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The host, as was customary at that time, ordered cocktails, but noticed that seven glasses which chanced to be in a row remained untouched. Hoping to have some fun at the expense of the teetotalers, he called attention to the fact and said, "Just to start conversation, I wish you fellows would tell us one by one your reasons for not drinking, in all good faith. I know that Mr. Loomis never 6 Strong Collection Letters touches the stuff because he is from Topeka, to get after your old accounts; these are new, different, per- New York Are You An Investor? During the past year the Financial Editor of The Outlook has helped hundreds of Outlook readers to solve intelligently their particular investment problems. Perhaps you are contemplating a shifting of hold your present be glad to give you which you may be interested. This service is entirely free to Outlook readers. The Outlook Financial Department Kansas, but you others are all Eastern Mr. Loomis looked up with interest as 64 The Western Financier," The Chase Publishing THE RURAL SCHOOL SPEAKS BY A. P. HOLLIS IN NORTH DAKOTA I am the one-room rural school. The The farmer has improved his machinery ; he has left me primitive. The farmer has improved his corn; he has left me primitive. The farmer has improved his hogs; he has left me primitive. But I feel the throb of new growth; I feel sensations of infinite yields about to be made. I feel the wild strains giving place to the power of a new science. I am in process of becoming civilized. Soon I, too, shall burst from the hard I must have two, four, ten rooms. I will produce a new type of farmer-pro- OLD BEN FRANKLIN ON "DAYLIGHT SAVING" Your editorial on "Daylight Saving," in the issue of December 19 last, called to my mind a letter written on the subject by Dr. Benjamin Franklin to the "Journal of Paris." I think this letter of the Doctor entitles him to be called the original daylight saver, as you will, I am sure, be willing to concede after reading the letter. Perhaps you are already familiar with it. The letter may be found under the caption "An Economical Project," and is addressed to the authors of the "Journal of Paris," and is signed "Subscriber." I read it in Volume II, page 227, of the "Works of Benjamin Franklin," published by Hilliard, Gray & Co. In that volume it appears under the general heading of Essays on Moral Subjects, etc." 66 MARMADUKE B. MORTON. St. Joseph, Missouri. 1 [Advertisement] Disease Is a R. L. ALSAKER, M.D. Luxury, Not a Necessity By R. L. Alsaker, M.D. Dear Doctor:-I have read several of your articles. In nearly every one you have repeated the statement, Disease is a luxury, not a necessity." It is contrary to everything I have learned about disease. Germs cause many diseases, and how can we protect ourselves against them, when they are everywhere? Our family lives simply and moderately. I seldum use liquor, and don't smoke more than three or four cigars a day. Our food consists mostly of cereals, bread, potatoes, and meat. My wife takes coffee only with her regular meals, and does not drink tea in the afternoon, as some of our friends do. Still we are not well. I have high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis. My wife has had rheumatism off and on for years. One of our children has catarrh. There is nothing luxurious about disease in my family. It's an infernal nuisance. My opinion is that people will get sick no matter what they do, consequently disease is a necessity.-E. T. G. This is about what I believed years ago, until I found the truth. Now I know disease is a luxury. It is unnecessary. We have to break nature's laws to get it. We can get along without it. An individual can live from childhood to old age without suffering from disease, barring accidents. This is no theory. It is a fact that everyone can prove for himself. I don't ask the writer of this letter to take my word for it. He can prove it in his own case, in his own family and I have told him how. Germs cause disease, it is said. If this is true, why don't all take the diseases to which they are exposed? During an epidemic of influenza, why don't all get it? Why have I not had influenza in the last decade? I have been exposed to it hundreds of times. The reason is that germs are not the real cause of disease. They can harm only those who are already run down physically. Those of us who give ourselves proper care can smile complacently at the germs and the germ theory. Health is the normal condition, and intelligent care of body and mind will bring health. Here is a family living as many families do. There is not a healthy member in the family, and this is not exceptional. What is the trouble? The living is such that these people can not get rid of the waste made in their bodies. The child doubtless gets too many sweets and swallows his food without thoroughly masticating it. Bread, meat, and potatoes, with a liberal addition of sweets, manufacture heat and energy, but they are not the proper foods for health building in youth. The parents are middle aged and they live too exclusively on the staple foods mentioned. They make the same mistakes that nearly all commit: They eat foods for their feeding value exclusively, and forget to eat foods for their health value. Apples and lettuce, for instance, are not high in food value, but they are rich in health value. They help to keep the