Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
TO LIVE 200 YEARS
ABSTAIN FROM LIQUIDS ANC
SALT, is THE LATEST.
Joseph Saiomonscn Biames our Pres
ent Food and Drink as III. Cause
Of Premature Decline and Decay
Has Made Many Converts.

A man with strange mission has
arrived in London from As:ona. OH
Lake Masgiore. Switzerland. says lie
London Mail. His object is to induce
{ e English people to abandon the use
Of salt and all liquids. He himself
has not drunk IF anything for two
years and two months, and hopes 70
attain great age by persevering with
that peculiar form Of abstinence
At Ascona he has founded colony
Of men AMI women disciples. who rig
orously eschew salt and liquids, work
in the fields in primitive garb. and
when the weather is suitable. sleep on
The bare ground, irou which they are
supposed to extract natural magnetic
cure ems.
Herr Joseph salomcnson the re
iormer' in question. has already gain
ed number Of adherents in London
and on the continent. including sez.
eral well known physicians and scien.
lists. he asserts that the mode OF lv.
ing advocated by himself and his
followers is the only one that is nat.
ural and healthy. and that by its adop
ton man or soman may add coz.
slderablv to the span OF life.
There is not a sound man in the
world. he told the writer, and Vet
the people who eat salt and drin
water live to be as old as so, or eves
It0. When We live a natural life
see NC reason Why we should not e.
tain to 200 or 2*0 years.
In prehistoric times human being
lived to those ages, because they ate
food intended fCr human consumptio.
and what moisture they required wa
extracted from she air by their bod
les
HAS your health improved, Her,
salcn1onson. since you abandoned eat
ing salt and drinking liQuids?"
'1mmeasurabiy was the reply
During the twenty-six mtsnths tha
no drop has passed my lips I have
lost In weight sixty-two pouads, but
feel younger and stronger, although
am SO years OF age
1t gives one a buoyancy OF spirits
like that experienced by man VIII,
climbs nigh mountain. The ste;
is more elastic. the brain is clearer
and sense of happiness AID conten,
mont permeates ones being. Care
weigh lightly, and at any hour of the
day or night one is capable of al,
amount Of mental or physical exer
ton
Salt, according to Herr Sslomonson
who is a man Of considerable educa.
ton. is the first link i'll {. chain Of
modern evils. 1t leads to the eatine
Of animal food, which in its tllrn neces.
states the taking Of liquids.
The abolition of these three So
called .necessaries be proceeded.
would do away with az! sickness.
Drugs would not he required; in fact.
they Wonld have no effect on a body
built up by natural means. In this
country you establish sanatoria for al:
ing persons. whom you continue To
supply with food upon which the very
bacteria you seek TO destroy thrive the
best.
Salt is not Only r7linous TO the body
but it is damaging to the soul anG
destructive Of the intellect. While
water or any otner form Of liquid is
mere burden 70 the stomach and has
no value at all
Herr SaiOmOnsOn himself is a pic
t'lresque looking man. and creates
sensation whenever he appears in Lon
don streets. He wears a long brown
cassock and pair Of sandals. A great
mass Of hair falls over his shoulders
and his collarless neck is hidden by
long, wispy beard.