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are needed, and if it was used through all the year, it would not be neces- 

 sary to have this annual spring cleaning. 



A corrective diet will prove to us that the annual spring house clean- 

 ing of the physical system is just as much a necessity and a work of the 

 times or a relic of the times when we did not realize the difference be- 

 tween foods that were adapted to human consumption, and adapted to the 

 personal system. But you will say in answer that you have been getting 

 along pretty well all these years, and in pretty good shape, and that 

 your wife did not take a course in domestic science, that your daughter 

 has learned from her mother all the things she knows, and that the man 

 who marries your daughter will get the benefits of the training she got 

 from her mother, and they will get along in the same way, and if it was 

 good enough for you it will be good enoaigh for them. 



Think, if you will, of the great number of contagious diseases there 

 are in this country today, and in this connection I wish you gentlemen 

 when you leave this meeting today would do me one favor. Do this: just 

 shake hands with one another, and ask the man you shake hands with 

 how he is feeling today, and then hail some other people and ask them. 

 Mr. Brown will say that he is not quite as well as he was yesterday, or 

 not quite as well as usual; Mr. Smith will say that he has a cold, and 

 that he does not seem to be able to get rid of it; another will say that he is 

 suffering from a little gout, and another will say that he had a little neur- 

 algia last night, and did not sleep well, and so on it goes, until you think 

 that everybody has something the matter with them. The very fact that 

 the human machine is not properly oiled, and properly fueled and given 

 enough water to keep it in condition the average length of time that the 

 human machine should last, shows that we should furnish something to 

 this human machine, and give it the care that it needs. Now if your 

 threshing machine gave you as much trouble as the machine you call 

 your body, you would go right to the agent of another company to trade 

 off the old one, and get a new one in its place. 



But here is a different question altogether, although in a way the 

 same. You have to live with the human machine, so isn't it worth — if 

 you have to live with it, and put up with it, and endure it — isn't it worth 

 furnishing it with some instruction so it will be able to return to you 

 with the least amount of nervous energy expended for up-keep the service 

 you demand and expect, and serve you the greatest number of years? 



To illustrate, we need a certain kind of food. We need any food that 

 will make the body do this work, with the least tiring, and when we find 

 the combination of foods that will do this we shall have a food that will 

 make this human machine the most efficient machine we know. 



I was going to speak about the combinations that the apple could be 

 used in. About the cooking side. But I do not think that is necessary. I 

 will just say one thing, and that is about the making of apple pie, which 

 shows that the pie crust increases the fuel values from two hundred and 

 ninety to twelve hundred and seventy calorics per pound. So if you eat 

 your average helping of pie, two quarters, or a half, you are getting about 



