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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 + The Independent Health Magazine + +Author: Various + +Editor: Charles William Daniel + +Release Date: February 5, 2006 [EBook #17682] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HEALTHY LIFE, VOL. V *** + + + + +Produced by Feòrag NicBhrìde, Laura Wisewell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h1><i>The</i><a class="pagenum" name="Pg1" id="Pg1"></a> +<br />HEALTHY +<br />LIFE<br /><br /> +<small>The Independent<br /> +Health Magazine</small></h1> + + + + +<p class="title">VOLUME V<br /> +<span class="smcap">July-December 1913</span></p> + + +<p class="title">LONDON<br /> +GRAHAM HOUSE, TUDOR ST., E.C. +</p> + + + +<h2 class="center">INDEX<a class="pagenum" name="Pg2" id="Pg2"></a> + +<br /><small>VOLUME V.—JULY-DECEMBER 1913</small></h2> + + +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Ballade of Skyfaring, A, S. Gertrude Ford, <a href="#A_BALLADE_OF_SKYFARING">490</a></li> +<li>Book Reviews, <a href="#BOOK_REVIEWS">532</a></li> +<li>Breathe, On Learning to, Dr J. Stenson Hooker, <a href="#ON_LEARNING_TO_BREATHE">630</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Camping Out, C.R. Freeman, <a href="#CAMPING_OUT1">438</a>, <a href="#CAMPING_OUT2">480</a></li> +<li>Care of Cupboards, Florence Daniel, <a href="#Cupboards">530</a></li> +<li>Castles in the Air, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#CASTLES_IN_THE_AIR">582</a></li> +<li>Cloud-capped Towers, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#CLOUD-CAPPED_TOWERS">626</a></li> +<li>Correspondence, <a href="#CORRESPONDENCE1">504</a>, <a href="#CORRESPONDENCE2">533</a>, <a href="#CORRESPONDENCE3">580</a>, <a href="#CORRESPONDENCE4">658</a></li> +<li>Cottage Cheese, <a href="#CottageCheese">658</a></li> +<li>Curtained Doorways, The, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#THE_CURTAINED_DOORWAYS">561</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Doctor on Doctors, A, <a href="#A_DOCTOR_ON_DOCTORS">637</a></li> +<li>Doctor's Reason for Opposing Vaccination, A, Dr J.W. Hodge, <a href="#A_DOCTORS_REASONS_FOR">597</a></li> +<li>Doctors and Health, <a href="#Doctors">633</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Fasting, A Significant Case, A. Rabagliati, M.D., <a href="#Fasting1">458</a>, <a href="#Fasting2">492</a></li> +<li>Fear and Imagination, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#FEAR_AND_IMAGINATION">510</a></li> +<li>Food and the Source of Bodily Energy, <a href="#Energy">507</a></li> +<li>Fruit-Oils and Nuts, <a href="#FruitOils">659</a></li> +<li>Futurist Gardening, G.G. Desmond, <a href="#FUTURIST_GARDENING">451</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Health Queries, Dr H. Valentine Knaggs:—<ul> +<li>About Sugar, <a href="#Sugar">540</a>;</li> +<li>Bad Case of Self-poisoning, <a href="#Poisoning">502</a>;</li> +<li>Boils, their Cause and Cure, <a href="#Boils">498</a>;</li> +<li>Canary <i>versus</i> Jamaica Bananas, <a href="#Bananas">579</a>;</li> +<li>Can Malaria be Prevented? <a href="#Malaria">466</a>;</li> +<li>Cereal Food in the Treatment of Neuritis, <a href="#Cereal">619</a>;</li> +<li>Correct Blending of Foods, <a href="#Blending">655</a>;</li> +<li>Concerning Cottage Cheese, <a href="#Concerning">617</a>;</li> +<li>Deafness, <a href="#Deafness1">615</a>, <a href="#Deafness2">616</a>;</li> +<li>Diet for Obstinate Cough, <a href="#Obstinate">618</a>;</li> +<li>Diet for Ulcerated Throat, <a href="#Ulcerated">575</a>;</li> +<li>Dilated Heart, <a href="#DSD">653</a>;</li> +<li>Difficulties in Changing to Non-Flesh Diet, <a href="#NonFlesh">655</a>;</li> +<li>Dry Throat, <a href="#DSD">653</a>;</li> +<li>Eczema as a Sign of Returning Health, <a href="#Eczema">613</a>;</li> +<li>Excessive Perspiration, <a href="#Perspiration">574</a>;</li> +<li>Farming and Sciatica, <a href="#Farming">575</a>;</li> +<li>Faulty Food Combinations, <a href="#Faulty">536</a>;</li> +<li>Giddiness and Head Trouble, <a href="#Giddiness">468</a>;</li> +<li>Going to Extremes in the Unfired <a class="pagenum" name="Pg3" id="Pg3"></a>Diet, <a href="#Unfired">543</a>;</li> +<li>Long Standing Gastric Trouble, <a href="#Gastric">470</a>;</li> +<li>Malt Extract, <a href="#Malt">539</a>;</li> +<li>Neuritis, <a href="#Neuritis">538</a>;</li> +<li>Onion Juice as Hair Restorer, <a href="#Onion">651</a>;</li> +<li>Phosphorus and the Nerves, <a href="#Phosphorus">577</a>;</li> +<li>Refined Paraffin as a Constipation Remedy, <a href="#Paraffin">652</a>;</li> +<li>Saccharine, <a href="#DSD">653</a>;</li> +<li>Stammering, <a href="#Stammering">654</a>;</li> +<li>Severe Digestive Catarrh, <a href="#Catarrh">471</a>;</li> +<li>Sciatica, <a href="#Sciatica">651</a>;</li> +<li>Temporary “Bright's Disease” and How to Deal with it, <a href="#Brights">576</a>;</li> +<li>Ulceration of the Stomach, <a href="#Stomach">541</a>;</li> +<li>Unfired Diet for a Child, <a href="#Child">467</a>;</li> +<li>Water Grapes, <a href="#Grapes">619</a>;</li> +<li>Why the Red Corpuscles are Deficient in Anæmia, <a href="#Anaemia">654</a></li></ul></li> +<li>Health and Joy in Hand-weaving, Minnie Brown, <a href="#HEALTH_AND_JOY_IN">591</a></li> +<li>Health through Reading, Isabella Fyvie Mayo, <a href="#HEALTH_THROUGH_READING">517</a></li> +<li>Healthy Brains, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#HEALTHY_BRAINS1">448</a>, <a href="#IMAGINATION_IN_PLAY">474</a>, <a href="#FEAR_AND_IMAGINATION">510</a>, <a href="#IMAGINATION_IN_INSURANCE">546</a>, <a href="#CASTLES_IN_THE_AIR">582</a></li> +<li>Healthy Homemaking, Florence Daniel, <a href="#HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING1">495</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING2">528</a></li> +<li>Healthy Life Abroad, D.M. Richardson, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_ABROAD">559</a></li> +<li>Healthy Life Recipes, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES1">462</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES2">571</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES3">610</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES4">641</a></li> +<li>Hired Help, Florence Daniel, <a href="#HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING1">495</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING2">528</a></li> +<li>Holiday Aphorisms, Peter Piper, <a href="#HOLIDAY_APHORISMS">508</a>, <a href="#MORE_HOLIDAY_APHORISMS">527</a></li> +<li>How Much Should We Eat? <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">442</a>, <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT2">477</a>, <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT3">513</a>, <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT4">563</a>, <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT5">593</a></li> +<li>Human Magnetism, <a href="#Magnetism">505</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Imagination in Insurance, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#IMAGINATION_IN_INSURANCE">546</a></li> +<li>Imagination in Play, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#IMAGINATION_IN_PLAY">474</a></li> +<li>Imagination in Use, E.M. Cobham, <a href="#IMAGINATION_IN_USE">448</a></li> +<li>Indication, An, Editors, <a href="#AN_INDICATION24">437</a>, <a href="#AN_INDICATION25">473</a>, <a href="#AN_INDICATION26">509</a>, <a href="#AN_INDICATION27">545</a>, <a href="#AN_INDICATION28">581</a>, <a href="#AN_INDICATION29">621</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Learning to Breathe, On, Dr J. Stenson Hooker, <a href="#ON_LEARNING_TO_BREATHE">630</a></li> +<li>Letters of a Layman, I., <a href="#LETTERS_OF_A_LAYMAN">633</a></li> +<li>Lime Juice, Pure, <a href="#Lime">534</a></li> +<li>Longevity, A Remedy for, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#A_REMEDY_FOR_LONGEVITY">491</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Mental Healing, A Scientific Basis for, J. Stenson Hooker, M.D., <a href="#A_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_FOR_MENTAL_HEALING">456</a></li> +<li>Midsummer Madness, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#MIDSUMMER_MADNESS">454</a></li> +<li>Modern Germ Mania: A Case in Point, Dr H.V. Knaggs, <a href="#MODERN_GERM_MANIA_A_CASE">638</a></li> +<li>More About Two Meals a Day, Wilfred Wellock, <a href="#MORE_ABOUT_TWO_MEALS_A_DAY">487</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>New Race, The, S. Gertrude Ford, <a href="#THE_NEW_RACE">601</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Ode to the West Wind, Shelley, <a href="#ODE_TO_THE_WEST_WIND">555</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Pickled Peppercorns, Peter Piper, <a href="#PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS1">464</a>, <a href="#PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS2">570</a>, <a href="#PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS3">609</a>, <a href="#PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS4">660</a></li> +<li>Plain Words and Coloured Pictures, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#PLAIN_WORDS_AND_COLOURED">622</a></li> +<li>Play Spirit, The, D.M. Richardson, <a href="#THE_PLAY_SPIRIT">602</a></li> +<li>Play Spirit, The: A Criticism, L.E. Hawks, <a href="#THE_PLAY_SPIRIT_A_CRITICISM">628</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Quest for Beauty, The, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#THE_QUEST_FOR_BEAUTY">523</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Recipes, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES1">462</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES2">571</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES3">610</a>, <a href="#HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES4">641</a></li> +<li><a class="pagenum" name="Pg4" id="Pg4"></a>Remedy for Longevity, A, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#A_REMEDY_FOR_LONGEVITY">491</a></li> +<li>Remedy for Sleeplessness, <a href="#Sleeplessness">533</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Salads and Salad Dressings, <a href="#Salads">462</a></li> +<li>Salt Cooked Vegetables, <a href="#SaltCooked">506</a></li> +<li>Swan Song of September, The, S. Gertrude Ford, <a href="#THE_SWAN-SONG_OF_SEPTEMBER">523</a></li> +<li>Sea-sickness, Some Remedies, Hereward Carrington, <a href="#SEASICKNESS_SOME_REMEDIES">484</a></li> +<li>Semper Fidelis, “A.R.,” <a href="#SEMPER_FIDELIS">526</a></li> +<li>Sleeplessness, A Remedy, <a href="#Sleeplessness">533</a></li> +<li>Scientific Basis for Mental Healing, A, J. <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'Stenton'.">Stenson</ins> Hooker, M.D., <a href="#A_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_FOR_MENTAL_HEALING">456</a></li> +<li>Scientific Basis of Vegetalism, The, Prof. H. Labbé, <a href="#THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM1">549</a>, <a href="#THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM2">584</a></li> +<li>Significant Case, A, A. Rabagliati, M.D., <a href="#A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE">458</a>, <a href="#A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE_II">492</a></li> +<li>Symposium on Unfired Food, A, D. Godman, <a href="#A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED">486</a>, <a href="#A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED_FOOD">648</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Taste or Theory? Arnold Eiloart, B.Sc., <a href="#TASTE_OR_THEORY">643</a></li> +<li>Travels in Two Colours, Edgar J. Saxon, <a href="#TRAVELS_IN_TWO_COLOURS">605</a></li> +<li>To-morrow's Flowers, G.G. Desmond, <a href="#Flowers">451</a></li> +<li>Two Meals a Day, More About, Wilfred Wellock, <a href="#MORE_ABOUT_TWO_MEALS_A_DAY">487</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>Vaccination, A Doctor's Reason for Opposing, Dr J.W. Hodge, <a href="#A_DOCTORS_REASONS_FOR">597</a></li> +<li>Vegetalism, The Scientific Basis of, Prof. H. Labbé, <a href="#THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM1">549</a>, <a href="#THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM2">584</a></li> +</ul> +<ul class="IX"> +<li>West Wind, Ode to, Shelley, <a href="#ODE_TO_THE_WEST_WIND">555</a></li> +<li>What makes a Holiday? C., <a href="#WHAT_MAKES_A_HOLIDAY">557</a></li> +<li>World's Wanderers, The, Shelley, <a href="#THE_WORLDS_WANDERERS">625</a></li> +</ul> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg437" id="Pg437"></a></p> + +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 24</span> +<span class="coverright">July<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard</span>.</p></blockquote> +</div> + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION24" id="AN_INDICATION24"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">S</span>ome laymen are very fond of deprecating the +work of specialists, holding that specialisation +tends to narrowness, to inability to see +more than one side of a question.</p> + +<p>It is, of course, true that the specialist tends to +“go off at a tangent” on his particular subject, +and even to treat with contempt or opposition the +views of other specialists who differ from him. +But all work that is worth doing is attended by +its own peculiar dangers. It is here that the work +of the non-specialist comes in. It is for him to +compare the opposing views of the specialists, to +reveal one in the light thrown by the other, to help +into existence the new truth waiting to be born of +the meeting of opposites.</p> + +<p>Specialisation spells division of labour, and apart +from division of labour certain great work can never +be done. To do away with such division, supposing +an impossibility to be possible, would simply mean +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg436" id="Pg436"></a> primitive savage. But +we have no call to attempt the abolition of even the +minutest division of labour. What is necessary is +to understand and guard against its dangers.</p> + +<p>Specialisation <i>may</i> lead to madness, as electricity +<i>may</i> lead to death. But no specialist need go far +astray who, once in a while, will make an honest +attempt to come to an understanding with the man +whose views are diametrically opposed to his own. +For thus he will retain elasticity of brain, and gain +renewed energy for, and perhaps fresh light on, +his own problems.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CAMPING_OUT1" id="CAMPING_OUT1"></a>CAMPING OUT.</h2> + +<h3>IV. <span class="smcap">The Five-Foot Sausage.