The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-04
i" WHACKS "
And What They Mean.

When Old Mother Nature gives you a
''whack'' remember there's a 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 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. Whisky, Tobacco,
Coffee, Tea or other unnatural treat
ment of the body, until serious illness
sets in or some chronic disease.
Some people seem to get on very well
with those things for awhile, and
Mother Nature apparently cares but
little what they do.
Perhaps she has no particular plans
for them and thinks it 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 hes great
work. A portion of these selected ones
oft and again seek to stimulate and
then deaden the tool (the body by
some one or more of the drugs
Whisky, Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, Nor
phine, 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 wo-
man the power to do his or her best
work.
After these people have drugged for
a 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 loafing
along the wayside and become untitled
for the fame and fortune that waits for
them if they but stick to the course
lions so 1t can carry out the behests
of the mind.
Sickness is a call to come up high
err" These hints come in various
forms. 1t may be stomach trouble or
bowels, heart, eyes, kidneys or general
nervous prostration. You may depend
upon it 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
offends. That is one of the greatest
causes of human disorder among
Americans.
Now then if Mother Nature is gentle
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 also be sure she will
hit you very, very hard if you insist
on following the way you have been
going.
1t seems hard work to give up
charge our i'll feelings to some other
cause than the real one.
Coffee drinkers when ill will attribute
the trouble to bad food, malaria, over
work 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 a
day" Then they begin to get better,
and unless they have gone long enough
to set up some fixed organic diseases,
they generally get entirely WELL
1t is easy to quit coffee at once and
for all, by having well made Postum,
with it's 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 if the Postum has been boiled
long enough to bring it out.
1t pays to be well and happy for
good old Mother Nature then sends us
her blessings of many and various
kinds and helps us to gain fame and
fortune.
strip off the handicaps, leave out the
deadening habits, heed Mother Ma
lures hints, quit being a loser and be-
come a winner. She will help you sure
if you cut out the things that keep you
back.
'"There's a reason" and a profound
one.
Look in each package for a copy of
the famous little book, THE Road to
Wellville."