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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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for private advice. I have to-day tried to save one 

 boy from paying 875 to a quack for " a course of 

 treatment." He told tlie boy that would not be all, 

 only a good start, as it would take a long time to 

 work a cure. And not a word can one say in print 

 without bringing in protests from the good people. 

 You have the advantage of me in this line. I once 

 tried to give .some earnest advice to boys in this 

 line; but one of the editors returned the article, say- 

 ing this sex question must be let alone. O God! how 

 long? The boys must suffer all their lives: never be 

 the men they might have been: and married women 

 must often do the same on account of the lust of 

 man. largely brought on by cigarettes, tobacco, 

 and drink, but not by fruits, grains, and vegeta- 

 bles. I started out only to thank you for your arti- 

 cle — show my appreciation. But it is hard to stop 

 when I get started on this subject. 



When you people come out here I am going to 

 make you some drink of wheat, all my own make, 

 costing about 3 cents a pound, and it is good, too, as 

 well as perfectly pure and wholesome. 



Most cordially, 



Hudson, Ohio, June 7. T. B. Terry. 



Health Notes 



By A. 1. Root 



GOING WITHOUT SUPPER, ETC. 



It is now toward three months since I 

 have taken any food (except apples) after 

 the noon meal; and so far, dear friends, I 

 am more in love with it than ever; and I 

 am just beginning to discover that it in- 

 cludes something that I had never thought 

 of till recently. Most of you are aware that 

 I have been in the habit of taking a little 

 sleep of fifteen or twenty minutes before my 

 dinner for several years past. It must have 

 been thirty years ago when I began to break 

 down, and my good old friend Dr. Salisbury 

 said I should never think of eating a meal 

 when tired out with either mental or physi- 

 cal labor. He said it would add ten years 

 to my life if I would take a good nap just 

 before dinner. He may have said jtist be- 

 fore each meal — I do not remember now. 



Well, I have been doing this for at least 

 ten or twenty years past. In fact, I could 

 not hold out without it; and I want to say 

 to all of you that any man, woman, or child 

 who is troubled with indigestion will find it 

 a tremendous help to get a good rest (and a 

 short nap is the best thing in the world) just 

 before mealtime, especially before the heart- 

 iest meal of the day. I think almost any 

 physician will agree with this. The diges- 

 tive apparatus can never do its best work 

 when you are tired out and used up. Your 

 rest over night has recuperated and recruit- 

 ed your system so that all the organs ought 

 to be in good trim for breakfast. Now make 

 a mark right here. I am coming back to 

 this point a little further on. If you stop 

 your work, whatever it is, before noon, go 

 off to some quiet place where there is plen- 

 ty of air, and lie down, and you will soon 

 get in the habit of taking a little sleep. 

 \Mien you awake you will probably not be 

 as hungry as you were before your nap, but 

 your digestive apparatus will be in very 

 much better trim to make the best possible 

 use of the nourishment your dinner affords 

 you. Now, I have for some twenty years 



past been getting the rest needed before 

 both breakfast and diimer. I have also of 

 late been in the habit of having a nap after 

 my five-o'clock supper. The reason is, I 

 am "played out" if I do not have this rest; 

 and without it I feel incapable of looking 

 over the heap of periodicals (that come ev- 

 ery day) toward evening. Now notice. My 

 breakfast and dinner are taken according to 

 Dr. Salisbury, but not my supper; and for 

 years past I have been more or less disturb- 

 ed during the night by indigestion, mani- 

 festing itself by nightmares, etc.; and when, 

 according to my brother's suggestions, I 

 went without my supper, these unpleasant 

 symptoms ceased at once; and even though 

 I went to bed feeling hungry and faint I al- 

 ways woke up feeling bright and well — no 

 hunger at all. In fact, I greatly enjoy look- 

 ing after the chickens, and taking" a hoe 

 and working in the garden until breakfast 

 is fuUy ready. I am never in a hurry for 

 breakfast at all. Now, on the old plan of 

 three meals a day, before my dinner was all 

 out of the way, a lot of rich and nourishing 

 food was taken at five o'clock. Of course I 

 felt hungry, and thought I needed food. 

 Did you ever see a baby cry because it felt 

 bad, and mistaken friends imagined the 

 poor thing was hungry, and then added to 

 its distress and misery by giving it more 

 food? Sometimes nature protested to the 

 extent of throwing up a whole lot, and then 

 the baby could laugh and smile once more. 

 Perhai)s it is not much use to talk, for the 

 greater part of you will think "circum- 

 stances differ;" but if you will just try it 

 for three or four days, or a week, may be 

 you will have some more kind words to ex- 

 press to your old friend A. I. Root. 



Now look here. I have had just one reg- 

 ular supper in the past three months. I at- 

 tended a Congregational conference where 

 they had a banquet at 5:30 in the afternoon; 

 and to avoid seeming odd or singular, and 

 also to test the effect of supper, I decided to 

 partake with the rest. By the way, this 

 banquet was a model of its kind. We had 

 cream-potatoes, nice bread and butter, eggs, 

 etc., and all for 25 cents. Every thing was 

 nicely served by the ladies of the church; 

 and if all banquets were like that one, good 

 wholesome food at an early hour, at such an 

 exceedingly moderate price, I should not 

 have much to say against them. Well, in 

 order to see how a supper would w'ork once 

 more, I ate moderately about as I used to 

 do, then rode in the open air about 35 miles 

 in an automobile. The open-air ride should 

 have helped to digest that supper if any 

 thing would; but I'was distressed all night, 

 had the nightmare, had to get up one or 

 more times, and got up in the morning with 

 a bad taste in my mouth without a bit of 

 the exhilaration and enthusiasm that I had 

 all along of late enjoyed from the refreshing 

 morning air. I said right away, "No more 

 suppers for me." You see. with my present 

 program I am thoroughly rested before each 

 of the two meals of the day; and when I re- 

 tire for the night the food taken at noon is 



