SEPTEMBER 1, 1914 



])ains T can keep my night-dress so clean 

 that, if 1 get my old one and a new one 

 mixed, 1 cannot tell which is which. Yonr 

 wife will be pleased to have a " clean hus- 

 band " even if nobody else is. 



In the above I spoke about having a bath 

 in the morning. When the weather is very 

 warm, and I feel particularly hot and 

 sweaty, I take a bath at night. Now, here 

 is another point : I have been suspicious for 

 many years that the time to take a bath so 

 as to have it do the must good is when you 

 are sweating so profusely that you cannot 

 only see the foul matter that has been 

 forced out through the pores of the skin, 

 but 3^ou can smell it. This is the time for a 

 bath, and you do not want to wait until the 

 sweat dries on. If you do, a large part of 

 the impure matter some way works back 

 through the pores into the body. I have 

 been thinking this a good while, but hardly 

 dared to put it in print until I saw the 

 book " Old Age Deferred," and this book 

 said it is really true. While you are drip- 

 ping with sweat, and are so wet that you 

 are in danger of catching cold if you sit in 

 a draft, then is the time to give your body 

 a good cleansing with plenty of clean soft 

 water ; for if you wait until the sweat evap- 

 orates, and your body becomes dry, a certain 

 amount of impure matter gets back into the 

 system to such an extent that soap and 

 water cannot catch it all. Some of you may 

 be inclined to dispute this; but try taking 

 a bath in water not too cold when you are 

 covered with sweat. I remember that on 

 one. occasion Avhen living in the "cabin in 

 the woods " I had been working vei'y hard, 

 and was quite tired out. It was quite im- 

 portant, however, that 1 should go over the 

 hills to a neighbor's a little more than a 

 mile away. I was, at the time, covered with 

 sweat, and thought I would have to give up 

 the trip, as I felt too much used up. I 

 happened, however, to be near a spring in 

 the woods. I just stripped off, and, taking 

 a wash-basin that I kept there for the pur- 

 pose, I poured cold spring water all over 

 my body again and again. Then I put on 

 my " duds " and made the trip on my wheel 

 over the hills and back, and " that tired 

 feeling" I had was all gone. It did not come 

 back at all, and the next morning I felt 

 especially strong and well. 



Now, those of you who wish to join the 

 club that is going to try to live to be a 

 hundred years old, and to be sweet and clean 

 up to the hundred mark, start in with a 

 daily bath, and do something every day in 

 your life to start sweating just a little, with 

 outdoor exercise if possible. 



In the above I spoke about the need of 



ventilation for the feet, and I want to add 

 a word about the ventilation of the wliole 

 body. In order to feel well and do effective 

 work with either brain or muscle, especially 

 in hot weather, it is quite important that the 

 whole body be exposed to the air as much 

 as possible, and that we should avoid heavy, 

 useless clothing. Until recently I have been 

 wearing summer underwear that cost $2.00 

 a garment — union suits. I am now wearing 

 something very much more comfortable, 

 with a good deal more ventilation, and 

 which is more satisfactory all around, that 

 cost only 40 cents a garment, which I 

 bought of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It is some- 

 thing on the plan of the " porousknit " 

 underwear. It gives more air to the body 

 than any thing else I have ever got hold of. 

 and I should think it would be quite dur- 

 able, as it is all cotton, with no bother about 

 shrinkage at the laundiy. 



cheese; like fruit it should be well 'ripened" 



BEFORE being EATEN. 



Mr. Root : — I was much interested in yuur article 

 on cheese as a diet. You speak in regard to many 

 believing it to be constipating. Is not this simply a 

 matter of the quality of the cheese and the quantity 

 eaten? At least from my experience I should say it 

 is. Eaten as many do before it is half ripened, or 

 "green," in small quantities, it surely is; but if 

 eaten in the place of meat, in generous quantity, we 

 have not found it so. You emphasize the necessity 

 of well-ripened fruits and honey. Why not the 

 cheese also ? In this market it is very hard to get 

 well-ripened cheese, as nine-tenths of the people call 

 for the green indigestible stuff that is not fit to eat 

 My test for a good cheese is that it sholuld dissolve 

 in the mouth like a lump of sugar or honey. AVliile 

 I have never gotten to the place where I could pick 

 out the " skippers " and eat the cheese, I like it 

 pretty close to that stage. We have an idea that 

 incipient colds and sore throat can be stopped by a 

 good dose of well-ripened cheese. Any way, it is 

 " mighty soothing " to a sore throat to let a piece 

 dissolve in the mouth. I had a school friend whose 

 remedy for a bad cold was to take off his shoes, 

 place his feet as near a hot stove as he could bear, 

 and eat from a pound to a pound and a half of good 

 cheese and go to bed. S. T. Wallar, 



Forest Grove, Ore., July 27. 



My own experience agrees remarkably 

 with what is said above, with the exception 

 of the tremendous " dose " of cheese spoken 

 of at the close. 



" OLD AGE DEFERRED ;" THK SIMPLE LIFE. 



The first of the following clippings is 

 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the 

 second from the Indianapolis Star. 



LIVES TO BE 103 ; CLEVELAND'S OLDEST MAN EX- 

 PIRES IN WARSAW, IND. 



Moderation in eating was Mr. Clark's primary 

 rule, the one to which he always accounted his lon- 

 gevity. Plain food, no pastries, composed his daily 

 diet. He practiced the theories of Horace Fletcher 

 years before Fletcher gained notoriety by liis advo- 

 cacy of the simple diet. Mr. Clark nevt-r used alco- 