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>he question of blankets and mattresses may be +taken as settled. We can now sleep quite comfortably, +take our fresh air sleeping and waking, +and find shelter when it rains. But that same fresh +air brings appetite and we must see how that appetite +is to be appeased.</p> + +<p>Take a frying-pan. It should be of aluminium for +lightness; though a good stout iron one will help you +make good girdle-cakes, if you get it hot and drop the +flour paste on it. You must find some other way of +making girdle-cakes, and <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'of'.">if</ins> you take an iron frying +pan with you, don't say that I told you to.</p> + +<p>Though it is obviously necessary that a frying-pan +should have a handle, I was bound to tell Gertrude that +I do not find it convenient to take handled saucepans +when I go camping. I take for all boiling purposes, +including the making of tea, what is called a camp-kettle. +Most ironmongers of any standing seem to keep +it, and those who have it not in stock can show you an +illustration of it in their wholesale list. It is just like +the pot in which painters carry their paint, except that +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg439" id="Pg439"></a>it has an ordinary saucepan lid. You should have a +“nest” of these—that is, three in diminishing sizes going +one inside the other. The big lid then fits on the outer +one and the two other lids have to be carried separately.</p> + +<div class="center"> + <a id="sausage" name="sausage"></a> + <img src="images/sausage.jpg" + alt="The Five-Foot Sausage" + title="The Five-Foot Sausage" height="332" width="450" /> + <p class="caption"><i>The Five-Foot Sausage</i></p> +</div> + +<p>You hang these camp-kettles over the fire by their +bucket handles, from the tripod or other means of +getting over the fire. Sometimes the bough of a tree +high out of the reach of the flames will do. Sometimes +a stick or oar thrust into the bank or in a crevice of +the wall behind the fire is more convenient than a +tripod. Again, you can do without any hanging at +all, making a little fireplace of bricks or stones and +standing the saucepans “on the hob.”</p> + +<p>It is a simple thing to tie the tops of three sticks +together and make a tripod. Then from the place where +they join you dangle a piece of string, pass it through +the handle of the kettle and tie it to itself, in a knot +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg440" id="Pg440"></a>that can be adjusted up or down to raise or lower the +kettle from the fire. This knot is our old friend the two +half-hitches. Pass the loose end round the down cord, +letting it come back under the up cord, then round +again with the same finish, and lo! the up cord makes +two half-hitches round the down cord. You can slip, +them up and put them where you like and they will +hold, but you have to undo them to take the kettle +clean away from the fire. So we add to our equipment +a few pot-hooks or pieces of steel wire shaped like +an S. Their use will be obvious. If we have three of +them it is quite easy to keep three kettles going over +one fire. They swing cheek by jowl when they all want +the same amount of fire, but each can be raised or +lowered an inch or several inches to let them respectively +boil, simmer or just keep warm.</p> + +<p>These are the cooking utensils. A biscuit tin would +make an oven and Gertrude says she must have an oven. +For my part I would not attempt baking when camping +out and I will say no more about ovens, except that +all the biscuit tins in the world won't beat a hole in the +ground first filled with blazing sticks and then with the +things to be baked and covered with turves till they are +done.</p> + +<p>I had great difficulty in persuading Gertrude to feed +out of tin dishes like those which we use sometimes +for making shallow round cakes or setting the toffee +in. They are ever so much better than plates, being +deep enough for soup-plates and not easy to upset when +you use them on your lap. Any number of the same +size will go into one another and a dozen scarcely take +up more room than one.</p> + +<p>It was worse still when it came to a still more useful +substitute, the camp equivalent of the teacup. In the +first place we abolish the saucer, for the simple reason +that we have no earthly use for it in camp. We take +tin mugs with sloping sides and wire bucket handles. +They fit into one another in the same accommodating +way as the eating dishes. Gertrude was nearly put off +this device altogether by Basil's remark that he had +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg441" id="Pg441"></a>only seen them in use in poulterers' shops, where they +are put under hares' noses....</p> + +<p>“Basil, you, you monster,” cried Gertrude, and I +had to push those tin mugs as though I had been a +traveller interested in the sale of them.</p> + +<p>The drinking of hot tea out of these mugs is quite +a beautiful art. You hold the wire handle between +finger and thumb and put the little finger at the edge +of the bottom rim. It is thus able to tilt the mug to +the exact angle which is most convenient for drinking. +When Gertrude had learnt the trick, she became perfectly +enamoured of the mugs. She sometimes brings +one out at ordinary afternoon tea and insists that the +tea is ever so much better drunk thus than out of spode.</p> + +<p>Smaller mugs of the same shape do for egg-cups, +and the egg-spoons I take to camp are the bone ones, +seldom asked for but easy to get in most oil-and-colour +shops. Dessert spoons and forks and table knives are +of the usual pattern, but the former can be had in +aluminium and therefore much lighter than Britannia +metal.</p> + +<p>The camping-out valise is by all means the rucksack. +Never the knapsack. I am almost ashamed to say this, +because as far as my knowledge goes the knapsack is +now obsolete. It may be, however, that it lingers here +and there. If you see one, buy it for a museum if you +like but not for use. The bundle should be allowed to +fit itself to the back, as it does in a canvas bag. Suppose +now that you fix the V point of a pair of braces somewhere +near the top of the sack and bringing the webs +over your shoulders, fix them, nicely adjusted, to the +lower corners of the sack, it will ride quite comfortably +upon your back—that is, you have made it from a +plain sack into a rucksack or back-sack. Get or make +as many good large strong ones as you have shoulders +in the party to carry them. Have them made of a +waterproof canvas, green or brown, to reeve up tight +with strong cord passed through a series of eyelet-holes +and, if you would be quite certain of keeping out the +rain, with a little hood to cover the reeved bag end.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg442" id="Pg442"></a>The great bulk of your luggage you will generally +find it best to carry by wheeling it on a bicycle. Spread +your ground-sheet on the floor. On that lay your +blankets, doubled so as to make a smaller square, tent, +mattress cover and bed suits on that, then your camping +utensils and all other paraphernalia and roll the +whole up into a sausage about five feet long, when the +loose ends of the ground-sheet have been tucked over +as in a brown-paper parcel. Tie it well with whipcord +and fasten it to the top bar of your bicycle frame, leaving +freedom of course for the handles and the front wheel +to move and steer. Push the tent-poles through the +lashings and start for your camp at a comfortable four +or five miles an hour. You will find it easy to move +camp at the rate of twenty miles a day and will see a +great deal of country in the course of a fortnight.</p> + +<p>The sausage on the bicycle shown in the illustration +may be taken to contain all the gear and a little food. +The rucksacks will take the rest and each man's +most precious personal belongings. There is a small +parcel tied to the handle-bar, scarcely to be seen because +it is smaller than the end of the sausage. It is a +complete tent tied up in its ground-sheet.</p> + +<p class="sig">C.R. Freeman.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1" id="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1"></a>HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT: +A WARNING.</h2> + + +<p><i>This article, by one of the pioneers of modern +dietetics, is in the nature of a challenge, and is certain +to arouse discussion among all who have studied the food +question closely.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="firstletter">W</span>hen men lived on their natural food, quantities +settled themselves. When a healthy natural +appetite had been sated the correct quantity of +natural food had been taken.</p> + +<p>To-day all this is upside down, there is no natural +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg443" id="Pg443"></a>food and only too often no natural healthy appetite +either. Thus the question of quantity is often asked +and many go wrong over it. The all-sufficient answer +to this question is: “Go back to the foods natural to +the human animal and this, as well as a countless +number of other problems, will settle themselves.”</p> + +<p>But supposing that this cannot be done, suppose, as +is often the case, that the animal fed for years on +unnatural food has become so pathological that it can +no longer take or digest its natural food?</p> + +<p>Those who take foods which are stimulants are very +likely to overeat, and when they leave off their stimulants +they are equally likely to underfeed themselves. +Flesh foods are such stimulants, for it is possible to +intoxicate those quite unaccustomed to them with a +large ration of meat just as well as with a large ration +of alcohol. The one leads to the other, meat leads to +alcohol, alcohol to meat. Taking any stimulant eventually +leads to a call for other stimulants.</p> + +<p>How are we to tell when a given person is getting +enough food, either natural or partly natural? Medically +speaking, there is no difficulty; there are plenty of +guides to the required knowledge, some of them of +great delicacy and extreme accuracy. The trouble +generally is that these guides are not made use of, as +the cause of the disaster is not suspected. A physiologist +is not consulted till too late, perhaps till the disorder +in the machinery of life is beyond repair.</p> + +<p>Diminishing energy and power, decreasing endurance, +slowing circulation, lessening blood colour, falling +temperature, altered blood pressure, enlarging heart +and liver, are some of the most obvious signs with which +the physician is brought into contact in such cases. +But every one of these may, and very often does, pass +unnoticed for quite a long time by those who have had +no scientific training. The public are extremely ignorant +on such matters because the natural sciences have been +more neglected in this country in the last fifty years +than anywhere else in Europe, and that is saying a +good deal. Hence diet quacks and all those who trade +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg444" id="Pg444"></a>on the ignorance and prejudices of the public are having +a good time and often employ it in writing the most +appalling rubbish in reference to the important subject +of nutrition.</p> + +<p>Being themselves ignorant and without having studied +physiology, even in its rudiments, they do not appear +to consider that they should at least abstain from teaching +others till they have got something certain for +themselves.</p> + +<p>If the public were less ignorant they would soon see +through their pretensions; but, as it is, things go from +bad to worse, and it is not too much to say that +hundreds of lives have been lost down this sordid by-path +of human avarice.</p> + +<p>On one single day a few weeks ago the writer heard +of three men, two of whom had been so seriously ill +that their lives were in danger, and one of whom had +died. The certified cause of death in this case might +not have led the uninitiated to suspect chronic starvation, +but those who were behind the scenes knew that +this was its real cause. A further extraordinary fact +was that two out of these three men were members of +the medical profession, whose training in physiology +ought, one would have thought, to have saved them +from such errors.</p> + +<p>The conclusion seems to be that they did not use their +knowledge because at first they had no suspicion of the +real cause of their illness. In other words, chronic +starvation is insidious and, if no accurate scientific +measurements are made, its results, being attributed to +other causes, are often allowed to become serious +before they are properly treated.</p> + +<p>These three men went wrong by following a layman +quite destitute of physiological training, who <span class="smcap">appeared</span> +to have produced some wonderful results in himself and +others on extraordinarily small quantities of food.</p> + +<p>If the above tests had been made at once by a trained +hand the error involved in such results could not have +escaped detection, and none of these men would have +endangered their lives. I myself examined the layman +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg445" id="Pg445"></a>in question and finding him not up to standard refused +to follow him. The writer has no difficulty in recalling +at least a dozen cases similar to those above mentioned +which have been under his care in the last twelve +months, and the three above mentioned were none of +them under his care at the time of their danger.</p> + +<p>What, then, must be our conclusions in reference to +these and similar facts of which it is only possible to +give a mere outline here? I suggest that they are:—</p> + +<ol><li>Food quantities are of extreme importance.</li> + +<li>These quantities were settled by physiologists +many years ago, and no good reasons have since been +adduced for altering them.</li> + +<li>The required quantity is approximately nine or ten +grains of proteid per day for each pound of bone and +muscle in the body weight.</li> + +<li>Any considerable departure from this quantity +continued over months and years leads to disaster.</li> + +<li>The nature of this disaster may appear to be very +various and its real cause is thus frequently overlooked.</li></ol> + +<p>I will say a few words about each of these except the +first, which is already obvious. The layman above +mentioned asserted that he could live on but little more +than half this quantity, but the food quantity really +required is that which will keep up normal strength, +normal circulation, normal colour, normal temperature +and normal mental power. As we have got perfectly +definite standards of all these normal conditions, serious +danger can only be run into by neglecting to measure +them.