The San Francisco call., 1909-08-18
DUBS AMERICANS A
MOLLYCODDLE RACE.
Stomach Man Cooper Whacks
Modern Civilization and
Says Pace Kills
Digestive System of People OF
Today Is Degenerating,
He Claims

Are Americans becoming a race of
mollycoddles? l.. T. Cooper. the
stomach man" who appeared quietly
in San Francisco several weeks ago.
drove some hard jolts against modern
day methods of living yesterday. Coop
er said:
When Theodore, Roosevelt launched
the term .moliycoddIe, it was so pat
that it stuck. Why? Because every
body knows the habby, limp, droopy
individual who doesn't appear TO have
enough gumption in him TO walk up
stairs. Half a century ago that
wouldn't have been true. 1t is modern
civilization, the fact that the Injuries
of yesterday have become the .necessf-
ties of today, that is making us a ma
tion OF mollycoddles.
II claim that 80 per cent of all i'll
health is due to stomach trouble. 1t
is the curse of the twentieth century
Practically all of the chronic i'll health
of this generation is due to abnormal
stomachic conditions. Therefore. 1 be-
lieve the human stomach of present
highly civilized races has become de-
generate.
I'm earlier days, when the human
race was closer to nature and men and
women worked all day out of doors.
digging frugal existence from the
soil, the tired half sick people that
are now so common did not exist. To
be sure, there was sickness. but it was
of a virulent character and only tenn
porary. There was none of this half
sick-all- the-t time condition with which
so many are afflicted
"In the horse. the COW, the dog (when
- a1< cd int n M ri or
pet), and the wild animals, you see
no chronic debility, no nerve exhaus
ton. 1t is because their stemachs are
in sound condition. They are not shut
up all day with little exercise. and
they do not stuff themselves with food
when their body has not had enough
work to justify it. The civilized races
have been doing this for years, the
human stomach has gradually become
weaker, and look at the result-most
of the people are half sick. We are
becoming a nation of mollycoddles.
Cooper's novel theories about the
stomach being responsible for most of
the ills of humanity has aroused wide
spread comment in San Francisco. He
has been meeting the people daily at
the Owl drug store in the Phelan
building. Cooper has been in the city
long enough now for his claims to
have been proved trie or untrue ana
he seems to be making good. State
ments obtained from Cooper's callers
Monday were very emphatic. One of
these was made by Mrs. Florence Rus
sell Jones. who lives I'm Glen avenue,
San Francisco. She said:
According to my experience this
man Cooper is justified in his claims
that his medicine will actually put
the stomach in good condition 1 have
had chronic stomach trouble for years
and have been a chronic dyspeptic
caused, physicians said, by catarrhal
trouble.
Il have not taken the slightest en-
ioyment in living ] have been so de-
pressed by my condition. Neither ply
sicians nor medicine helped me, and
it was only by the most careful diet
that l was able to retain any food
whatever In the most skepticaI frame
of mind possible / called to see Mr..
Cooper two weeks ago. l had very
little hope his medicines would help
me, as l had given up hope several
years ago. I obtained some of the
medicine and began ,ts use. Today I
am apparently as we'll as ever. / OBJ
tanned relief so rapidly that it is posi-
lively wonderful. l am in good spirits.
eat heartily, sleep well and am better
in every way. am convinced that
the success this man is having in San
Francisco is richly deserved" X