The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-28

fetal and the same might pc SAID OF d
meat diet. AS to raw-foodism, it a
performed some cures that nave amaz-
ed doctors of lifelong study This
was not alone from faith, because
most raw-food eaters are doubt1ui
until they see h real benefits of the
diet. Persons who have been given up
bv every physician who AVE examined
them have been cured by a diet ac-
cording to Salsburyism, which consists
in eating chopped meat that is nearly
raw, and drinking hot water. In Ger
MANY there is an institution Where
hundreds of abandoned cases nave
been cured by the simple process OF
disseminating the wearing of clothing.
Thus it seems that there might De
something to these creeds as well as
the others. There undoubtedly is
something to them and the something
probably consists merely in surrender
ing the physical n mental person to
nature. it's maker. Raw food is OF
benefit because it supplies live cells
TO replace the dead cells cast off by the
human body. The discontinuance of
the wearing of clothes is of benefit
because it permits the free respiration
and helps us on the same principle that
the breathing of pure air helps us. we
should not forget that we breathe
through the pores of our skin the same
as we breathe through our nose ana
this breathing is hindered by clothing.
Let the body be covered all over from
the neck to the feet with something
that is air-tight and a person will soon
die.
From some of these facts it would
seem that the cause of our living
shorter lives is because we have stray
ed away from nature. But is there a
remedy for it? Not in this age, nor in
| the next nor in probably the next. NO
matter what would be the inducements
as to long life and health held out to
US. we could not be persuaded 10 aoopt
2. continuous raw food diet; nor would
orr present-day idea of propriety and
| customs permit us to go without CLOTH
ing. If we should do so, it is probable
| hat the sudden change woul cause
more sickness than anything else.
| These If they ever come, u
be brought about gradually and
through education Of the mind, so as
to dispeI a world Of false modesty ana
| vile construction of things. The hu-
man mind must first be purified and
false tastes in appetite as well as / n
mental and physical desires must be
dispelled before W. can live natural
lives.
Possibly, if people could live as nat
ural lives as wild animals do they
could enjoy as long life as they and
| longer. because of our superior mental
faculties. And then if We could be IN
duced to not think about u condf-
ton: not fear disease nor death; not
worry: to nave faith in a power to
cure all our ills: eat natural food ana
live natural lives-if we could do all
these things we might live to reach the
two century mark. But eighty mil
lion funerals must first be held TO bury
the eighty million people now IN the
United States and four hundred MIL
lion graves must be dug to bury the
four hundred million people OF Great
Britain. and one billion n seven hum
dred million people now inhabiting the
world must be planted beneath the sod.
and the millions and the billions OF
people composing the next and the
next several generations must add
their layers of bones to the compost
tion Of earth's soil before custom and
human inclination will ever permit OF
such things as these, and so until that
distant time We might as well be con-
tent with what we have, "a short life
! and a merry one"