</p> + +<p>It is also possible to tell fairly accurately the quantity +of food a man is taking in a day, and then, by collecting +and estimating his excreta, the quantity also out of +this food which he is utilising completely and burning +up in his body.</p> + +<p>You would say that no danger should be possible with +all these safeguards, and yet the above case history +shows that of two trained physiologists, members of +the medical profession, one died at least twenty years +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg446" id="Pg446"></a>before his time, and the other was in great danger and +only recovered slowly and with difficulty. Another +similar case came to the writer suffering from increasing +debility and what appeared to be some form of dyspepsia. +He was quite unable to pass any of the above-named +tests as to physiological standards, and an investigation +of his excreta showed that his food was at least one-fifth +or one-sixth below its proper quantity and had +probably been so for many months past. Some of his +doctors had been giving his “disease” a more or less +long list of names and yet had not noted the one +essential fact of chronic defective nutrition and its +cause—underfeeding. Naturally their treatment was of +no avail, but when he had been sent to a nursing home +and had put back the 20 lbs. of weight he had lost he +came slowly back to more normal standards and is now +out of danger. In this case there was marked loss of +weight, and few people, one would think, would overlook +such a sign of under nutrition. But loss of weight +is not always present in these cases, at least not at first. +Some people tend to grow stout on deficient proteid, +and then the fact that some of the essential tissues of the +body (the muscles, the heart and the blood) are being +dangerously impoverished is very likely to be overlooked. +In the case last mentioned the loss of weight +was put down to the dyspepsia, whereas the real fact +was that the “dyspepsia” and loss of weight were both +results of a chronic deficiency in food.</p> + +<p>It is evident that some care about food quantities +must be taken by all those who do not live on natural +foods. For physiologists there is no difficulty in settling +the question of quantity in accordance with the signs +of the physiology of a normal body. That all, even +physiologists, may run into danger if, while living on +unnatural or partly unnatural foods, or while making +any change of food, they do not consider the question +of quantity with sufficient care.</p> + +<p>That the question of nutrition should be considered in +relation to <i>every illness</i> even though it may appear on +the surface to have no direct connection with foods or +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg447" id="Pg447"></a>quantities. As a matter of fact, the nature of the food +and its quantity controls all the phenomena of life. +Some twenty years ago most people lived fairly close to +the old physiological quantities, now they have been +cut adrift from these and completely unsettled and are +floundering out of their depth. A most unsatisfactory, +even dangerous, condition of affairs.</p> + +<p>For the public it will now probably suffice if they +insist on raising the question of quantity whenever they +suffer in any way. If they are unable to answer the +question themselves let them go to a trained physiologist +who can do so, and not to a diet quack. But muscular +strength, endurance, mental and bodily energy, skin +circulation, temperature and blood colour are all things +which the public can see for themselves and from which +they should in all cases be able to get sufficient warning +to save them from the worst forms of disaster.</p> + +<p>Some people imagine that they eat very little, when as +a matter of fact they have good healthy appetites. +Others again think they are eating a great deal, when +as a matter of fact they take very little. In both cases +a physiological test of the excreta will give accurate +information. I once had a medical patient who imagined +that he produced great amounts of force and performed +feats of endurance on wonderfully small quantities of +food. His excreta showed, however, that he was merely +under-estimating the food he took. A fat man may +seem to be living on very little, but fat does not require +to be fed, and his real bone and muscle weight is not +large. A thin man may seem to require a large quantity +of food, but he is really very heavy in bone and muscle, +the tissues that have to be nourished. In all these ways +appearances are apt to be deceptive for those who are +ignorant of science and who do not go down to the root +of the matter.</p> + +<p>It is not necessary to follow the given quantity of +grains per pound slavishly and without regard to consequences. +It is necessary to see that the required physiological +results are obtained.</p> + +<p>If a patient says he can live on less than I ordered for +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg448" id="Pg448"></a>him and if he can pass the physiological tests satisfactorily +I know that his bone and muscle weight has +been over-estimated. On the other hand, if a patient +falls below the physiological tests, though taking and +digesting the quantities ordered for him, I conclude that +his bone and muscle weight has been under-estimated.</p> + +<p>In all cases it is possible to obtain the best physiological +results and to say when quantities are just right, +neither too much nor too little.</p> + +<p>The evil effects of too much are not serious; they +entail perhaps a little “gout” or some temporary loss +of freedom from waste products.</p> + +<p>The evil effects of too little, if persevered in and +continued, especially if some of these effects are attributed +to causes which have no real existence, are deadly +and dangerous, for they bring on an insidious deterioration +both of function and structure which leads by +several avenues, often miscalled “diseases,” to death +itself.</p> + +<p class="sig">M.D.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTHY_BRAINS1" id="HEALTHY_BRAINS1"></a>HEALTHY BRAINS.</h2> + + +<p><i>Comparatively few health enthusiasts or food reformers realise +the necessity for mental, as distinct from bodily, hygiene, yet all +real health has its roots in the mind. Moreover, it is only by +studying the hygiene of mind that we are enabled to do work in +greater quantity and of better quality than we should otherwise be +capable of, and to do this without risk of strain on the nerves or +injury to health. The articles under this heading put forward +some of the elementary laws of mental hygiene.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3><a name="IMAGINATION_IN_USE" id="IMAGINATION_IN_USE"></a><span class="smcap">Imagination in Use.</span></h3> + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>o some people any talk about the importance of +training the imagination of children through their +toys, games and studies seems fantastic and +trivial. They compare it to feeding them on sweetmeats; +they think it means substituting story books for +real life and encouraging the easy exercise of fancy for +the careful study of fact.</p> + +<p>But imagination is not a mere ornament to a life-work; +it is rather one of its most valuable and necessary +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg449" id="Pg449"></a>tools. If it did no more than sweeten and adorn the +world, it would be well worth having, well worth +making considerable sacrifices to attain. But it does +more than this. It bears much fruit as well as flowers; +fruit that, if it ripens in suitable weather, endures and +can be used for the service of man.</p> + +<p>There is a wonderful palm-tree, called the Tal or +Palmyra palm, which in India and Ceylon supports six +or seven millions of people, and “works” also in West +Africa, where it is probably native. It gives its young +shoots and unripe seeds as food; its trunk makes a whole +boat, or a drum or a walking-stick, according to size; +hats, mats, thread and baskets—in fact, almost all +kinds of clothing and utensils—are made from the split +and plaited leaves; gum comes from it, and certain +medicines, jaggery sugar too and an intoxicating drink +for those who desire it. In one of the museums at Kew—a +wet day brings always <i>something</i> besides disappointment—there +is a book made up of the very +leaves of the palm, containing a Tamil poem enumerating +more than eight hundred human uses to which this +marvellous single plant can be put.</p> + +<p>Now the imagination is like a Palmyra palm. We +stand a long way off and, looking up, say “What a +graceful tree! But what a pity it produces that intoxicating +‘toddy’ and nothing else!” Yet all the while +food and clothing and shelter and travel and learning +are all wrapped up in it, if only we were not too +ignorant to guess, or too idle to seek.</p> + +<p>We talk as if the poet and painter had need of +imagination, but not the student, the doctor, the philanthropist, +the business man, whereas none of these +can do work at a really human standard without +imagination that is living, penetrating, active and yet +trained and disciplined.</p> + +<p>A recent illuminating address to a body of students +pointed out that Germany's immense industrial strides +have been made possible by an education which draws +men's minds out of narrow old grooves, and helps them +to see and grasp wider possibilities. But the same +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg450" id="Pg450"></a>speaker went on to point out that the English worker +has far more real initiative and imagination than the +German, and that in our own country we have not even +to make elaborate plans for developing these qualities, +but rather to release them in our administrators so far +as to prevent actually checking them in the children now +growing up.</p> + +<p>Imagination in business, for instance, means new +possibilities, fresh sources of supply and fresh markets +to demand, economy of working and better adjustment +of work to worker, so as to have less waste of our +greatest capital, human time and power. America has +taught us something in these respects; what we must +do is to take what new light she has developed, while +keeping our long-grown, well-earned skill which she +has not had the chance to make.</p> + +<p>In research work, again, we need perpetually the +synthetic and constructive imagination if individual +work is not to become narrowly specialised and shut +off from other divergent or parallel lines which would +illuminate it. The other day I was told of a great +surgeon who not only has six or seven assistants to +help him in his immediate tasks, but also, since he is +too busy in the service of humanity to have time for +reading, has eight trained assistants whose business it +is to read in many languages what is being done all +over the civilised world in his own line, and keep him +informed as to the development of experience. A +wonderful advance on the crystallisation of individual +method, this, and yet it needed but the imaginative +projection upon scientific work of what every business +firm and every political unit has long done.</p> + +<p>To transfer to our own concerns a method developed +elsewhere is one of the most valuable services imagination +can render. Almost all educational reform comes +about thus, most mechanical inventions, a great part of +economy and comfort in individual homes. Also, +besides these particular advantages, the incessant +coming and going between the different fields of activity, +the circulation of attention which this use of the imagi<a class="pagenum" name="Pg451" id="Pg451"></a>nation +involves, tends to vitalise and enrich not only +the individuals who carry it out, but the whole social +organism of which they form part.</p> + +<p>Upon the moral side not much need be said. “Put +yourself in his place” is a very old and respectable +recipe for growing justice in one's conduct, consideration +in one's speech, sympathy in one's heart. As +employer or magistrate, as teacher or nurse, as customer +or shopman, as parent or husband or child we must all +deal somehow with our fellow-men: honestly and truthfully, +we mean, kindly and helpfully, we hope. But is +it not the more or the less of our imagination that +makes such dealings possible? Without it, we are cruel +because of something we do not feel, unjust because +there is something we do not know, unwittingly deceitful +because there is something we do not understand. +With it, our justice will support, our kindness uplift, +our attempt at help will not be barren, but will awake +response and raise the whole level of our human intercourse +into a region of higher possibilities.</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="FUTURIST_GARDENING" id="FUTURIST_GARDENING"></a>FUTURIST GARDENING.</h2> + +<h3><a name="Flowers" id="Flowers"></a><span class="smcap">To-Morrow's Flowers.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>hese three months of July, August and September +are the second seed-time. I think they must +be the most proper sowing-time, for is it not +clear that Nature sows seed, not in spring, but in +autumn? At any rate, now we can do more towards +making a perpetually beautiful flower garden than in +any other season. The biennials, those that blossom in +their second year of life and those jolly perennials that +come up year after year and always stronger than +before, without any trouble on our part, are best started +in life not too long before the winter. Spring-sown +seed sometimes forgets that it is biennial and blossoms +rather futilely the same summer, and at other times it +grows so lush and large by winter that it cannot stand +the frost.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg452" id="Pg452"></a>Now we see the flowers in blossom in the vineyards +of our friend Naboth and we know which we should +most like in our own garden. There is an exquisite +joy in begging or stealing a few seeds and bringing +them home to blossom for us as they did for Naboth. +I carry at this time a few small envelopes bought for +a few pence a hundred at Straker's, and whenever I +see something nice in seed I bag it. In another week +it would drop beneath the plant it grew on and, not +being cared for by a gardener, would be smothered or +hoed up. In a nice little seed-bed all to itself it can +unfold all manner of pleasure for its abductor.