Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-01-08

n Tot wars, nor liquor: not pes
MI thence, nor famine. but just
plain. everyday. universal
Constipa ton mans worst
enemy: the great destroyer of human
life.
Through its insidious influence, the
strongest minds and bodies are UNI
dermined: happy homes and strong
friendship wrecked. and foundations
laid for multitudes of destructive
chronic diseases. and many acute ones.
arch enemy Of civilized mantle
white mans burden which is bearing
down that part of the human race.
Constipation is an actual and serI-
Gus problem-in fact. real and grave
MISUNDERSTANDING about ninety mil
O0G out of our population of hun
drel millions. Most of those afflicted
take something" regularly in the
form of habit-forming drugs. in 4
misguided effort to force undu!y wnat
should be i natural function. With
many, it becomes a fixed drug habit.
continued throughout shortened and
more or less miserable existence.
Broken erutcneS.
Millions of dollars are spent annual
ly in the purchase Of cathartics, :aEa-
tives. purgatives and other iestruc-
tive crutches in the form of poisoned
pills and treacherous tablets upon
which the average persons leans
Their habitual use forms one of our
greatest national curses. These de-
structive drugs, the sale of which
merely fattens the purses of the pat
r.
weaken and enslave the unthinkin:s
and credulouS masses who pin their
faith to the inscrutable but harmful
working of mystic pill or potion
while scornfully rejecting the simple
and earnest appeals OF Mother Nature,
In every phase of life, intake and
outlet must be equalized-else there
is disorder and chaos. Yet We con-
tinue to cram into the body, three
times day or oftener, large amounts
of food. excessive in quantity and
vicious in its destructive chemical
composition, while the body's drain
age system has either stopped work
altogether, or is working but part
time. Any business conducted upon
this haphazard, happy-go-lucky prin-
ciple would soon become bankrupt.
Likewise, any human body so treated
sooner or later goes into involuntary
i
finally Is forced into receivership of
an undertaken.
Stop kidding Yourself.
Many people. claiming or assuming
education. culture. refinement and
wholesomeness; who battle and scrub
!, in lavish fashion the outside of their
bodies, and who strut about in ele-
giant and costly raiment, kidding
themselves into the fond delusion thai
hay f1,IfS =
!! ton for human perfection, are the
sole owners and proprietors of intes-
final tracts so filled with rubbish
waste and poisions: so contested with
products of putrefaction accumu-
lated over the larger part of their
lives that they would he indicted and
severely punished by the health de-
partment of any progressive and re-
spectacle towrN or city il like condi-
lions were allowed to exist in rhejr
back yard or cellar.
How can even a small measure of
self-respect be maintained when such
degrading and life-destroying condi-
tlons are encouraged and permitted
to exist within ones own body? How
can there be cultivated and main
tanned a clean. healthy, normal mind
and refinement of spirit in such an
unwholesome and disease-laden body?
1t can't be done. To the extent that
the temple" is defled. just in tina,
degree are its Occupants, the mind
and soul. perverted and Impoverished
Feminine Follies.
Since the complexion is the out.
ward and visible sign Of actual condi-
.. tons in the intestinal tract. most
women certainly reflect greatly dis
ordered states and putrefactive proc
esses in this part Of the body. Large
numbers Of women, young and old
rich and poor. vampire and staid ma
tron, spend a large part of their time
in vain and pitiable efforts to look
attractive. They paint and powder
their faces in such manner as would
incite the envy and jealous rage OF
painted savage and circus clown, and
are the greatest offenders against
fundamental wholesomeness and nat
uralness; the greatest sufferers from
"the great destroyer" Only at long
range can paint even partially hide
the sickly and sallow skin which
lies beneath, and which with eacf,
i .,,s 4aiStre:. tment hecanles more di.X