Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-11-08
BOSTON'S NEW CULT,
The FletCherites, Who Advocate
Reducing Daily Rations.
PLAN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN.

Aim to Kill Food Trusts and Save
Race From Rising Prices-Guarantes
Fasting to Cure Everything, Inelud-
ing Race Suicide.
New cults spring up like mushrooms
In Boston and generally live and die
there. but the very newest OF them all
the followers of which are fiippantly
called the MIN SLnewers." are ambi
tiously planning To extend their mis-.
sionary efforts TO ten other big cities
and thereby quickly make their move
ment national. says Boston special to
the Philadelphia Record. These are
the laudable results which the MILK
Chewers' aim and expect TO bring
about:
First.-Death to all food trusts.
Second Reduction OF living ex.
penses to half present amount.
Third .-Anuihilatiou OF doctors.
FOurth.-Aboition of race suicide.
The MIX Chewers" are not lot OF
old women faddists or dilettante scien.
ilHAHs 4 ht NhhA Ati dit SNdiu
and highly respectable Bostonians.
MIX Chewers" is the name given to
the new cult by facetious unbelievers.
Correctly speaking, its members are
Fletcherites. followers of the philoso-
ply of the great masticator Horace
Fletcher, who says that each mouth.
full of milk should be chewed or insali-
waited as completely as If ii were solid
food
By public speaking and the dlstribu.
tion of literature the Fletcherites will
strive TO teach people that they could
subsist If they would only try it on a
mere fraction Of the food they now
buy. Something must be done. they
say, in view of the tremendous in.
crease in the cost of foods. What
would be better than the cutting down
of the daily rations?
'lf you have been eating two eggs
for breakfast" say the Fletcherites,
begin by eating only one. drink only
one cup of coffee. use only one lump
of sugar-one Of everything where you
have hitherto used two or more.
whats the use" they say, "of
throwing into your system twice as
much fuel as is really needed, especial
ly as food. like all fuel. has its proper
tionate amount of ashes to be disposed
of? Its simply wasting energy and
money"
When a sufficient number OF follow
ers are secured and everything is fully
organized for the grand coup word
will 20 forth to the faithful to fast,
perhaps for week or ten days. and
simultaneously in ten cities all Milk
Chewers" will stop buying
with such boycott enforced" say
the enthusiastic. the most redoubtable
corner in provisions, fruits or vegeta-
bles would be conquered and. In spite
of cold stOrages, brought to terms"
Much stress is laid on the curative
value of fasting as well as upon its
commercial value. No less an author
ity than DR., Robertson Wallace says
he has known patient to fast for ten
days to his great benefit. The aver
age fast recommended by the MIX
Chewers" for ordinary ills. however.
is but three days.
During his fast the patient may take
as much water as he pleases and a
moderate amount Of exercise-say, a
three or four mile walk each morning
The return TO eating is effected
through the milk diet, each mouthful
being carefully chewed. Between each
pint of milk the juice of lemon may
be slipped to prevent biliousness. The
milk diet is usually kept up from two