The Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-22
NO-BREAKFAST,
Some Facts for People Who Desire
Health A Sound Mind and
Sound Body a Most Excel
lent Equipment for
Life's Work.

Dr II. II. Cleveland, noted for his short
cuts In solving a question, said to a
group OF the college boys one day, on
the subjsc6 of marriage: "Well, BOYS.
If You are goint to remain young al
ways, don't marry. But ii you expect
to grow cd, by all means marry and
make happy home"
The Doctors advice might be ap,ly
turned in another direction in these
words: Young people, if you expect
to retain eternal youth, with digestive
powers equal to a duck or ostr ch, eat
what you please or when you please
But IL you expect to reacn the high
noon mark of life and pass over on the
other side, control your appetite and
regulate your Diet when young, or ou
will pay for it all with compound in.
terest when you get old"
Several health articles NAV follow
this during the wioter. The following
suggestions are thrown out for the
consideration of Thoughtful people in
terested in their own health and that
of their children.
Getting sick is generally a slow pro-
cess. A cure can not be brought about
In day or by little dosing.
Much Of the medicine taken by peo-
pie, whethec administered by physi-
clans or Sc ected from the patent list by
the patients, does no good aud NAV do
much harm.
The physicians OF all schools still
'practics" medicine.
The poorest doctor that one Ignorant
of drugs and his own body ever had is
himself.
Excessive thiapess is disease or the
result of one. SO is excessive fat.
when man or woman of ordinary
height piles Oh huudrtd pounds of
fat above the normal allowance, il
shows the necessity of a cure.
Food taken into the stomach z d not
digest I'd is u burden and not Il help.
When the tongue of the fever patient
is furred over aud tin stoIna G. in a sim.
liar rcondit o0, il is a. cruel III ing to fill
tnat stomach with milk and other
foods that cannot be oigeste or assim
Hated.
People with any slow fever are not
going to st4rve ia II few days. They
when the dtseseiee orgads viii not
work,
DIR. Tanner. a reasonably well man,
tested io'ty days, and came out Of that
fast with his braiu clear and his new
Gus system all righG.
Half the childIe "a in Sparta urg are
not property nourished. Very fat ones
are unwisely fed. Thin, pale, saliow
ones are badly cared for.
Observe the children under one wear
old as you meet them. Very few OF
them will have the right weight, com
plexion and bealthful appearance.
All the sick and nervous headaches
are caused by eating too much, or eat
ing at the wrong time and by keeping
the digestive organs working day and
night without any rest.
These hints are thrown out to set
you, the readers of THE SPARTAN, to
thinking. Some Of you may object to
what is stated, but that is al right.
The following clipping is pertinent.
1t Is from the Augusta Chronicle:
GROSS FEEDING.
Edward Holden In the Chicago Times
Herald qnotes a friend as saying; "a
friend Of mine who battled with his
appalling appetite, and with compare
tive little success, once replied to my
remonstrance by saying: 'YoE and
other preachers talk so because you
know nothing about It. Have you ever
been walking on q dusty read in July,
with the hot sun pouring down on you,
and no water In sight for miles2 At
last you come in sight Of a we'll with
the cool bucket and a glass ready for
quenching YOUR thirst. Do you know
how you feel when you are Fastening
toward that we'll? That is the way I
feel all the time"
In all communities there are men,
few in number, however, who are
prodjgious eaters. We have seen some
OF these persons. An abnormal appe-
site is disease, No doubt the doctors
have remedies for II. Ordinarily a vo-
racious eater Is overcome periodically,
with nausea or safety and resorts to
drugs, bitters, pills and potions for re-
lief.
We once knew a man OF this pIutto.