GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



what 1 needed if it were not too severe, and 

 that better air, and the pure air of the coun- 

 try, is very much better for one who is 

 anxious to retain his powers of mind and 

 body as long as possible.* 



In regard to food, nature will indicate 

 what is best for you if you will enter into 

 her way. By the way, the Cleveland Pliin 

 Dealer is now printing some talks on health 

 eveiT day from a very competent and able 

 physician. I greatly value these health 

 talks, and I rejoice to hear this good doctor 

 say again and again that stimulants and 

 intoxicants are all to be avoided. He an- 

 swers more or less in every issue of the 

 daily, and every little Avhile some one asks 

 him if a little beer or whisky would not be 

 a help for this, that, and the other. But 

 his reply is no every time. May God be 

 praised that the physicians of the present 

 day are getting to be a unit in regard to 

 alcohol as a medicine. 



By the way, our good friend R. F. Hol- 

 termann, of Brantford, Canada, made us a 

 call yesterday, July 5. We were talking 

 about preserving health clear up into old 

 age. Pie said something like this: " Some 

 good authority lias said that a man should 

 exercise enough to take a good sweat twice 

 a day ;" and then he added, " As a matter 

 of course we do not want to overdo the 

 thing." He said his test was if, when he 

 got up the next morning, he felt bright and 

 well as a result of the exercise of the day 

 before, that exercise did not do him any 

 harm. That has been my experience. Many 

 times lately when I feared the use of the 

 cultivator might show itself, next day, to my 

 surprise, I would get up feeling unusually 

 well, and all ready for some more of the 

 same kind of medicine. 



Now, friends, in summing up is it not 

 very likely that we can have greater "length 

 of days, long life, and i^eace," as we have it 

 in our text, if we study these bodies of ours 

 exactly as I studied that electric automobile 

 which I made do double the work they told 

 me at the factory where it was made I 

 would be likely to get out of it? But it 

 came about because it was my delight to 

 study it and master its mechanism from 

 beginning to end.. I went over books on 

 electricity, and questioned experts, and 

 studied God's laws in regard to the wonder- 

 ful current which does our bidding in so 

 many ways. 



Our text also intimates that " length of 

 days and long life" are the result of keep- 



* I liave just discovered that riding in .in auto- 

 mobile, say early in the morning, against n goorl stiff 

 lireezp, tones and braces me up a thousaiul times 

 better than any dope or stimulant ever invented. 

 Just take in long breaths, as much as you can hold, 

 and get an extra supply of God-given oxygen. 



ing Cod's commandments. A study of the 

 Bible will, I am sure, be a great help to long 

 life. Then we can make it a lifelong earnest 

 study to understand better the mechanism 

 of these bodies. "We can find out by careful 

 intelligent experiment what helps and what 

 hurts. When T discovered that headache 

 powders gave instant relief, not only to 

 headache but to toothache and earache, I 

 was delighted ; but when I found out short- 

 ly after that those same powders interrupt- 

 ed the digestion and "made mischief " wit li 

 the machinery in other ways, T decided " no 

 more dope for this child." It must have 

 been toward thirty years ago that toward 

 night I felt a queer breaking-down which I 

 could not undei stand. I remember one eve- 

 ning just before our teachers' meeting I said 

 to myself, " What in the world is the mat- 

 ter? " and I managed to get along in a 

 dazed sort of way until bedtime. In the 

 morning I was all right, and pretty soon I 

 discovered that a little sleep, say twenty or 

 thirty minutes, was a cure for this giving- 

 out, if I may so express myself, when I 

 have been doing an unusual lot of brain- 

 work. My brain or nerves were in just the 

 fix that the storage battery was. A halt 

 was necessary in order for the various 

 cliemieals to assemble, as it were. Now, I 

 do not know just exactly hoiv sleep enables 

 nature to readjust and make good certain 

 things in order to make uj) for those that 

 are worn out. After careful cutting and 

 trying I discovered that physical exercise 

 and taking a sweat are almost as necessary 

 as sleep ; and by carefully noting the effect 

 of different kinds of food I was able to 

 decide what foods are best for me, or the 

 quantity of food that would enable me to do 

 the most work. Upton Sinclair, as you re- 

 member, discovered he could get great bene- 

 fit by fasting; and thousands besides myself 

 have found out that over-eating is one of 

 the great sources of mischief. Do not have 

 too many diffeient kinds of food at a meal ; 

 and beware of tempting dishes that are 

 invented, it sometimes seems to me, for al- 

 most the sole jnirpose of persuading us to 

 eat more than we need. Let us remember 

 that these wonderful bodies of ours that 

 hold out sometimes close to a hundred years 

 are or should be " the temple of the Holy 

 Ghost;" and let us remember the promise 

 that if we study and keep God's command- 

 ments we are likely to have "length of days 

 and long life." And, finally, if you will 

 excuse the abruptness of my third and last 

 text, even old men like myself, if we live 

 light, may feel like that beautiful God-given 

 domestic animal which " paweth in the val- 

 ley and rejoicelh in his strength." 



T spoke about the importance of storing 



