Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-04
"WHACKS"
AND WHAT THEY MEAN.

When Old Mother Nature gives you a "whack"
remember there's reason so try and say
thank YOU then set about finding what you
have 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 fall
to appreciate and heed the first little gentle
'whacks' of the good old dame, but go right along
with the habit, whatever IL may be, that causes
her disapproval, Whiskey, Tobacco Coffee, Tea
OF other unnatural treatment of the body, until
serious Illness sets in some chronic disease.
Some people seem TO get very well with
those things for awhile and Mother Nature appar-
emily but little what they do
Perhaps she has no particular plans for them and
thinks 1t little to waste time in their training.
There 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. portion OF these selected oft
and again seek to stimulate and then desden the
tool 1.-THE body by some one or more Of the drugs
Whisky. Tobacco Coffee. Tea. Morphine etc.
You know all of these throw down the
class Of alkaolds In chemical analysis. They
stimulate and then depress. They take from maa
woman the power to do his or her best work.
After these people have drugged for a time they
get hint. mild "whack'' to remind them that
they have work to do a mission to perform and
should be about the business, but loahng along
the wayside and become untitled for the fame and
fortune tndt Walls Tor them II tney out SUCK 10
the and keep the body clear Of distractions
So il can carry out the behests of the mind
Sickness is call to come up higher These
hints come in various forms. 1t may be stomach
trouble bowels. heart eyes kidneys general
nervous prostration. You may depend upon II
when ''whackT comes it's warning to quit
SC me abuse and do the right and fair thing with
the body.
Perhaps 1t is coffee drinking that ofends. That
Is one Of the greatest of human disorder
eriong Americans
Now then. if Mother Nature is gentle with you
and only gives light. little ''whscks' at first to
attract attention don't abuse her Consideration, or
she viii hit you harder. SURE.
And you may also be she Will hit you very,
very hard IL you insist on following the way you
have been going.
II seems hard work to give up habit. and We
try all sorts of plans TO charge our Ill feelings to
some other cause than the real one.
Coffee drinkers when Ill will attribute the trou-
BILE to bad food. malaria. overwork and what not.
but they keep on being sick and gradually getting
worse until they finally forced to quilt entirely.
even the ''only cup day." Then they begin
to get better and unless they have gone long
CROUCH to set up some fixed organic disease, they
generally get entirely well.
1t is easy TO quit coffee at 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 is there II the Pos
tum has been boiled long enough to bring 1t out.
1t pays to be well and happy. for good old Mother
Nature then sends her blessings OF many and
various kinds and helps TO gain fame and for
tune.
Strip Of the handicaps leave out the deadens
ing habits. heed Mother Natures hints quit being
loser and become winner She will help you
sure IL you cut out the things that keep you back
There's reason" and profound one
Look In each package ssr copy Of the fsmoW
little book. The Road Wellviile."