</p> + +<p>Plant your flower seeds on a nice ripe, rich bed—that +is, one compounded of old and even half-used +manure. Keep the seedlings watered as they grow and +by judicious pricking-out give them the room they need. +About October you can plant the best of them in the +place where you want a good bush next year, and, if it +is a perennial, you have for many years to come a +beautiful plant with a personal history. Even if you +have bought your penn'orth of seed there may be a +pleasant anecdote connected with it. My garden is at +present amazingly blue with Dropmore Alkanet +(Anchusa). Three years ago I bought three seeds for +a penny. Two of them came up. I slashed up the +plants and now I have half-a-dozen clumps as well as +a similar number left in the old garden whence I have +removed.</p> + +<p>If you asked me what kinds of seed in particular you +ought to plant for perennial flowers just now, I might +want many more pages to tell you in. Let me give you +a very short list of those that most appeal to me on the +spur of the moment. It will be enough to go on with:—</p> + +<ul class="off"> +<li>Trollius (globe flower).</li> +<li>Helianthemum (rock rose).</li> +<li>Epilobium (willow herb).</li> + +<li style="margin-top:0.75em;">Hollyhock.</li> +<li>Echinops (globe thistle).</li> +<li>Anchusa Italica, Dropmore variety.</li> + +<li style="margin-top:0.75em;">Lupine.<a class="pagenum" name="Pg453" id="Pg453"></a></li> +<li>Tritoma (red-hot poker).</li> +<li>Heuchera (coral-root).</li> +<li>Yarrow.</li> + +<li style="margin-top:0.75em;">Lychnis (garden campion).</li> +<li>Inula (Elecampane).</li> +<li>Funkia (Plaintain lily).</li> +<li>Eremurus.</li> +</ul> + +<p>This list is representative because it includes some +species, such as Eremurus, Trollius and Tritoma, that +are not usually grown from seed by the amateur. To +raise these rather expensive monsters from pennyworths +of seed is a floral adventure which brings its own +abundant reward.</p> + +<p>I should be very proud of a garden that consisted +entirely of plants that I had raised from seed. It might +be one that had never had anything else in or the +seedlings might gradually oust the bulbs and corms +and grown plants with which the garden began. There +would be many things there intrinsically as well as +extrinsically valuable. Carnation seed, for example, is +constantly producing new varieties, and to grow rose +seedlings is even to court fortune. It is a long time +before you see your rose. The seed takes sometimes +two years to germinate, and then you have to wait a +year or two before you get a typical blossom. The +growers hurry matters by cutting a very tiny bud from +the first sprout and splicing that on to an older stock. +One of the advantages of having your roses grown +from seed and on their own stocks would be that they +could not produce wild suckers.</p> + +<p>I have just seen a wonderful grove of Aquilegias, the +glorified columbine which has the centre of one colour +and the outside petals of another—sulphur with mauve +or yellow with pink, and many other varieties. The +nucleus was grown from shop seed and the rest from the +seed of the first-comers. The only thing to choose +between them is that the new ones have produced a +least one variety not represented in the first batch. +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg454" id="Pg454"></a>You may be sure that I am going to get some seed from +here and raise some Aquilegias for myself. Good +reader, go thou and do likewise.</p> + +<p class="sig">G.G. Desmond.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="MIDSUMMER_MADNESS" id="MIDSUMMER_MADNESS"></a>MIDSUMMER MADNESS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">W</span>e had come, “3.7” and I, to the Boundary, +a white, unpaved road which winds across +the full width of Wimbledon Common, from +the old Roman camp to the windmill. Simultaneously +we cried a halt, I because I never cross that road +without some hesitation, he because he wanted to get +out of the folding go-cart in which he had been riding +and turn it, with the aid of a small piece of string and +a big piece of imagination, into a 40-horse-power motor +car.</p> + +<p>On the map the road is not called the Boundary. If +you want to know why I call it so I can only say that +once you have crossed it things are different; I do not +mean a difference merely of country or scenery, but a +difference of atmosphere; better, and more literally, a +change of spirit. To put it bluntly, I never knew the +reality of fairyland until I blundered across that road +one grey gusty evening ten years ago, and heard the +tall grasses whistling in the wind. Since then the road +has always been a frontier, not to be crossed without +preparation.</p> + +<p>As “3.7” tumbled out of his go-cart I looked at my +watch and saw it lacked but a few minutes to noon. +It was just such a cloudless June day as must have +inspired Shelley's <i>Hymn of Apollo</i>. No smallest cloud +to break the dazzling blue; and, high above our heads, +Apollo, standing “at noon upon the peak of heaven.”</p> + +<p>If it had been Midsummer Day I should have thought +twice about crossing the Boundary. As it was, we were +quite near enough to the 24th of June to make it risky. +So, as “3.7” bent a tangled head over the bonnet of +his Daimler, I flung myself down on the level turf +beside him and stared across the road.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg455" id="Pg455"></a>Behind us and on either side were clumps of gorse +bushes, and beyond them the immense level expanse +of the open heath. Immediately in front was the road, +sunk a foot beneath the turf, which comes right up to +it, both on this side and that.</p> + +<p>“Another piece of string, please,” said “3.7,” +rummaging in my pockets without waiting for an +answer, “and a pencil, and——”</p> + +<p>And then I saw it. On the farther side of the road +there is a stretch of short turf, some hundred yards +wide; and beyond that an irregular line of silver birches; +and beyond that the blue of distant hills, for the +Common slopes down where the trees begin. Between +the silvery wood and the road, through the midst of the +wide belt of turf, and parallel with the Boundary, ran a +river. There was nothing to be much surprised at, for +it was just the kind of river you would expect to see +running through the fields of fairyland. It was a river +of grass.</p> + +<p>It was the slender-stalked, tufted, not very tall, grey-headed +grass that grows quite generally in open country +and wild places. But the wind and the sun now turned +it into a river which ran fast between its banks of green, +its waves silvery grey, quick-flowing waves, gleaming +and dappled, an endless succession. It flowed from +somewhere out of sight in the west, and disappeared +to the east over the edge of the great slope that brings +you down to the woods, vanishing, to all intents and +purposes, over the edge of the world.</p> + +<p>Without taking my eyes off this astonishing spectacle +I stretched out a hand and, catching “3.7” by the +edge of his white smock, told him to run across the +road to the grass and—paddle in it. I said it was +better than motor cars. He made no comment on this +but, after glancing warily up and down the road (for +he has been brought up in wholesome awe of the entire +tribe of automobiles), he crossed the Boundary, ran +across the turf and plunged up to his knees in the river.</p> + +<p>I cannot be certain, but it is my considered opinion +that Apollo stopped his golden chariot for the space of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg456" id="Pg456"></a>a whole minute to look down at the golden-haired boy +wading in that noiseless, fast-flowing river.</p> + +<p>In another minute “3.7” was back at my side, both +hands full of the tufted grass he had pulled. I regret +to say he tickled my ear with it.</p> + + + +<p class="break">Honest, solemn reader, ardent food reformer, keen +educationist, clear-headed moralist, practical-minded +housewife, I tell you frankly there is no moral to this +little episode. It throws no light on what to eat, or on +the purchasing power of an English shilling, or on the +ethical training of young children, or on the nature of +neurasthenia. Fairyland, of course, is a childish fiction, +Apollo a solar myth, a road is a road, grass is grass +and heaven is a state of mind. I quite agree with you. +But let me whisper something in your ear. If you +should ever blunder across your Boundary, don't be +surprised if things look queer on the other side; above +all, whatever you do, don't let any strange river you +may find flowing there carry you away, or it may bring +you, spite of all your protests, through one of the gates +of pearl into the City of God.</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_FOR_MENTAL_HEALING" id="A_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_FOR_MENTAL_HEALING"></a>A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR +MENTAL HEALING.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>here is a vast amount of loose talk, and innumerable +assertions from irresponsible individuals +concerning the wonders that have been +achieved by Mental Healing, but naturally the scientist +and physician, when dealing with such a question +as this, has to put aside, not all enthusiasm, but +certainly all emotionalism, and then, most carefully sift +the evidence laid before him. The scientist here wants +hard, dry, irrefutable facts; the responsible physician +requires to know—by his own careful diagnosis or by +an array of tabulated facts—the condition of the patient +before and after treatment—that is, of the one who +claims to have been cured by mental means. Innumer<a class="pagenum" name="Pg457" id="Pg457"></a>able +claims are thus being made by patients and others, +so that it is imperative for the unbiased physician at all +events to consider the above question; this in order to +give a reason for the faith that is in him, when he is +known to be one of those who favour the metaphysical +means of healing. Even the sciolist in the matter +knows that in the case, say, of blushing, or blanching +of the face, the action of mind over matter—of the +body—is palpable; all admit that the quality of joy, for +instance, will prove a splendid tonic; that despair, on +the other hand, will pull down the bodily condition. +But all this, we shall be told, is unconscious action; +true, but fortunately we are now aware that by a +forceful action of the will we can <i>consciously</i> direct or +derivate, as the case may be, currents of nerve-force +to any part of the body. Occultists have known this +for many centuries. Joy, hope, faith: these are very +potent factors in improving the health conditions—simply +because they act upon the sympathetic nervous +system, and this latter acts upon the circulation. +Happiness dilates the blood-vessels. Fear contracts +them. Thus, unbounded faith; renewed hope; sudden +joy; enforced will-power; all have a marked effect upon +bringing about an equilibriated condition of the circulation—just +the same as a hot bath does, though not so +rapidly or so perceptibly. Further, we must remember +that all disease more or less is a stasis, a congestion, +somewhere; we have only to dissipate this; to separate +the cells; to expand the part, as it were, and “resolution,” +as we call it in congestion of the lungs, takes +place. So that it seems to me that we can fairly claim +a strictly scientific basis for Mental Healing. I have +always, however, maintained that the attitude of the +patient's own mind has much to do with the result: in +his consciousness there must be faith and hope in order +to get the best effect.</p> + +<p>Judging, then, of the very remarkable and palpable +changes which anyone can see occur on such superficial +parts as the face and extremities, I can see no reason +that, by an enforced mental action, the deeper parts—<a class="pagenum" name="Pg458" id="Pg458"></a>including +any hidden diseased part—should not be +altered for good. I am very confident that it is upon +these lines, coupled, as they can always be, with advice +as to clean feeding and right living generally, the +physician of the future will largely depend for his cures. +Thus we are fully justified in not only trying the system +on “functional,” but also for “organic,” cases.</p> + +<p class="sig">J. Stenson Hooker, M.D.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE" id="A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE"></a>A SIGNIFICANT CASE.</h2> + +<h3><a name="Fasting1" id="Fasting1"></a><span class="smcap">Account of a Fast, undertaken for the Cure of a Profound +Blood Disease.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>he following account of a fast is worthy of attention. It +is rigidly accurate <i>in principle</i>, as far as I could make it +so, and I am responsible for its truthfulness. But the +subject of it, feeling that he is engaged in a duty and “labour of +love,” as he expresses it, is yet naturally anxious to prevent his +identity from being discovered; and so, while the facts of the +narrative are true in principle they have been varied in a few +details for the purpose of preventing the recognition of the subject +of them.</p> + +<p>They occurred in the history of a man of about 40 years of age, +who fell ill of an infectious disease some 20 years ago, while living +abroad. The exact time of the infection is not known. The +patient was treated by qualified doctors living in the same country +as himself, and there is no reason to believe that he was not +properly and skilfully treated. He had, however, for years +buoyed himself up with the hope that he should be able to come +to England for the best treatment, and recently he found himself +in this country for that purpose. It goes without saying that the +eminent men consulted treated him after the most modern and +approved methods, which were also, so far as knowledge goes, the +most likely to benefit him. Not only as to treatment must it be +assumed that the best was done, but the diagnosis also is supported +by the authority of the doctors seen, and was confirmed by +physiological and pathological investigation. This would be +recognised if it were possible to publish names, places and dates +which are withheld from the courteous reader for the reason +already given. I can only say that I entirely concur in the +diagnosis and in the suitability of the treatment.