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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15. 



processes going on in tiie way of cooking, bak- 

 ing, and drying, tfciai J found myself quite un- 

 able 10 lake it all in during; my brief stay; and 

 I am just now feeling as if I wanted to go back 

 to Battle Creek and look the thing all over 

 again. But 1 must not spend all my time in 

 talking about that cooking-factory, even if it is 

 an exceedingly interesting matter to me. At 

 this stage of health I am gaining flesh at the 

 rate of two or three pounds a week, with an 

 appetite all the while for a good deal more than 

 I allow myself to eat. Yes, I have learned, 

 among other things, that overeating inui<t be 

 guarded against, even on the diet of pure beef, 

 especially when the patient is allowed also a 

 little zwieback or granose, or something equiv- 

 alent. The Battle Creek folks have a great 

 printing-establishment. By the way, what do 

 you think of a great building containing 280 

 printers — yes, printers — who neither drink, 

 swear, nor use tobacco? Now, I presume there 

 are quite a few type-setters who read Glean- 

 ings; but they need not feel hurt at what I 

 have said, for I know something of the habits 

 of the average printer, especially in our great 

 cities. Well, these Battle Creek printers not 

 only abstain from all these things 1 have men- 

 tioned, but, if I am correct, they use neither 

 tea nor cotfee, and for the most part are prob- 

 ably vegetarians, and eat only two meals a day. 

 What effect did it have on them ? Well, 1 used 

 my eyes in that great dining-room so thorough- 

 ly that I did not know but some of the men and 

 women would feel hurt; but even with the 

 vegetarian habits, and with only two meals a 

 day, they were about as healthy, happy, and 

 nice-looking a lot of people as 1 ever saw in my 

 life. They seemed to have a "right smart " of 

 an appetite for their dinner, between two and 

 three in the afternoon; but I did not think any 

 the less of them for that. It just did me good 

 to see them help themselves to plateful after 

 plateful of ibe provisions. And 1 began to 

 wonder to see them all have such vigorous 

 appetites until I remembered they had had 

 nothing since about eight o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, and expected nothing to eat again until 

 the same time the next morning. They took 

 plenty of time to eat their food, and there was 

 lots of chatting and good-natured merriment 

 going on. Take it all round, you may tind as 

 much fault with the Advent people as you can; 

 but after it is all said and done, you will have 

 to admit that they not only have a model es- 

 tablishment, but that they are a model people. 



Dit seems almost out of place for a man of my 

 age, especially after some of my teachings, to 

 say any thing about the good-looking women 

 at the sanitarium; but when Itell you to put 

 particular emphasis on the good [ think it will 

 be all right. Yes, I think I never saw any 

 handsomer women anywhere in my life. And 

 this calls to mind the fact that not one out of 

 the several hundred employed there wears a 

 corset. If I have not told you before my opin- 

 ion in regard to corsets, you can probably guess 

 what it is. And then, again, if I have made no 

 mistake there was not a woman in that crowd 

 who wore ear-rings or even a. finger -ring. In 

 fact, I am not sure that they wear jewelry at 

 all. Dear mel if all the jewelry in the United 

 States of America were converted into money, 

 or, better still, if we h,ad had the money before 

 it was ever invested in jewelry, there would be 

 no need of the present destitute state of affairs 

 in our mission work in foreign lands, to say 

 nothing of the need of efficient teachers in our 

 own America. 



There are something like 600 people employed 

 in and about the sanitarium, and there are 

 chapel services twice every day — once in the 



morning and once in the afternoon; and the 

 help, I believe, as a rule, are expected to attend 

 at least one of these services every day. A 

 great number of them take part, either in read- 

 ing the Bible, repeating texts, giving brief ex- 

 periences, or brief sentence-prayers. It takes 

 a good deal of time. Y'es, so it does; but the 

 helpers are paid, for their time while attending 

 the servic(-s. just the same as while at their 

 work, and the management have found it to 

 pay. 



Friend Keck gave me some valuable points 

 right here, and yet they are not so very won- 

 derful after all. When I suggested that, among 

 such a crowd, there would certainly be some 

 who would be tricky or dishonest, he said they 

 had found by years of past experience that 

 pret'ejitio7i is better than cure. Whenever any 

 one of their number begins to show a disposi- 

 tion to evade or avoid chapel services, the 

 probability is that he is straying away from the 

 fold, and the right committee is notitied to look 

 after him. When this system is carried out, 

 there is almost no such thing as a defaulter or 

 forger. The man is stopped long before he gets 

 into the depths of crime. 



" But these people must be terribly strict," 

 you say. Yes, they are. Before one unites 

 with them, and consents to change his usual 

 Sunday to Saturday, he must have pretty 

 strong convictions. It made me think of Gid- 

 eon's band we had in our Sunday-school lesson 

 recently, as you may remember. Under God's 

 direction, Gideon sorted out the very cream of 

 his great army. The Battle Creek people seem 

 to have sorted out — well, let us say some very 

 faithful, earnest, devoted men and women who 

 are banded to carry on their work. 



Although the institution possesses immense 

 wealth, its members can not get rich very fast. 

 They all work on small salaries.- For instance, 

 the nurses, of which there are several hundred, 

 get only five or six dollars a week; but if they 

 go out through the city of Battle Creek and 

 elsewhere to take care of patients, they get 

 from ten to twenty dollars a week. The profit 

 goes to build up the sanitarium. But this san- 

 itarium has never paid anv dividends, and 

 never expects to pay any. Money, labor, and 

 every thing else, is for the glory of God — at 

 least, this is the way I got it from friend Keck; 

 and if I am wrong, somebody who reads Glean- 

 ings can doubtless set me right in regard to it. 

 To be Cuniinucd. 



DOCTORING WITHOUT MEDICINE. 



HOW TO MAKE THE MOST DELICIOUS AND 



TOOTHSOME PIES, AND PIES THAT 



HELP DIGESTION INSTEAD OF 



IMPAIRING IT. 



Through all the long weeks and months of 

 my pure-beef-diet experience, perhaps I have 

 longed for apple-pie more than for any other 

 one tiling. Sometimes I could actually have 

 gone away and cried because I could not have 

 any, especially when Mrs. Root brought forth 

 some of her own making, with their brown, 

 crisp, flaky crust and appetizing flavor. The 

 doctor, however, was inexorable. He said it 

 was a depraved appetite that was calling for 

 the very thing that had got me into my past 

 troubles. I knew he was right, because I found 

 by many trials that a piece of pie after dinner 

 was what upset me ehtirely, especially if I par- 

 took of the rich and greasy pies so often found 

 when one is away from home. Well, now, for 

 my discovery. At the present time I am eating 

 about 12 ounces of sirloin steak at each meal. 



