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the liquid can not How; insert the nozzle in one 

 nostril, breathing through the nose, and let the 

 liquid flow. It will flow up one nostril and 

 down the other, cleansing and healing the 

 nasal passages as nothing else can. Use the 

 warm salt water and the suds (warm of course) 

 each once a day. and it will cure any ordinary 

 case. J. H. Hill. 



Venice. Fla., March 31. 



[Well done, fri(>nd Hill. While 1 was looking 

 over Dr. Kellogg's book In regai'd to the Hall 

 discovery, I noticed the apparatus you mention 

 illnslrated tliere. A few days ago I had quite 

 a severe cold, and toward its winding up it seem- 

 ed to me that it would just be fun to get Dr. 

 Kellogg's apparatus and give my nostrils a good 

 rinsing out. I did not know just how to go at 

 it, however, and I was afraid I might get stran- 

 gled, and therefore I let it go. Now yon have 

 made it as plain as A B C. But are you posi- 

 tively sure, my good friend, that there Is any 

 thing at all needed but pure water? Just listen. 

 A poor woman was grievously afllicted with 

 some kind of rheumatism. She and her hus- 

 band scraped np money, and she went to a cele- 

 brated water-cure. Sure enough, she began to 

 improve right away, and in a few weeks she 

 was comparatively well. After she went back 

 home, however, the old symptoms returned, 

 ^nd finally she was about as bad as before. It 

 cost an awful lot of money to get to the cele- 

 brated springs, and they could not afford it. 

 As a drowning man catches at a straw, how- 

 ever, one of the twain, I do not remember 

 which, suggested that she take a daily bath 

 with the water that was at hand, using it in 

 the same manner she used tlie water at the 

 medical spring. What do you think the re- 

 sult was? Why. a daily bath, with simply 

 common watei', relieved her of her trouble just 

 as well in her own home as it did at the ex- 

 pensive watering-place. By the way, how much 

 does it cost to go to a high- toned medical spring, 

 and take a course of treatment, paying the doc- 

 tor, traveling expenses, high-priced board, and 

 all that? May be some of you can tell. And is 

 it not humiliating to be obliged to confess that 

 the whole thing amounts to nothing more nor 

 less, Ji/iaHj/, than the old-fashioned water-cure 

 treatment of Fowler & Wells, published so 

 freely all over our land more than forty years 

 ago? 



On page 273 of our last issue, a friend, who 

 has been an invalid for years, tells us about 

 using flaxseed in connection with flushing with 

 water, for cleansing the small int(^stines as well 

 as the colon. By the way. friends. I have been 

 expecting all along that somebody would take 

 exceptions to the way in which we were dis- 

 cussing not only subjects that are usually con- 

 sidered delicate, but matters that might be 

 considered by some out of place, or lacking in 

 dignity. Well, thei-e has not been a single such 

 protest that I kno\\' of, unless it was a little bit 

 of pleasantry now and then. I suppose the 

 reason is, that so many of us have been longing 

 for relief in this vei'y line, and pei-haps longing 

 for any thing that would give us aid in this 

 matter of keeping the human frame divine 

 sweet and clean, "tit places for the dwelling of 

 the Holy Spirit. Well, I have been eating flax- 

 seed, as recommendf'd, and I am rejoiced to tell 

 you that, in my case, it answei-s the purpose 

 perfectly. Please bear with me if I tell you 

 just why I feel s(j certain that it is a valuable 

 adjunct. I diank a great lot of hot water about 

 S(>ven o'clock in the evening — so much, in fact, 

 that it mad(> me feel uncomfortable to some ex- 

 tent through the night. Then in the morning 

 I commenced, the fli'St thing, eating flaxseed. 

 It is not the pleasantest stuft to eat, by the way 



and I kept thinking, while I chewed it up fine, 

 that I should prefer to have it cooked in some 

 way, if it would answer the same purpose. I 

 used the flushing rem(>dy the niglit before, so 

 that I could be s\ire that it was the flaxseed 

 that did the cleansing if there was any. Well, 

 within an houi' after taking it I began to feel 

 its effect. And now comes the whole point of 

 my story. The ott'ensive smell that I told you 

 of when I first began the flushing, has not been 

 noticeable for perhaps months. On this par- 

 ticular occasion, however, the old familiar and 

 exceedingly offensive smell was present, indi- 

 cating unmistakably that the flaxseed had 

 loosened up and brought away accumulations 

 that had been perhaps for a long while lodging 

 in the small intestines, and matter that the 

 water itself had not reached. We are surely 

 making progress; and is there any other sub- 

 ject, in the whole range of human intelligence, 

 of more moment and more importance than this 

 one of making ourselves clean — of following the 

 injunction found in the Scripture t(^xts which 

 I have so often quoted to you — "Wash ye, 

 make you clean " ? A great wave is going 

 through our land, and possibly other lands, in 

 this direction of thorough washing; and I tell 

 you, it is a hopeful sign. When we bend our 

 energies, and the intelligence of the thinking 

 people of the world toward this matter of clean- 

 liness, and of making our bodies not only clean 

 without but clean within, wherever pure water 

 can be made to go with the aid of all modern 

 appliances, I tell you we are on the highway to 

 some great achievement. One happy thing 

 about it is, that it is within the reach of all — 

 the poorest as well as the richest, and there 

 should be no excuse hereafter for uncleanness 

 in any shape or form. Our country has been 

 given to booms— first one thing and then an- 

 other. Sometimes these booms are wholesome 

 and sometimes not. But if there is going to be 

 a great big boom all over the world in wasliing 

 the body more thoroughly than has ever been 

 done before since the world began, it is certain- 

 ly going to prove to be a good thing, and a great 

 many steps heavenward; for "cleanliness is 

 next to godliness." Let rus wash our bodies, 

 our feet, our hands, our heads, our ears. Small 

 boys can have a share in this latter. How my 

 good mother did used to exhort and reprove me 

 because my ears and finger-nails were not clean ! 

 After we have got the ears and scalp washed 

 and cleansed, then our noses must be overhaul- 

 ed, as our friend Hill advises. Then let us pro- 

 vide plenty of tooth-brushes, and wash our 

 mouths and our teeth. Very likely some nice 

 soap with the soft water, or perhaps some clean 

 sand or charcoal dust, might help along. We 

 want flesh-brushes and nail-brushes as well as 

 tooth-brushes. And, by the way, who knows 

 whether we shall not succeed in doing away 

 with this disagreeable thing of a bad-smelling 

 breath that atflicts some people? My dear 

 friend, how many do you know among your ac- 

 quaintances whose breath is offensive? May 

 be you have been told that your own breath is 

 offensive. If so, what would you give to have 

 it sweet,, pure, and clean, like the breath of a 

 baby? Well, I am inclined to think that, with 

 the information that has been given in these 

 pages of Gleanings, the whole thing may be 

 accomplished. Let us first put th(> whole body 

 in the right shape with energy. You see, your 

 friends do not always tell you when your breath 

 isoflfensiVe; but your wife will; and next time 

 vou give her a kiss (I really hope it will not be 

 three or four weeks before you do), just ask her 

 to tell you whether or not your breath is im- 

 proving. Oh! by the way, if you are in the 

 habit of using tobacco, after you get cleaned up 

 nicely, inside and out, you will be in excellent 



