The record-union., 1895-02-06
FRUIT DIET.
A Paper Thereon Read Before the Nat
uralarian Society.

A Paper Thereon Read Before the Nat
uralarian Society.
At a recent meeting of the Naturala-
rian Society in this city, the following
paper was read by Mrs. NJ. P. Han
shaw:
We have long been aware of the fact
that the majority OF people are conserva-
tive, and that every new idea or discov-
cry must fight its way inch by inch
against the prejudices OF those to whom
1t is presented, and that it is only
| accepted when its truth or benefit is prac-
tlcally demonstrated.
1t Is We'll that such is the case. For it
is not good for people to be too credu-
ious and too ready to believe every pass
Ing theory. or accept every half-formed
and newly presented invention, else they
would be constantly disappointed and
become unstable in following after things
not yet proven.
1t is time enough, most people think, to
accept truth when it is so forci bly pre-
sented that they cannot ignore it, when
experience teaches it. But there must
ever be few pioneers of thought who
must go to prepare the way, who must
cut path through the thicket of preju-
dice, first build bridges across the streams
OF ignorance, that others may safely fol-
low on to the grand and new land be-
yond. 1t is a hard life in many respects
to be pioneer. Some of you no doubt
realize this, for you crossed the plains,
and suffered and dared in order to build
up this glorious state. And was 1t not
well worth the daring?
1t Is indeed fitting that the pioneers of
the Pacific Coast should also be the pio-
neers IN one Of the grandest movements
Gnat nave ever been inaugurated by man.
for That which does away with suffering,
laf lei, i,
the greatest good that mortals can know
of,
He who has just preceded me is one of
the pioneers in this cause. He has for
many years been engaged in preparing
the way that others might safely follow,
and IN trying experiments that he
might the better be able to explain
where the pitfalls lay and warn others
OF them. He has not come before you
in the first flush of youth, enthusiastic
ally anxious to place all interested the
ory before you. No, he gives you now,
in the prime of his mature manhood
even after the SHOWS of time are de-
scending upon his head-the truth, tried
and proven by long years of experience.
L, who am his wife, speak of these
things not from any personal pride in
him but III justice to his achievements.
And l am here to testify to its truth,
Tor 1t is no longer belief with me but
knowledge. L tried my first expert
| ments under his direction in the year
1886, and they have continued, with some
exceptions, up to the present time.
was often discouraged at first, for l was
| endowed with an excellent appetite, and
| often yearned for the "Flesh-pots of
| Egypt" Had it not been for his en-
| couragements [ would perhaps have failed
L tried various experiments and found
that the nearer l came to nature the bet
ter 1t was for me in every way, and to-
| day 1 would not part with the kpowl-
edge of natural food and its benefits for
all the wealth of the Indies.
| Were someone to appear in this city
| claiming be had magical remedy that
would cure, not only aches of the body,
but heartaches as well, and would rob not
only the hospital and the grave of many
of its victims, but the Jail likewise, would
| you, if you had even the least faith in it,
hesitate to invest in that remedy? No:
not one of you would. Yet truly be-
| lieve that natural food will do all this.
| 1t is not like taking medicine. You can
not nerve yourself up for one supreme
moment of discomfort make a wry face
! as you swallow, and have it all over with
| ana reap the reward of its wonderful
cure. No; it will take weeks, and, per-
| haps, months of firm self-denial, with
! perhaps few regrets at being considered
crank; but in the end you will find it
worth all the trouble, and before you
| have completed the first year of living on
natural food you will have no desire for
any other kinds. but will be perfectly
satisfied with it from the standpoint of
taste. And when you regard it from the
standpoint Of health and purity, you will