The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-31
PERFECT HEALTH IS
MENTAL AND DENTAL
FIetcher Says Eat What You
: Want When You Want II. II
Only Once Week.

"One hundred and twenty years is
the natural term of life"
Health, perfect health, is mem
tai and dental question
The dentist stands at the gateway
of preventive medicine.
"AH discussion of health and eff
iciency bark back to chewing. There
is no other place for them to lead to.
Don't count the chews or do any
thing to make eating bore. Any
thing that detracts from the natural
enjoyment is injurious"
Don't eat by schedule or when
worried, especially when angry"
"Fletcherism is opposed to excess
in any form, even in chewing.
Eat when you ieel like it, and eat
what you want.
Fasting is natures universal rem
edy. l knew a man who had been
thrown on the scrap heap and could
hardly be pulled away. He tasted for
thirty-seven days and got rid of
Bright's disease and other maladies
and even lost wart.
Eating may be religious function
or the sacrilegious abuse of sacred re-
sponsibilities.
These are some of the pointing fin
gers on the road to Wellyille which
Horace Fletcher, at the Berkeley The
atre, held up to the League for Polft-
ical Education in his discussion of
Health and Efficiency"
Mr. Fletcher had been preceded by
DR.. William Gilbert Anderson, dlrec-
tor of Yale University gymnasium,
VINO made the experiments on Fletch-
er and his son-in-law, DR.. Van Sam
eren, when it was discovered that the
man who at forty-five had been given
up by the doctors, at fifty-five could
beat the best athletes.
Fletcher will tell you to chew
your food and Wiley will counsel you
to swallow it whole, as dog does, !"
said DR.. Anderson, but the only
referee is the body"
81 used to go to sleep" said Fetch
err, $50 hopeless that | wished / might
u6N0I WdhS up i w CI0 0OOCAA SA II
suicide only through the fear that I
might miss something pleasant on
this side of the Styx. The story of
my recuperation is the story of many
famous men and women. One you
already know Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. A celebrated physician and a
prominent politician are also in the
list"
The founder of Fletcherism recon-
mended that child should be trained
in the way it should chew from the
first moment that it demonstrated a
desire for food.
Some nervous people," he said,
"suffer by their great effort TO do the
right thing in chewing. This is in
direct opposition to Fletcherism.
Eating should have no element of
tediousness. When do eat? At the
Waldorf 1 eat anywhere between IL
a. m. and 6 p. m. Ordinarily take
bottle of milk, small pitcher of
cream, some bread and butter and
potato. I have gradually led away
from meat diet until 1 have acquired.
repulsion for it..
Fletcher said he was obliged to
chew less now than at first because
the digestive secretions had grown
more active. He likewise insisted
that the1 perfectly normal body re-
quired less sleep and that five hours
were ample for him under present
conditions. He never sleeps more
except when he is in Venice. at his
home and "indulging lazy habits.
The speaker placed no limit on the
necessary fast. He thought the body
itself the best suggester in this re-
gard. He spoke Of his advanced youth
and instanced man of 100 who from
10 a. m. until p. IN. had dictated a
story of 10000 words Of his scheme
Of living, which neither fatigued him
nor required revision. York
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