The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-11
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SENSE.

How 10 Keep Fit: an Unconventiona
Manual. by A. r. Schoneld. NJ. D.. NJ
r. c. S. Published by Moffat. Yard ant
Company. New York.
The author of this work says that II
is unconventional. and so it is, most
decidedly. He first warns his readers
of the danger OF health manuals, show
ing that there is no such thing MS pre-
pairing general manual that will fit
the case Of everybody His idea is that
the best thing to do is to keep chary
Of set restrictions and to allow the in
dividual needs, tastes, and makeup to
have the place of first importance, lie
gives rs his 6rst health maxim, ''lt is
better to run any nnhygienic risks than
10 become absorbed with hygiene. -
The second health maxim is, a I'm
henlthy organs arc of less Importance
than an unhealthy mind, This he en-
forces strongly and constantly. He next
urges all to avoid introspection and
self-analysis. The best thing to do is
To forget all about the body and go
right along without paying much at
tention to il. He has in chapter II of
the book q very sound but rather he
terodox plea for the value of indigesti-
bile food. He has Just been saying
that ''it is the Individual experience
in Harley street that can alone de.
eide. and then continues;
But ! may go much further than this
and proceed TO sing the praises OF ind-
geslible foods. Just as in life it Is an
indubitabIe fact that our enemies give
our friends. our adversities rather than
our properties, tho storms rather than
The calms, so it is with the little world
within US.
Make all easy for the stomach by nam
oering to 1t and pampering it with pep
tonized or easily digested foods. with
uric-acfd-free diets, with milk and beef
tea, the organs soon get weak and nabby
and unable to cope with anything reouir-
ing effort. But supply II when young. as
IS the delightful habit OF youth with
tough beefsteaks. with hard cheese. with
enormous meat teas. with under cooked
rice puddfngs and half-boiled potatoes or
porHdse, and the fierce internal strug-
gle that ensues makes the youth into the
man, the weakling strong. and enables
the internal organs TO cope with any
tning. PHYSICAL strength of character
alike with moral. Is formed by overcom-
Ing obstacles. not by avoiding them. We
not for indisestible food or course, il
In youth this Is not done, 1t may be too
late In maturity, for there comes a time
Wnen the weak man or woman can no
this book, but is obliged perforce to |
make peace inside by avoiding the more
outrageous articles of diet
There is no doubt in the world Of the
practical value and soundness OF that |
advice. 1t stands absolutely to rea.
son. The organ that is neglected be-
comes weak, even atrophicd The best
thing for the stomach as for ether or.
gans, and for the muscles and bones
as well. is to set it good stiff tasks,
and make it perform them.
we have then chapter on the evils
of fixed diets, another on common sense
temperance, another on cleanliness, on
exercise, ON good habits, on keeping
warm, on limiting the eating. AS to !
dealing with doctors, the maxim is
have no unnecessary but all necessary
dealings with doctors The work is
certainly most commendable one. 1t
IS quite different from the usual work
of the kind, and all the better for Thar