The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-09-13

increasing by leaps and bounds for both
food and drink, as the schoolmaster of
the scientist is more needed as to the
design of nature regarding our physical
welfare. If it is once realized that we
can conserve our vitality and stamina
and insure increasing health and
strength by simply attending to the
easiest digested diet, and to other laws
of hygiene, then all who can command
the requisite self-restraint and will
power will not much longer continue
on that ''go-as-you-please" road as to
our regime, which has mainly brought
about the present universal reign of
doctors, druggists and dentists.
Those travellers who have seen South
Sea Islanders, Arabs and colored folks
of West Indies, whose ancestors have
lived mainly ON fruits, testify to their
stalwart forms and usually uniform
good health.
And what is it, after all, that the
Natural Food Society today designs to
bring about? Just simply to substitute
for those least enjoyable and most in
sipid of all foods in their natural stage
the grain and seeds Of others that are
the most gratifying and luscious OF all
to the natural palate. Instead of that
class which entail the most tOiling and
moiling to produce and cultivate and
prepare and render palatable, to substi-
tute that which is the least trouble of
any to cultivate and needs no prepare
ton whatever. For those that are the
risky and difficult of all to assimilate,
to substitute those that are the easiest
of all to absorb-containing all the ele-
ments for making up all our frame in
right proportions, with abundance of
heat and force material in nuts, olives
and the sugar of fruits. Yes, we should
begin to see now that, while ample ex-
ercise, fresh air, strict temperance,
backed up by good constitution, to-
gether with absolutely pure food, are
needful to attain the soundest health
and longest life, there is something else
equally indispensable that has not hith-
erto been insisted upon or realized, ex-
cept in case of illness, even by the most
prudent and cautious physician, and
that is that the food must be of the kind
specially suited and best adapted to the
organism. This both experience and
science unite in affirming can be got
best from raw, fully ripe fruit anG
nuts, for, although each may at times
be found to disagree with those using
cooked foods Of meat or meal, whe1
taken upon stomach freed for few
weeks from the strain and incubus o.
starchy dishes, they relieve nature ST
much that she thus cures the most OBJ
stinate and chronic stomach troubles
The oil of nuts, when emulsitied will
saliva, becomes as easily absorbed by
the intestinal canal as the sugar or glu
cose of the fruits, and they both are thu
most pure and perfect of the carbon o
heat and force giving elements that form
four fifths of complete nutrition.
Man, like the rabbit or the sheep
need not be at all drinking ANNA
any more than he requires to be cook
ing animal when he has by gradual ex
perience proved that he enjoys bette
health and strength, as well as a reall.
more constant and unfailing delight il
well-selected fruit diet, with its s,
to 80 per cent. of distilled water, thai
by any of the connections of the cook o
confectioner, with the brewer or dis
tiller thrown in. Thus as the palat
becomes purified from its craving TO
condiments, rich and pungent flavor
ings, moderations and temperance ar
more easy to those who find that tabl
excuses are the chief bane of thei
lives; even excess in fruit diet can b
INDUCED in comparatively without risk
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