The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-08
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The Citadel OF Lite.

The stomach is the citadel of life. 1t /;
life's stronghold. But il the gate ways
are kept open, and il all sorts OF poisons
are admitted, then the citadel is surren
dered to the enemy. When the work OF
destruction is accomplished, death claims
it's victim. The first and most important
thing for each Of us to do is to select the
healthiest and the purest of the foods. We
should carefully avoid all those things in
which disease and death are most likely to
lurk.
The great mass Of our people treat their
stomachs as if they were the proper re-
cepticals for every conceivable thing,
whether filthy or wholesome, whether
poisonous or nutritious. And when poi
sonous foods have been taken into the
stomach we hasten off to physician or to
drug store for other poi3ons to expel the
first poison. We may poison ourselves by
improper eating, and by 6. disregard of the
health rules.
1t has been said that a man is either a
fool or a physician at forty. And it is we'll
known that the physician to whom we run
for prescriptions often knows very little,
except what we tell him, and then he
gueses at. a prescription, and you take
chances at getting well or going to your
grave.
A sufficiency Of good food is Of first i'm
portance, and the next important thing for
you to do is to eat in proper quantities,
chewing it well and swallowing it natur-
ally-not washing it down by any sort of
fluid.
We all know how filthy thing a hog is.
We all know, too, that lard is sometimes
made out Of that unclean animal which
may be diseased, and we all know that
hog lard is sometimes sold to innocent
buyers who are looking for neither poison
nor unwholesome food. There is no law to
protect US from the danger Of buying and
using hog lard.
We all know that clean and healthful
food cannot be made out Of nastiness. But
our people were long time in finding out
that the whitest lard may not be good
food, they were long in overcoming their
prejudice against the purest and the
healthiest lard on earth-the lard that is
made of cotton seed oil. That variety OF
wesson cooking oil, and salad oil, is now
known far and wide as superior in value
and purity to every other form OF lard.
The manufacturers guarantee that it is
not contaminated by the least particle OF
hog lard. 1t is cheaper and healthier than
nasty hog lard and is us pure as the olive
oil, and is sold at the Abbeville Oil Mill at
prices far below the prices charged for the
inferior prades of fats that are to be found
everywhere. The Wesson cooking oil is sold
by the Abbeville Oil Mill at 10 cts while the
hog. product is selling at 16 cents. And
if anybody wants olive oil, he can buy the
best salad oil at the Oil Mill at less than
half the cost of the inferior olive oil.
Fifty years ago the people Of Abbeville
county threw away in their cotton seed a
greater wealth than can now be in the
richest OF gold mines. The rotting seed of
fifty years ago, to which so much sickness
was then charged is now found to be the
cleanest. the healthiest and cheapest food
that grows out Of the ground. There
never was and never will be eleanor or a
healthier or cheaper food than the pro-
ducts Of the cotton seed. The cotton seed
that wouln make, kill or sick a COW
now makes the most delicate and the
healthiest food for men, women and in
fants The value Of the cotton seed is just
now being appreciated, and the demand
for Wesson cooking oil alone is so great
that much Of the best of the seed is con-
verted into that which is indispensable In
cooking food for the strong and in pre-
pairing punishment for the most delicate
child.