Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-18
TO LIVE 2CO YEARS
ABSTAIN FROM LIQUIDS ANE
SALT. is THE LATEST.
Joseph Salon1onson RIamcs our Pres
ent Food and Drink as tn. Cause,
Of Premature Decline and Decay
Has Made Many Converts.

A man with strange mission has
arrived in LONDON from Ascona, on
Lake Maggiore. Switzerland, says the
London Mail. His object is to induce
t e English people to abandon the use
Of salt and all liquids. He himself
has not drunk If anythins for two
years and two months, aad hopes to
attain great age by pcrGeverlng WITH
that peculiar form of abstinence.
At Ascona he nas founded colony
of men and women disciples who rig
orously eschew salt and liquids, work
in the fields in primitive garb. anu
when the weather Is suitable, sleep oil
the bare ground, FROM which they are
supposed to extract natural magneti-
currents.
Herr Joseph Salomonson the re
former" in question, has already gain:
ed number Of adherents in London
and on the continent, including sew
eral we'll known physicians md sclen
lists. He asserts that the mode OF liv,
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 con-
siderably to the span Of life.
There is not sound man in the
world he told the writer, 'and yet
the people who eat salt and drink
water i've to be as old as 80, Or even
loo. When we live natural life
zee no reason Mhy we should not at
lain to 200 or 2s0 years.
In prehistoric times human being
lived to those ages. because they ate
food Intended fer human consumption
and what moisture they required was
extracted from he air by their bod
iss."
''F!as your health impro5 5ed, Herr
Salomonson. since You aban toned eat
ing salt and dr1nking liquids?"
''Imm easurab by" was the reply
During the twenty-six m,.,,ths that
no drop has passed my li1s have
lost in weight sixty two pounds, but
fool younger and stronger, although
AN % years Of age.
ii gives ore a buoyancy OF spirits
like that experienced BY man who
climbs u high mountain. The steE
IS more elastic. the brain IS clearer
and sense Of happiness a.,d content
ment permeates ones bein.4 Cares
weigh lightly, and at any l-alr of the
day or night one IS capable Of any
amount Of mental or phy.ical exer
ton
Salt, according TO Herr stlomorson.
who is a man OF considerable educa,
ton, is the first link in {. chain of
modern evils. It leads to the eating
Of animal food, which in its gurn neces-
states the taking Of liquids.
The abolition of these three SO
called 'necessarios - he proceeded.
would do away with aN sickness.
Drugs would not be required in fact
ley would have no effect on a body
bujlt up by natural means In this
country you establish sanattoria for all,
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 ruinous to the body
but it. is damaging to the soul and
destructive of the intellect. while
water or any otner form of liquid is
mere burden to the stomach, and has
no value at all
Herr Salomonson himself is pic
turesque looking man. and creates
sensation whenever he appears in Lon.
don streets. He wears long brown
cassock and pair of sandals A great
mass Of hair falls over his shoulders
and his collarless neck is hidden by a
long. wispy beard