The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-11

Mr. gTpfon Sinclair, who started tiio
a,otino-house investigation with MS
sensational novel. The Jungle" has
now discovered that The cure 1or 81
human ills lies not only IN eSche"-
ing meat, but in eating nothlh5 puI
raw food. Here is his account OF
this practice and its results, from
Physical Culture, which he prelaces
nv saving that he had been an IN
valid for wears when he adopted It:
~ have learned that it does not
matter in the least in what part Oh
the world one is: whether IN ~
mountains or at the sea snore' III
CANADA or in FLORIDA. 1t does not
matter whether the air one brea1heS
be hot air or cold air, might ar or
"day air" damp or dry-proNldeu
onlv that it be fresh air. and not AR
thar some other person has already
breathed. | have learned also thdl
it is not necessary to take-Eery Huch
or very elaborate exercise 1 gave
two years OF my time To DONG inter-
ally nothing but trying to get Well'
and curing that time l made II my
duty to exercise nearly all day III
the open alr-ridine horse BACK
walking. swimming, playing Genius
canoeing-and | was never IN worse
health in my life than at the end o.
the two years. Now half an hour a
day Of real scientific exercise suflces
me-with a walk now and then. when
I happen to have some place to go.
And it is Just the same with sleep
ing. Now six or seven hours sutlces
for everything: and in the old days,
when I was told that l needed a
''rest," l would sleep ten or even
twelve hours. And it is just the same
-. -I&t 70 yrnrE
mean. For two years l did almost
nothing--I didn't dare. Now l read
and write and study twelve hours a
day. fer as long a time as l feel like;
and it never does me the sllghtest
harm. The over work business Is
mostly all delusion: it is not over
work at ali, but owe eating. 1t Is
not lack of rest, nor lack of exercise;
it is over eating. 1t is nOt a debill-
Eating climate, nor a damp and raw
climate: it is everywhere and always
some form of the fatal consequences
of eating unnatural foods; Of eating
foods that have been cooked and de-
yitalized: foods that have been refined
and deprived of their wastes. SO that
they stick in the intestines and clog
the system; foods that have been
softened and made into mush, SO that
they slip down without chewing. and
without giving one a chance to salts
1y his hunger; foods that have been
concentrated and ~concocted and COM
bined until all the chemists in the
country would be needed to tell q
man how much of them he really
ought to eat.
Il used to give way to the claims
OF hospitality when l went to PEG
pies homes. l could not bear to make
them uncomfortable, and to set my
self apart from everybody else. AnC
so WAS u,a1t 60 LONG az Gta we'd by
myself, and sick whenever l wen
where other human beings were. Las
winter, for instance, / spent SeVera
months in a solitary place in Cali
fornia. working hard. and enjoying
magnificent health; and then 1 wen
up to San Francisco to stage a play
and I accepted some invitations t
lecture at the universities, and tn
boys got me up delightful suppers Q
fruit salads and peanut butter sand
witches and ice-cream and cake, an
other wholesome and nutritious yege
tartan concoctions. So in a fey
weeks [ was having headaches again
and then q cold. and finally woun
up on the Gulf of Mexico with
"sunstroke."
II youth I had the misfortune t
be fed on many misunderstanding In
Eentions. ! lived in the South, Wher
people are very proud of their cook
ing; [ haze said that l was brough
up on q Diet of fried chicken and he
biscuits and chocolate cake. And S
IN cur home we had to have Il SCI
a when we were in the countr
we had to have two, because on
found it too lonely. l have no NOR
vivid memories in my life than {
these "SerVants"-strange and pei
picking ~personages, who came frol
n South Of Ireland and the Mort
Of Sweden and the middle of Hu1
gary and Japan. The Hungarian or
ate raw sausage and bacon, and til
Irish one dropped dead of %apoplex,
from South Carolina went crazy an