</p> + +<p>The man came under my care on a Sunday, the fast, which is +the subject matter of this communication, having been commenced +on the Friday six weeks before that day, the last food having been +taken on the Thursday at 5 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> I saw him, therefore, on the +forty-fifth day of the fast. His pulse was 59, soft, steady, regular. +Temp. 96.8 degrees, about 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> He was able to be up, and +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg459" id="Pg459"></a>walked actively, all his bodily movements being active and his +mind quite clear and rational. His weight on the day after I first +saw him was, in the same clothes as when weighed at the +beginning of the fast, 129½ lbs. He said he weighed 171 lbs. on the +machine at the commencement, and therefore the loss of bodily +weight up to that time was 41.5 lbs. The average loss of weight +during the 46 days of the fast was about nine-tenths of a pound +daily if the 41.5 lbs. loss is divided by the 46 days of the continuance +of the fast up to that time—41.5/46 = .9 lbs. almost exactly.</p> + +<p>When he came to my consulting room on the forty-sixth day, +about 2.15 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, the pulse was 64, temp. 95.6 degrees (thermometer +3 minutes under tongue). He was much troubled with a nasty +expectoration of mucus. His breath was very offensive. No +enlarged glands could be felt in either groin—perhaps a trifling +enlargement in the right. In middle of front border of right tibia +a little irregularity is felt, and a small hollow, which he thinks is +filling up; but it might be that the exudation on the bone immediately +above and below the hollow is somewhat reduced, as this +would equally give the suggestion that the hollow is filling up. +There is a similar but rather smaller irregularity on the left tibia +also. He felt rather weak that day, which he attributed to not +having had his usual walk the day before. The nasal cavity +consists of a large grey septumless cavern showing dry crusts. +The issuing breath is most offensive. Patient had drunk freely of +water, he said, to the extent of 4 or 5 quarts a day during the +fast but when I said—do you mean that you have been taking +over a gallon of water daily?—he rather hesitated, and did not +think it was so much as that. He had not measured it and +had taken it cold usually, though occasionally hot, and had taken +it without stint as he wanted it. On the forty-eighth day of the +fast he complained of being weak but worst of all, he said, his +breath was very offensive to himself. It was so to me also—faint, +fetid, putrid. His sense of smell was greatly impaired, so much +so that he could not smell the offensiveness of the bowel-excreta +which came away every day on using the gravitation-enema, and +which were horrible to by-standers. It would seem from this as if +his distress at the bad smell of his breath was probably due to a +perversion of the sense of smell, which can be easily understood if +we reflect that the disease-process was going on in the region +where the smell-apparatus is specially located. The temperature +was 96.2 degrees that morning the patient said. At 2 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> when I +saw him the pulse was 68, regular, even, steady. He says he was +feverish last night. I suppose he felt hot. He sleeps well, but says +he hears the clogs of the mill-hands as they go to their work +in the mornings. Has lost 2 lbs. weight in last 2 days. Temp. +93.6 degrees to my observation 2.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Says he feels “done at +the stomach.” His voice is poor. Expectorates somewhat freely. +A small blob of green thickish mucus in ordinary white mucus +came away in my presence. Urine acid 1010. No glucose. Faint +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg460" id="Pg460"></a>trace of albumin to heat and picric acid: also to nitric acid. The +right lachrymal punctum is blocked; the tears run down the +cheek; and I failed to get even a hair-thick wire into it. Evening, +pulse 65, temp. 97.2 degrees in bed with hot-water bottle. Fæces +most offensive, no bowel-excreta coming away except to enema. +Forty-ninth day. In bed, temp. 97.2 degrees, pulse 65, soft, steady, +regular. No great emaciation of limbs. Showed me some green +expectoration. He says it is from Salvarsan as it is exactly like +what he was injected with! The motion to the enema as offensive +as before, but the breath is less offensive to me: not so fetid.</p> + +<p>On this day patient completed 7 weeks of fasting. Feels sick +and as if he would vomit. About midday he did vomit about +a teaspoonful of dark green stuff, very bitter and acid (bile, I +should call it, though he calls it “pure citric acid”) and +immediately after that he got rid of a motion without the use +of the enema, brown, dark and very offensive still. I think the +breath, however, is rather less offensive; and so I thought also +two days ago. Temp. 97, pulse 67, soft, steady, regular; about +1.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> In bed since fiftieth day of fast. Not feeling very ill +and not specially emaciated, though the buttocks are thinning; +but legs and thighs and arms and forearms not specially thin. +He came to me to be weighed on the forty-ninth day and weighed +127½ lbs. Fifty-second day of fast. Still in bed. Condition much +the same as to pulse, temperature, etc., and as to emaciation +so far as observation goes. Remained in bed, not because unable +to be up, but because he thought it would be better for him to +be resting. On the fifty-fourth day, as he still felt sick, I gave +him, at his request, an emetic in the form of 10 grains of copper-sulphate. +This was followed by <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'sickeness'.">sickness</ins> after about an hour, +when he got rid of a very little of the same green stuff as +before. Bile? But the difficulty is to understand how, after all +this time of fasting, he should still feel sick and with inclination +to vomit. On the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth days of the fast he +remained in bed, the condition being much the same. On Thursday, +the fifty-sixth day, he broke the fast at 5 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, just 8 weeks +after beginning it. He had meant to go on for 60 days, and I +did not think that there would have been any danger in his +doing so; but I did not press him to continue any longer. He +took 3 oranges on that day; and on the Friday he took 5 more. +I advised him not to increase the quantity of food too quickly. +The breath has been quite sweet during the last two days. He +has been too weak to take enemata, so we cannot say if motions +would still have been offensive. And as there is no weighing +machine in his room, we don't know the exact loss of weight +sustained during the fast, though there is no reason to think that +it has averaged more than .9 lb. a day. Up to the time of +stopping the enemata, pieces of mucous membrane and mucus +itself came away from the bowel, and the motions were very +offensive. He seems to have a mucous enteritis without fever.</p> + +<p>On the fourth day after breaking the fast, patient took 6 +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg461" id="Pg461"></a>oranges, 4 apples and a banana; and he ordered much more food, +which, however, I advised him not to take. On this day his +bowels were opened naturally, with a very offensive motion. +But the breath was much sweeter, in fact not offensive at all.</p> + +<p>On the sixth day he came to my consulting-room and weighed +128 lbs. Pulse 80, soft, steady, regular. He had not slept all +night and had had to be up no fewer than 6 times to have his +bowels opened. No diarrhœa, he said, but full motions, the first +3 very offensive. Breath not offensive. Has dry pharyngitis and +is complaining of sore throat.</p> + +<p>Next day. Weight 133 lbs. Bowels acted again, 1 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 3 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, +6 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 9 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and 1 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> Large motions. I told him I thought +he was taking too much food. Pulse 104. Not sleeping well. +Complained of sore throat.</p> + +<p>Eighth day. Weight 138 lbs., a gain of 5 lbs. a day for 2 days. +Pulse 80 at 7 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> (his own statement), at 2.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> pulse 100, +temp. 99.4 degrees. Bowels acted at 12 midnight, 3.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and +about 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> Went that day to have his photograph taken. +The throat was better. Tongue dry and leathery. It was plain +to me that he was taking too much food. He was having a +mixed diet and taking much and often. He said his “mouth was +coming to pieces,” and in fact the mucous membrane was glazed +and peeling; also the lips. On the ninth day he returned home.</p> + +<p>The loss of weight can be seen from the following statement. +On commencing the fast the weight was 171 lbs.</p> + +<table summary="The man's weight, measured on various days during the fast."> +<tr><td>First day </td><td>weight was </td><td>171 </td><td>lbs.</td></tr> +<tr><td>Sixth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>165½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Seventh day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>163½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Twelfth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>158</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Fifteenth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>155½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Eighteenth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>150½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Twenty-fifth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>142½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Forty-seventh day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>129½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Forty-ninth day </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>127½</td><td> <span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +</table> + +<p>Fast ended on fifty-sixth day. On the sixth day after breaking +the fast the weight was 128 lbs. On the next day it had risen +to 133 lbs. and on the following day to 138 lbs. In the first 47 +days of the fast the loss of weight was 43.5 lbs., or an average +loss of .888 lbs. daily (43.5/49 = .888 lbs.) The loss of weight for +the last 8 days before the fast was broken is not known as +patient was in bed, though it probably was at much the same rate +as during the other times of the fast when the weight was taken +on the scales.</p> + +<p>The following comparative measurements are interesting. Of +course he had been eating for a week after the termination of +his fast, so that the measurements taken on that day would be +higher probably than if they had been taken seven days before, +when he broke the fast.</p> + + +<table style="width:90%;" summary="The circumference of various parts of the man's body, measured at the beginning and at the end of the fast."><caption><a class="pagenum" name="Pg462" id="Pg462"></a>Bodily Measurements.</caption> +<tr><th></th><th colspan="2"><i>At Commencement<br />of Fast.</i></th><th colspan="2"><i>At Termination <br />of Fast.</i></th></tr> +<tr><td>Forearm </td><td>11 </td><td>inches </td><td>9⅝</td><td>inches </td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td>Arm </td><td>11½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>8¾ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Hips </td><td>38 </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>32½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Thigh </td><td>21¼ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>16 </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Pelvis </td><td>37½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>30½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Calf<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> </td><td>15¼ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>13½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Neck </td><td>14½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>12½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +<tr><td>Chest </td><td>38 </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>31¼ to 34½ </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span></td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> There was a bundle of varicose veins behind right calf.</p> + +<p>Patient kept a diary during his fast, but it does not seem +necessary to reproduce its statements here. It shows that he +walked about during the time, notes the state of the weather as +foggy or very foggy or freezing, mentions that water was taken, +sometimes hot apparently, as on 15th March, “after glass of +hot water, pulse 70, temperature 98½ degrees.” No doubt +drinking the hot water had elevated temporarily the mouth-temperature, +as it does. The diary also notes that he felt weak, +had a bath, or did not have a bath, notes the pulse-rate, etc., as +also the effects of the daily enemata. On the twenty-ninth day +of the fast he took a bottle of Apenta Water. Such are samples +of statements from the diary.</p> + +<p class="sig">A. Rabagliati, M.A., M.D.</p> + +<p><i>The <a href="#A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE_II">remainder of this article</a> deals with conclusions of great +interest and value, and will appear in our <a href="#Pg473">next issue</a>.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES1" id="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES1"></a>HEALTHY LIFE RECIPES.</h2> + +<h3><a name="Salads" id="Salads"></a><span class="smcap">Salads and Salad Dressings.</span></h3> + + +<p>For salads it is not necessary to depend entirely upon +the usual salad vegetables such as lettuce, watercress, +mustard and cress.</p> + +<p>The very finely shredded hearts of raw brussel +sprouts are excellent, and even the heart of a savoy +cabbage. Then the finely chopped inside sticks of a +tender head of celery are very good; also young +spinach leaves, dandelion leaves, endive, sorrel and +young nasturtium leaves.</p> + +<p>Then there are the onion family (for those who can +take them), the tender kinds, such as spring onion, +chive and shallot being very good when chopped finely +and used as a minor ingredient in any salad.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg463" id="Pg463"></a>The root vegetables should also be added in their +season, raw carrot, turnip, beet, artichoke and leek, +all finely grated.