The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-11

stomach he left that of. too, and cvery morn.
ing before breakfast be kloshcs a cup ~
warm water into bis interior aud says us
good.
eniooIng cut Of mnce pie. '-PieV she said.
the whites OF her eyes showing ell around
Don't you know that pie OF any KIND u
dclcterioua Charles i shall have 10 give
you some aeonitc. and puisatilis," and the
good soul ran 10 her reticule In which she
carries sugar-coated pills, saturated with
a variety OF n.vorIng extracts. Well the
upshot OF her visit with lie daily lectures on
the subject OF pie and cake, was that Charley
ate no more pie or cake, became deyotce 81
oatmeal and dry bread. chewed his food slow
Is, although II did seem little dry.
ssOh, the reason OF that la explained one
Of his hyglenic friends-Charley was acauir-
Ing an immense number os friends who bad
reformed notions on the subject--'the reason
OF that 10 that you chew 80 much gum. You
can't expect TO have enough saliva for your
food when you are wasting IL all the time
chewing gum. You're hoarse now, arn't youf
Well that comes from chewing gum With
didn't have any flavor IL dries the throat
up and cnfeeble the saliyary glands IL
were In your place I'd stop H. IT'S nasty
practice, anyhow, besides being unhealthy."s
Charles was pretty we'll into the quitting
business by this time and he wasn't going 10
let little thing like gum stand In the way
OF achieving a great moral victory over him
SELF He began taking health paper about
this time aud bought himself a pair OF
chemists balances with which 10 weigh his
food He fell under the baleful influence
Of some vcgetarIans who lived in the fiat
above aud the result was that flesh
became an abhorrent thing TO him and he
lived ON potatoes, lettuce, bread and
canned tomatoes tii he found out that he
was likely 10 get lead poisoning from the tin
plate OF the cans He gave up eating jams
for fear the seeds would get lodged In the
appendix yermilormis aud cause death from
abdominal septlcmmla and pointed TO the
books for proof that deaths were sometimes
brought about In this way. lie finally got
the notion that the constan trractlce OF using
salt led TO stOmachic troubles OF all kinds.
'Saii,n he used TO tell bis pooli-poohing hy-
& ienic friends whom he Ind long passed in
| the race OF food reform, being Young man
amcnahe TO reason. "salt Is a chemical sub
stance possessing no nutrition whatever.
| You put salt ON anything YOU want 10 preserve
| from decay. Now II stands TO reason that IL
| 10 prevents decay II must retard the process
OF digestion. Take II in large quantities aud
| 10 Is fatal. A man on al ocean OF salt water
viii die OF thrst Just as quickly AS II II were
an ocean OF alcohol tell you II Is absolute
| ly deletcrious.n
All this. mind you, was before he went out
| west 10 recnperate. For, from the rosy
| deter oratcd into querulous, wrinkled
dried-un young-old man, With complexion
| like Ice cream and no appetite. lie went out
west aud roughed u on fat bacon, soda bis
cults aud black coffee. lie came back with
an appetite that stopped at nothing short OF
horseshoe nails, and is as fair as the days
The moral Is obvious Toledo blade