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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Mar. 15 



objected, saying he was only a beginner. 

 But I Said, "Mr. Terry, you must write it 

 now, when you are full of enthusiasm on the 

 subject." He did so; and when he came to 

 revise it, years after, he admitted I was right 

 about it. 



Well, a year or two ago I urged him to put 

 in book form his explorations and discoveries 

 along the line or getting out of the darkness 

 and into the light by better ways of living, 

 etc. For quite a time he declared he had no 

 time, with hisextt-nsivecorresoondence, etc. 

 I continued to urge, however, and I gavt- you 

 notice on these pages when he started on 

 the task. The above explains partly why I 

 am so deeply interested in Terry's books and 

 teachings. No matter where I travel, wheth- 

 er in Northern Wisconsin or Southern Flori- 

 da, I come across people who tell me with 

 enthusiasm that "Terry's teachinjjs" have 

 given them not only a new lease of life but 

 a substantial addition to their pocketbooks 

 by his simple diet and other sensible advice. 

 With this lon^ preface I wish now to review 

 somewhat ttie book that is having such a 

 generous welcome at the hands of the great 

 public. 



If ever there was a book written especial- 

 ly for our homes this is the one, and I am 

 sure no other book has ever appeared that 

 covers the ground this one does. The open- 

 ing chapters are devoted to giving the homes 

 of our land more and purer air than the world 

 has ever had so far— not only pure air. but 

 cool or cold air; and last, but not least, moist 

 air. It is a little smgular, but all makers of 

 incubators are just now coming to the con- 

 clusion that this same moist air is one of the 

 grt at essentials for the success of the incu- 

 bator. Terry's "humidifier" for keepmg 

 the air of the aver ge home always moist is 

 almost a revelation to a great part of the 

 world. Then follow some chapters on 

 breathing and having the clothing so that the 

 whole body has every possible chance for 

 taking in such quantities of this pure moist 

 air as God intended we should tike. Next 

 to the air we breathe comes t e water we 

 drink, and the reason why we should drink 

 /o/s of pare water. I migh gooveri he whole 

 book in this way; but 1 want you all to re d 

 the book; andif>ou once start in you will 

 be sure to read it all. for Terry's very plain 

 fami iar way is really enticing Our own 

 copy has been all around our neighborhood 

 here in Florida. Neighbor Ten Broeck took 

 it Satuday night and returned it Monday 

 morning nad through. 



Now, friends, please do not get the idea 

 that Terry is absolutely right about every 

 thing. If so he wou d be more than human. 

 Tftere is, however, so much in the bo>k that 

 commends itself to good common sense we 

 can afford to overlook what seems to us a 

 mistake. I think he is a little too severe on 

 the average family physician; but we all 

 know good honest doctors are all getting on 

 "higher ground" of lat-. Again, I believe 

 thai vaccination, as a rule, is a boon to hu- 

 manity; the same with su gery ror appendi- 

 citis, etc. It Terry's plan of living jv/// obvi- 



ate the necessity of all these things, then of 

 course I shall be ri^iht with him. 



In choosing my two texts I had principally 

 in mind the sin of overeating — liv ng to eat 

 instead of eating to live, and I do thmk Ter- 

 ry's vehement protests against banquets, 

 picnics, overloaded tables of rich viands, 

 everywhere and anywhere are really "a voice 

 crying in the wilderness" for a reform that 

 is needed, and nee<led tremendously. 



Now, I know of no more fitting windup 

 for this Home talk than the following whi h 

 I clip entire from tne Country Gentleman. 

 Ynu will read ly .>ee where my two texts 

 come in; and may God's H ly Spirit go with 

 Terry, Fletcher, Sinclair, and /^is message to 

 the homes of our land. 



THE RAW-FOOD CULT. 



[Mr Upton Sinclair, who started the packing-house 

 investigation wi h his sensational novel, "The Jun- 

 gle," has now discovered that the cure for all human 

 ills lies not only in eschewing meat, but in eating 

 nothing but raw food. Here is his account of this 

 practice and its results, from Physical Culture, which 

 he prefaces by saying that he had been an invalid for 

 years when he adopted it. — Ed. C. G.] 



I have learned that it does not matter in the least in 

 what part of the world one is — whether in the moun- 

 tains or at the seashore, in Canada or in Florida. It 

 does not matter whether the air one breathes be hot or 

 cold, "night air" or "day air," damp or dry— provided 

 it be fresh, and not air that some other person has al- 

 ready breathed. I have learned also that it is not nec- 

 essary to take very much or very elaborate exercise. 

 I gavp two years of my time to doing literally nothing 

 but trying to get well; and during that time I made it 

 my duty to exercise nearly all day in the open air — 

 riding horseback, walking, swimming, playing tennis, 

 canoeing — and I was never in worse liealth in my life 

 than at the end of the two years. Now half an hour a 

 day of real scientific exercise suffices me— with a walk 

 now and then when I happen to have some place to 

 visit. 



And it is just the same with sleeping. Now six or 

 seven hours suffices for every thing; and in the old 

 days, when I was told that I needed a " rest" I would 

 sleep ten or even twelve hours. And it is just the same 

 with working — with brain-work, I mean. For two 

 years I did almost nothing— I didn't dare. Now I read 

 and write and study twelve hours a day, for as long a 

 time as I feel like it. and it ne^ er does me the slightest 

 harm. The "overwork" business is mostl> all delu- 

 sion. It is not overwork at all, but overeating. It is 

 not lack of rest, nor lack of exercise; it is overeating. 

 It is not a debilitating climate nor a damp and " raw " 

 climate; it is everywhere and always some lorm of the 

 fatal consequences of eating unnatural foods; of eat- 

 ing foods that have been cooked and devitilized; foods 

 that have been retin»-d and deprived of their wastes, so 

 that they stick in the intestines and clog the system; 

 foods that have been softened and made into mush so 

 that they slip down without chewing, and without giv- 

 ing one a chance to satisfy his hunger; foo<is that have 

 been concentrated and concocted and combined until 

 all the chemists in the country would be needed to tell 

 a man how much of them he really ought to eat. 



I used to give way to the claims of " hospitality;" 

 when I went to people's homes I could not bear to 

 make them uncomfortable and to set myself apart from 

 everybody else; and so I was well so long as I stayed 

 by myself, and sick whenever I went where other hu- 

 man beings were Last winter, for instance, I spent 

 several months in a solitary place in California, work- 

 ing hard and enjoying magnificent health: and then I 

 went up to San Francisco to stage a play, and I accept- 

 ed some invitations to lecture at the universities; and 

 the boys got me up delightful suppers of fruit salads 

 and peanut-butter sandwiches and ice-cream and 

 cake, and other wholesome and nutritious vettetarian 

 concoctions. So in a few weeks I was having head- 

 aches again, and then a cold, and finally wound up on 

 the Gulf of Mexico with a " sunstroke." 



In youth I had the misfortune to be fed on many de- 

 licious-tasting inventions. I lived in the South, where 

 people are very proud of their cooking. I have said 

 that 1 was brought up on a diet of fried chicken and 

 hot biscuits and chocolate cake, and so in our home 

 we had to have a servant When we were in the coun- 