</p> + +<p>A taste for all the above-mentioned vegetables, eaten +raw, is not acquired all at once. It is best to begin +by making the salad of the ingredients usually preferred +and mixing in a small quantity of one or two of the +new ingredients.</p> + +<p>For those who find salads very difficult to digest, it +is best to begin with French or cabbage lettuce and +skinned tomatoes only, or, as an alternative, a saucerful +of watercress chopped very finely, as one chops +parsley.</p> + +<p>Any salad, however made up, should be served in +as dainty and pleasing a fashion as possible. It is, +perhaps, usually best to serve it ready chopped and +shredded, and to allow each person at the table to take +his or her own helping of “dressing.”</p> + +<p>English people seldom serve salad in the French +fashion—that is, quite dry, save that the dressing is +well mixed in an hour before the meal. Readers who +have been to France may have seen French peasant +women whirling a wire salad-basket round their heads +in order to dry the materials after the cleansing has been +done. When dry, the green-stuff is torn with the hands, +the dressing (and the French know all about salad +dressings) is added and the whole allowed to stand +some little time, so that by the time the meal is served +there is a complete blending of all flavours.</p> + +<p>Not everyone likes this method; but it is certainly +better than the customary method here, which too often +leaves a little puddle of water at the bottom of the +bowl.</p> + +<p>There are many ways of preparing good salad dressing +without resort to vinegar, salt and pepper. The two +prime necessities are (1) really good oil and (2) some +kind of fresh fruit juice. Most people prefer lemon +juice or the juice of fresh West Indian limes, well mixed +into either olive oil, nut oil or a blended oil such as the +“Protoid Fruit Oil” or Mapleton's Salad Oil. The +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg464" id="Pg464"></a>ordinary “salad oils” obtainable at grocers are seldom +to be recommended; they almost invariably contain +chemical preservatives and other adulterants. It is +better to have the best oil and use it sparingly if need be, +than take any faked product just because it is cheap.</p> + +<p>With most people the addition of pure oil assists the +digestion of the salad, as well as serving other purposes +in the body.</p> + +<p>Many excellent salad recipes and suggestions for +novel yet simple “dressings” will be found in <i>Unfired +Food in Practice</i>, by Stanley Gibbon.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2">[2]</a> 1s. net; 1s. 1½d. post paid, from the office of <i>The Healthy +Life</i>, 3 Amen Corner, London, E.C.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS1" id="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS1"></a>PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.</h2> + + +<p><i>This, which is a regular feature of THE HEALTHY +LIFE, is not intended as a household guide or home-notes +column, but rather as an inconsequent commentary +on current thought.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<blockquote><p>An interesting booklet by Raymond Blathwayt with samples of +Bath Mustard will be sent free on application to J. & J. Colman, +Ltd. (Dept. 49) Norwich.—Advt. in <i>Punch</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Rumours are also afloat that G.K. Chesterton has +written a brilliant booklet on Eiffel Tower Lemonade, +and that the Attorney General has been commissioned +to write a highly interesting brochure on American +macaroni.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>“I enclose you a photo of my baby, Willie, aged fifteen months. +He was given up by two doctors, and then I consulted another, +who advised me to try ——'s Food, which I did, and he is still +having it. You can see what a fine healthy boy he is now, and +his flesh is as hard as iron.”—From an advt. in <i>Lady's Companion</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Evidently a case of advanced arterio-sclerosis.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>HEALTH BISCUITS. Nice and Tasty, handled by our 55 +salesmen daily.—Advt. in <i>Montreal Daily Star</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>One reason, perhaps, why both the public and the +sales have declined.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p class="center"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg465" id="Pg465"></a> +WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE FOR A PERFECT SKIN?<br /> +Is 3d. too much?<br /> +Many perfect skins to-day are traced to a single sample.</p> +<p class="sig"><span style="font-variant:normal;">—Advt. in <i>Lady's Companion</i>.</span> +</p></blockquote> + +<p>The price is reasonable; but I think I would rather +see a sample first, wouldn't you?</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>OUR SPECIAL FILLING FAST—Headline in <i>Daily News</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>The correct antidote for the well-known “starvation +of over-repletion.”</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Cold Anniversary Raised Pie and New Potato Salad.—From the +<i>Seventh Anniversary Menu of The Eustace Miles Restaurant</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>I am told that one old gentleman, misled by the chef's +quite innocent use of adjectives, protested to a waitress +that the day was really very warm; also that a youthful +wag obliterated the initial C from his menu with a pen-knife +and then inquired which was the better vintage, +'06 or '09.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>But to contend that there is no difference between a good yellow +man and a good white man is like saying that a vegetarian chop of +minced peas is like a chop of the chump variety.—<i>New Witness</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Chop-chop—as the good yellow man might be tempted +to say if he came upon this specimen of white wisdom.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Canvassers can make a very good profit by selling a patent +ladies' folding handbag, also wristlet watches.—Advt. in <i>Daily +Mail</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Nevertheless, the only place for a patent lady is a +registry office.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>CAKEOMA PUDDING? You cannot know how delicious they +are until you have tasted them.—Advt. in <i>Lady's Companion</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>One of the things that would never have occurred to +you if you hadn't seen it expressed so clearly.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Saxon.</span>—How cruel of you. Although I have not the honour of +cap and gown, I do possess a Classical Dictionary. If I can help +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg466" id="Pg466"></a>further, write again. Regarding the recipe, it depends upon its +nature. Perhaps <span class="smcap">Vera</span> is the lady to whom you should address +your question—<i>Lady's Companion</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>My colleague, Mr Edgar J. Saxon, denies all knowledge +of this affair. But I do wish he would be a little +more careful in future.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES1" id="HEALTH_QUERIES1"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading Dr Knaggs deals briefly month by +month, and according as space permits, with questions +of general interest.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +one side only of the paper, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped addressed +envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Malaria" id="Malaria"></a>CAN MALARIA BE PREVENTED?</h3> + +<blockquote><p>A. de L. (Lisbon) writes:—For five months I have been a strict +“fruitarian,” and as I am obliged now to go to Mozambique +(Portuguese East Africa) to remain there five rears, I should be +much obliged to you if you kindly let me know what I must do +to prevent the African fever and biliousness which seem to afflict +all Europeans in that part of the world. Any hints you could give +me as to maintaining health in such a climate would be most +gratefully acknowledged.</p></blockquote> + +<p>I do not think that it is possible for any European, +whether he adopts fruitarian or ordinary diet, to entirely +escape malaria, since it is caused by a minute parasite +which is forced into the blood by a certain form of biting +mosquito.</p> + +<p>The parasite will, however, surely gain less hold on +one whose blood is clean and pure and whose vital +force is strong, than on one who dissipates his strength +by partaking of meat, alcohol, tea, coffee and other +stimulants, or who otherwise gets his blood into a bad +state by faulty diet generally.</p> + +<p>Therefore, the thing this correspondent should do is +to live as much as possible upon the simple frugal fare +of the natives. He can take raw coker-nut freely and +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg467" id="Pg467"></a>eat the fresh fruits which grow in this part of Africa. +If he can obtain pineapple or papaw he will find these +excellent to help him to retain his health and strength +in this country.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Child" id="Child"></a>UNFIRED DIET FOR A CHILD: IS IT SUITABLE?</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs L.B.F. writes:—My husband and I are much interested +in <i>The Healthy Life</i>, deriving much benefit and good advice from +its pages. It is the only magazine, we find, which answers +questions that we have long been puzzling over. Reading a work +of the “Montessori Method” of training children last night I was +disturbed to find I had, according to that book, been feeding my +little boy, aged three years, all wrong. It says: “Raw vegetables +should not be given to a child and not many cooked ones. Nuts, +dates, figs and all dried fruits should be withheld. Soups made +with bread, oil, bread and butter, milk, eggs, etc., are the +principal foods Dr Montessori recommends. She also advocates +the use of sugar.”</p> + +<p>Our boy has nuts, ground and whole, all the fresh fruits and +dried ones, salads, brown bread and nut butter, sometimes dairy +butter, no milk, his food mostly uncooked, as we ourselves +believe in. If Dr Valentine Knaggs would give us his opinion +on this I should be very grateful. The boy is healthy, but I notice +a slight puffiness below the eyes of late in the morning. Also his +temper does not improve as he gets older. Will he be having too +much proteid (nuts) for one of his years, or is the temper natural +as a result of bad discipline. His father is away all day, and +mothers are, as a rule, soft marks, are they not?</p></blockquote> + +<p>It is difficult to answer fully a question of this sort, +as so much depends on the child's temperament and +environment. A frail, delicate child with the promise of +high mental development requires a finer and softer +grade of nutriment than one of a coarse animal nature +with strong, well-developed digestive organs.</p> + +<p>All healthy children, especially boys (as Mr Saxon +will attest!), are full of mischief and restlessness, which +it is the duty of a mother or a nurse to divert into right +channels.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> The display of temper is probably an indication +of this not being done, though it <i>may</i> be due in +part to the raw diet not suiting the child.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3">[3]</a> This correspondent, and all mothers of difficult children, should +study the works of Mary Everest Boole, published by C.W. +Daniel, Ltd.; also <i>The Children All Day Long</i>, by E.M. +Cobham.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg468" id="Pg468"></a>The advice I would give would be to alter the diet +and make it lighter.</p> + +<p>From my point of view, Dr Montessori has not given +sufficient attention to the other side of the diet question, +preferring to remain more on the side of orthodoxy. +Moreover, her own work has been done in Italy, where +a climate prevails which does not call for so free a use +of vegetables and salads as is the case in our own +cooler and bleaker clime.</p> + +<p>I suggest, as a beginning, the following diet might +be tried, but it is necessarily impossible to guarantee +good results unless the cause of the puffy eyes and +temper have been definitely located by personal examination:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—A raw ripe apple, finely grated, or simply +scraped out with a silver spoon.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast at 8.</i>—A scrambled egg on a Granose +biscuit with a little finely chopped salad or finely grated; +raw roots appetisingly served with a dressing of oil, +lemon juice and a little honey. This to be followed by +an “Ixion” or “P.R.” biscuit, with fresh butter.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner at 2.</i>—Home-made cottage cheese, or cream +cheese, or a nut meat (served cold out of the tin, or, +better still, home-made). Two casserole-cooked vegetables, +done with a little fruit juice and lemon to retain +colour. This to be followed by a baked apple with +cream and a little home-made, unfired pudding made +of dried fruits.</p> + +<p><i>Supper at 5.</i>—A slice of “Maltweat” bread, and +butter, and a cupful of clear vegetable soup, or some +hot water with some lemon juice added, and slightly +sweetened with a little honey.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Giddiness" id="Giddiness"></a>GIDDINESS AND HEAD TROUBLE.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs L.B.F. also writes:—I sometimes think I must make +dietetic mistakes. My husband thinks I am perfectly healthy, so +I do not say anything of the giddiness in the morning and after +eating, a drowsiness and slight pain at the back of the head and +underneath one of my ears. Also under my eyes is on some +mornings quite swollen and puffed up. It is not so marked, but +I am quite conscious of it. Our diet consists mostly of a salad, +with bread or baked potato and cheese or ground nuts or cooked +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg469" id="Pg469"></a>brussels sprouts and a nut meat pie, apple pie and cream, with +brown bread and butter, or a raw fruit meal, nuts, apples, grapes, +figs, dates and no bread.</p> + +<p>Two meals a day, first in the morning at eight o'clock, second +at two or three in the afternoon. A glass of hot water with +lemon at nine <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, and the same in the morning. I do some +exercises night and morning and am out in the fresh air often +through the day. We live in the country and I have every chance +of keeping myself healthy. Perhaps I should say I do not eat +many nuts, finding them rather difficult to digest. Should I use +an enema when I feel like this, or wait for natural results?