The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1904-11-24
'wHAcks"
And What They Mean.

done to demand the rebuke, and try
and get back into line, for that's the
happy place after all.
Curious how many highly organized
people fail to appreciate and heed the
first little. gentle "whacks" of the
good old Dame, but go right along
with the habit whatever IT may be-,
that causes her disapproval Whiskey,
Tobacco, Coffee, Tea or other unnat-
ural treatment Of the body, until seri.
Gus illness sets in or some chronic
disease.
Some people seem to get on very
. well with those things for while,
and Mother Nature apparently cares
but little what they do.
Perhaps she has no particular plans
for them and thinks IL little use to
waste time in their training.
There are people, however, who
seem to be selected by Nature to "do
things" The old Mother expects them
to carry out some department of her
great work. A portion of these select
ed ones oft and again seek to stimu.
late and then deaden the tool (the
body by some one or more of the
drugs-Whiskey, Tobacco. Coffee,
Tea, Morphine. etc.
You know all of these throw down
the same class of alkaloids in Chemi-
cal analysis They stimulate and then
depress. They take from man or wom-
an the power to do his or her best
work.
After these people have drugged
for time, they get a hint, or mild
"whack' to remind them that they
have work to do. mission to perform,
and should be about the business, but
are loafng along the wayside and be-
come untitled for the fame and for
tune that waits for them II they but
stick to the course and keep the body
clear of distractions SO It can carry
out the behests of the mind.
Sickness is call to come up high.
Or" These hints come In various
forms. II may be stomach trouble or
bowels, heart, eyes, kidneys or general
nervous prostration. You may depend
upon ii when a "whack" comes it's a
warning to quit some abuse and do
the right and fair thing with the body.
Perhaps it is coffee drinking that
olfends. That Is one Of the greatest
causes of human disorder among
Americans.
Now, then. If Mother Nature Is gen.
tie with you and only gives light, little
"whacks" at first TO attract attention.
don't abuse her consideration, or she
will soon hit you harder, sure.
And you may be sure she will hit
you very, very hard il you insist on
following the way you have been 60
ing.
1t seems hard work to give up a
habit, and we try all sorts of plans to
charge our III feelings to some other
cause than the real one.
Coffee drinkers when iii will attri-
butte the trouble to bad food, malaria,
overwork and what not. but they keep
on being sick and gradually getting
worse until they are finally forced to
quit entirely, even the only one cup
n day" Then they begin to get bet
ter, and unless they have gone long
enough to set up some fixed organic
disease, they generally get entirely
well.
1t is easy to quit coffee at once and
for all, by having well made Postum,
with its rich, deep seal brown color
which comes to the beautiful golden
brown when good cream Is added, and
the crisp snap OF good, mild Java Ia
there IL the Postum has been boiled
long enough to ring ii out.
1t pays to be well and happy for
good old Mother Nature then sends
us her blessings of many and various
kirds and helps us to gain fame ard
fortune,
SiIin off the handicans leaYn 0uf