The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-19

bread. Within seven months his Iweign
| increased from 145 pounds to IN
pounds, and his strength of both body
and mind had increased in proportion
His labor had been severe; he is ma
chinist and an inventor, working ten
hours every day, and doing good dea
of practical and profitable thinking al
the same time. 1t is now full yea
since he came to one meal, and the
weight gained has been maintained
and his health is perfect During the
last winter, for the purpose OF testing
the sufficiency of one meal OF pure 1000
for the most trying labor, he worked IN
an iron foundry for three months, and
notwithstanding the extreme and fire,
quent changes of temperature incident
to the work, on cold mornings with the
mercury below zero and in in the after
noon 120 degrees above, and all hands
sweating like rain, he had not a cold
for the winter, and was the only en-
ploye thus exempt. He had formerly
been subject to frequent attacks of ths
above disease. His daily ration con
ssts of six ounces to nine ounces (ac'
cording to labor) of Graham flour, be-
sides fruit sufficient to supply all the
liquids necessary-half a dozen apples
or their equivalent in other fruit. He
is rarely thirsty, but sometimes, If toe
little fruit is taken at meal time, he
takes a small draught of water in the
course of the day. This meal is taken
at night, after entire recovery from
fatigue, usually at about seven o'clock
During the month of May, 1881, just
passed, he gained sixty hours, or siz
full days, working extra hours at his
bench, sometimes working right through
to midnight, and taking his breakfast
after short rest, before retiring. Nc
man in his employ had gained so much
time. He has occasionally made trial
of bolted flour bread, but has invaria.
bly, experienced loss of weight and
strength. ..
my own experience goes far to
prove the efficiency of the above regi.
men for either the brain or muscle
worker. am now taking but one meal
a day, and find myself perfectly nour.
ished, weight and strength maintained,
on about fourteen ounces of unleavened
bread to the mastication oil
which l devote an hour or more. ]
find that six cold gems, weighing about
fourteen ounces, without even butter or
milk, chewed deliberately and thor
oughly dissolved by the juices of the
mouth, will sustain me much better
than when eaten warm with butter OF
milk, or both together added, and eaten
as fast as one naturally eats hot rolls
and butter or bread and milk. Consid.
ering the manner in which people in
general bolt their food, it is not strange
that large proportion of it fails of d.
gestion. Starch foods cannot be trans.
formed into pure blood entire, except
so far as the change is begun in the
''Until few months ago I took nv
food in the morning, but / find the
evening better time. During the day
the brain and muscles can have every-
thing their own way, without interfer-
ing or hindering digestion, and at even.
ing, after sufficient rest, there is per.
feet tranquility of body and mind and
leisure to digest l had never been
good sleeper until I adopted this sys.
tenn of diet. People who eat several
meals day do we'll to take the last
one early, and the lighter they make it
the better, but dyspeptics may rest as
sured that. of itself considered, the
evening meal is not the cause of their
or troubled dreams. When
| ate three meals of a mixed diet, |
could not make the last one simple
enough to give me complete rest at
night, but now, when rested from my
days labor, can eat my full vegeta-
rian meal and sleep like well-fed babe.
| could give quite a number of exam.
Piles like the foregoing, of ne-mealers,
did space permit, all tending to prove
the superiority of vegetable over ami
NAL diet, and of the entire wheat over
the most scientifically impoverished
article"
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