1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1149 



appetite for the lean moat, and have him 

 eat as much of it as you can." 



I asked if he would need physic, as I did, 

 to prevent constipation. 



"No, I think not. I don't like to erive 

 medicine of any kind to children, and it is 

 seldom necessary. Nature will take care of 

 them if their food and habits are right. We 

 advise some medicine for grown-up people 

 when they have for some years gone wrong 

 and they can stand it better; but it is a bad 

 plan for anybody." 



I think Ernest was kept out of school one 

 winter. His wheelbarrow was soon known 

 all over town; for with his waterproof suit 

 it was out in all kinds of weather— either 

 that or the sled. His appetite increased, as 

 a matter of course, and his muscles devel- 

 oped, and finally his hearing was all right. 

 God intpnded children to be out of d<iors 

 every day in the year. And the parent 

 who, with mistaken kindness, "coops them 

 up," must pay the penalty in some way or 

 other. 



While paying tribute to Dr. Salisbury I 

 wish to mention another reform he started. 



BREAD WELL BAKED AND FOOD Vi^ELL COOK- 

 ED. 



When the doctor allowed me a little bread 

 after I had been some time on clear meat 

 diet, it was only the German zwieback (or 

 "twice-baked") bread; and later, when I 

 began to eat common bread, he said I shnnld 

 be careful to have it well baked. Soft 

 doughy bread masses on the stomach, and 

 the gastric juice can not get all through it. 

 As a consequence, digestion is delaved, and 

 the old fermentation gets started Mrs. 

 Root and I are constantly annoyed in travel- 

 ing because we can not find bread baked 

 enough to be whol^^some. When we go to 

 the bakers they tell us their average cus- 

 tomers will not buy it if it is bakpd hard. 

 Why do invalids and others whose digestion 

 is bad always have "toast"? Why, it's 

 just because a 1 the world admits that well- 

 haked or twice-baked bread is more digesti- 

 ble. Dr, S. always told his patients to have 

 all grains thoroughly cooked. Indian meal 

 is a very wholesome food if cooked slowly 

 several hours, and the same with oatmeal 

 and lots of other things. Poor cooking and 

 insufficient conkwg ha^ much to do with get- 

 ting along without medicines and doctors.* 



SUN BATHS. 



After writing up "A. I. Root's Bath- 

 room " in la=t issue I came across the fol- 

 lowing in Good Health for October.f 



* Let us not forget bow much the Good Health people 

 of Battle Creek, Mich., have done in furnishinpr the 

 world with wholesome foods well cooked. And. hy the 

 way. Mrs. Foot and T. after testing a prreat number of 

 coffee substitutes nncliidinpr the "Postum"). have, set- 

 tled down on the "carmel cereal," made by the Battle 

 Creek people, as first and heat. 



f Perhaps I mig-ht add that, with the arrangement de- 

 scribed in the last issue. I took several very nice sun 

 baths and water baths out in the open air during the 

 last week in September; and during the whole of that 

 Oionth I enjoyed better health and more exuberant 

 spirits than I ever did at any other time of my life, not 

 even excepting my boyhood. 



SUN BATHING FOR LONGEVITY. 



Mr. Andrew Joseph Thompson, of Santa Rosa, Cal., 

 who has reached the unusual age of 113 years, recently 

 rnade a trip to Minnesota to attend the marriage of 

 his great-granddaughter. Mr. Thompson is active and 

 bright-eyed. He says that he hopes to complete another 

 century of life. He gives the following as the reasons 

 that have enabled him to reach this great age in comfort: 



" In the first place I refuse to be worried about any 

 thing. Since I ceased actual business, about sixty years 

 ago, I have never let a day pai=s, when the sun shone, 

 without hiring my body to its rays for one or two hours. 

 On my place in California I have an enclosed space 

 where I go as naked as God made me. There is a little 

 lake, and some woodland, and a rose-garden: and dur- 

 ing the time of my sun bath I ramble about through the 

 paths. The sun sinks into my old bones, and gives them 

 new life. My skin is as brown as an Indian's all over. 

 It has been that way ever since I began the practice of 

 sun bithing. For cold weather I have a glass hoij.se at 

 the top of my residence, comfortably fixed up. and there 

 I take my bath through the windows when compelled 

 to do so." 



One m'ght almost think I got some of my 

 ideas from the above. Now, can we not 

 have some inore "gardens" for sun bath- 

 ing? Why, bless your hearts, friends, it 

 was in just such a garden that God placed 

 Adam and Eve before the Fall, and they 

 two had " sun baths " every day and all the 

 time. Was it E. P. Roe who gave us the 

 book "Getting Back to Eden "? Well, now, 

 don't you believe it will be a grand thing for 

 a great lot of us to "get back to E !en "? 

 and may be some of us older ones had better 

 get into a "hustle" about it ere it is too 

 late. 



Convention Notices. 



PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



The National Bee-keepers' Association will hold its 

 annual convention at the Revere House, corner of Clark 

 and Michigan Sts., Chicago, during the fat-stock fhow, 

 when exn- edingly low rates may be secured on the rail- 

 roads. The dates for the meeting are Dec. 5, 6, and 7. 

 Rates at the hotel are 75 cts. for a room alone, or 50 cts. 

 each where two occupy the same room. Meals are 

 extra, orthry may be secured at nearby restaurants. 

 The program is as follows: 



FIRST DAY. 



Evening session, 7:30.—" Wax-rendering Methods and 

 T eir Faults," O. L. Hershiser, Bufi'alo, N. Y.; "Can 

 the Tariff on Tomb Honey be Tinkered to the Advan- 

 tage of the U. S. Bee- keeper?" by Hildreth & Segel- 

 ken. New York. 



SECOND DAY. 



Mo-ning session, 9:30. — " How many Bees shall a Man 

 Keep?" by E. D. Townsend, Remus. Mich.; "Shoit 

 Cuts in Bee-ke.-ping," by M. A. Gill. Longmont, Colo ; 

 " Producini' Comb Honey and Extracted Honey on 

 the same Colony," by Jas. A. Green, Grand Junction, 

 Colo.: question-box. 



Afternoon session, 2:00.— "The Control of Increase," by 

 L. Stachelhausen, Converse, Texas; " Migratory Bee- 

 keeping," by R.F. Holtermann, Brantford, Can.; ques- 

 tion-box. 



Evening session, 7:30.— " Contagious Diseases among 

 Bees, and how to Distinguish Them." by Dr. Wm, R. 

 Howard, Ft. Worth, Texas; "Experimental Apicul- 

 ture," by Dr. E. F. PhilHp-. Washington, D. C. 



THIRD DAY. 



Morning session, 9:30.— "The Honey-producers' League 

 —Can it Help Bee-keepers ?" by R. L. Taylor, Lapeer, 

 Mich.: "The Business End of Bee-keeping." by N. E. 

 France, Platteville, Wis ; "Successful Experience in 

 the Making of Honey Vinegar," by H. M. Arnd, 

 Chicago, 111.; question-box. 



Afternoon session, 2:00. —" In what Way can Bee-keep- 

 ers Secure Their Supplies at Lower Piices?" by W. H. 

 Putnam, River Falls, Wis.; "How the Producer "and 

 Dealer may Advance their Mutual Interests." by 

 Fred W. Muth, Cincinnati. Ohio; question-box. 



Evening session, 7:30. "What have We to Hope for 

 from the Non-swarming Hive?" by L. A. Aspinwall, 

 Jackson. Mich.; "Poultry-keeping for the Bee-keep- 

 er," by E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph. Mo. 



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