The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-26
FLETCHERrsM
From Good Housekeeping.

During a voluntary experiment in
diet at a normal school in Connecticut
thirty students (of whom twenty-seven
We're women between the ages Of TWEEN
ty-fve and forty obtained substantial
and varied food at cost Of little more
than 3 cents per day for each student.
Fletcherism does not demand such ex-
treme5 frugality; it merely declares that
no one who nasticaIes his food with
fhoroughness win care for more than
one-half of the amount of food Gus
toInarily taken At missionary agri-
culture college in Tennessee, where the
students earn their tuition and board
while pursuing their studies, six
months test of F'letcherism Thorough
mastication) resulted in freedom from
Illness. increased energy. strength and
endurance, and saving of one-half
of the drafts on the commissary. A
rough calculation. which. however in
accurate. is certainly illuminating. has
been made of the possible economy
which FIetcherism could effect for the
entire United States. A saving Of one
half a pound a day in the food of each
individual would mean a reduction of
about Il, 900 tons of food daily in our
population of seventy millions. At a
rate Of the cost of -four. the saving TO
the nation would be more than 81 ,ooa,-
coo a day, or 1865. 000. 900 a year.
Fletcherism. however. is not an agita-
ton for money economy pure and sim
PIE. It's central aim is to bring about
higher efficiency in the individual
the home. and the state. and this aim
is indicated only by the broader mean
ing of economy. THE cost to The
pocket" said Mr.. Fletcher. that is
saved by economic nutrition is of lit
the matter as compared with the say
ing of the waste Of energy and the
danger of disease. Were mental or
even physical Improvement in effici-
ency to be purchased at high prices.
and could lack of efficiency be had for
nothing. the high priced article would
be well worth its cost, no matter what
1t might be for the reason that total
lack OF efficiency Is equivalent TO
death. and any proportionate lack Is
the next thing to death"
Thorough chewing is a cure for all
the ills which come crowding upon the
hasty and careless .eater. The body
needs q certain amount of food to keep
Up sits power: small portion in ex-
cess of this requirement does no service
10 the body, but demands a waste Of
energy 10 get rid Of il, and every addi-
tionaI portion Of food does more than
proportionate harm. One cannot rid
himself Of a gIut or excess without an
enormous expense Of brain and body
energy. It is this continual taxing OF
our physical and mental power which
is responsible for most Of the disease.
inefhciency. and pauperism with which
the world is burdened. A faithful ad-
herence TO the teachings Of Fletcher
ism VII bring with II 4 complete free
dom from indigestion and its brood Of
diseases. q large increase in productive
capacity, and far skeeBer enjoyment
Of eating than is possible under Gus
tonary ways Of boiling food All this
means household economy IN every
sense Of the word-saving Of money.
OF time. and of work involved by table
service. together with larger income
from the family w,age-earners-