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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Jan. 15 



a good dinner was just nice mellow apples 

 and nothing else." 



Now, friends, I do not suppose it makes 

 much difference what meal in the day shall 

 be the fruit meal; but I do believe that one 

 meal of apples alone would conduce greatly 

 to the health and longevity of the whole 

 human family. It might transpire in the 

 end that some of you city chaps would have 

 to get outdoors and learn to grow apples; 

 but I think it would not only give you bet- 

 ter health but more enjoyment than you 

 ever had before in your life. And, by the 

 way, is it not a wonderful thing once more 

 to notice how "great (?) minds run in par- 

 allel channels " ? Of course, when you take 

 avoirdupois for a comparison there is not 

 much similarity between the President and 

 myself; but we both "like apples." 



Just one thing more. Below is a clipping 

 (I do not know where it came from) that 

 indicates that the immortal Weston also 

 eats his apple every day. 



Weston keeps cheerUil, looks on the bright side 

 of life, and— eats his apple every day ! 



GOING WITHOUT YOUR SUPPER (OB BREAK- 

 FAST) . 



I think it will pay you, friends, especial- 

 ly those who are suffering from indigestion, 

 to get World's Work for October and read 

 the article headed "The Way to Health; 

 my Experience with Fletcherism," by C. M. 

 Cady, Professor of English Language and 

 Literature, Doshisha College, Kioto, Japan. 

 It is true the writer, mentions omitting 

 breakfast instead of supper; but I suppose 

 it amounts to about the same thing. In 

 my case I prefer omitting the last meal of 

 the day so that digestion may be finished 

 up and cleaned up before I lie down for my 

 final rest. I want to make two extracts 

 from the article as follows: 



I made up my mind, with great fear and trem 

 bling, to try Mr. Fletcher's own plan of omitting 

 the breakfast. I feared, because I had broken down 

 twice before my classes, and I dreaded that experi- 

 ence again. 



I went to school on Monday morning without 

 eating any thing. I got through the first hour all 

 right, but the second hour I began to feel "gone," 

 and the craving of the stomach for food be- 

 came very strong. Instead of eating, I drank two 

 glasses of cold water; that braced me up to get 

 through the third hour; at the end of the third hour 

 I di'ank three glasses of cold water, and so got 

 through the fourth hour without trouble. Then I 

 found that a very light lunch left me without any 

 distress, and that I could sit down and do some 

 writing. This was encouraging, because it was the 

 first time that I had been able to do this for more 

 than two years. 



The second day I repeated the first day's experi- 

 ence, but with less and less discomfort on account 

 of the absence of food in the morning. The third 

 day was very much better than the other two; on 

 the fourth day it never occurred to me, so far as my 

 bodily feelings were concerned, that I had not had 

 my regular breakfast. Evidently my hunger in the 

 morning was purely what Mr. Fletcher calls a 

 "habit-hunger," for it was absolutely and complete- 

 ly removed by drinking. 



Now. nothing. I think, could be more encourag- 

 ing than my experience in this regard. It is not 

 usual for a man to pull up after such serious break- 

 downs—four times repeated — but the fact was, as I 

 now believe, my great trouble was largely due to 

 overeating: the excess food simply poisoned my 



whole system, and the poison was the depressing in- 

 fluence. My experience has been similar to many 

 others, that the intellectual life has been wonder- 

 fully increased. 



As soon as I was on my feet ready for work, new 

 and ever-widening opportunities for action and in- 

 fluence came my way — opportunities that were 

 never dreamed possible, and for the taking of which 

 I had never had the strength either of body or of 

 mind. Now they are entered upon with prompt- 

 ness and handled without hesitation. 



Before this last recovery, I seemed to be shut up 

 mostly to the negative side of success — the finding 

 out of what I could not do. Since last December, 

 this state of things has turned quite about, and I 

 have the positive enjoyment of seeing things that I 

 touch move, and move, too, in the way that I push. 



I wish to call attention particularly to the 

 closing paragraph. Since I have omitted 

 suppers, not only a new vigor but a new 

 faculty to accomi:)lish difficult things has 

 come into my life. As Professor Cady puts 

 it, "I have the positive enjoyment of seeing 

 things that I touch move. ' ' 



SOMETHING BRIGHT FROM FLETCHER. 



We clip the following from the Woman^s 

 National Daily for Oct. 28: 



WOULD YOU LIVE LONG AND CUT COST OF LIVING 



IN TWO? THKN CHEW. CHEW. CHEW, CHEW, 



SA.YS HORACE FLETCHER. 



Chicago, Oct. 27.— Would you live to a ripe old 

 age, with every sense and every function and fac- 

 ulty alert and active? Would you cut down the 

 price of your food one-half and the amount one- 

 third? Would you devote a little more than half as 

 much time to sleep as you now devote, and awake 

 fully refreshed? Would you, now? Would you 

 really eliminate your taste for liquor and tobacco, 

 and still further cut down the cost of living? Would 

 you, in short, entirely rehabilitate yourself, your 

 whole body, your mind, your faculties? Then 

 Fletcherize. Horace Fletcher, the world-famous 

 exponent of the science of eating properly, told how 

 to do it in a lecture on "The Gateway of Human 

 Health and Efficiency." 



"Masticate every movithful of food until no ves- 

 tige of taste remains in it before swallowing," is the 

 rule he laid down. He claims that proper eating 

 solves even the question of sociological reform. 

 " Nature certainly intends well toward men; there- 

 fore nature certainly placed some responsibility 

 upon men. If men, if the human race, learn to eat 

 properly, then the day will come when there will 

 be no necessity for social reforms; and when that 

 day comes, my work will be done. 



The above suggestion in regard to sleep 

 probably refers to the fact that some people 

 eat so much that it makes them sleepy and 

 dull; and the further suggestion that the 

 craving for liquor and tobacco is caused by 

 overeating, I heartily indorse. Right along 

 in this line somebody has suggested that 

 plenty of apples is the best thing to induce 

 an intemperate man to forget his cravings 

 for liquor. 



MORE PROFIT FROM A FARM OF TWO ACRES THAN 

 FROM ONE OF FIFTY. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — For a number of years I have ta- 

 ken your journal. I don't keep a bee: but the read- 

 ing just suits me, especially the Florida articles. I 

 have relatives living in Polk Co.. by the name of 

 Lilllbridge. They conduct a postofflce by the same 

 name. I am a veteran of the civil war, 65 years of 

 age. I get a small pension. I am told that I am as 

 active as many men of 40. I use neither rum nor 

 tobacco. Some years ago I owned a fifty-acre farm. 

 I gave it up. taking a little place of two acres in the 

 thickly settled portion of this town. I get more 

 clean money from the two-acre place than I did 



