The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-02
Scientific Writer Says There Are
No Good or Bad Thoughts.
They Are Well or III Dieested Parti-
Giles Of Oxygen or Sustenance-Pu-
rltans kil'-Joy Attitude Bill
Gus Rather Than Pious.

London,--Startlin is the theory pro-
pounded by a learned scientist that
food, the manner of its digestion and
assimilation, accounts for all the ac-
tons of mankind. In the London Mir
ror it is explained by Charles II. Hey
deman. Phi. d. as follows:
The brain is the stomach of the
soul. There are no such things as
good or bad thoughts. They are well
or only badly digested particles of
oxygen, water or food.
The mind, to put 1t simply, is moth
ing else but a chemical laboratory, in
which, similarly to the electric cell
process, various chemical products,
from the air we breathe the liquids
we absorb and the food we eat are
split up and transformed into heat and
motion or stored for future use.
Atoms as they circulate through the
brain in continual Kaleidoscope
changes combine with others, setting
free certain amount of energy, some
of which Is manifested in thoughts.
The real stomach as such, is only the
ante-chamber to the brain; II serves
as the general distributor of the nutri-
ment which comes down to it. So
much into the blood, so much to form
bone and muscle, fat and fiber, and the
tit-bits into the upper story.
Our food, thus, not only governs
our digestive organs, but our thoughts,
a1.,
whole lives. 1t makes us the men we
are.
The kill-joy Puritan attitude which
objected to 'bear-baiting," not be-
cause 1t gave pain to the bear, but
because 1t gave pleasure to the null
titude, arose through the defective
working Of the hillary duct of these
gentlemen.
They thought they were pious,
when they were only bilious.
Carlyle's fierce invectives against
the world-"mostly fools"-and his pc.
riodical eruptions into difform chunks
Of undigested English were the result
of his chronic dyspepsia.
The man whose countenance
Shakespeare talks about as being
"sicklied DER by the pale cast OF
thought" had probably been eating
pork for supper. The conscience
which makes towards of us all comes
from disordered liver.
The tree is known by its fruit
Kean, the actor, always suited his
diet to his part. When he had to play
the lover he ate mutton; for murder
ers he took beef, very underdone;
and pork for tyrants.
Fusell, the painter, would eat meat
raw when he wanted to raise his i'm
agination to the horrible, and Mrs
Radcliffe did the same when she
thrilled the world with her "Myster
les of Udolpho.'
Siddons, the husband of the immor
tai Sarah, always declared that his
wife never wept so heart rendingly
as when she had paitaKen copiously
of small beer.
Sydney Smith points out the impor
lance of diet to man. Half the un
happiness of man." he says, "arises
from little stoppings, from a duct
choked up, from food pressing in the
wrong place, from vexed duodenum
or an agitated pylorus."
A man sups late. The next morn
ing he wants to sell his house in
town and retire into the country. He
has vague forebodings about a fire
He is troubled about his daughters
health, and thinks she is in decline
He finds he is spending too much
money, and has serious doubts as tc
his investments.