The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-18


| goes with large appetite and small
courage for physical exertion. People
who have dyspepsia hate activity. and
strange 10 say, they always love food
that builds lat. They love to lie around
! in the shade and eat fat-producing food.
If Mr. Mead had been supplied with
more starch he would not have got On
SO well Potatoes and butter bread
would have brought their troubles. But
his eating was meat, all meat and then
quantities of coffee. There is no doubt
but that coffee is antidotal to the by
products incident to an exclusive meat
Diet Nature is never a fool. and when
not inteFfered with she adjusts environ
ments 10 the very best advantage. She
is often forced to work 20 disadvantage
and her ideals are often far-fetehed, yet
she is always consistent Coffee. tea.
juncts to an imperfect dietary When
man evolves to a best diet. il he ever
does, he will leave these nerve stimulants
and assuages out.
The life that Mr.. Mead lived on the
plains was an ideal life for hunter, a
life that would give the longest life and
the healthiest life. 1t is decidedly ques-
tionable whether the wild dietary OF the
plains can be transplantd into modern
home with IMMUNITY To substitute ordin-
airy butchers meat for game, and on in
door life. without exertion, for a wild,
exciting and exceedingly active outdoor
life. wet down with quarts of coffee, is
decidedly open to question. Mr. Mead is
r. -e2ar. old A wit n il fAtn
ment and inheritance can live to Co. in
pretty good shape, under any regime.
but it should be known that such men.
taken proper care of. should be active
and in business at JOG, just as active and
just as good business men at 100 as they
usually are at 60. Possibly he can run
on with his transplanted diet and suffer
no i'll effects but it is not probable. OF
course, on the basis Of three-score years
and ten he is safe. but IL man has not
further ambition than to be satisfied
with a half life at the best, there is
no need of dietary and hygienic reform
or an attempt at lettering him.
Not many men can follow Mr. Mead
to his forty-sxth year. for they will lack
the'ambition to keep the pace he set. and
they will lack the moral poise in keeping
away from death-dealing habits He
says his people did not drink; of course
they did not; why should they? They
did not need TO; his personality was quite
as good. if not better, than prohibition
If he had set the pace at say three
drinks a day. most of his men would not
only have followed him, but have fallen
over him. Whiskey would soon have
taken. the place of coffee. Such men as
Mead do not kill themselves young from
bad habits If habits ever get them il
will be because OF defective reasoning.
They are always logical. because, they
are built that way; they usually sense
truth; but l have noticed that some
times when they grow old they are con-
ceited, for which they have a perfect
right, for they have drowned enough
opposition to give them the right to a
good self-opinion; but this conceit must
be Modified and modified to fit changes.
They must be. on the alert for sound
premises. for If they are not, their pow
er for logical reasoning will get them
into trouble.
Because some men have been shot
through the lungs and lived. because one
man had a tamping iron shot through
his head and lived, because another had
the breech pin Of gun driven into his
brain and carried It for months without
serious inconvenience. is no proof that all
men. nor even small per cent, could
undergo such injuries and live. We must
not forget that nature never stultifies
herself, that she is always logical and
her premises are in keeping with truth.
II a given phenomenon appears to be I'm
opposition to established laws of reason
ing it viii be the part of good sense for
us to examine carefully all parts OF the
cause and effect. and IL we do we shall
find nature at work in harmony with all
precedent.
Mr. Meads life will be rounded out
logically and according to the laws of
cause and effect. his opinion or mine to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
/ believe the Club readers will join me
in thanking Mr.. Mead for his letter and
hoping that he will give us another some
time.