The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-26
URGES LESS EATING.
Edison Says Americans Are
Food and Sleep Drunk.
HARDER WORK RECOMMENDED

snsAp MeaIs the wizard's Remedy
Fer All Ins Men, Ne Declares,
Sometimes Eat and sleep Them-
selves Iato the crsve.
Americans don't work enough: also
they sleep too much. Such are the as
sertions Of Thomas A. Edison, accord
ing TO James Creelman, who recently
interviewed the inventor at his lab
oratory for the New York World. In
cidentaly MIR. Edison says Americans
eat too much, and as evidence Of this
he offers the fact that he has lived for
two mouths on four ounces OF food
three times a day.
yes. it's true the country is food
drunk. said Mr.. Edison. I'm not so
much interested in the economic side
Of overeating at a time when the cost
Of living is increasing, but ! have in
vestigated the subject enough TO know
that man can't do good. clear, logical
brain work with his stomach full OF
undigested food
'The fact Is that people eat too much.
sleep too much and don't work enough.
The average man would be much better
OF and would do very much better
work II he would cut down his food
anS sleep and labor a little harder.
Men eat aud sleep themselves stupid.
Sometimes they eat aud sleep them
selves into the grave. They talk about
working too hard That Is absolute
nonsense. Generally speaking, man
can't work too hard.
why. I've worked FOR i've days and
nights without sleep and with very lit.
tie food and did as good work in those
conditions as I ever did in my life.
\ That was when was working out the
incandescent light idea. It's all mat
ter OF habit
Some time ago my stomach troubled
| me. ! eidn't know what was the mat.
Ter, but ! imagine now that IL was the
y ray that caused some internal con
striction However. when my trouble
was acute began TO experiment with
my diet to see what would come OF It.
had always been a Hight eater. but
decided TO cut down my food still more
For two months ! lived on -four
ounces OF food for each meal That
made twelve ounces Of food a day OF
course l varied my food. ] would take
teaSpoonful OF peas, small piece OF
toast ard caviar. tiny sandwich. a
l little bit OF ham, fragment of rye
bread. Miln Swiss cheese and so on.
what was the result At the end ol
two months OF this diet weighed just
as much as when | began, exactly 1Ss
pounds. found that living on twelve
ounces OF food day for four weeks
had made me mentally brighter ano
had neither diminished my strength
nor my weight. Aud, mind you, / hat
been working Just as hard AS before
cut down the size OF my meals.
las for sleep. that is another prevail
ing form OF intempefance. People sleel
too much They drug themselves viii
sleep, The truth is that this vice o
oversleepinR Is habit II msl
will only try 20 get along with les
sleep he will be surprised TO dlscoye
how little be really needs. And h.
will lind his faculties very much i'm
proved by the effort
III II not so much the quantity a
the quality OF sleep that counts. Tn
man who lies eight OF nine hours h
bed tossing about from time TO time
doesn't get anything IKE as much res
as the man who sleeps soundly for nv
hours
we are slaves TO sleep. Why 10
instance, should We 20 to sleep a
night? The only difference betwee
, night and day Is that the sun zoe
down in one case aud comes mp in IN
other. What difference should tina
maker | suppose II is simply habi
acquired through thousands OF year
OF ancestry. We have become like th
e chickens, who so TO roost when it
o dark cannot account for Il excep
on the ground OF long continued habit.
Another common mistake Is TO loo
upon hard work as injurious. You sc
Mr.. Ihis-and- -thatand- d-the-Other-fello
announcing that lie has been wOrkin
D very hard and must go on to Europ
for rest Bosh, He has been eatin
h and drinking too much and hasn
worked half enough.
"The healthy man can't work 20
hard or too much. When his work tire
him out he will 20 10 sleep and will q
n the right kind OF sleep.
n Work, hard work, simply puts a
i, edge ON a man FOR more hard work,
I, he is dull and can't sleep let him wor
little more. II that doesn't help ma
tero let him work still more and sti
harder la the end he viii come out a
"a right
n smoking tobacco II a pretty goo
a working stlmulant. l ind il much be
80 Ter than drink OF any kind. Alcoh
seems 10 scatter the thoughts. IT'S
poor thing TO work on, But tobac'
helps
oi "But cigarettesl They're deadly.
Is isn't the tobacco. lrs the acroleln pr
1t dueed by the burning paper that do'
Ia the harm, and, let me tell you acrole
81, is one OF the most terrible drugs in
!, effect on the human body The burnii
~ OF ordinary cigarette paper alwa,
'f produces acrolein. That is what max
he the smoke so Irritating. I really b
lieve that IL often makes boys insan
We sometimes develop acrolein In th
IT. laboratory IN our experiments wi
i glycerin. One Whit OF il from the ovl
drove one OF my assistants out OF d
~ building the ether day I can hard
n- exRggerate the dangerous nature
be acrOleln, and yet that is what a man
a. q How - Qaalfuar with aVnrr ffu1a