The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-09-21
.ONE IN TEN HEALTHY
Right Food and Careful Living
Avoiding Luxuries-Can Make
Health Come Back to
Many

II WAS something like three wears
ago that an ambitious bookkeeper
complained to the writer of his
inability to keep his eyes open the
moment he applied them to books of
an evening after work. Since bow
hood he had contributed TO the sup
port of family of seven, and now
at the age of twenty-four he desir-
ed to take up shorthand and to
carry correspondence course or
two. If by hook or by crook he did
manage to work until eleven or
twelve o'clock his mind would be
dull and heavy next day. At one
time he was so i'll advised as to try
drinking strong tea for supper. Tea
kept his eyes open alright. but
headaches began to manifest them
selves, and sleeplessness and other
symptoms of nervousness put in APP
pearance. The young man dropped
the tea, and the headaches and nerv-
BUSINESS disappeared almost i'm
mediately. but evening work was
still impossible. The writer sug-
oested to him that he discontinue
his suppers,. eating at most an apple
or other fresh fruit, or perhaps a
small bowl of cereal fakes with the
juice of stewed fruit. He adopted
the suggestion, adding to it one of his
own devising-that he be careful at
all meals to choose only the digest
ible foods-and before a year had
elapsed his knowledge of shorthand
had gained him a private secretary
ship to the president of his con-
Germ, and he is now a small stock
holder. He had capitalized his time.
An eminent political economist re-
Gently ventured the assertion that
not more than one person in ten
is healthy meaning by '..healthy"
not "just so so," but positively,
vitality, actively, radiantly so. The
other nine sore of worry along, some
in positive Ill health, the others
neither sick nor we'll, both classes
burden to themselves and to those
who are obliged to live and work
with them. And inasmuch as these
persons are so preponderatingly in
the majority it is pertinent to- ask,
"Can health come back?'
The answer is most emphatically,
it can if you are willing to deny
yourself accustomed luxuries. Self
denial-that is the price of getting
well. It sounds a good deal easier
than parting with good gold, but
most people prefer contributing to
the support of physician to giving
up one of their three or four daily
meals, or cup of tea. A drug trade
journal recently descanted upon
what it was pleased to call "the
ivory-headed public" The burden
Of the EDITORS satire was this: Gin
their ability to resist the letting in
of information concerning matters
VI ucditu. Tie utduS VI d icu1dl hduly
large portion Of the general public
SEEM to be made of solid ivory, bone
or wood. Patronize the restaurants
and hotel dining rooms and note
how many stuff their stomachs full
of unmasticated food, making it 60
down with icewater, coffee, beer, or
wine, instead of the natural diges-I
tive fluids of the MOUTH If these
structures seem severe, try little
experiment. Select dozen persons
who for financial reasons are in
particular need of the mental eff
fciency that comes of vigorous
health. and persuade them to adopt
the SUGGESTIONS contained in the fol-
lowing pages. and then observe how
few of them persevere. When a
week of proper eating fails to cor
rect the results of lifetime of In
diligence they give up in despair and
60 back to the fesh-pots Of the Nile