The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-14
SIMPLE HABITS.
Great Men Attribute Their Success
in Life to Them.

Great Men Attribute Their Success
in Life to Them.
From the London Catering World.
Benjamin Franklin, who is famed
for his discovery that lightning is
electricity, and who introduced the
American colonial postal system, and
who. Furthermore, as will be remem-
bered, served America at the court of
France as minister plenipotentiary
was one of the leaders of early mod
ern times in the study of nature and
natures laws, and not the least in do
nestle science. His first maxim was:
Eat not to dizziness; drink not to ele-
Vation." Even in his youth his mind
was filled with schemes for self-regu
lation and guidance, and he set before
him the task of acquiring the habitude
of certain cardinal virtues based upon
simple living and habits of thought.
His constant effort was to better the
conditions of mankind and his meth
DDS we're intensely practical
Since the early times simplicity of
preaching, teaching and eating has
been the great factor in the worlds
advancement. The great MASS of man
kind do not understand nor care for
abstruse reasoning.
The record of the life of Abraham
Lincoln is traced back to that time
when he was seen sitting on a rail
fence in one of Americas small
Western villages, with law book in
one hand and with a piece of maize
was a man Of simple habits, and his
greatness was to no small extent de-
pendent upon that early simplicity and
goodness which gave strength to con-
science, mind and body.
Frederick the Great fostered above
all, agriculture and the cultivation of
fruits and vegetables. His endeavor
to benefit his people was based upon
the natural laws pertaining to their
health and simple happiness. He rec
ognized the fact, ever since clear to
the minds of the leaders of the Ger
mans, that the body is the basis, and
must be simply and completely nour-
ished in order to perfect the soldier,
statesman or the peasant.
Bismarck's great work had for its
basis the recognition of the simple
laws of nature. He followed them,
and as a result there came about a
new manhood and a new womanhood,
first in Prussia and later in the en-
pire. Bismarck's natural and acquired
astuteness taught him, as a similar
perception and reasoning had taught
Frederick the Great, that political
economy, rural economy and domestic
economy are, as sciences, closely inter-
linked and independent in their rela-
tions to the state.
While in France as United States
minister Thomas Jefferson wrote re-
specting the education of a daughter
who was with him in Paris: "Of do
nestle economy she can learn nothing
here; yet she must learn it somewhere,
as ii is of more solid value than any
thing else" To his friend. Peter Carr,
he said: "A strong body makes a
strong mind" Jefferson practiced his
preaching by subsisting mainly upon
simple natural foods, and he labored
zealously all through his busy life for
the upbuilding of an American sys-
TEN of education which should teach
men how to live in accordance with
the laws of nature. He died at the age
of "a, and he had not lost tooth, nor
was one of them defective.
II will be recollected that the laws
of Moses are, replete with instructions
regarding the care of the body in san
itation and in diet, as well as In fast
ing and in religious duties. 1t is due
to these laws that the health of the
Jews when in reasonable condition is
so universally superior to that of the
average of other peoples.