The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

ami intestines are more nearly free from
food than at any subsequent meal of the
day; their breakfast has been taken
without any natural appetite, and there
fore without adequate How of the diges-
tive juices; in consequence, digestion is
sluggish and revolts at succeeding meals !;
and these friends can truly say that they
other meal. But II ell such pers ms will
resolutsly refnse all food until II or IL
o'clock, will drink plenty of hot water-or
even OF water OF any temperature during
the forenoon and to within an hour pre-
ceding the breakfast, there is sure to su-
pervene an appetite based on need there
will be an augmented flow of digestive
JUICES; food will be digested and assimi.
lated, and the person will be surprised to
find after few weeks of this treatment
that hunger will not take place again un
til six, seven or eight hours have elapsed.
To insure q restoration to health and a
useful and vigorous life it is necessary
that we take our first meal five or six
hours after rising, the second and last
meal six or seven hours afterwards; that
we see to it that we do not over.cat; that
We use no drink but distilled water-and
this is best taken upon rising in the
morning, al hour before meais--and that
our food should consist OF ripe fruits, ra "
or cooked as they may agree best, with
meat, FISH, milk, eggs and tho like:'tha
moderate amount Of starchy and watery
veReta bles may be added, and that we
must discontinue entirely the use of
bread, cereals and potatoes.
If these rules of living are followed it
will be found that health Is mans birth
right; that it il as natural to be we'll as
to- be born. All pathological condi.
tions,all diSsass and tendencies TO di-
ssAss are the result of the trAnsgrassior
Of bygi'nic and physiological law. This
4: 49, ,cs. IL -
When these conditions are attisined old
age will no longer have any terrofs for us.
Women will never lose her charms by
age lat so they will rival in physical beau
ty the younger women of the day and
far exceed them in the richer graces Of
mind and spirit gained through exper-
fence and the developments OF those gh-
or powers that Sir James Crichton Browne
tells Us do not develop until between the
ages of IS and IS.
The following summing rp from How
Nature Cures gives US a picture OF this
future state we'll worth Living to attain:
when man comes to live physiulogi.
y.ars of vigorous adult life, or more
than three-fold what he now enjoys. But
this 10 not all. Louis Cornaro taught
that man is of no real worth until he
has reached the age of 50 years and gain
eu control of his passions; and Sir james
seen, that his powers of wisdom do not
develop until after that age. At the
pres Mt time those who reach that age
encounter a multitude Of intirmities and
find their usefulness fettered with pre-.
mature decrepitude. How different to
this will be the natural life. When man
has attained to that term at which Cor.
marc says his usefulness begins, he still
will have fifty to seventy years OF vigor-
Gus work before him. And with such
conditions. what useful devices would not
an Edison lnvsnt. what poems Shelley
write. OF what a wealth of music have
we been deprived by the death Of Wagner
when he mad reached only half the natur.
al term of life. What histories might not
Carlyle have unearthed and chronicled
and illumined II ne had been free from
his aches and pains, his dyspepsia and
resultant gloom. and were still with Us
in the enjoyment OF full vigor. And
what additional contributions to science
and philosophy might we not have had
from Herbert Spencer,if. during his years
Of work, be had been freed from the ill.
health that has accom- panied and delayed
him, and il he still had forty or fifty
years OF vigorous work in store"
-. DIR. DENSMORE.