Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-20


asking a foolish question as in that OF
a scholar seeking the solution of a pro-
found problem dressing by the thermome-
ter absolutely. and not by the senses.
and therefore not wearing zero weather
shirt in a0-degree room in winter. Prof
Mason added that he varies his outside
garments rather than his Undertaking.
to differences in temperature. and thus
keeps always at hand what he calls his
seventy coat eighty coat" and ninety
coat"
Wiley Eats Meat Once a Day.
Dr. II. w. Wiley. father of the pure
food law. eats meat but once a day in
warm weather and eschews tobacco. He
has no other hobby beyond keeping eter-
nally happy. I'VE will yet see professor
ships of amusement in our colleges and
universities he told me. The recrea-
tions o. men are of quite as much in-
pcrtance as their vocationS. II is quite
as important to know how to amuse ones
self as to have the leisure and oppor-
tunity to do So.
The President is another non-smoker.
He is also said to observe diet for the
reduction of his weight and to have con-
suited the government dietary specialists
concerning il, but they are non-committal
to this. Among big men. who like Mr..
WI, are teetotalers are W. j. Bryan,
Vice President Fairbanks, Senator Bailey,
Gen. o. 0. Howard and David b. Hill.
And on the list of those who. like Edison.
have given UP drugs for the cure OF dis
ease are Senator Clapp. DR.. ]. W. Fewkes.
the noted archaeologist: Charles Klein.
the playwright. author Of THE Music
Master: Richard Carrie. the comedian:
Robert c. Clowry. president of the West
ern Upion Telegraph Company. and Rich
ard F. Outcault. comic artist. the creator
of Buster Brown and Howard Chandler
Christy the artist, all of whom are Chris
tian Scientists.
Horace Fletcher. founder of Fletcher
ism and '.Menticulture" also author and
lecturer. is. like Senator Depew and Edi-
son. disciple of Cornaro. He found him.
self a physical wreck at ten years before
the age when the Venetian centenarian
changed his mode of living. and at this
period had three chronic diseases. no life
insurance company being willing to ac-
cept him a risk. BY eating and drink
ing less than the ordinary person would
consider a bare sutficiency of life. Mr.
Fletcher SAYS. he had so built himself up
inside of five years that he was able to
cycle 200 miles in a day. at the same time
astounding the head of the Yale gym
ndsium by taking with ease the severe
course OF exercise prescribed for the var
sity crew. Chew your food-not only
your solid food but milk. tea. coffee.
wine. soup, anything that has taste"-is
one of Mr.. Fletchers maXims.
Prof. r. II. Chittenden, director OF the
Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. claims
to have proven upon himself. and later
upon thirteen soldiers and eight athletes,
all doing active work. that the body suS-
tains its weight and increases its vitality
upon one-third the proted food generally
considered as necessary for the healthy
man-and by proteid food is meant the
principal constituent of meat. milk and
eggs-that which supplies nitrogen to the
body. On this diet he says he and his
subjects showed increased strength and
improved responsiveness of mind, while
almost every man stored nitrogen rather
than lost il.
The so-called cravings of appetite are
purely the result of habit ne says. "A
habit once acquired and persistently fol-
lowed soon has us in its grasp. and then
any deviation therefrom disturbs our
physiological equilibrium. Any one with
a little persistence can change his habits
of life change the whole order of crav-
ings thus demonstrating that the latter
are purely artificial. and that they have
no necessary connection with the welfare
or needs of the body.
But the very latest foodism which We
have imported is Metchnikoffism. The
founder. Prof Ellie Metchnikof of tho
Pasteur Institute. Paris. lives strictly in
curded milk every day. a regular diet.
in order to fill his intestinal canal with
bacteria which he believes to be the dead
ly enemies Of the microbes causing old
age This savant declares that the aver
age man should live 10 years. and he
as a further means of prolonging life.
Perhaps this latter operation may become
as fashionable among us that for the
removal of the vermiform appendix, but
as VT there has been no bulletin from
Prof Metchnikoff announcing that he has
had IL perfor med upon himself
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS