El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-02

thought and scientific invention I'm
] til very recently he has not gone TO
/ bed until o'clock in the morning, and
! his present time of retiring is little
after 8. He sleeps from 3 until 10 or
I II and finds that this IS all that he
/ needs. He sleeps out of doors He has
| an open air porch back of his library,
! and he uses this as his bedroom. He has
no trouble in sleeping. nOtwithstand-
( ing the porch is right over a play
| ground where a little MOntessori school
I of boys and girls are making the usual
noises of children ranging in age from
4 4 to s years. He says that the noise af-
fects him much the same as that of a
! sleeping car. One gets used to it and
\ the mind takes no note of it
J Keeps 1t Up.
As to his night work Dr. Bell keeps
/ this going from day to day, year in and
/ year out. When he is travelling by train
/ he has the drawing room of the sleep
I er and carries on his night work there.
and he does the same in his cabin on
/ his long ocean trips over the world.
/ Speaking of this recalls a curious in
! cident which happened during his visit
I to Japan some years ago
We had been talking about Japan,
and / asked DR.. Bell to tell me of his
audience with the emperor. He replied:
You know, an invitation to an au-
I dience of that kind is a command, and
( 1t has TO be met at the exact time of
minister had said he would arrange for
the audience, but that there was no
certainty when it could be granted I
/ was travelling with my wife and daugh-
tiers. We mad left Toxic and gone to
the western part of Japan, when one
day I received q telegram telling me
! that his majesty would receive me two
days later at 10 O'clock in the morning.
At that time the United States minister
did not know of our whereabouts and
he only found us by telegraphing to all
of the hotels IN western Japan where
we might possibly be stopping. At any
rate, ne found me, and that same night
I left my family and came back to
Toxic"
How He Keeps FIT.
It is interesting co know now a man
keeps fit. He is now in his Goth year
and is the perSOnlftcatlon of intellec-
tqai and physical vigor; He is over
considerably more than 200 pounds. He
is, however, light on his feet, and his
complexion is as clear and his eyes as
bright as when I first met him, 5 or
20 years ago. 1 have spoken of his
sleeping in the open air. He has done
that for more than a generation and
long before the open air cure was ad-
VOcated- He is not a great eater As
we sat in the library last night at
about ] o'clock the servant brought in
a rrav uDOD which was his sumner
which he takes at 3 a M, just before
going TO bed. 1t consisted of a half
Bulgarian milk or artificial buttermilk
and flask of distilled water.
The distilled water recalled to my
mind visit I had made DR.. Bell about
seven years ago, Just before I started
out TO make a long trip around the
African continent He was drinking
distilled water then and 1 asked him
why he did so. He replied:
Distilled water Cures rheumatism
4 have found that distilled water is
a sovereign cure for rheumatism at
loo 70
cerned- Some years ago was afflicted
with Sciatica and was bedridden on
account of it The doctors could not
lind anything TO relieve me- The at
tack came just when I was investi-
eating certain subjects relating to the
deposits of salts. One was as to the
deposits Of salts in the human system.
A well known scientist had written a
book In which he said that old age
came from such deposits, and that the
the lack of their elimination. This
man Thought that when such deposits
went to the joints man had rheuma-
ne had kidney trouble and stones in
the urinary organs, and when they
lodged in the arteries they produced
what IS called hardening of che ar
teries. In the same way, when such
deposits coated the nerves they pro-
duced sciatica-
ing about the Dead sea, the Great salt
lake, and ocher bodies of water which
nave no outlets Iney are, as you
know. all salt. The Dead sea is one
fourth salt and the Great Salt lake
is loaded with salt. Well, 1t occurred
to me that my body was much like the
Dead sea, and that iL needed less salt
coming in and plenty of ways to get
the salt out I knew that distilled
water was pure, and with the free
perSpiratiOn I always have I thought
that If 1 drank plenty of it I might
get rid of some of the salts which
were covering my sciatic nerves. I
tried drinking it, and it worked like
a charm. Within short time my
sciatica left me, and I have been free
from rheumatism from that day to
this. I have kept up my drinking OF
distilled water, and I attribute my al
most perfect health largely to it. When
am in the city L get 1t at the regular
WAGER supply stores, and when 1 am
at paddock have a little $40 still
with which I make what I need"
To complete the story, when I re-
turned home I found one of my friends
with rheumatism, and per-
suaded him to try the cure. He did so
and within a few weeks he was we'll
/ recommended IL to- Gen. James T Du
Bots, who had just been appointed
United States minister TO Columbia,
and who was almost wild with neural
gia- I persuaded him to turn on the
distilled water and he was able to pro-
coed to his post / could mention sew
eral others, and I suggest the pre-
scriptiOn to my rheumatic readers