The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-07-27
Ed. Howe on Eating.

A life insurance company is lately
giving away a book entitled: Cat
Your Way to Success. - The authors
theory is that better diet will result
in better morals, better work and more
intelligent thinking, and as probably
half our population do not eat prop
erly, here is matter of real import
ance to be attended to-
| know woman who is toe fat
She lately undertook to reduce her
weight, and accomplished it; but a
secondary result was that she feels
better. Because she fells better, she
is more intelligent, better able to per-
form her duties, and has saner out
look on life. Samuel j. Blythe, an
exceptionally intelligent man, found
he was digging his grave with his
teeth and his kidneys, quit it, and has
subject of health. Mr.. Blythe is not a
doctor, or health expert of any other
kind, but lately / have heard him wide
ly quoted because of common sense
warnings about health. | have per-
sonally been benefited by Mr.. Blythe's
articles on health, and have seen only
two. regret he does not prepare a
book on the subject, from the stand
point Of a plain citizen who has no
technical training, but plenty of SIM
pie common sense.
Al experts on dietary subjects fin
ally become crazy, and either advoc-
ate fads, or demand SO much that their
followers quit in disgust, which is also
true of leaders in Socialism, patriot
ism, religion and everything else, ex-
cept in the exact sciences. There we
find a magnificent body of men who
accept only the probable which is, af-
ter all, the only truth, and are fanat-
ical only in accepting nothing that
has not been reasonably well demon
strated. Few of US appreciate the
value of the leading men in science.
Their knowledge having been checked
up for centuries, is not only very ex-
tensive, but their fairness is admira-
BILE in world where poor opinions
have become clamor and curse
Practically every inefficient, sour
and disturbing man could be improved
by eating more sensibly. often
think of the case of Oscar Wilde. He
was a gross feeder and drinker, and
these bad habits landed him in Jail.
His friends said the coarse and scant
prison fare would kill him; instead, it
restored his health. In addition to
this, with the return of health he not
only felt better, but had more and bet
ter intelligence, and did his best work
eat and drink to excess. So it was
not religion that could .save" this
man; it was temperance. The mis-
sionaries could not "save" him, but
the prison officials did it.
We Americans might reduce our liv-
ing expenses one-half, have a better
time, and live longer. Our trouble is
not Starvation, but over eating in
gross, foolish way. If you are drag
ging" around, a nuisance to your
self and others, the trouble probably
is you are stuffing yourself with in
furious and expensive food; a simpler
and reduced diet would make new
man Of you. A man who stuffs three
times. day is as inefficient as a
drunken man. and suffers the same
bust head. He enjoys himself few
minutes while eating Or drinking, but
when he comes to consider his work,
or the problems of life. he has a be-
fuddled brain and unnecessary aches.
He is rorose, and entertains thoughts
of suicide, revolution, injustice. Pluto
water, prayer, getting even" etc.
His real need is not more democracy,
Christianity, brotherhood, but more
fruits and vegetables in his diet, less
meat and fewer luxuries.-Ed. Howe
in Howe's Monthly.