The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-01

New York, Oct. Eff people did
their eating according to right prin-
ciples. the increase ii. the price of food
need not be a serious matter
This is the declaration of HORACE
Fletcher. millionaire and food en-
thusiast. who sat yesterday in his
rooms AT the Waldorf Astoria.
| horace Fletcher is 30 years old. y
few weeks ago he Went to Yale and
broke .the records for physical enduF-
&nce. defeating all the husky youths
Who had tried their strength in the
college gymnasium. He says he was
able TO do it because he eats properly.
HIS eating philosophy is called iFlet-
chcrism.' 1t is a simple philosophy. 1t
consists in eating only when you are
hungry. in chewing II you eat untll
there is nothing left to chew. enjoying
the taste of every morsel. eating only
what tastes good and ceasing to eat
when the appetite is satisfied.
This sounds easy, but it is not. 10
ask the hustling New Yorker to pause
and enjoy everything he eats is to inn
pose a hardship. This average man, ac-
cording to MIR. Fletcher, swallows but
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cats vastly more n he needs, has less
enjoyment, has more sickness, is less
>strong and energetic as u worker-and
spends SO much more money than ne
need spend that a "hlgn price fuElof
brings him panic.
Il could start a boarding house." con-
tinuei Mr.. Fletcher, and. it every one
in it would practice what ! teach, their
food would not cost me more than 10
cents Il day-of course, exclusive of the
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mean / should have to pay the grocer,
the butcher and the baker not more
than IL cents a day for each one Of my
boarders. And, what is more, they
would be fed on the best in the land,
the most exquisite dainties in the mar
ket."
What would it cost an average me-
chanic, with Il family, TO live, on your
system?'' asked the writer.
"If he were TO spend 20 cents a day
for each member of his family was
the reply, The could live we'll, do his
any doctors Bills.
o what. for instance, would his
breakfast consist?"
"He would eat no breakfast. He
would go out TO work on AN empty
stomach and would work better there
for. His mornings labor would give
him an appetite and about noon he
would be hungry, ~legitirlately hungry,
and ready to eat the principal, ii not
tho only meal of the day"
Then you hold that it is unnatural
to be hungry on arising in the morn
ing"
AN appetite for breakfast is artiti-
cial. 1t is the result of years of habit.
A man could not rid himself OF this
habit all at once: but it would not take
MIN more than two weeks. The appe-
lite that is not caused by work of some
sort is am unnatural appetite. The
body has been lying dormant for many
hours when a man wakes up and 1t is
less in need of food at that time than
at any time of the day"
And of what would such a mechan-
les midday lunch consist?'
He could get all the best bread, but
.er, potatoes, cheese, milk, fruit or veg
stables that he wanted. Any of these
would be within his limit of 20 cents"
= suppose he wanted meat?"
!. He would be unlikely to want meat.
A man who lives as I live prefers the
simple, quickly disested foods and en-
Joys them more than any others. You
: see, my system is the height Of epicur-
. sanism. Every mouthful of food gives
! to the eater all the enjoyment that is in
, It. He chews it as long as it has any
! taste and enjoys it as long as it is in
his mouth. BY the time a man has fol
! he has found just what his system
, needs, and these are foods he Graves
for, these are the foods out of which
he derives the most enjoyment. Eating
is q genuine pleasure, for Wholesome
foods are a delight to the taste, and il
is perfectly true that the body of {
. healthy man raves for the aliment:
3 which most nourish 1t. Therefore thu
appetite is the safest guide. and What
: ever ones system Graves for Is the 1000
that he should eat.
Y Il eat no breakfast, and general,
I nv midday meal iS the only meal d
the day. But sometimes when GU
8 walking in the evening l pass a baker
u shop and suddenly crave a cake, a bis
: cult or a piece of butterscotch. II
9 know tina my body needs just tina
very thing. At other times l have
n longing for peanuts. sailed almonds o
~pisiacnio nuts Then l buy a few cents
: worth and cat them with relish. A,
9 apple, a banana or some other frui
9 cannot tell what constituent OF tina
t fruit or thai nut my body is needing
d perhaps 1t is ON mineral salt or som
q form of sugar, but l know l need Wha
d | crave, and, therefore. l take it.
: n is the principle upon which a
men should eat. If they were to d
/. 50 they would grow stronger as the
y grow older, instead of wearing out thei
bodies by overloadinS them with un
- needed foods and thus making the
1t digestive apparatus work far harde
d than is necessary. l. at 81, as 70
o, Know, broke all the endurance tests 6
d Yale. And 1t is only q few years as
l. that q life insurance company reoecte
u me as too poor = risk!
IS Look at thu Italian laborer, the ma
who performs the really nard manu-;
Ut labor on our streets and OH u built
rs lngs today, and see he eats. Me;
ss has q Very small place i'll his dietar.
l. lie goes out to work in the early morn
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