TEMPERANCE AND VEGETARIAN PARALLELS

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We who would be the saviors of the world from the drink cures, should also be the most capable of delivering it from the bondage of the fleshpots unto a cleaner, nobler and purer mode of living, the road to which is sacrifice, and the hill to climb is self- denial, and from those heights may be obtained a clearer vision of the lands that is to be, and a greater faith in the time when the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the lion shall eat straw like an ox, and naught shall hurt or destroy in all Gods holy mountain.

TEA

TEA is the national drink of England. It is healthy and wholesome, whatever those may say who tell us that tea is a dangerous drug. This Chinese and Japanese have taken tea thousands of years and their race is healthy.

There are two dangers in tea. Tea should not be taken too strong and should not be taken too hot. The natives of Asia take tea, as a rule, superlatively weak and not over hot. Boiling hot drink is disastrous whether it is tea or whether it is plain water or soup. Strong tea which contains and the nerves. Such tea is unfit for human consumption.

VARIETY IN FOOD.

NUMEROUS families eat the identical food day after day. In the morning there is on the table bacon and egg followed by bread and butter with marmalade. At other meals there is beef or mutton with cabbage and potatoes followed by a milk pudding. Countless families, and not only poor families but well-to-do, live on a dreadfully monotonous diet because the housewife, housekeeper or cook lacks imagination.

People who get the same food day after day mechanically eat the uniform food without pleasure as a kind of duty. To them the daily meal is like the daily wash, is a ceremony, not an enjoyment. If we wish our food to give us he maximum of good we should enjoy it. Therefore the thoughtful housewife or cook will give a variety of dishes.

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James Henry Cook
Henry W.J. Cook was born in Edinburgh in 1870, the eldest son of Dr Edmund Alleyne Cook.

Henry followed in his father's footsteps, obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Durham in 1891. At the age of 27 he arrived in Melbourne in April 1894 aboard the Port Albert. He was registered as a medical practitioner in Victoria on 4 May 1894.

It appears that Dr Cook already believed in homœopathy, possibly because of his father's influence, as in 1895 Dr Cook took the position of Resident Surgeon of the Melbourne Homœopathic Hospital . (This position was previously held by Dr James Cook, unrelated, who resigned in March 1895). He was listed in the 1896 & 1897 editions of the Melbourne Post Office Directory as being Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Homœopathic Hospital, but not in the 1898 edition.

In 1901 he moved to Sale in Eastern Victoria, where he ran a practice in York Street. By 1909 his practice was at Wyndham Street, Shepparton.

By 1919 he had moved to 2 Studley Park Road, Kew, where he died on 7 May, 1923.
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