</p></blockquote> + +<p>The symptoms of which L.B.F. complains are in all +probability due to flatulence and to general disturbances +of the digestive process.</p> + +<p>Perhaps it would be a good plan to make the diet +lighter. The nuts could be omitted and cheese or eggs +substituted. An evening meal would be helpful.</p> + +<p>As to the bowels, some senna and camomile tea at +bedtime would help to clear them. Unless there is +distinct evidence of fæcal retention in the colon it is +better not to use the enema as a regular thing.</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—A tumblerful of Sanum Tonic Tea made +with hot, preferably distilled, water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—An all-fruit meal consisting of nothing +but apples, bananas, grapes, or orange, or any fresh +ripe fruit that is in season.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner at 12.30.</i>—A cooked meal consisting of two +casserole-cooked vegetables, with grated cheese as a +sauce dressing, with some twice-baked or well toasted +bakers' bread, followed by a baked apple and cream. +(Omit nut meat pie and apple pie.)</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal at 5.</i>—2 oz. of cottage cheese or cream +cheese, wholemeal bread and butter, small plateful of +finely grated raw roots with an appetising dressing +containing some “Protoid Fruit-Oil.”</p> + +<p><i>Bedtime.</i>—Tumblerful of hot water (preferably distilled) +to which senna leaves and German camomile +flowers (very little) have been steeped to infuse; or a +cupful of dandelion coffee could be taken if the bowels +are regularly acting.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg470" id="Pg470"></a><a name="Gastric" id="Gastric"></a>LONG-STANDING GASTRIC TROUBLE.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>W.T. writes:—Having tried a diet, recommended in <i>The +Healthy Life</i>, for a month I find the nuts and cheese are far too +heavy for the apparent weak condition of my stomach, also that +the salads and casserole-baked vegetables are too irritating to +the membrane of the stomach. I have no desire to return to +flesh food and ordinary feeding, which I feel would not be good +for me. From eggs I cannot obtain any good results. The +continuance of loss of weight is worrying me, being down to +eight stone from eleven stone in twelve months. I feel satisfied +it is only a question of diet, if I could only strike the correct +one. I am naturally most anxious to regain some of my lost +strength and weight. I am at present taking bread and butter, +cooked fruit, and occasionally an egg, boiled rice, vegetables and +a little dried fruit. No matter how light I make my diet I still +suffer after every meal with dilated stomach and irregular working +of the heart. Blood circulation is still bad and constipation +is gradually getting worse. As before stated, I am anxious to +succeed with the reformed diet, but I am really at a loss to +know which way to proceed to make any progress. As I was +in South Africa twenty years, and only returned to England just +before this catarrh set in, is the climate here against my progress, +do you think? I am so sorry to take up so much of your time, +but shall be grateful for any help you can give me which will be +greatly appreciated.</p></blockquote> + +<p>It is difficult to advise how best to proceed in this +case as our correspondent really ought to seek medical +advice. Only in this way can he obtain really satisfactory +guidance. For without knowing the state of +his blood and the organs generally it is impossible to +advise correctly. Speaking generally, until salads and +casserole-cooked vegetables can be taken freely there +can be no possible permanent cure.</p> + +<p>In many such cases the best way to train the digestive +organs into a healthy state is to keep to a diet consisting +chiefly of dextrinised cereals, which must be eaten dry, +with some vegetables and as little fresh fruit as possible. +This to be continued until little by little the raw salad +vegetables are found to agree; then the rest is easy.</p> + +<p>A diet on the following lines would probably be a +good temporary measure:—</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—One egg lightly boiled, poached or +baked, with two Granose biscuits and fresh butter, +eaten dry.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg471" id="Pg471"></a><i>Dinner.</i>—Brusson Jeune bread (one or two rolls) with +butter, and small helping of vegetables, cooked at <i>first</i> +in the orthodox way.</p> + +<p><i>Supper.</i>—Plateful of boiled rice (cooked dry in the +Indian fashion<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>) with a tablespoonful of good malt +extract.</p> + +<p>No sugar, honey, stewed fruit, or dried fruit should +be taken until improvement has set in. As little fluid +as possible should be taken until the stomach has +regained more tone and become more normal in size.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4">[4]</a> See <i>The Healthy Life Cook Book</i>. 1s. net (post free, 1s. 1½d.).</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Catarrh" id="Catarrh"></a>SEVERE DIGESTIVE CATARRH.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Miss S.L.P. writes:—I should like a little help as to diet. I +have just had an attack of epidemic influenza with throat trouble, +so that I feel very much run down and unfit for a diet too +depleting in character. For over four years I have adopted a +non-flesh diet on account of a tendency to chronic catarrh of the +whole alimentary tract, due to rheumatic tendencies which affect +me internally rather than externally. The continuous damp +weather has produced much gastric irritation, and frequent +acidity.</p> + +<p>I cannot discover a diet that is convenient and at the same +time sufficiently nourishing. I lose flesh on what I take, and +I have none to spare, though at one time I was inclined to be +stout. My age is forty-eight.</p> + +<p>I take three meals a day. A light breakfast either of “Maltweat” +bread or “P.R.” Cracker biscuits and butter, with +tomato or fresh fruit or occasionally an egg. For midday meal +an egg or milled cheese, or nuts or cream cheese, with a baked +potato and a conservatively cooked vegetable. Occasionally I +have a little salad and grated carrot, but unless I am better than +usual I cannot digest these. The evening meal consists of +“Maltweat” bread or “P.R.” Cracker biscuits or Granose +flakes, with cream cheese. As a child I suffered constantly from +colds in the head, but now my troubles are oftener internal.</p> + +<p>The action of the bowels is irregular. I depend chiefly upon +an enema of warm water when constipation is present.</p> + +<p>I never drink tea, only hot water, or Emprote and water, or +occasionally vegetable juices or fruit juices. I find I am better +without much fluid.</p></blockquote> + +<p>So far as it is possible to judge from this letter, this +correspondent is suffering not only from stomach and +bowel catarrh, but her condition as a whole is unsatisfactory. +The vital force is depleted and the nervous +system is not doing efficient work.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg472" id="Pg472"></a>She needs suitable treatment to remove the acid and +toxins with which the system is evidently clogged. +This is not an easy task, for as soon as elimination +begins trouble arises in the form of influenza or other +similar derangements. These are probably little else +but attempts on the part of nature to rouse the vital +force of the body into action with a view to clearing +out the clogging poisons.</p> + +<p>Waste clearing should be done gradually. The skin +should be made to act better by means of home Turkish +baths, or by wet-sheet packs. Then mustard poultices +can be applied <i>along the course of the spine</i> and massage +with suitable manipulations can be applied to the +muscles and bones which make up the spine. The daily +practising of the excellent and simple breathing and +bending exercises described in Müller's <i>My System for +Ladies</i><a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> will be very helpful. By means such as these +the body will be gradually cleared of its poisons, and +so the nervous system will be made to do better work.</p> + +<p>The diet specified can be continued.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5">[5]</a> 2s. 8d. post free from the office of <i>The Healthy Life</i>, 3 Amen +Corner, London, E.C.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%; display:block; margin:1em auto 1em auto;' /> + +<p><i>May we ask the co-operation of all our readers +during the holiday season in the following way. On +holidays you are bound to meet fresh people, and make +new acquaintances, and even friends. We suggest +you purchase a few extra copies of </i><span class="smcap">The Healthy Life</span><i> +before you start and hand them on to any likely to be +interested. People tell us the magazine is its own +recommendation. This does not mean that you need +not add your own. The circulation grows steadily, but +it is far short of what it might easily be if every reader +were to gain one fresh reader every month.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3>MORE APPRECIATIONS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>I want to say how very interesting and helpful I find <i>The +Healthy Life</i>, and it is always a pleasure to buy an extra copy +to give to friends, for I always feel it will do them good to read +it, and perhaps make regular subscribers of them.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Bartholomew, <span style="font-variant:normal;">Knebworth.</span></p></blockquote> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg473" id="Pg473"></a></p> + +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 25</span> +<span class="coverright">August<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard</span>.</p></blockquote> +</div> +<hr /> + +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION25" id="AN_INDICATION25"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>he pursuit of health, considered from the +negative standpoint, is the flight from pain.</p> + +<p>And pain is the great mystery of life.</p> + +<p>James Hinton, himself a well-known physician +of his time, attempted to solve the mystery of pain +by showing that it is the accompaniment of imperfection. +That what is now experienced as pain +might be exquisite pleasure given a higher stage +of human development.</p> + +<p>But this, after all, only shifts the mystery one +step farther. Instead of the mystery of pain we +have the mystery of imperfection. Yet to image +perfection is always to image something incapable +of growth or further development.</p> + +<p>Take, for example, a perfect circle. So long as +it remains unbroken, flawless, the line (or infinite +number of lines) composing it cannot be continued +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg474" id="Pg474"></a>or extended. But given a break in the line and it +may be continued round and round, up and up +(or down and down) into an infinitely ascending +spiral. This possibility of extension depends on +a break, on an imperfection.</p> + +<p>It does not follow, of course, that every flaw in +human nature is always the starting-point of new +growth, every failure a stepping-stone to greater +knowledge, but the possibility is there. It is for +men to see that they do not neglect their opportunities.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="IMAGINATION_IN_PLAY" id="IMAGINATION_IN_PLAY"></a>IMAGINATION IN PLAY.</h2> + + +<p><i>Regular readers will recognise in this wonderfully simple and +suggestive article a continuation of the series previously entitled +“Healthy Brains.” The author of “The Children All Day Long” +is an intimate disciple of one of the greatest living psychologists, +and she has a message of the first importance to all who realise +that true health depends as much on poise of mind as on physical +fitness.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="firstletter">T</span>he fruit of imagination ripens into deeds actually +done in the service of man: its flower brightens +the whole of life and makes it fragrant, from the +budding-time of children's play and laughter to the +developed blossoms of the creative imagination which +we call painting or poetry or music.</p> + +<p>Play and art have this in common, that they are +activities pursued for the sake of the activity itself, not +as a means to any other object, not aiming at any +material usefulness. Actually, of course, there is nothing +more useful, on every scale of usefulness, than +the development of the individual in art or play, but +these would never be really themselves while an ulterior +purpose formed a background to them in consciousness.</p> + +<p>Physical exercises devised for the sake of health are +a more or less pleasant form of work; they do not take +the place of play. Our ordinary work is usually more +or less one-sided and unbalanced in the demands it +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg475" id="Pg475"></a>makes upon us; we therefore try to find what other +set of movements will undo this unbalancement and give +us back unbiased bodies. When that is done, and not +till then, we get freedom, and it is at that <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'movement' but the misprint is corrected in the next issue (page 510).">moment</ins> +that real “play” begins—the use of the freed muscles +according to our own will and pleasure.</p> + +<p>The same thing is perhaps true in connection with our +minds. We all see the fallacy of the old-fashioned +hustlers' cry, “Make your work your hobby; think +of nothing else; let every moment be subordinated to +the dominating idea of your career; put aside all sentimentalism, +all laziness and self-will, all enthusiasm +about things not in your own line of work.”</p> + +<p>We have come to see that this kind of effort leads +often to nervous breakdown and early death; always +to a certain narrowing of sympathy and hardening of +method even in the career itself. So we conscientiously +“take up” a hobby or a sport and set aside some hour +or day for indulgence in it. We make it a duty to lay +aside for the time being all idea of duties; part of our +work is to learn to rest.</p> + +<p>So far so good. But does all this go far enough?