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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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lation from (Sod to the whole human race. 

 May be I am a httle extravagant; but you 

 know how niuch I huxe said as to the awful 

 waste that is going on here in the United 

 States in the way of si)ending so much time 

 and money to feed our people. That beau- 

 tiful prayer says. "Give us this day our 

 daily bread;"' but the world is in such haste 

 scrambling after new and good things they 

 seem to have forgotten all about the 

 "bread." Note the multitude of dishes that 

 even yet load down our tables, and as a re- 

 sult employ an army of doctors, surgeons, 

 and specialists of dilTerent kinds, besides 

 another and greater army of trained nurses 

 at $4,00 a day or more, besides the ex])ense 

 of asylums and hospitals for the sick and 

 suffering. I have asked myself, "Is there 

 a remedy, and will there be a turning- 

 point?" Thank (Jod, there is a remedy, 

 and the turning-point has come. God has 

 been sending us .lohn the Baptists and other 

 great teachers and forerunners. I told you 

 about Terry's work in our issue for March 

 15; and I closed the article by what I still 

 consider a wonderful message from Ui)tpn 

 Sinclair. Terry, Fletcher, Sinclair, Dr. Kel- 

 logg, and hosts of others, are striving to 

 wake the people up and make them under- 

 stand and comprehend why people have 

 aches and pains, sickness and death, ^^'ith 

 all the advantages your old friend A. I. Root 

 has enjoyed (a near neighbor, comparative- 

 ly, of T. B. Terry), not until he was seventy 

 years old did he disco\er he could be hap- 

 pier and in far better health without a care- 

 fully gotten-up supper, or ciny thing but a 

 few ajiples after the noonday meal. 



Now, I have something more to tell you 

 about this man I'pton Sinclair. He is a 

 young man, or comparatively so, and bids 

 fair to be young (if he keeps on) for many 

 years to come. If you have not all read 

 his talk in the March 15th (Cleanings, I 

 wish you would get right at it and read it, 

 and then after that, hunt up the Cosyno- 

 poliian magazine for May. If you have 

 not one handy, send and get it. Read Up- 

 ton Sinclair's article on "starving for 

 health's sake." After you have read it, 

 pass it round to the neighbors, (iet as 

 many folks to read it as possible. My first 

 acquaintance with Sinclair was in reading 

 "The .lungle," that book that exposed the 

 meat condition of things in our nation — the 

 book that caused President Roosevelt to 

 send for the author and have a conference 

 with him. Now, please do not understand 

 that I thoroughly approve that book, "The 

 .Fungle." While I read it and was charm- 

 ed by the author's wonderful descriptive 

 powers, I was also pained because of some 

 things that I thought should have been 

 left out out. Another thing, I could see he 

 was not a professing Christian, and I fear 

 he is not now. Yet he quotes the Bible, 

 and seems to understand what true Chris- 

 tianity is. May the Holy Spirit guide him, 

 and open away for him to make still further 

 discoveries that will benefit the human 

 family. Well, when you read that article 



in the Cosmopolitan you will discover that 

 Sinclair has gone a little further than I 

 have in dispensing with suppers. When 

 his digestion would not stand the close con- 

 finement of writing books and articles for 

 the magazines, he began to skij) a whole 

 day, then two days, and then three and 

 four days, and, like Dr. Tanner (who, by 

 the way, was a Medina Co. boy), he found ^ 

 out that jjeople could live a dozen days or %. 

 more, and not "starve to death" either. 

 By the way, when Sinclair's health began 

 to fail (perhai)s through confinement and 

 overwork) he went to Battle Creek, Mich., 

 and there became acquainted with Fletcher 

 and Dr. Kellogg. They three discussed for 

 several days, or perhaps weeks, the food 

 problem and the health problem for a na- 

 tion of people. At this period in his life 

 Sinclair wrote a book entitled "Good 

 Health, and How We Won It."* It is a 

 nice large book, well illustrated, and the 

 price is only $1.20. If some of our experts 

 in poultry, while giving some of their sys- 

 tems, would give us a book like this (almost 

 oOO pages) for the price they charge, it would 

 look a good deal better, if nothing more. 

 Well, this man Sinclair has all his life 

 seemed determined to put bodily health and 

 'wicjor of both mind and body far above the 

 gratification of any appetite. He says in the 

 Cosmopolitan, "I have never in my life 

 used tea or coffee, alcohol or tobacco." Oh 

 that our great teachers (and great eloetors, 

 too), by the way. could stand up before the 

 world and look their pupils full in the face, 

 and say what Sinclair has said! After Sin- 

 clair had put on flesh, and got to be almost 

 an athlete, like our neighbor Terry, he felt 

 prompted to give a suffering and sinful 

 world the benefit of his discoveries. He 

 discovered that a man can grow fat by 

 starving himself. You want to get that 

 magazine and look at pioturrs of himself 

 and wife, if you can not take time to read 

 the whole article. I told you that going 

 without my supper of nourishing food gave 

 my digestive apparatus an opportunity to 

 clean out, slick up, and mend things that 

 were breaking dow^n, etc. Well, Sinclair 

 gives the human form divine a still better 

 chance by going without food for several 

 days. Of course he loses flesh; but in an 

 incredibly short time he gains fle.sh again. 

 Arter a fast of ten or twelve days he com- 

 mences by drinking milk — a glassful every 

 hour following this with more substantial 

 food later on. He finally gained 32 lbs. in g 

 24 days. After he had testeil the matter ^ 

 again and again, and secured such marvel- 

 ous strength and energy, his wife, who had 

 been for years an invalid, was promjited to 

 try it, although they feared she could not 

 stand the ordeal; but now she too is a smil- 

 ing picture of health. Look at the picture. 

 Like T. B. Terry, Sinclair has nothing to 

 sell. He has no pay in any shape whatever, 

 save what the magazines and his books 

 bring him. He is beating a path through 



* Frederic A. Stokes, publishers. New York. 



