Life, 1910-07-21 · page 33 of 40
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This page features a serialized satirical piece mocking dietary fads and pseudoscientific nutrition claims popular in the early 20th century. The excerpt presents an interview with "Dr. Pepin," a fictional expert promoting an absurd "piparian diet"—allegedly based entirely on eating pips (seeds). The humor escalates through increasingly ridiculous details: pip broth, pip-flour scones, pipkin stew, even "pipsy cake" and "pear-pip tartlets." The satire targets both gullible consumers chasing trendy diets and charlatans marketing implausible health claims. The doctor's pompous pseudoscientific language ("parallelo pipeds," claims about disease rarity) parodies how dubious health theories were dressed up in legitimate-sounding jargon to sell to the public. This reflects broader contemporary anxieties about industrialization, health crazes, and the proliferation of mail-order "cure-alls"—concerns *Life* magazine regularly lampooned through satirical fiction and advertisements.
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Suppose I tell you what Tand my family—whom I never allow to transgress in the direction of nut-foods— had on our table yesterday. Let me see. For breakfast we had hot-pip broth, pip- flour scones spread with pipper, and orange-pipskin tea. For luncheon—or rather dinner, for it is our principal neal—we had pipkin-au-feu, a savory stew of pippose force-meat, followed by a pipsy cake and a dessert of roasted lime-pips,,a delicious finish to any meal. Tea, save for the absence of broth and the presence of a dish of appetizing pip- rock cakes, resembled breakfast. Sup- per was a light meal, consisting of lemon-pipwiches and pear-pip tartlets, with pipley water to drink. You will gather that, to use the common parlance, we did ourselves well.’ “*Undoubtedly. But now—and it is almost the last question I will trouble you with—is it true that a special disease not infrequently attacks piparians? 1 have heard-——’ Try One More Good Dinner We recommend a trial of sipped while taking food, and between meals, should distress appear, as an aid in prevaoting good digestion. mended 0 1 sold by— . Titont =e om ate eens Dr NEW YORK, Pare & Tito Ack hell Fics her & i J tevenson & ND, vena tsee & Nad | CHICAGA.C: Seowe & fo. CISNATH. Jou, Pesties: Son ATLANTA int Pare NGELES, HM. Jewne & Ce Send for Fooklet. MAN-A-CEA WATPR CO., 13 Stone St., New York. eee 777 Sherwood Ave., Louisville, Ky. CULTURE is the “Ontv Way" t0 make big Mocgy on Litde Capital. Ose acre fs worth €25,000, and yields more an Reveuue than a 1GDacre farm with much me, fo taceemae oer anneal and live ta Exie'ant Conort, WINTE, NOW. “*You may take it from me that the cases of the disease to which you refer are so rare that the liability to contract it is exceedingly remote. Of course, there is no denying that the very name of that complaint points to its connection with a piparian diet. But, as I have said, the pip is so uncommon a discase among human beings—and it is a re- markable fact that even in the lower orders of creatures only parallelo pipeds are subject to it—as to be no more a bar to piparianism than is chickenpox to the eating of spring poultry.’ “*Tn conclusion, Dr. Pepin, can you give me any idea as to the extent to which the piparian diet has been taken up in this country? ’” “One instance alone will give you a pretty fair notion of the widespread popularity of the new diet,’ replied the | distinguished foodist. ‘You will readily admit that motorists are just now the most prominent type among the upper It Makes A Difference Automobile Cylinder Oil is simply required | to lubricate—and then burn up cleanly. The presence of body makes an oil lubricate. Freedom from carbon impurities makes it burn cleanly. HAVOLINE OIL possesses the same lubricating body as other oils; but it burns cleaner because it has been filtered freer from carbon impurities. At All First-class Garages HAVOLINE OIL CO. 77 Broad St. New York classes. Well, I am not only frequently informed, but I know from personal ex- perience that so much is the growing piparianism of motorists a matter of no- toriety that even the children in village streets are accustomed to chaff them as they dash past, calling out, “ Pip! Pip!’’ in every key of childish treble, Ah! there goes the dinner gong. I am sure Mrs. Pepin will be delighted if— No? You have an appointment? Well, per- haps another time. I am very glad if I have been of any use to you.’ “T thanked the famous scientist for his courtesy and information and hail- ing a taxi-pip went off to lunch at the layne Strong winds blow- ing in their favor CAMBRIDGB ja bores of tea 25C AMBASSADOR the after-dinner size SOC “The Little Brown Box” Philip Morris Cigarettes Mr. Stephen Paget has been favoring the London School of onomics with his views on more than one occasion lately. At a recent lecture there it was announced by the Standard (April 23) that he exhibited a piece of gelatine which had been kissed by “a clean-lipped man,’’ and the kiss was “outlined in germs!’ It appears to us that this, in- ad of illustrating “ the danger of kiss- ing,'’ which Mr, Paget intended it to do, proves nothing but the extremely inno- cent character of the millions of germs which are to be found within and upon us all. 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