The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-27
HEALTH TALK
BY DR.. DICK
Minneapolis Pastor Frankly
Tells People They Need
Not Be Sick.
Believes That Ignorance and
Self Indulgence Kill
Most of Us.

While the NJ. E. church mems club
has the reputation of always making
their meetings worth while in one
way or another, last Monday the men
were REINFORCED with partners mat
rimonial, present or prospective
and the ratio Of success was several
times increased. There was an ex-
ira touch or two put on the banquet
| for the sake of the fair sex who were
there taking notes. and after the big
company of a hundred and fifty or
less had signifed their approval of
the real dinner and its finishing
course of cake and sherbert, lovely
vocal music was discoursed by the
ladies' quartette the Misses Barnes
and Bessie Elliot and Mrs. Dubois
then welcoming speech by Frank
Hubbard and a witty response by
Mrs. j. B. Robinson put the COM
pany in smiling and receptive
mood for the main talk of the eve
ming by DR.. Dick of Wesley church.
Minneapolis.
The Gazette regrets thatsuch talks
as that given by DIR. Dick should not
be made free as air to the people of
Redwood Falls in general and we
hope that something Of that sort
may be brought about later. AS
the doctor forcibly maintained in
his opening sentences, good health is
about the most valuable asset that
any people can have and there can
be no such thing as too much of it.
Granting the doctors premise that
there are nearly four millions of in
valids in greater or less degree in
this American nation and that
moderate estimate of the value of
their labor and Of those who are
taking care of them would be two
millions of dollars annually. it needs
no argument to show that conserv-
ing the health of the people of this
country is an aim worthy of the
largest expenditure of thought, time
and talent, as we'll as money.
DR.. Dick insists that people do not
need to be sick, in the great MAORI
ty of cases, because in most cases
their sickness IS the result Of ignor-
ance, negligence or willful disregard
of the laws of health. The speaker
led good many of his auditors to
realize that ignorance of the things
which make for the best things in
mind, soul aid body has been we'll
nigh universal in comparatively
modern times, and that many who
pass for educated in general way
are hardly in the primary class when
it comes to knowing what and how
to eat, to say nothing Of what and
how to think.
For the doctor declared that al
most every person might have health
for the price Of ten minutes a day
given to toning up the machinery of
the body every morning and a rea-
sonable regard for the needs of the
machine as regards food. The gist
of the instruction in the matter Of
eating was, eat half as much and
take twice as much time in eating it,
with two meals only per day for
adults, especially those who follow
sedentary or indoor pursuits.
Doctor Dick gave details of his
work during the past three years
along health lines in Wesley church,
telling Of cures that would seem al
most marvellous if the doctor did not
maintain that all of them were eff
fected along strictly scientific and
natural lines, with no pretense made
of the miraculous.
Following the address, which was
listened to at times with almost
breathless attention. Chairman King
told the audience that the doctor
would be glad to answer any ques-