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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



:) Godsend for many such troubles ; but the 

 acid, I find, is too harsh for my digestion 

 unless I put in sugar; and cane sugar is 

 quite sure to disagree with me. Very likely 

 some lemonade sweetened with honey might 

 come pretty near grapefruit. 



Now to the point our good brother makes. 

 When I do not have grapefruit or currants 

 I often have troubled dreams, and finally 

 wake up feeling exceedingly uncomfortable, 

 and with a suggestion that the blood in my 

 veins is poisoned with impurities or some- 

 thing else. I do not know any better way 

 to express it. Now, at such times there 

 seems to be a very strong disposition against 

 getting up and going to the water-closet; 

 and I often just turn over, being only half 

 awake, and go to sleep again. More trou- 

 bled dreams and more distress follow, even 

 if I am only half asleep. If it is quite cold 

 weather at such times I feel a strong aver- 

 sion toward getting out of a warm bed into 

 the cold air, for you know we always sleep 

 with doors and windows wide open (well 

 screened, of course). Well, before I re- 

 ceived the above kind letter I made up my 

 mind that it must be injurious to yield to 

 the lazy feeling, instead of getting up right 

 promptly as soon as nature gives warning; 

 and since I have practiced jumping out of 

 bed at once, be it one, two, or three o'clock, 

 and going to the water-closet, my health has 

 visibly improved. You see it is nature's 

 call, or warning, perhaps I might say, that 

 the imjiurities eliminated by the kidneys 

 should be gotten out of the system as speed- 

 ily as possible. Very likely if the digestive 

 apparatus were in proper condition there 

 would be no such impurities to collect and 

 endanger the health; but if they do collect, 

 get them out of the system as soon as possi- 

 ble. A neglect to do this will, as the doctor 

 states above, result in gallstones, inflamma- 

 tion of the bladder, and no end of trouble. 

 After getting up in the night, as I have 

 described, letting nature have her way, then 

 rinsing my mouth with cold water, and 

 finally taking a good drink, and at the same 

 time giving my arms, limbs, and chest a 

 good brisk nibbing to start up the sluggisli 

 circulation, I go back to bed and get the 

 most refreshing sleep of the night. I grant 

 you that a better way would be to avoid the 

 necessity of getting up, say by the use of 

 grapefruit, crabapple cider, or something of 

 that kind. But when you do realize that 

 your circulation is impaired, shake off the 

 lazy, sleepy feeling and spring out of bed 

 at once. Now, some of the good family 

 physicians among our readers may think 

 the above not strictly orthodox; and if so 



I sliould be glad indeed to receive their 

 criticism. 



My friend W. P. Root suggests right here 

 in my dictation that the above depends 

 largely on what we eat and drink after 

 supper, or just before going to bed. If one 

 " fills up " on watermelon, for instance, 

 during the evening he may expect disturbed 

 sleep. And this reminds me that I have 

 neglected to say in the above that nothing- 

 passes my lips except pure water after my 

 fruit supper between four and five o'clock 

 and bedtime. 



By the way, here is something more in 

 regard to the same matter. Please notice 

 particularly the closing sentence. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I wish to congraulate you on 

 the (to me) sensible talk you gave in Our Homes for 

 Nov. 15, 1913, about taking care of these bodies of 

 ours. I believe almost wholly with you on that 

 subject, and think it would be a good idea for that 

 article to be printed at least twice a year; in fact, 

 keep it before the people — fresh air, plenty of exer- 

 cise, and good wholesome food and warm clothing. 

 This goes a long way toward keeping us in good 

 health; also attending to the slightest call of nature. 

 That is a thing that is badly abused through real or 

 fancied modesty. 



Derby, Nev. H. E. Ordway. 



To have every thing plain without any 

 risk of misunderstanding, permit me to say 

 in closing that all the above refers only to 

 emptying the bladder. In regard to a move- 

 ment of the bowels, my health is very much 

 better when they move only once a dav, 

 say an hour or two after my morning meal. 

 Terry and the Battle Creek folks, you may 

 notice, recommend two movements of the 

 bowels, or, better still, three. I suppose we 

 are not all alike in this respect, and each 

 one must decide for himself; but I would 

 stoutly object to the daily use of physics or 

 hot-water enemas that were so much talked 

 about years ago. The hot-water enemas are 

 all right in case of an emergency, but I am 

 sure they are not right for daily use nor to 

 use too frequently. 



LIVING TO BE OVER 100 YEARS OLD. 



In Terry's book, "How to Keep Well 

 and Live Long," he mentions in two differ- 

 ent places a CajDtain Diamond who was over 

 100 years old at the time the book was pub- 

 lished. One of our readers sends me the 

 following clipping from a newspaper: 



San Francisco, Aug. 15. — Capt. Goddard Eze- 

 kiel D. Diamond, who, according to his own state- 

 ments and evidence, was 118 years old, died here 

 late last night. 



If any of our readers in the vicinity can 

 give us any further particulars in regard to 

 this unusual longevity, we shall be very glad 

 to get it. 



