Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-06
EAT PINS, HOOKS AND NAILS


 EAT PINS, HOOKS AND NAILS
 Dr. c. F.. Kahike, of Chica 70, tells of the case of g 16-year- old girl of Berlin who suffered from, mysserious" stomach trouble. An operation was de- cided upon, and tho surgeons found and removed the following miscellaneous col lection of foreign sabstances:" LISA nails, 70 bits of wire, 1g2 small hooks, six nail heads, 128 bent pins, focr pieces of glass, 27 straight pins.
 The operation was entirely successful and the girl is now alive and well.
 Do you ever stop to think what a patient organ your stomach is? It stands lot of abuse before it kicks back. Of course it kicks hard, but it is marvelously slow to anger.
 The American taste has not quite descended to nal, pin or glass diet, but 1t is low. The vital statistics of the cities paint awful pictures of suffering and death from improper feeding. It is the great national Wee. We are be- coming race of guzziing gluttons.
 Stop and think of the stuff you pile into your poor stomach daily! Think of the horrible combination of sweet and sour, of acid and grease, of spice and paste and what not! Think of what a repulsive mass it would be if you saw it chewed up and rottiEg in gar bage can! Then think of your poor stomach that took that disgusting weight and wozked night and day over it w:.:. w::t.s:c:.. d whimper! Are you fair to yoar stomach? If not, have a care, for the worm will turn.
 There are aH sort of dietary theories and theories. They come and go, and it is well that they DO go. Today it's the raw food crank. yesterday it was the vegetarian.
 Fletcher says: "Eat little and often" Another says eat only those vegetables that grow In the sunlight.
 One theorist would have us live on milk. Still another ingenious heavy thought artist would mix little red sand with the baked spud or salt the chop with the same.
 There's much nonsense of this sort going about. It's the babbling of quacks, cranks, fanatics or worse.
 An eminent physician tells us that there are three dietary factors: (1) proper mental conditions under which food is eaten; @ condition of the di- gestive organs, and (3) the quality and quantity of food eaten.
 All right! Then, to meet the first factor, we shall eat quietly, slowly and masticate the food. We will not eat our food to the time of ''Hot Time in the Old Town" by the orchestra, nor will we jam it down our throats with out looking up or speaking to our table companions.
 It is scientific fact that food eaten when you are excited, hurried, angry or anxious will not nourish the body, no matter how good the food may be-
 Food taken into stomach that is irritable, catarrhal or inflamed will not digest. So it is important to keep your stomach well.
 What food shall We eat?
 The answer is easy. Eat simple foods that agree with you. Eat weu-cooked foods. Eat sparingly good meats, plen- ty of vegetables, little fruit daily, and drink milk. And bread-good, old fashioned bread-never fresh from the oven, but dry and sweet to the tongue.
 Thousands of people eat three times each day, out of form, when two meals would suffice. To many, thres meals are necessary and proper.
 How would it be to experiment with foods for few days and see how you feel? Cut out the horrible combina- tions, reduce the volume of spice and greast, get down to plain and simple food and eat slowly. Don't eat so many pins, and nails, and hooks, or so much glass. And your poor old stomach will say "Thanks!"