The Jasper news., 1908-12-24


now l was going to finish the job!
The outcome, however, fully justi-
fed the confidence with which the ex-
pertinent was undertaken. lost II
pounds in weight but continued my
usual work throughout the entire
period, and in fact did a greatly In
creased amount of mental labor, neces-
STATED by the increase in my CORE
spondence, interviews, etc., and on
the evening of the sixtieth day gave
an address in the G. A. r. hall Of
Aurora on diet and morality, speak
ing for three-quarters of an hour,
and followed that with Commute
talk to an audience at the Coliseum
on the relation of diet to strenuous
endurance.
OF course the peanut is not COM
plete diet and to keep in good condi-
tion tasted at intervals throughout
the 60 days total of about eight
days. Probably the extension of the
experiment to 120 days would not
have reduced my weight to the point
of physical collapse. My height is
5 feet liz inches and my weight
when / began was 165 pounds.
We live by what we eat; and the
character of our living depends upon
we eat it. you can make man good
or bad,' says Bishop Fallows, accord
ing to the way you feed him." THE
building of brain-cell and mind
stuff" says DR.. Alexander Haig, the
distinguished English authority on
diet, lies at the root Of all the
problems Of life."
The mind is the measure Of the
man; what man thinks he becomes
But the mind manifests through the
physical, and the character of the
physical determines the character Of
the mental as certainly as the mental
Influences the physical. The body
Is the expression of the mind, much
as building is the expression of the
thought of the architect who designed
it. And you can no more build a
sound, beautiful, enduring body with.
out good food than an architect can
build a beautiful temple without steel
and marble.
"a crook in the mind makes a crook
in the body" You cannot meet a
stranger without forming some i'm
preston of what he is. You uncon-
sciously recognize in physical form
and quality of body the character of
the man. and the trained physiog-
nomist, phrenologist and psychologist
will undertake to read your charac-
er, pretty accurately, from its bodily
Expression. Now that body is mate
-ial and the material is food. The
Eskimo Is built of blubber, the Scot
# oatmeal, the Japanese Of rice
Ind beans. But the Eskimo could not
become Scot by eating oatmeal and
barley meal for thousand years.
Food is only the material; the mind
$ the measure Of the man. The Scot
Who has given us so much theology,
metaphysics and science is the product,
primarily of the mental stimulation of
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood,
land of the mountain and the flood"
So when we say that you are what
you eat, we do not ignore the funda'
mental Importance of the mind. 1t
g still true that as a man thinketh
10 is he-and that as man eateth
80 he thinketh. We have heard so
much lately of the influence of the
mind upon the body, that 1t Is perhaps
time that the pendulum Of thought
should again swing to the other side,
the influence of the body upon the
mind, and in time we may arrive at
the happy medium where truth lies,
the knowledge of The inter-relation
the essential unity of, body and mind,
the menta-physica constitution.
Scientific authorities agree that
vitality is fxed quantity--that each
individual Is born with a certain store
of vital force, and that when the stock
Is exhausted he dies. Vitality Is ex-
pended in work, In restoring normal
conditions when sickness occurs, in
defense against disease, and in carry
ing on the normal functions of con-
verting food into blood, throwing off
waste and poisonous matter. There is
no means of estimating the extent of
I.,.x. l. a. 4.