Doctor, As celery Is Such A Favorite With The People,No Doubt You Will Will Be Able To Say Something Very Good About It?" "Then You Would Have Me Treat The Subject According To What The People Believe And If I Am Only Expected To Tell Them What They Already Know Or What They Think They Know What Is The Use Writing A Book?" "I Confess That You Have Disarmed Me, Let Us Know The Facts?

"Celery contains some 90 to 93 per cent water, about

1 I - 4 per cent of cellulose, I per cent of mineral matter, about I to 2 per cent of vegetable albumen and 4 per cent sugar and starch."

Is There Any Objectionable Properties In Celery As A Food?

"Not more so than any other stringy food. It is simply a question of making it fine enough."

According to That Then It Is Very Similar To Cabbage?

"Yes, but it contains less fiber and also less mineral matter, though it has a great deal of both."

Then It Is But Little Superior To Cabbage Except In Flavor, But The People Believe It To Be A Brain And Nerve Food, Is There Nothing In This?

"Well, it is a pity to shatter their faith but there is no real foundation for the belief, except the bare possibility, that the mineral matter might be of benefit to those who are in the habit of living on food that contains but little of the mineral salts."

Don't Different Foods Nourish Different Parts Of The Body?

"Not in the sense in which it is used. If they did brains would be brain food and we would all be wise. Food simply furnishes heat and material to replace the waste tissue according to the needs of the body, let that be wherever it may."

How Should It Be Prepared?" "It Should Be Chopped Crosswise And Very Fine And Then Stewed Until Tender And Served With Milk, But The Milk Should Not Be Allowed To Boil, Only Gradually Warmed For A Few Minutes?" "What Is The Particular Value Of Celery?

"Its flavor. It is an excellent thing to flavor other kinds of foods less palatable. The seed as well as the stems, are also used for this purpose."

May It Not Be Eaten Raw As Well As Cooked?

"Certainly, only those who are in the least subject to ailments of digestion should take particular care to not swallow it with its strings. On the whole, celery is one of the most pleasant and appetizing of all garden vegetable, and as a relish deserves to stand ahead of any others, because it is free from acrid and irritating oil found in radishes, onions, peppers and other vegetables."