The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10

a big eater has got to take exer-
else. There is no doubt about that
II is an absolute necessity. The great
masses OF men engaged in manual
toll need plenty of food simply be-
cause they have plenty Of bodily eXer-
else.
In my judgment, a hod-carrier, for
instance, requires three or four pounds
of food Il day. The strain upon his
body. due to the carrying of heavy
weights up long ladders. calls for extra
food.
But the average machinist eats 30
or 40 per cent too much. He would be
a stronger brighter and happier man
On less food.
1T is simply appalling to know hoW
professional men and others who do
little physical work stuff themselves.
There is no sense in it, 1t means
dullness, disease and early death 1t
is an extraordinary thing to observe
how great bushes men, the lawyers,
doctors and clergymen of New York
men who show the highest intelligence
in ordinary matters, continue TO sin
against nature by oveTeating.
The slightest practical Investigation
of the evidence on the subject would
prove to them that they are clogged
mp with undigested food. A short trial
of a scantier diet would improve their
mental and physical condition and
make work q pleasure to them. Yet
they go right along filling themselves
mp simply to crafty an appetite born
of habit
a man, after all, is simply an en-
CINE and his stomach is a furnace. IL
you put too much coal in a furnace
the CRATE bars will be clogged up and
you will get worse instead of better
work out of the engine.
Habit of oVersIeepine.
'As for sleep that is another pre-
vailing form of intemperance. People
sleep too much. They drug themselves
with sleep. The truth is that this vice
OF oversleeping is habit.
If a man Will only try TO get along
with less sleep he viii be surprised to
discover how little he really needs. And
he viii find his faculties very much inn
proved by the effort.
1T is not so much the quantity as the
quality of sleep that counts. The man
who lies eight or nine hours i'm bed.
tossing about from time TO time. doesn't
get anything Ike as much rest as the
man who sleeps soundly for five hours.
Il said that I had worked on the in
candescent light problem for five days
and five nights without sleep. Well
after that / slept twenty hours But it
was q tine, deep. refreshing sleep. After
/ got up | went at my work as str0ng
and keen as ever.
We are slaves to sleep" he said
Why for instance, should We go to
sleep Al night? The only difference be-
tween night and day is that the sun
goes down Ia one case and comes up in
the other. What difference should that
make? ! suppose il is simply habit ac-
quired through thousands of years of
ancestry. We have become like the
chickens who go 10 roOst when it is
dark. / cannot account for it except
on the ground of long-continued habi
Another common mistake is 10 look
upon hard work as Injurious. You see.
Mr.. This-and-T hat-and-t he-Other-Fe
low announcing that he has been work
ms very hard and must go of TO Gu
rope for a rest. BOsh, He has been
eating and drinking too much and has
not worked half enough.
The healthy man can't work too
hard OF too much. When his work
tires him out he will so 10 sleep and
viii get the right kind Of sleep Not
only I but my assistants work frequent
" for days and days with practically
no sleep, or very little. and we all. feel
better for it. II makes US brighten afld
il makes us feel better.
Work, hard work, simply puts an