The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-01-24

separate dish, and something within
me said, this is your work. 1t was
an unpopular vocation at that Tune,
and had no true standard in America.
Today, even, the United States, among
civilized lands, is the one without IoOu
standards. We are a commercial ma
ton, and if you or L want to make
and sell an adulterated food product
we wish not to be interfered with. In
France, a man is under the laws of the
country in selling food. If he is
baker he has had to serve four years
apprenticeship before he gets his GER
tincate; if he wants to sell groceries
he has to serve d time at his trade
before he can get his license. L feel
that my work is teaching people what
to eat and how it should be prepared,
for healthfuI living has done as much
good as L could have done had L been
ii physician. My place is to keep them
well by proper food, rather than to
cure them after they are i'll.
The Chinese have the right idea
about this, they pay their doctors while
the family is well; when member of
it fails ill the pay stops; there IS no
premium there Oh patient having
long illness.
Henry Ward Beecher said that
there was a physical economy that
consisted i'll getting the greatest
good with the least expenditure OF
time and energy. DIR. OSler has put
the question: How can you take the
greatest possible advantage of your
capacity with the least possible surain?
Part of Dr. OSler'S answer was:
BY cultivating system Let each hour
of the day have its allotted duty. There
are good and bad systems, to be sure,
but the one to be chosen is the one
which is in accord with natures laws.
Many years ago, when my life hung
on narrow and slender lines, it occur
red to me that there were striking
analogies between the days life and
the Iife's history of every individual
L knew. The study of these analOgies
helped me to SyStemize my own work,
diet, rest and recreation, in accordance
with what seemed to be natures laws.
There is Il morning, noon and even
ing tide of life. First comes sensorial
development and activity, which lead
i'll motor development and activity.
The man at % who has not we'll
developed body, with good power for
mental concentration, finds himself
handicapped for the productive period
of life. Likewise no man can continue
long under our business strains who
is not thoroughly awakened mentally
or physically before entering upon his
days duties. The man, for instance,
who finds it necessary to awaken his
physical being in the early day with
cocktail or some acid fruit rarely
finds his middle life a comfortable
one Rhsumatism and kidney cOmpli
cations are his nearest and never-fail-
ing companions.
'On rising spend ten minutes on
some light rhythmical calisthenics.
Since child's first natural move
ments, such as stretching and kicking,
involve the large muscles, follow this
same order in your exercise. Leave
the foot, wrist, neck and fingers to
the last. Then take good, strong,
| deep inhalatiOns and slow eXhalatiOnS
This will clear the lungs of bad, eX-
| hausted air. Such a system goes far
| to aid us in gaining pOise, a qualifi-
cation of which we Americans know
little and which we greatly need
| Food that is suited to weaned child
is the proper breakfast food. Our
| digestion is not at it's best until II