Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-01
AMERICANS MOLLYCODDLES2
Stomach Man" Says Pace Of Life
Today is Gait that Kills.
MODERN CIVILIZATION
Eastern Peptic Expert Declares Di-
geHtive systems of People of
Present Age Are DeEener-
atinE by Abuse.

Are Americans becoming a race Of molly
coddles?
The Cooper stomach man." the eastern
expert, drove some hard jolts against mod
ern day methods Of living today. Cooper
is the man who has been the subject Of
newspaper comment from New York to
San Francisco. as a result OF an original
way OF expressing his theories. He has
Travelled from city to city, meeting thou
sands Of persons in a study Of peptic ills.
He is said to be a millionaire several times
over. The stomach man continued:
when Theodore Roosevelt launched the
term 'mollycoddle' it was so pat that 1t
stuck. Why? Because everybody knows
the flabby, limp, droopy individual who
doesn't appear to have enough gumption in
him to walk upstairs. Half a century ago
that wouldn't have been true. 1t is modern
civilization, the fact that the luxuries Of
yesterday nave become the necessities of
today, that is making us a nation of molly
coddles.
1T is my theory that 80 per cent Of all
i'll health is due to stomach trouble. 1t is
the curse Of the twentieth century. Prac-
tically all Of the chronic M health of this
generation is due to abnormal stomachic
conditions. Therefore, l believe the human
stomach of present highly civilized races
has become degenerate.
I'm earlier days, when the human race
was closer to nature and men and women
worked all day out of doors digging a
frugal existence from the soil, the tired,
half-sick people that are now so common
did not exist. To be sure, there was sick
ness, but it was OF a virulent character and
only temporary. There was none Of this
half sick al condition with
which so many are afflicted.
I'm the horse, the COW, the dog (when
let alone ana no turned into a parior peD,
and the wild animals, you see no chronic
debility. no nerve exhaustion. 1t Is because
their stomachs are in good condition. They
are not shut up all day with little exercise,
and they do not stuff themselves with feed
when their body has not had enough work
to Justify 1t. The civilized races nave been
doing this for years, the human stomach
has gradually become weakened, and look
at the result-most of the people are half
sick. We are becoming a nation of molly
coddles. -
There is a way to restore a rundown,
WORKOUT body to it's normal. condition of
health and strength. 1 believe 1 know that
way. 1 have made a study OF stomach
trouble for many years and have intro
duced preparations, which have had re-
markable success in proving my theories,
in all of the great cities of America. Tone
up the stomach That is the secret. Get
the digestive organs to doing their full duty
and we can bid goodbye to that tagging,
dropping clutch Of disease that marks the
victim of stomach ills.
while l am in Omaha 1 shall take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to meet the
people Of this city to explain my theories
and medicines face to face. Beginning
Monday either myself or my assistants will
be at the drug department of the Brandeis
stores to meet all who call. Before 1 leave
Omaha 1 will prove my ideas to be correct
by thousands of persons who will testify
that they have tried my ideas and found
them true. l know this, for 1t has been my
experience in every other city in which
have appeared"