The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-04-22
HOW THE INVALID
MAY GET WELL
The Panacea, Says Ella Wheel.
er Wilcox, Is Milk-and
Milk Alone.
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Way down in wethersfeld, Tex,
lives Captain Horace Baker, land agent,
surveyor, a~bstractor. Sixty-six years
of age and In robust health. An old
soldier, he's virile and strong as a COLI
lege athlete, Here Is what he says
about health:
Il am a living proof that II any i'm
valid will, they may exist on simply
cows milk, absolutely alone. and on
this simple, pure, wholesome, natural
diet regain health and strength.
TEL the first dear friend you meet
who is an invalid. given up by h doc
tors, to simply drink all the warm,
fresh, pure cows milk he or she can
hold, in the morning on an empty
stomach.
"And that will be all he or she with
want for breakfast.
Then drink all he or h can, when
ever he or she takes a notion. The
more the better.
But don't drink 1t after the cream
has risen long, or IL no fresh milk is to
be had blow the cream back.
Ito take this healing by suggestion
one should have a COW Of ones own,
and a COW that is a COW. And attend
to her oneself, right"
Not every ailing man and woman
has a COW or the means to procure one.
Even possessing a COW and taking care
OF her, would cure many an Invalid,
But the value of milk as a diet-for al
most all invalids are strengthened by
such testimony as this.
Many times In this column reference
has been made to an athletic and hand
some man in Connecticut, who from
hopeless invalidism and despair was
restored to perfect health by giving VI
all solid food and all medicine and Nv
ing on three quarts of milk a day-each
| quart taken In place Of the meal, and
slowly slipped. Another pint Just be-
fore retiring was sometimes added.
The writer knows this man person
ally. and knows that he a lived for
over seven years on milk alone, and
that he Is a model of manly vigor and
strength, and is surprisingly youthful
in He owns no coW-and
buys his milk at the dairy.
At DR.. Reinle's milk sanitarium mir
acles OF healing and restoration occur
every month by the substitution Of
milk for solid food.
7 believe this institution hoes more
rood for less money than all the other
sanitariums in the land combined.
1t seems pitiful to look about In
[ ones circle OF acquaintance In this
beautiful and glorious world, and tc
see how few enjoy the health and vi,
tally which is every mortaPs rtghtfu
dover. W
And II seems incredible that so few
make any sensible effort to regain
health. when the simple and inexpen-
rive methods lie within the reach NJ
all. a,
A mere letting go of cooked foods
for a few months, and living on un-
cooked products and milk, with simple
physical exercises and deep breathing
systematically observed, would decrease
the death rate one-half, and the list o.
lnvalids ree-fourths. And this witt
no Intervention OF middle men-doctori
Or druggists.
Yet, because health is so easily OBJ.
tanned at such small expense, peopl'
remain Ill.
Human beings like to do difficult and
expensive things in their search 10
health and happiness.
Three -fourths of the invalids on eartf
today are victims of mingled ingredt'
ents of ignorance, self -indulgence, laZi'
ness and s~tubbornness.
If they let go of all these, and o
their medicines, doctors and cooked
foods. and lived for a few months OF
milk alone, they would be restored Il
health and Vigor.
But IT Is too simple and calls for tot
much self control-the control OF hab
it's of appetite. or uch as these Chris
said: Let the dead bury their dead.
But me that has ears to hear, let hin
haarD and he well. ..n