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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. ]5. 



Health Notes. 



ON THE WHEEL. 



All through the month of November I 

 was planning a big long wheelride ; but in 

 our locality it rained almost every day, and 

 the days it did not rain it was muddy. But I 

 kept up my courage, and kept telling about 

 the wheelride I v:as ^i^on/^^ to take, ever}' morn- 

 ing, at breakfast, until the children laughingly 

 begged me not to talk about it any more, 

 because, if I did, it would be suit to rain. 

 But when the sun came out bright and clear 

 on the morning of Dec. 10 I caught fresh en- 

 thusiasm Of course, the roads were not very 

 ^ood, but there was a warm wind from the 

 sou'h. I took the train to a station distant 

 about a mile from a brick pavement that 

 runs into Cleveland. There were a goo I 

 many jokes about mj' getting over that mile 

 -without getting the shine off my boots; but, 

 to my agreeable surprise, I found it very nice 

 wheeling indeed.^ • "i ^-,r_jr^ ' :i'^, \r^ ' 



At one place where they were making some 

 repairs in the road one of the men said, jok- 

 ingh', " If he can get down ///a/ bank, he is 

 an old hand at the business, suir.'' But I 

 rode down it without a bit of trouble. Al- 

 though there were great lumps of dirt, so that 

 it looked as if it might bother a horse to get 

 through, it was all the way doicii liill. By 

 skillful guiding and twisting and pushing 

 ahead and holding back on the pedals I got 

 through what looked like ver}' formidable 

 difficulties. I kept my i-eat, and was over the 

 break in a trice, ami when I got on that brick 

 pavement, with the strong wind behind me — 

 but, didn't I just spin? This "good road" 

 is about fourteen miles long, and the only 

 thing that marred my jileasure was tlie num- 

 ber of teams drawing lieavy loads into the 

 city all along the road. They did not mar my 

 pleasure very much, after all, for the kind 

 and courteous way in which they gave me 

 room to pa-s fully compensated for what little 

 hindrance I met. Not one driver in all the 

 fourteen miles was in the least unfriendly. 

 Several who had loads said that, if I had rung 

 my bell a little sooner, they would have turn- 

 ed out for me willingl}'. 



There is a pleasant moral right here. Peo- 

 ple are betjinning to recognize the value of 

 wheels, and the place they are lo take in the 

 future. I did not use my bell much, because 

 that might have seemed to many people like 

 saying, "Gtt out of my way there." In- 

 stead of ringing the bell I saicl, after starling 

 to ride around the team, "Will you please 

 swing your horses ever just a little?" or, 

 " Will you please slack up just a little until I 

 ^et ahead? " After I got on the bricks again 

 I always said, " I am very nmch obliged to 

 you indeed." Altogether I had a most enjoy- 

 able ride in the middle of December. I re- 

 turned home on the train. 



CONTROLUNG DISEASE BY THE FOOD WE EAT. 



Before giving the following extract from the 

 L. A. IV. Bulletin, perhaps I should explain 

 that correspondents in that journal give their 

 L. A. W. number instead of their name. I 

 have been persuaded to give this communica- 

 tion a place because I am sure it strikes on a 

 great truth. Not only may rheumatism be at 

 least largely controlled by the diet, but I am 

 strongly impressed that there is scarcely a 

 disease that torments humanity that does not 

 come a good deal under the same head. It is 

 improper food or too much food that produces 

 disease ; and the only rational cure is to go 

 back to where the mischief started. You will 

 notice that our friend indorses the meat diet 

 (the Salisbury lean-meat treatment) by saying 

 he eats all the meat he wants, at least once a 

 day. 



The letter from No. ISO.S^S, on reduction of weight 

 by riding, is ver>- interesting, and no doubt the drink- 

 ing of large quantities of water under the condition of 

 profuse perspiration will, if the water be pure, act to 

 reduce the tendency to rheumatism. He admits, how- 

 ever, that his rheumatism is again returning. It is 

 strange, but too true, that in this age of progress and 

 advanced civilization, the simple facts concerning 

 that most painful and prevalent malady, rheumatism, 

 are not better understood. 



Whether it is that doctors do not care to consider 

 preventive means, or that people are not willing to 

 deny themselves any thing at all, certain it is that 

 rheumatism can be "almost entirely controlled by a 

 proper selection of food. This may come under the 

 head of diet, but is not svnonymous with starvation, 

 as commonly a.s,sumed. Perfect digestion and assimi- 

 lation of the food eaten means health, strength, and 

 vitality: but how many of us possess it? I know^ 

 hundreds who are suffering from stomach troubles, 

 but only one man who realizes the fact. They in- 

 variably ascribe it to other causes — usually overwork. 

 It is overwork, but not of the mental faculties, as they 

 prefer to think. If No, 130,.53.S would try ab.staining 

 from .sugar, grea.se, and .starchy food — particularly 

 fried potatoes — pastr>-, and fried cakes with syrup, 

 he will find his weight decrease, and all his faculties 

 improve in a verv short time. I suffered for years for 

 want of this knowledge, but finally obtained it upon 

 the highest medical authority, and now enjoy better 

 health than I ever remember, and I should like to .see 

 others equally benefited. I eat meat once a day, and 

 all I want of it. The other two meals consist princi- 

 pally of corn or graham bread, and fruit .stewed with- 

 out sugar, or fresh fruit, than which there is no better 

 food. The alkaloids contained in coffee upset the 

 stomach, but that is nothing to the stomach troubles 

 cau.sed by the medicines commonly used for the .so- 

 called cure for rheumatism, all of which can be avoid- 

 ed by not eating or drinking the stuff which is the 

 cause of the trouble. 



DOSING YOURSELF WITH DRUGS WITHOUT 

 THE ADVICE OF A PHYSICIAN. 



As an illustration of the danger of this 

 work, the following incident has just come 

 under my notice. A person was feeling poor- 

 ly; and after trying several remedies, and be- 

 ing "nothing better, but rather grew worse," 

 as Mark puts it, in regard to a certain woman, 

 he consulted an able physician. I happened 

 to be present. After looking him over a little 

 the doctor said: 



" Have you been taking quinine to-day? " 



" Yes, sir." 



" How much, and how long ago? " 



' ' I took four grains about half an hour 

 ago." 



" Is that all you have taken to-day ? " 



