Letter to the Editor

Letters-to-the-editor are generally either bad-tempered, ax-grinding or solemn-crotchety. A refreshingly unclassifiable exception to this rule was recently printed in the London Daily Mail. Said the Letter Writer "John Adam":

"My hobby is writing letters to the newspapers. I propose to write to you a letter each week, and I take the stand today, for the first day, on the subject of codfish.

"In the past five days I have consumed approximately $ Ib. of codfish. This codfish, taken with parslev sauce, has greatly enhanced my vigor and has done me more good in these days of blackouts and long hours than all the vitamin pills and fanciful health notions officially recommended.

"Codfish has made a new man of me, for this reason: that major menace of the modern world, the Scientist, has not yet been able to tackle the fish of the sea and feed them up according to his formulae instead of letting them live according to the rules of Nature.

"Time was when a boiled or a poached egg was a delight; but now when hens are fed on scientific messes, a fresh boiled or poached egg is little better than a dose of glue on the stomach and the same goes for all foods which are grown not according to Nature's way but are fed on the formulae of a lot of Whitehall chemists.

"There is a great scheme, I am told, to take over a loch in Scotland and feed the fish artificially. If that ever comes to pass there will be no hope for the nation's bellyache."

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