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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 1 



ing, and it started an unpleasantness be- 

 tween him and the minister that probably 

 prevented the man of God from having- any 

 influence for good over that man while he 

 stayed in our town; and our pastor confess- 

 ed afterward that he had probably erred in 

 judgment; that it would have been better to 

 take the chicken under the circumstances, 

 keeping- friendly relations with the meat- 

 man, and suggesting- to him at the same 

 time that he preferred not to receive any 

 meat on Sunda3'. Don't you think the lat- 

 ter course would have been better? And is 

 it not a worse thing- in God's sight to lose 

 30ur influence over a neighbor than to do 

 something- Sunday morning- in the way of 

 business?-* 



One more little incident comes to mind 

 now in reg-ard to that Cuban apiary. I 

 was at the time having- a rather bad spell 

 with my digestion, and was living- mostly 

 on toast and milk. Sunday we had no milk. 

 I was compelled to get along the best I 

 could. The manager of our apiary said by 

 way of explanation that he had shut down 

 on a/l buying and selling on Sunday. Not 

 even could " milk and honey " be dispensed 

 to the sick or well. When I remarked that, 

 when the boy came around, I would buy a 

 little milk on my own responsibility, he re- 

 plied, " The boy will not come around with 

 milk this morning. I told him yesterday 

 he need not bring it any more on Sunday." 



Now, friends, even if we do ?iot all think 

 alike in regard to this matter concerning 

 the Sunday milk-man, can we not express 

 our views and live up to our convictions, and 

 do it in a friendh' and tolerant way? I 

 still think it is a worse thing in God's sight 

 to quarrel over such things than to go a lit- 

 tle too far in buying and selling on Sunday. 

 Of course, we should all, as Christians, 

 make arrangements beforehand so as to 

 have just as little Sunday traffic as possi- 

 ble. When we get right down to it, is not 

 this the true spirit of the beautiful text, 

 " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it 

 holy " ? I would advise friend Morgan and 

 every one else who is puzzled to know just 

 what is right in the matter to read the com- 

 plete record of the works and sayings of our 

 Savior, and note carefully what his attitude 

 was in regard to keeping the Sabbath. 



"WHAT SHALL WE EAT? ALSO MORE ABOUT 

 THE AGUA CALIENTE HOT SPRINGS. 



Ever since that article in our July 1st is- 

 sue, where I quoted from Terry, and made 

 comments in regard to eating what you 



*Please bear in mind that I would most emphatical- 

 ly discourage keeping open any store or market, 

 fruit-stand, or any thing of the sort. In large cities I 

 suppose restaurants have to be kept open for the ben- 

 efit of the regular boarders, or strangers who must 

 have their daily food on Sunday as well as other days. 



please without having it hurt you, etc., my 

 conscience has troubled me. It is true I 

 drank a bowlful of hot lemonade, and ex- 

 perienced no bad eftects from it. I also ate 

 strawberries freel}' three times a day for a 

 week; but very soon after I wrote that, 1 

 found I had (as many times before) got to 

 " let up "on using so much fruit. When I 

 am doing severe mechanical work in the 

 open air I can stand a good deal more of 

 such diet; but sooner or later nature revolts, 

 and I have to get back to a diet of beefsteak 

 and dry bread. The truth of the matter 

 seems to be in my case, and I think very 

 likely in that of many others, after having 

 been careful to eat such things as agree 

 with me, and not in excess, for several days, 

 say until my digestion gets in good work- 

 ing order, then I can stand quite a little 

 fruit, without injury. Why, this is so coin- 

 tnonly recognized, there is a peculiar trouble 

 with digestion, often called " summer com- 

 plaint;" and this summer complaint is just 

 indulging in too much fruit, or perhaps we 

 may say fruit and vegetables when they 

 first get to be plentiful and cheap. My im- 

 pression is that friend Terry has found out 

 by this time that the directions in his S5.0O 

 circular do not ver}' well answer to tie to. 

 Imagination is a great factor, no doubt, in 

 the matter of eating and drinking; but it is. 

 not all of it by any means. When nature 

 has been overtasked to about such an extent, 

 she generally makes a revolt. 



A few days ago a friend of mine said, 

 "Mr. Root, you have been almost all your 

 life experimenting on diet. For years j'ou 

 were a vegetarian, if I am correct. Later 

 on in life j'ou took up the lean-meat diet 

 with such vim that you ate nothing but beef- 

 steak for many weeks — perhaps I might 

 say months. You have doubtless tried all 

 of these breakfast foods, or a good many of 

 them. I know you are honestly trying to 

 find a beaten path where we can all follow 

 you in the matter of diet. Are 3^ou ready to. 

 tell us what the result of your experiment- 

 ing is? If a man wants to arrange his eat- 

 ing so as to keep well, what would you ad- 

 vise him to eat?" 



I replied, " Well, my friend, it is a hard 

 matter to answer you briefly. But I believe 

 I can safely say that any fairly good hotel 

 or restaurant will set before you a balanced 

 ration that comes as near the proper thing 

 as I can well direct. Just order a regular 

 meal. I for one would omit the first course, 

 of fruit. In a good many places they do 

 not offer you fruit — that is, if you choose a 

 place where the price is moderate. The 

 breakfast food with sugar and cream I think 

 I would omit also unless I am doing hard 

 muscular work and am quite hungry. The 

 bread, butter, potatoes, beefsteak, mutton 

 chop, and ham and eggs, that come next, 

 are as safe a diet for the average humanity 

 as any thing I know of. I know a great 

 many object to ham; but where it is proper- 

 ly cooked, and chewed thoroughly, I find it 

 quite wholesome. It is better to skip the 

 pie, cake, dessert, etc., entirely. I know 