body sweet and clean. Catarrh, arteriosclerosis and rheumatism indicate that the body is not internally clean. They show that waste is clogging the entire system. There is an excess of waste in the muscles, joints, nerves, blood stream and the bowels. Nearly all cases of arteriosclerosis are curable, and as the arteries soften the blood pressure goes down. Rheumatism vanishes when the body is cleared of poisonous waste. Catarrh in youth is based on wrong feeding; correct the eating and the catarrh disappears. This is so easily proved that it is to the advantage of all to give it a fair trial. Give the body good care and learn how to eat properly, and nearly all diseases vanish, even most of those that are considered incurable. You may have consumed great quantities of drugs without benefit, and still be curable. Drugs don't cure; they simply change the symptoms and conceal the pains. The body is not built of mercury, strychnin, arsenic, opium and other popular drugs, and none of these are needed. To have health one must know how to select the right kinds of foods, how to prepare and combine them, what and when to drink, how to use the lungs and how to care for the body in general. About ninetenths of the subject of health consists in proper eating. Those who live on bread, meat and potatoes almost exclusively can not have good health, for these foods do not contain enough of the natural purifying, cleansing elements to keep the body in good condition. The body is built of food, water and air. It is influenced by our surroundings and our thoughts. If we use our brains to good advantage we can live so as to have health. Instead of living so as to build rheumatism, catarrh and arteriosclerosis (and other diseases), we can conduct ourselves so that health is ours every day. The fact that we can recover from disease is in itself proof that we can live free from disease. Another proof is that thousands of individuals who used to be ill have learned how to live properly and are enjoying health every day. 23 January BY THE WAY The experiences of a party of American, Canadian, and English soldiers during a trip to Versailles are amusingly recorded in the "National Geographic Magazine by an American woman who regularly conducts such parties of sightseers. Coming into the grand ball-room," of a size and splendor never equaled in the history of the world," a laconic trooper remarks, "Some dugout." At the dainty luncheon a "Ca nuck " says that the napkins would make good souvenirs; "The English," he says, Jocosely, "fight for honor, the French for glory, and the Canadians for souvenirs." When the waiter presents the bill, a jolly trooper "glances at it, falls back in his chair, and screams, 'Quick, quick, give me Do you wake up in the morning feeling dull, or do you have a bad taste in your mouth? Is water ever disagreeable to you? Do you have coated or furred tongue? Do you have heartburn, gas in the stomach and bowels, or burning or tenderness in the region of the stomach? Is your right side sore? Do you suffer from twinges of pain? Do you have stiff joints or rheumatism? Are you dizzy or a sufferer from headaches? Are you bothered with catarrh or constipation? Do you find it hard to concentrate your mind? Do you have that tired feeling? Have you shortness of breath or oppression in the region of the heart? Do you ever have blotches, pimples or boils? If you have any of these signs and symptoms of disease, it is conclusive evidence that you are not giving your body the proper care and attention. The question is: Do you really want health? Disease is a luxury, not a necessity. Announcement: Thoughtful readers of the above article will at once appreciate the fact that Dr. Alsaker knows his subject from the ground upknows it so well that he does not need to use a lot of so-called scientific expressions and many mysterious assertions to hide any want of knowledge. Dr. Alsaker is a regular medical graduate, a physician in active practice and as the N. Y. Tribune says "a competent professional authority." Dr. Alsaker's work is constructive and takes the form of personal consultations, letters of advice, public lectures, magazine articles, health books, pamphlets, etc. A complete list of his works together with a most interesting booklet entitled "Building Health or How to Live Loug and Prosper," will be sent absolutely free to any one mentioning this offer. FRANK E. MORRISON, PUBLISHER OF EDUCATIONAL HEALTH BOOKS (Established 1889), Dept. 117, 1133 Broadway, N. Y. C. my gas mask!"" The young woman who led the party above referred to is ingenious in her methods of amusing the men. In the park at Versailles she stops and says: "Boys, the French have a pretty saying, The smaller the ivy leaf, the dearer the love.' So I want each one of you to find the tiniest leaf possible and send it to the one that's waiting at home." The men set out to search for the smallest leaf. "The joker of the party comes to me with a perfectly enormous leaf, which he informs me he has plucked for his mother-in-law !" Another sarcastic young fellow brings a leaf even larger, and when asked what loved one is to have that tiny leaf, he says, "It's for the Kaiser!" "A really useful Government," a subscriber writes, apropos of the Prohibition Amendment, "is one that helps to make virtue easy and vice difficult for the people in whose behalf it is exercised. Therefore I believe in supervised playgrounds