigh’s cell or the room In whlcli the
infant princess were murdered in 1483.
The celebration this week of the
rector of the' university. Then, with
out the knowledge of his superior of
ficer, he for a fpace of five years! pon
iucted experiments upon rats fed upon
combinations of foods of various kinds.
The blologlcaL standard of food value
was the result.
And in the experiments he became
convinced of the existence of an ele
ment whloh had previously been left
out of the scientists’ calculations—vi
tamines. Experiment after experiment
showed deplorable effects upon the
rats when foods which did not contain
the vltamlnes were given them. Slight
Injections of vitamines material w(>uld
bring quick recovery. Butter facts and
natural oils, as cod liver oil, were de
clared to furnish the most vitapiines,
Which he designated as A, B, C (a#d
more recently discovered IX). I think
that all have been discovered,” he de
slftrsdi
Dr. JtfcCollum was Introduced by Dr.
W H. Pegram, . conected with the
science department at Trinity for the
bast 25 years,” in; A few welp chosen
words, v- T
gave the newspapers an opportunity
of drawing vivid comparisons between
the modes of travel in that mid-Vic
torian period and the present.
The first underground line was only
three and three-quarter miles in length
and the open-top-cars were drawn by
small steam engines through stifling
clouds of black soot, whereas now
there are more than 300 miles of sub
way lines, whose long trains of
coaches are filled with artificially pu
rified air and propelled by electricity.
The newspapers published pictures
of 'the' first train, the passengers of
which included many celebrated lords i
and diplomats in top hats, among
them Gladstone, who was then British
prime minister.
The engineer who designed the first
subway thought steam could be gen
erated by hot bricks or some smoke
less fuel, but this scheme failed and
for more than 40years the patrons of
the line rode through tunnels covered
with stalactites of soot. It was the
custom in those days for the men to
take extra clean collars in .their pocket,
which they donned upon arriving at
their office.
The first line boasted at having car
ried 9,000,000 passengers in the first
year, whereas the annual subway traf
fics at present is 200,000,000.
Plans are well in hand for the es
tablishment t>f a farm in Yorkshire
for breeuing fur-bearing animals. The
large estate called Temple Newsam
are Leeds, formerly the home of Lord
Darnley, who was the second husband
of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been
taken by a private company which
hopes to supply 8,000 pelts to the fur
trade within the next year.
The initial stock of the fur ranch
consists of foreign rabbits, chinchillas
and other animals. Orders have been
placed for blue and white foxes from
the "'Arctic regions and skunks from |
South America. A considerable num-1
ber of orders has already been placed
by the fur trade. !
Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, |
frequently wears a set of blue beaver
furs and the company anticipates a
large demand for this class of skin
during the next winter season.
‘ Plontagfr-* Conmnndery, No. 1
... |
Stated Conclave Monday evening, '
January 15, at 8 o’clock. The Grand |
Commander will be present to present j
the Loving- Cup given by the Grand
Commandery. All members are urged j
to be present in full Templar Uniform, j
Visiting Sir Knights will be cordially
welcomed. I
By order of the Commander.
W. H. McCLAIN, Recorder.
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