1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



855 



it is something^ of a cross to foreg^o some of 

 these thing's, especially where they men- 

 tion ice-cream, lemon-ice, and things of that 

 sort. But I have often had severe spells of 

 indig-estion that I am sure might have been 

 avoided had I left the table just before the 

 dessert. In, many places, where they fur- 

 nish meals at moderate prices, no dessert is 

 ofifered. In the matter of tea and coffee, if 

 they are used without sugar or milk I do 

 not find them objectionable providing- both 

 are weak. Strong- coffee is certainly hurt- 

 ful to me. Weak tea is less trouble, usual- 

 ly, than hot water, and that is my safest 

 drink. A g-ood manj' take milk in place of 

 tea and coffee; but I think scalded milk, as 

 they have it in Cuba, makes it much easier 

 of digestion. This is especially true if the 

 milk happens to be old. I really feel g-lad 

 to be able to say that the most healthful 

 iood I know of is just about what is usual- 

 ly provided for the g-reat traveling- public. 

 I would not advise g-oing- to lunch-counters 

 if it could be avoided, unless such counter 

 will give 3'ou a fresh beefsteak, or cook egg-s 

 to order. Fresh tish is alivays in order. It 

 is the food our Savior provided for his loved 

 followers when he was here on earth, and I 

 do not know of any thing- more wholesome. 

 Fresh fried fish, nice baked mealy potatoes, 

 and g^ood bread and butter, constitute as 

 safe a diet as any I know of."* 



In closing- 1 wish to refer once more to the 

 water of the Ag-ua Caliente springs, of 

 which I said so much in our last issue. I 

 said I had been drinking- the water for four 

 days. About that time my brother and I 

 started on a three-day trip across the desert; 

 and as I was so afraid I could not get water 

 that would agree with me on the wa}', two 

 larg-e canteens were taken along expressly 

 for mj- use, and so I drank it every day for 

 something over a week; and it was a revela- 

 tion to me to find a kind of water I could 

 drink to m}' heart's content without inter- 

 fering with mv' digestion in any way; on 

 the contrary, it seemed to me to be as near- 

 ly perfect as I had ever had it in my life. 

 After eating sweets or things that usually 

 produce fermentation, I would think for a 

 time I was going to have my old troubles; 

 but the great drafts from the canteen wash- 

 ed away all unpleasant taste from my mouth, 

 and all disagreeable sensations in the re- 

 gion of digestion. It made me think of the 

 words of the old hymn: 



■Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 



* I fear I have not put sufficient emphasis on the 

 matter of having meat of some kind more or less with 

 everj' meal. I am firmly satisfied that thousands of 

 people, especially old people, come to their graves be- 

 fore their time by trying to get along without meat. 

 Oftentimes the expense is the objection, and yet these 

 people do not mind send'ne for a doctor, even in the 

 middle of the night, very often. The cost of one doc- 

 tor's visit will pay for fonsiderable fresh meat, espe- 

 cially if low-priced meat is used, and cheap meats for 

 stew's are as good as any, and sometimes better. A 

 relative of mine well along in years, admitted she 

 felt very much better wnen she had fresh meat every 

 day. but she said they could not very well afford it. 

 1 k'now from what she told me that a diet too largely 

 of fruits and vegetables gave her the distressed spells 

 that necessitated frequent calls on the doctor. 



This water not only washed me clean ex- 

 ternally, but it seemed to have the peculiar 

 propertj' of washing the food I ate as well 

 as the internal organs until they were all 

 clean and sweet. I do not think there was 

 any ititagination about this. It has occur- 

 red to me several times that perhaps it 

 would not be possible for me to drink any 

 water in such quantities without being ex- 

 posed to a dry atmosphere and a tempera- 

 ture ranging from 100 up to 110 or more. 

 There was not very much sensible perspi- 

 ration; but the water seemed to disappear 

 somewhere, so that I was ready for another 

 big drink at the end of an hour or so. 



At the town of Tempe, our destination, 

 they claimed to have beautiful water, pump- 

 ed from an artesian well away down in the 

 rock. This water tasted very nice and 

 pure. The temperature seemed to be pretty 

 near that of the hot springs — perhaps a 

 little colder; but my digestion gradually 

 slipped back in the old track. Let me men- 

 tion one other thing: 



For a year or two back I have been carry- 

 ing in one of my vest pockets a supply of 

 soda-mint tablets. I take these when my 

 mouth tastes bad, and when I have a sour 

 stomach, etc. During the time I was at 

 the hot springs drinking that water, I nev- 

 er once touched the soda-mint tablets. 

 There was no need of it; but after the sup- 

 ply of that water was exhausted my fingers 

 went instinctively into that neglected vest 

 pocket. 



I have heard a great deal about the bene- 

 fits of certain hot springs or medical springs. 

 Friends have urged me to try this, that, and 

 the other. All I have tried before, I think, 

 onljj^ made me " sicker still." As a conse- 

 quence, I have not had very much faith in 

 them. I am planning now to get a barrel 

 of that water, even if it does cost a good 

 many dollars to have it laid down here in 

 Medina. If it produces the same result here 

 that it did in Arizona, I shall have another 

 reason for praising God for his wonderful 

 gifts to the children of men. 



Temperance. 



L.AKK SHORE RAILWAY PROHIBITS EMPLOYEES FROM 

 USING TOBACCO OR LIQUORS: OTHER ROADS ARE 

 ALSO WAGING WAR IN F.AVOR OV TOTAL AB- 

 STINENCE; GAMBLING PLACED UNDER 

 THE B.'iN. 



I clip the following from the Cleveland 

 News and Herald of Sept. 24: 



The Lake Shore Railroad has joined the other roads 

 throughout the country which are waging war against 

 the use of liquors and "tobicco by employees engaged 

 in operating trains. The fiat has gone forth generally 

 that employees who drink, or who frequent places 

 where liquors are sold, are not safe men to trust with 

 the lives of patrons, nor with the valuable property 

 transported by the railroads. Total abstinence is es- 

 sential to service in the operating department of every 

 railroad. Gambling is also under the ban. 



The revolution which is being effected in these re- 

 spects is shown in the rule-books which many of the 

 managements of various roadshave just issued. With- 

 out a single exception these books contain the follow- 

 ing rules, which are similarly framed: 