and in using public schools as community centers, and in Nation-wide prohibition of the saloon and its drink traffic." Is it in order for the birds to adopt a prohibition amendment for the good of their constitution? The question is suggested by the following extract from an article in "American Forestry:" At times sapsuckers behave in an erratic and foolish manner, zigzagging through the trees with no apparent reason, flying into windows or walls or the sides of houses, even becoming so stupid as to allow themselves to be picked from the trees, or alighting on one's person and climbing up his leg as though it were the limb of a tree. It has been sug gested that the sap ferments in the sun and that the sapsuckers become intoxicated, but this theory has by no means been proved. Among the numerous advertisements offering estates for sale to be found at present in English magazines is one announcing that Dryburgh Abbey is to be sold. "The Abbey dates from 1150," says the advertisenient," and is well known to every lover of the Scott country." Sir Walter Scott lies buried in the Abbey church. An advertisement of another sort in a London newspaper should give comfort to Americans who bewail the high cost of shoe leather in this country. It describes a super trench boot," and one may buy it in two models- one for £5 5s. ($26.25) and another for £6 15s. ($33.75). 66 A bon mot of Lord Melbourne's is quoted in a recently published book. Referring to one of his contemporaries, a notoriously contentious person, Lord Melbourne said that this man "would dispute with the Recording Angel as to the number of his sins." A "prize misprint of the year" is sent in by a subscriber, as found in a report of the grounding of the Olympia off Block 163 By the Way (Continued) Island, when the types of a New York daily made the statement that there were no casualties except that one man was killed by a falling match" (hatch). 66 The cold snap in New York City seriously affected the patronage of the theaters, according to the "Dramatic Mirror." Many of the playhouses suffered owing to the prevailing shortage of coal, from the small places "that burn one or two tons daily up to the Hippodrome, the biggest theater in New York, which burns twelve tons daily." John Fiske said of George Eliot, as recorded in his recent biography: "I never saw such a woman. There is nothing a bit masculine about her. She is thoroughly feminine. But she has the power of stating an argument equal to any man. Equal to any man, do I say? I have never seen any man except Herbert Spencer who could state a case equal to her.' Mahlon Shaaber, called "Lincoln's Tall Soldier Boy," recently died. The sobriquet was given to him, it is said, because of an experience during the Civil War in Washington. Shaaber, then only seventeen, was marching in review with his regiment. A tall man standing in a group of tall men called Shaaber out of the ranks as he passed. "Excuse me," he said, "but it was jealousy that made me call you out of ranks. I wanted to size you up. How tall are you and what is your age?" It was President Lincoln who spoke. Shaaber proved to be two and a half inches taller than the President, who was himself six feet four inches in height. The order making Saturday a "porkless day," issued by the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, specifically exempted that small piece of pork, so a despatch states, which is ordinarily used in the preparation of "Boston baked beans," famous as a Sunday morning dish in New England. Any one who has ever tasted the real" Boston baked beans," as prepared on their native heath and there alone, will congratulate New Englanders on the exemp tion. Lady Bessborough, a clever Englishwoman of the last century, traveled in France soon after the downfall of Napoleon. Among many anecdotes she tells of the fallen conqueror in a recent book giving extracts from her correspondence is this: While he was in exile on the island of Elba, a workman who was making repairs on his château fell from the roof and was instantly killed in the presence of Napoleon. He gazed at the lifeless figure and said: "A fall does not always kill. I have fallen farther than that." An American pedestrian tells in "Harper's" of the joy of unexpectedly getting an iced drink in a remote Japanese village on a sweltering summer day. "A maid," he says, "was hoisting a flag over the door of the shop. It is the sign of a fresh supply of ice. A coolie came running in. He was carrying a dripping block of ice in many folds of brown hemp cloth. The maid seized the ice, sawed off an end, and then craped the surface across plane. Shavings of sparkling snow fell into an inverted her hand. She packed this whiteness into two large, flat glass dishes. She poured over the snow an effervescing champagne cider and brought us the adventure." another bowl of snow and another bottle. I ordered It was costing sen after sen, but I knew in my soul that the uttermost payment could be in no proportion to the value." VACUUM CLEANER gasoline engine power. Once in stalled the ARCO WAND Vacum Cleaner becomes one of the most valued features to the household. The housewife is no longer dependent upon servants or outside help to do her cleaning. Buy now on easy payment plan Dealers will be glad to figure with you for installing an ARCO WAND in your home on easy payments. 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