New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-13

expensive Tor any DuI Ile iiOh' oii'
not rich. Therefore / cannot afford
meat. Until recently believed that
certain amount of beef day was essen
tial to my physical well-being; but that,
am now convinced, is an error. A diet
of fresh. well-cooked vegetables is fully
as nourishing and far less expensive.
Hereafter l shall live on vegetables. l
shall be Just as strong, and think of the
money shall save!
SECOND WEEK. have been doing
a vast deal of thinking. have come TO
the conclusion that the average man is
q slave-a slave to custom. The aver
age man. for example, thinks he can't
get along without meat. thought so
once myself. Now 1 am getting along
splendidly without it. do not miss 1t
at all. Wherefore, if may emancipate
myself from the thralldom Of meat, why
NAV not emancipate myself from vege-
tables likewise? Vegetables are heavy,
indigestible things. They are much too
filling. Much of our physical ailments
are caused, l am fully convinced, by the
indiscriminate use of vegetables. Cereals
are fully as nourishing and infinitely
cheaper. From now on shall live ex-
clusively on cereals.
THIRD WEEK. am living on
cereals or rather have been. To-day
noticed an advertisement in the subway
which set me thinking again, and l am
not sure that shall live on cereals for
very much longer. Even cereals are
expensive. l find. Why should spend
fifteen cents for food if l can sustain
myself on ten? There is the secret of
prosperity in this world. Spend only
as much for food as is necessary to sus-
tain life, and the poorest man will al
ways have money in his pocket. The
advertisement saw in the subway was
with reference to lentils-canned ones.
More nourishing even than vegetables
or cereals. the advertisement said. The
ancients ate lentils. Very likely Me-
thuselah ate them and look how long he
lived.
FOURTH WEEK-What fool l
have BEEN What blind fool! For
three weeks have | imagined myself
free from the bondage of habit. Three
weeks, and all that time / have been
almost as much of a slave as ever. Meat
vegetables. cereals or lentils-what diff
ference does it make so long as / eat?
One may be trihe more expensive than
the other, but the error is the same.
Even when we eat a little, we eat too
much. To-day | saw another advertise
ment. It said: Don't go to lunch yet.
Don't 90 because your watch says so.
Chew Pinkham's Pepsin Gum" l tried
il and saved at least four cents. II
lunch. why not breakfast and dinner!
Hereafter at meal times shall chew
piece of gum until satisfied. And to
think how was squandering money IN
lentils
FIFTH WEEK. am slightly lndls-
posed. Think in all probability it is in
digestion that ails me. My stomach
feels all gone and am rather weak and
giddy. Without doubt l have over
chewed Pinkham's Pepsin Gum, and |
am suffering the consequences. AS | re-
cline here on my couch, l have plenty
of time to think, and l am come to the
conclusion that money spent in chewing
gum is money spent foolishly. One
doesn't have to have anything in ones
mouth in order to make ones jaws
move. If at certain stated times
in the day one will sit perfectly still
and make ones jaws go, at the same
time THINKING of food, one will solve
in triumph the problem of the cost of
living. Thought is the thing. Chewing
gum at meal times is the subterfuge of
a coward or a weakling.
SIXTH WEEK-It is very pleasant
here in bed can hear the birds sing
they are singing in my ears-and there
is a sort of mist over everything-a
golden mist-it is full of golden chew