The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10

boiled every drop % water I drank.
InSy we're always sick. I was always
N the best OF health.
Then AZ one time, In lsas. when I was
on the edge OF the Mohave desert. with
tNo msa. without water and.a boiling .un
oyer Va. nv two comrades gave out
They had eaten meat and il caused them
70 ne tevertsh. ! had eaten only dried
trWt ana was not Affected a. they Once.
just after l went out from Nebraska and
waS on my way to BullfroG and Death
eAhcy, spent three weeks climbing
mountains. With me was a strong man
,hlrty Year, younger than myself. yet
couiu get along Tar more easily than he
eat very little cooked food rice benz
tne main article that I eat when cooked
Az noon ! usually make a meal Of rice
Aho outtermilk. ] usually Sat two meals
Gay. ~ night | frequently have ba .
nanAs. oranges and nuts Sometimes !
eat baked potatoes, spinach or squash,
Dut l never eat Vegetables and fruit az
the same meal. eat very few cerealz,
no bread and no butter. though do eat
rlpe olives. The great trouble with vsgs-
taking fruit and vegetables at the same
meal which caus-e fermentation. Then
they eat mushes of all kinds
AZ course Of experimenting in food
values made for the Government by Prof,
JANA at the University OG California
hygiene. 70 be a subject. and for seven
months ] lived on fruit and nuts only.
Nuts are great article Of diet. ! live
largely on them and sweet fruit. Five
mute are enough fos = Eood meal. Bat
] am a martyr To tobacco. and IN this
way that y the one thing that annoys
me constantly. ] use no sp,ces and no
Condiments Of any kind, and do not Use
salt.
To go back to New York in the old
days. IL was like a village compared with
now. went down to the old Aston House
10. and ! remember Trinity Church. hut
they were all the buildings | saw that
seemed familiar. Do you know they
used to have ombibIlsea on Broadway IN
that day. and people sand that street
cars would never be run ON IL. There
wasn't a single business house On Fifth
avenue so far a. can recolieCt. Printing
House Square vas then the liveliest place
in town. | remember the ~ DRY that used
TO be told about an old lady and gentle
man from the country who stood on the
corner waiting for the crowd to go by.
felt Just like them the other day.
Eighth street Was about the Invest
after DARK except the Rowerv. | remem-
Der straying oft one night alone and get
ting into a place ~ entertainment |
was told 20 go Up stairs, but the people
up thsre were such tough looking lot
NAV was tftkutt7tlfu. NfleFt NFHe Ie-AlN
oG legsrdemain and ! got out quickly
When ! got down to the ground floor
man was there who pointed down stairs
20 I went down to the basement There
a skeleton was being raised up and down.
whist news II there in hellp' man
asked the skeleton.
We've inst received newcomer,
was the reply.
And who ~ that
Boss Tweed
1t seemed 20 me that every other man
in the assemblaRe had HE eyes bunGed mp
or an eag chswed oh. Water street was
another place wher~ IL WAS unsafe. !
had a friend who used TO live ont ON Long
Island. and one day he started home with
a load az goods on a wagon. including a
box OF tea. Some rough in the street
threw q hook which caught in the box 81
tea and yanked 1t oil intD the street. My
.riend whipped up his horse.
why didn't yo': stop and try To recover
your teaS' asked him afterward
Because 7 was 30 glad To ne able TO
get away with the rest Of what I had that
vas quite willing to let the tea GO. he
replied That was how things were IN
New York IN those times