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sjiiiie tliiuy Willi (he cliifoinnotio peo])le 

 Tlio veiulers of lliese now in\ ciilioiis poiiil 

 you to their testimonials from tlie people 

 they have helped. My reply is that the oxy- 

 donor people have just as many testimonials, 

 or even more, and yet that little piece of 

 metal representing a scientific instrument 

 contains nothing but sulphur and graphite, 

 or some other senseless ingredient. 



Let me repeat an incident that was re- 

 jjorted to me. Years ago the eleetropoise 

 people had a $50.00 instrument. It looked 

 something like a clock. On the dial was 

 printed the name of ever so many diseases, 

 including dii^htheria, pneumonia, cancer, 

 etc. When the patient who owned one of 

 these clocks was sick he simply turned the 

 Jiand on the dial of the clock to the partic- 

 ular disease he thought he had. A well-to- 

 do man in Michigan, when building a fine 

 residence had one of these eleetropoise clocks 

 put in so as to have his home up to date. 

 Somebody asked him what sort of compli- 

 cated machinery was inside that enabled it 

 to pick out any i^articular disease and send 

 the remedy through the wire hitched to the 

 patient's ankle. The owner said he was 

 curious about it himself, and Avould like to 

 investigate. The machine could not be un- 

 screwed, so he got a chisel and pried it open. 

 What sort of scientific apparatus do you 

 suppose they found ? Why, they found just 

 a common nail driven into the back of the 

 clock, and the wire that was hitched to the 

 clasp that went around the ankle was simply 

 twisted around that nail. Now, the inven- 

 tors, or venders, perhaps I should say, had 

 testimonials to the wonderful cures per- 

 formed by that " clock." 



To come right down to date I wish to 

 mention "sanatogen." You see it advertised 

 in many papers. Just recently I saw it in 

 a prominent religious weekly, with the state- 

 ment that it had the indorsement of 21,000 

 doctors. Ask your family physician what 

 he thinks about sanatogen, and then consid- 

 er the statement of so many doctors ! Elee- 

 tropoise said years ago they had the indorse- 

 ment of a hundred ministers of the gospel. 

 If this were true, the greater shame to such 

 ministers. Well, sanatogen may be a little 

 better, owing to tlie fact that it really does 

 help people; but Collier's Weekly tells us 

 that it helps just about as much as the 

 same amount of cottage cheese. The only 

 trouble is that we have to buy $100 worth 

 of sanatogen to get the same amount of 

 energy that we do from a dollar's worth of 

 wheat flour. The pi'ice of it is from one 

 dollar up; and where people have more dol- 

 lars than they have use for it miglit be a 

 good investment. 



])r. 11. W. Wiley, in (Hood TIoiiseleej>infi 

 lor . January, 191;}, agrees substantially with 

 tlie above. In fact, he says: 



One dollar's worth of sanatogen yields approxi- 

 mately not more energy than six cents' worth of 

 good milk or one cent's worth of ordinary wheat 

 flour. The following claims made for sanatogen are 

 seen, therefore, to be highly exaggerated: 



The re-creator of lost health. 



Sanatogen is .... a rebuilding food. 



revitalizes the overworked nervous 



system. 



Specific nerve-tonic action. 



Most reliable and scientific of all nutrients. 



By the way, since reading of the wonder- 

 ful results from the use of sanatogen I 

 thought I would test cottage cheese. I used 

 it with my fruit for my supper instead of 

 common cheese; and I am rejoiced to say 

 that it fills the bill better than any other 

 cheese I ever got hold of. Last night I had 

 for my supper beautiful luscious peaches — 

 six cents' worth — and a little bowl of cottage 

 clieese with some buttermilk stirred in. I 

 told Mrs. Root it was the most delicious 

 meal I ever had in all my life. She would 

 not allow this to go in print if she knew it, 

 because she says I have said it so many 

 times; but I tell her the world is progres- 

 sing. Every day gives us something better 

 ihaii we ever had before. 



I do not know exactly what price I ought 

 to put on the cottage cheese and buttermilk, 

 for we have two good cows; and while our 

 young folks are off at our cottage on the 

 lake, there is more milk than all the families 

 can use; so if I do not have the cottage 

 cheese and buttermilk it Avould go to the 

 chickens. 



Now, good people, those of you who have 

 paid from 25 to 50 cents (or more) for your 

 supper, just hunt up some nice peaches and 

 get some cottage cheese somewhere, and you 

 see if it does not make a meal fit for a king, 

 and ten cents will pay the bill. Mrs. Root 

 says if I am going to continue with the 

 above meal I need not tell people any longer 

 that I " do not eat any supper." 



Now just one word more. Mrs. Root pre- 

 l)ares my cuj) of cheese and buttermilk at 

 any odd time during the day, and places it 

 where I can find it readily. I get the peaches 

 at tlie grocery. When I am through I drop 

 Ihe i)eachstones in the bowl that contained 

 my cheese, carry them away, and then Mrs. 

 Root simply has the one bowl and spoon to 

 wasli. Perhaps I had better add that her 

 supper is about as simple as mine. I think, 

 however, she has a little dry toast and but- 

 ter, or something that does not require a lot 

 of dishes, and nothing to clear up after 

 supper. 



