The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-25

1zing. He is The son of poor parents
and became q bell boy at one of the
largest hotels in New York. He work
cd at night and studied stenography
at commercial college in the day
time He ate only what he wanted
and chewed il thoroughly The result
was that his whole body was nour-
ished; he could do with five hours
sleep, and he was strong and healthy
On Sundays and holidays he slept
longer than usual. When he graduated
from scnool he obtained a position as
stenographer down town. In the mean
time he had been promoted to be
night clerk a. the hotel. He. now holds
10th positions. He works at the hotel
from one O'Clock in the morning until
seven o'clock; has a simple breakfast,
walks down TO his place of day en-
ployment by nine, and remains until
hVe o clock. After q light dinner he
sleeps until midnight. For more than
three years he has eaten only one-haif
the amount of food usually thought
necessary, but he has eaten is prop
erly.
CUTTING THE FOOD BILLS.
We have seen what one man can do.
AiSIe - ire case OF large group or
men. At a missionary college near
Nashville. Tenn, the students pay
their way through school by work Oh
the college farm, the object being to
encourage labor and economy There
is a large commissary department
" here the food IS supplied to the boys
at cost Many do their own cooking
As result of a, lecture by DR.. J. Fl.
Kellogg Of Battle Creek Mich, in
which he explains the principles and
results of Fletcherism, a group of
students began to put it into practice.
At the end of six months, the COM
missary department reported that the
supplies drawn by the students had
decreased 80 per cent. The boys had
been free from illness and had enjoyed
unusual efficiency in mental and physi-
cal work.
But while .F1etcherism, or simple |
right living, had been making appar-
emily we'll people healthier, its funda-
mental principle. of food economy was
being adapted TO large therapeutic |
Use. Mr.. Fletcher's tests having prov |
ed that the appetite was the true in !
dicator of the needs of the body it |
was argued then, that in the absence |
of appetite the body should be allow !
ed to rest. This has led to the sue |
cessful Introduction of food economy /
in the practice of medicine. Eminent |
like DR. Edw. H. Dewey OF |
Chicago and DR.. Charles E. Page OF /
Boston. proved with patients that a |
rest of the alimentary canal |
0he great food higway) has remark
able curative value. The case of an |
American lady who had an attack of /
fXnhCid in &c vii ip.r
one in point. She ate no food for /
forty-two days, living entirely or
water. She lost less flesh. strength
and vitality than is habitual with per-
sens similarly affected who are fed
during Illness. This showed that food
taken during illness, when there is
no appetite, not only does not nourish,
but actually retards the curative
process The same thing happened in
the case of a man who had Brights
disease. who ate no food for thirty
seven days.
The significance, therefore of what
RAPIDLY came to be known as Fletcher
ism (the term originated with DR.. KEEL
Logo was, that it was not only the
clew to right living, but insured rapid
recovery without relapse when the re-
pairs of the body were completed.
GOOD MORALS FROM RIGHT
EATING.
In the first place, rightly nourish-
ID individual is moral, energetic,
strong, and aItruistic-conseQuen a
useful citizen. An over
ed or underfed person is inclined to
De morbid, sensual. with violent pas
5ions-in essence, not a good citizen
therefore. is often the re-
suit of want of physiological educa-
ion and of lack of nutrition. It is at
his root of social evil that Fletcher
SIN is aimed.
Take the case of the unemployed poor
If London, who have been clamoring
or food almost at the doors of Par
lament With knowledge of properi