710 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



*'Tlie Japanese have made a race of strong men — • 

 a race of wrestlers. These wrestlers often weigh 200, 

 300, and 400 pounds. At the Imperial hotel, in Tokio, 

 they brought their champion wrestler to my room. 

 He was prodigious in size and as fat and fair as a 

 baby. He was a Hercules in strength, but looked like 

 an overgrown cherub of Correggio. 



'' 'What do you eat?' I asked. 



'* 'Rice— nothing but rice.' 



" 'Why not eat meat?' 



" 'Meat is weakening. (Beef is 70 per cent water. 

 Rice is 80 per cent food.) I ate lean beefsteak once, 

 and my strength left me. The other man ate rice and 

 threw me down.' 



"My courier said: 'This wrestler is the Sullivan 

 of Japan. No one can throw him.' " 



Remenyi, the celebrated Hungarian violinist, attrib- 

 uted his superb health and vigor at fifty-nine years of 

 age, to his total abstinence from alcoholics of any 

 description, from tobacco, and from a meat diet. At 

 this age he was fairly in his prime, with a face as 

 free from lines and wrinkles as an ordinary man of 

 thirty-five. 



THE ENEMA 



We ought not to leave this subject, without saying 

 one word with reference to the use of the enema. In 

 eases in which the bowels do not regularly and com- 

 pletely discharge their contents, the water enema con- 

 stitutes a very natural and comparatively harmless 

 means of aiding nature. It must not be regarded as 

 a substitute for the natural process, but should be used 



