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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.5. 



until nature gets accustomed to the new fash- 

 ion, and it will work all right. If you feel weak 

 and taint, with a gnawing and craving for 

 something, which you think is caused by not hav- 

 ing had your accustomed supper, in place of 

 eating, take a nap. After you wake up you will 

 be surprised to find that you are not hungry at 

 all. It was habit only: it was nervous exhaus- 

 tion; and although food might have given 

 temporary relief, sleep is ever so much better. 

 Make yourself comfortable before you try to go 

 to sleep. If your feet are cold, warm them up 

 well. When I am in a hurry I wrap up a hot 

 soapstone. and lay my feet on top of it. Keep 

 your body warm with a blanket, or in some 

 other way. But the room yon sleep in, even in 

 day time, should be moderately cool. There 

 should be plenty of fresh air; and, if you sleep 

 on your side you had better double up your 

 pillow, or support your head so there will be 

 plenty of space all around your nostrils. 

 Breathe through the nostrils when you can. 



How about the new water cure? My friend. 

 I am almost ready to say, that, if you eat and 

 sleep and live as you should, you do not need 

 the water cure at all. Nature will take care of 

 that part of the business, and do it right. If, 

 however, you are and have been running a 

 beer-plant for years, the new water cure will 

 prove a Godsend to you. A peculiar kind of 

 headache that I have mentioned may be remov- 

 ed in a few minutes by getting this fermenting 

 matter entirely out of the system, out of the 

 way. even if digestion is not completed, and 

 you lose the benefit of a great deal of your food. 

 It is better wasted and thrown away than to 

 have it distressing you and poisoning your 

 system. 



Now a word about your urinary and kidney 

 troubles. Come to think of it. however, if you 

 attend to the things mentioned above, these 

 troubles will. I firmly believe, also take care of 

 themselves. Let me tell you some of my ex- 

 perience. Ever since I have been using my 

 brains to the extent I have been obliged to use 

 them while attending to our business, and es- 

 pecially the office work, I have had what I 

 have called urinary trouble. When called upon 

 to do hard mental work there is a pain in the 

 organs; and unless I urinate quite often — some- 

 times as often as once an hour — I suffer great 

 pain and distress. Oftentimes it has seemed to 

 me as though the refuse matter that should go 

 off in the urine was getting into the circulation 

 and poisoning me. Since we have had the 

 Smead closet system in our factory I have got 

 along very well in the daytime; but the trouble 

 has been in the night. When I woke up, of 

 course I got up and relieved myself. A great 

 many times, however, especially of late, instead 

 of waking up I would have distressing dreams 

 and nightmare: and when I did get up, it was 

 with the feeling that my whole system was 

 poisoned. If I slept that troubled sort of sleep 

 until almost morning, the difficulty did not pass 

 away immediately. You can now readily im- 

 agine how I am thanking God this morning, 

 when I tell you that, for almost a week past, I 

 have not been up in the night at all, nor have I 

 suffered any inconvenience. The relief was 

 brought about in less than a week's time. 

 First. I began chewing my food very thorough- 

 ly, as I have told you.* Then I substituted 



* From a new book just laid on my table, " Eating 

 for Strength," I copy the following-: 



The conditions' of perfect dig-estiou are several, 

 and may be mentioned liere. The first is perfect 

 mastication. If this is not accomplislied, much of 

 the food is not broug-lit under the influf nee of the 

 digestive juices and so is lost. Count Rumford cal- 

 culated that one-fourth less food is required if it be 

 perfectly masticated. Tlie object of mastication is 



milk in place of my coffee. Finally I came 

 down to just new milk. Last Sunday I had my 

 dinner at two o'clock; and for an experiment I 

 omitted my supper. I did not get up that 

 night, and yet I suffered no inconvenience. On 

 Monday I omitted supper again, and abstained 

 from eating any thing, or drinking any liquid 

 after twelve o'clock at noon. The result was 

 just the same. Then I tried drinking just new 

 milk at supper. It was so quickly digested and 

 out of the way that it answered just as well as 

 omitting the last meal entirely. Then I tried 

 the new milk and gems: and I am at present 

 satisfied that deliverance has come. I would 

 have paid a doctor quite a sum of money who 

 could have given such perfect immunity from 

 all these troubles: and yet here it is. without 

 money and without price. Perhaps I am stupid 

 and dull. My friend, I fear there is a world of 

 people who are stupid and dull. And then I 

 am afraid, again, there are others who would 

 rather he sick than to go without their supper 

 and their tea, and their liot sweetened coffee. 

 May be, however, when it is too late they may 

 change their minds. 



The above was dictated for our issue of Jan. 

 1, but was crowded out. Since then I have 

 made some more discoveries. By the way, the 

 matter of investigation in regard to the subject 

 of food for nourishing our bodies reminds me 

 strongly of my investigations with the hot- 

 water pipes over in the greenhouse.! Some of 

 our readers may, perhaps, think I am not con- 

 versant with our various health-books and 

 health-journals. Almost every one published 

 —at least in this country— is laid on my table: 

 but 1 regret that so many of them— in fact, the 

 most of them — seem to be in the line of vegeta- 

 rian diet. Yes, our new books, even the one I 

 have recently quoted from, strongly urges veg- 

 etarian diet. A good many go so far as to 

 object to butter, milk, and eggs. My opinion 

 is, they are all making a sad blunder. When 

 Fowler & Wells came out so strongly with veg- 

 etarian teaching, years ago, I was a boy in my 

 teens. I followed their teachings, and became 

 an ardent disciple. For four years I ate no 

 animal food of any sort, unless it was butter, 

 milk, and eggs, and those I ate sparingly. 

 When I went visiting, or even stopped at hotels, 

 I annoyed and pained the good people in a way 

 that I shall always regret, by my stupid and 

 stubborn way of insisting that I was right and 

 everybody else was wrong. The experience I 

 had, however, in learning self-control, was 

 worth much to me in after-life. Had I not 

 learned to govern my appetite in early youth, 

 it would have been very much harder for me 

 when I lived eighteen weeks on lean beef; and 

 it would have been much harder, too, when it 

 became necessary for me to say, with the help 

 of Christ Jesus. " Get thee behind me, Satan," 

 in later life. Very likely there are people who 

 are benefited by pure, strict vegetarian diet, 

 and I would not say a word against it to such; 

 but I would urge them to lay their notions aside 

 sufficiently so as to do as others do when 

 they go visiting. In the first place, the Bible 



to break up tlie particles into a condition in which 

 the digestive juices can be brought into immediate 

 contact witli them. 



It lias been stated that Mr. Gladstone is so im- 

 pressed with the importance of perfect mastication 

 that he makes a practice himself, and has taught 

 his family to do the same, of giving each mouthful 

 thirty-two bites— one for each tooth in a perfect 

 mouth. It is no wonder that he is able to perform 

 such an amount of intellectual labor. 



+They have been running now since before Christ- 

 mas, through the coldest winter weather, and not 

 a valve has been turned, nor any thing touched, but 

 the contents of the house are unharmed — Jmi. 9th. 



