Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-14

been a perfectly well man. 1 take this
meal ABOUT noon and can eat anything 1
want and as much as / want. One Of the
wCr.t things for a dyspeptic is TO have to
think whether one thing or another will
agree with him. The person who lives on
one meal a day has TO take no thought
OF whether anything will hurt him or not.
Il have never had better health in my
life, and l can walk the streets now with
out spending my money. Before adopted
this plan when | met a beggar or a tramY
and he approached me with the old tale
OF not having had anything to eat in
tw~enty-four hours. l went down in my
pocket and gave him q quarter. and really
pitied him. Now l say, Good for you,
old fellow! You are on the right track.
Keep 1t up and you will keep your health,
Nire-tenths Of the people in this world
are killed by eating and drinking too much.
This plan gives one perfect control Of the
appetite. The secret Of the progression Of
mankind is self-controL. Men lost control
Of themselves through the stomach and
they must regain II through the stomach.
| hnd II more satisfactory to take my meal
at noon. as IL brings the eating too near
my bedtime IL / take il later. l know a
man, however, a policeman. who nnds It
better TO take his solitary meal at o'clock
in the evening, as he Is up all night When
he gave up his other two meals he weigh
ed 2o pounds; now he weighs ls0. and says
he was never so well In his life.
Formerly I could not see across the
street even with my glasses. When / met
a man l didn't know whether ! knew him
or not. ] haven't had on my long-sighted
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well. This thing of treating the stomach
with proper respect benefits man morally.
mentally and physically. II is a subject
which should interest everybody. The
trend of pathology is against drugs. Drugs
are of absolutely no use. All that any drug
can do it to remove Instructions TO natures
processes. Drugs never cure any disease;
nature does the curing. As l said at the
outset, If man wouldn't make his stomach
an obstruction he woul never be SICK.
Now about this matter Of sleep. IL is
true that people can school themselves to
five hours of sleep a day and get along Just
as we'll as If they slept eight. but / believe
that 1t will shorten their lives. on the
other hand too much sleep IS conclusive
to lazinesS. 1t seems to produce mental in
activity and dulls ones eyes. keeniy in
telligent persons require less sleep than
those who lead a merely animal existence.
II one adopts the right principle in eating
and drinking. sleep which is health-giying
is sure to follow.
TITS all very we'll for people to say that
they can't go to sleep without eating. How
about waking up? The thing that we go to
rest perfectly both at the same time. and
therefore If one would wake up without
that tired feeling it is well to go to bed
tains his theory. There is a psychologist
cal aspect TO this question Of eating and
Thinking The action of the mind on the
system while eating and drinking has a
great deal to do with digestion. l have no
doubt that the old style OF asking n bless
Geological effect and that the food which
was blessed did more good than that which
was not. If we sit down to our meals
thinking that this is good and that bad,
and trying to dissect the edibles before us.
the meal is not so apt to do US good. Those
who adopt the one or two meal plan take
their food as It comes ana let nature dis
sect 1t after 1t is in the stomach. Did YOU
ever sit at the table at one of the water
cure places? All arc talking about the
.food-why they eat this. what that contains,
and so on. 1t spells the poetry OF feeding.
"One bad phase of eating I believe the
French are responsible for. is the
f~reighting of food with spices to tempt
man to eat more than the system needs.
These people who talk about a change OF
food are seeking to tempt the palate in
stead of satisfying an appetite. As long as
man has a normal healthy appetite one
thing is as good as another.
II used to be a very light sleeper before
I gave up eating three meals a day., and
now / can't get to bed so early as l would
like. However. l always get up thorough
iy rested, arising about 8 O'Clock My
mouth is clear and my brain wonderfully
active, and l do my best work from that
time up to my noon meal"