</p> + +<p>Work imposed by any set of outer needs puts the +whole being under a certain strain. The aim of remedial +exercises, prescribed rest-times and legal holidays is to +undo this strain, to unwind us from our coil by twisting +us the other way.</p> + +<p>When this has been satisfactorily done, too often the +person responsible thinks that this is enough. But it +is really and truly at this moment that one is beginning +one's real life.</p> + +<p>When the body is freed from strain and weariness +is the time to leap and dance and sing and wrestle.</p> + +<p>When the mind is free from prejudice and weariness +is the time for its original activity to begin; new +thoughts spring up unbidden and the creative <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'admiration' but the misprint is corrected in the next issue (page 510).">imagination</ins> +lives and grows.</p> + +<p>(In the sphere of will, many great sages have said +that an analogous sequence holds good. When the +whole emotional and moral nature has thrown itself in +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg476" id="Pg476"></a>a particular direction, and then an unwinding has taken +place, the moment of completed renunciation has been +said to be the dawn of some great new spiritual light.)</p> + +<p>Who does not know the peaceful activity of a Sunday +evening, the fruitful quiet of a long railway journey or +sea-voyage <i>at the end</i> of a holiday? Two friends walk +slowly home together after an exciting expedition or +debate; two girls give each other their confidence while +brushing their hair after a dance.</p> + +<p>Why is this so? Nowadays people are very ready to +answer the question by refusing the fact. It is waste +of time not to be <i>doing</i> something strenuously. Rest +is almost as strenuous as everything else; it is to be +thorough while it is the duty on hand and is to fit +exactly on to the work time, without overlapping but +without interspace.</p> + +<p>In this way too often the imagination, the really +individual part of the mind, is starved and atrophied. +Especially in childhood there ought to be a space left +between useful work and ordered play for the individually +invented games, the pursuits that are not for any +definite end, for dreams and lived-out tales, when the +child may make what he likes, do what he likes, +and in imagination be what he likes. If we scrupulously +respected this growing-time we should soon +have a race of sturdier mettle altogether. Just now +this particular want is probably most nearly supplied +among elementary school children than among those +who have more “educational advantages”; they “go +out to play” in the streets for hours every day, and +one cannot help thinking that it is the vitality thus +evolved that keeps most of them healthy and happy in +spite of many hardships.</p> + +<p>In later life, if we really want to make something +of our lives, we shall do well to insist an keeping such +a margin of free time to ourselves. It need not be long. +Five minutes, if one really sails away in the ship of +imagination, will take us to fairyland and back again. +But the five minutes (or the day in the country, or the +week of quiet, or whatever we take or can get) must +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg477" id="Pg477"></a>really and truly be free; we must have the courage to +seek for what we really want, and we shall have the +inestimable reward of finding what we really are.</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT2" id="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT2"></a>HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT?<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></h2> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6">[6]</a> See <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">July number</a>.</p> + +<p><span class="firstletter">F</span>or some years I lived according to the advice +given by “M.D.” with regard to the quantity +of proteid that should be taken. But experience +led me to believe that it was wrong. In recent years +my diet has consisted of the following quantities per +annum:—</p> + +<ul> +<li>Three to four bushels of wheat.</li> +<li>Seventy pounds of oats.</li> +<li>One bushel of nuts (measured in the shells).</li> +</ul> + +<p>And with these foods rich in proteid, I have taken +plenty of raw vegetables and fruit, and three to four +gallons of olive oil.</p> + +<p>I do not mention this as an ideal, in order to suggest +another and better standard than that of “M.D.” I do +not think any such thing as a standard really exists or +can exist. But I mention it to show how far I have +travelled away from where I was.</p> + +<p>I take it that all food reformers will agree that the +main reason for food reform is to make the body a more +harmonious instrument for the true life of man, and +that carries with it the belief that there is some correspondence, +if we cannot yet see absolute unity, between +the physical and the spiritual. Now the law of life, +according to Christ, is one of continual progress towards +perfection and I do not see how this will harmonise with +the teaching of a fixed law for the body. All my experience +and observation point to a progressive law for the +body, and I do not know of a single fact contrary to it.</p> + +<p>My first point, then, is that there is no such thing as +a standard of proteid needed by the body. All that can +be said is this, that if you take a man who has been +fed on a certain quantity for such and such a time and +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg478" id="Pg478"></a>then feed him on a certain other quantity, alterations +in the physical condition will appear. But who can say +whether these changes are attributable merely to a +deficiency or to a previous excess? If “M.D.” and +his patients take excessive food they naturally get +trouble from stored poisons when they reduce the +quantity. But why put all the trouble down to present +deficiency instead of to previous excess? To this I can +find no satisfactory answer.</p> + +<p>If we have got our bodies into so hopeless a condition +that we cannot use our God-given instincts, tastes and +feelings in the first place, the wisdom of troubling much +about the continuance of bodily life would be doubtful; +and, in the second place, one would need most overwhelming +signs of knowledge to substitute for them. +But where are they? There is no agreement between +those who have been taught physiology. On the one +hand, “M.D.” gives a proteid standard, now impossible +to myself, and I believe to many others, for it +would involve eating a nauseating quantity; and, on the +other hand, another doctor, presumably acquainted with +the same physiology, tells me I cannot eat too little, so +long as I do not persistently violate true hunger and +taste. Then another doctor gives quite a different +standard, and a much lower one. If we discard our +natural guides, which of the claimants to knowledge +is to be followed, and is there any knowledge at all +such as is claimed?</p> + +<p>Imagine what a mockery it would have been to give +such a standard as that of “M.D.” to the agricultural +labourer about the middle of last century, a typical one +with a large family, and one who worked as men do not +work to-day, and had to rear his family on a few +shillings a week. How could such <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original has an apostrophe after the 'a'.">a</ins> one have provided +more than a fraction of what “M.D.” says is necessary, +either for himself or his children?</p> + +<p>The broad fact is, that all the hardest work of the +world has always been done by those who get the least +food. As one who has had some experience of labour, +I doubt if the workers could have done so much if it had +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg479" id="Pg479"></a>not been for a spare diet. Certain it is, that since they +have more to eat, they are much less inclined to work.</p> + +<p>My contention, then, is that there is no fixed standard +of proteid needed by the body, but that the quantity +depends on the development that is in progress and is +only discoverable by the natural guides of appetite and +taste, ruled by reason and love of others. Moreover, +I contend that even if there were such a standard as +“M.D.” says physiology has found, it obviously is not +known.</p> + +<p>I cannot help recognising in “M.D.” one whom I +gratefully love and respect. He helped me on the road, +and now that I differ from him I do not forget it, and +I ask his forgiveness if I seem to be arrogant. He +thinks I cannot see what he sees because I am underfed, +and I think he cannot see what I see because he is +overfed. In a sense we are both right, and we form a +beautiful illustration of the different states of mind that +belong to different physical conditions. I urge the +laymen like myself not to be afraid of that musty old +ill-shaped monster called Science<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> when he is up against +the eternal truths that belong to every simple untutored +man. Shun the monster as you would a priest, to whom +he has a great likeness, and unite with me in a long +strong pull to get “M.D.” out of the rut in which the +monster holds him, so that we may have him with us +on the road, for he carries much treasure and we cannot +do without him.</p> + +<p class="sig">A.A. Voysey.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7">[7]</a> I do not wish to be misunderstood. No sane man despises +real science, but when the mixture of science and ignorance, which +usually stalks about in the name of science, wants to usurp our +heaven-born instincts we cannot but notice his ugly and monstrous +shape. It is the function of science, or a true knowledge of details, +to fill in the mosaic of the temple of wisdom, but the mosaic can +never be the structure itself and is only useful and good when it is +subservient to that structure and harmonious with it.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg480" id="Pg480"></a><a name="CAMPING_OUT2" id="CAMPING_OUT2"></a>CAMPING OUT.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Food Questions.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">“W</span>e have to consider,” I said, “the question of +what food to take and how to cook +it.”</p> + +<p>“Camping out,” said Sylvia, “ought to be a complete +holiday from the food bother. Why not live on +unfired food, such as tinned tongue, sardines and bottled +shrimps?”</p> + +<p>Thereupon Felix laughed a great laugh, and said: +“Just try and do a thousand miles on sardines.”</p> + +<p>Felix is Sylvia's brother, who has spent some twenty +years in America, travelling for weeks through country +that contained no people, and spending nearly two years +in a single journey to Dawson City and home again. +He plainly knows far more about bed-rock camping than +anyone else in the family and we allowed him to take +the floor for a time.</p> + +<p>“The first thing is bread.” said Felix, “because you +can't do without bread. You must take some yeast or +else some baking-powder with you to make it rise, or +you must bake it very quickly so that the steam aerates +it. You might take a Dutch oven with you, but it's +nothing like the Dutch oven that you know in this +country. It is an iron pot on three legs, with an iron +lid. You stand it in the fire and cover the lid with hot +brands and you can cook anything inside it—ducks and +chunks of venison, and bread of course.”</p> + +<p>“But Mr Freeman has barred the oven,” said Sylvia, +“and if we are not going a thousand miles from home +perhaps we can do without it.”</p> + +<p>“As you like,” answered Felix. “I only mention it +so that you can get hold of the general principle. You +can make very good bread in a frying-pan. You must +mix the dough up stiff so that when the pan is nearly +upright it won't tumble out. You fix the pan up with +a prop behind it so that the dough faces the fire, quite +close, and you draw some more fire behind it so that +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg481" id="Pg481"></a>the back is warmed as well. When it burns a good +crust on both sides it is done.”</p> + +<p>“What are flap-jacks,” I asked.</p> + +<p>“Just pan-cakes made without eggs or milk,” said +Felix. “You mix a quart of flour with a tablespoonful +of baking-powder and put in water till it is just so thin +that when you take up a spoonful and let it drop back +you can see the shape of it for a few seconds before +it melts into the rest. You fry the batter in bacon fat +or butter just like pan-cakes, and the cakes are very +good.”</p> + +<div class="center"> +<a id="summer" name="summer"></a> + <img src="images/summer.jpg" + alt="A Summer Idyll" + title="A Summer Idyll" height="404" width="450" /> + <p class="caption"><i>A Summer Idyll</i></p> +</div> + + +<p>“That's a good tip for us,” I said, “and another +good thing to take is cuddy biscuits, a kind of captain's +biscuit. Soak them a few minutes in water or milk +and fry them. They're nice with tomatoes or anything, +or by themselves.”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg482" id="Pg482"></a>“Mebbe,” said Felix, and his tone said, “Mebbe +not.” “I'm only discussing general principles, and +you've got to work your own way out in the light of +them. I've known an outfit come away without a +frying-pan. How do you make bread then?”</p> + +<p>We had to give it up, and Felix went on: “Open +your flour sack, turn down the edge like it is in a +baker's shop, make a little hole in the flour and pour +in water to make a pond. Mix in what flour you want +to use and get your dough into the shape of a snake, +wind it round a stick and cook it like that. You've got +your bread then like a French roll, and very good it is.”</p> + +<p>We all liked the idea of making bread every day and +eating it hot. Here was something to be had in camp +that you could not get at home. And we liked the +idea of learning our cooking by means of first principles. +Whether we liked it or not, Felix liked talking about it, +and he began to grow anecdotal.</p> + +<p>“Once,” he said, “I met a whole lot of men, ten +of them I should think, camped on a cold frosty night +with nothing to eat. They were trying to do a journey +of thirty miles on rough prairie and their horses were +tired and they could not get on. They had brought +their lunch and eaten it long ago, and they told me they +were starving. They had nothing to eat, nothing to +do any cooking with and no wood to make a fire with. +I never saw such hungry people. They were new +settlers just out from England and it was up to me to +do something for them.</p> + +<p>“‘What have you got in that great waggon?’ I +asked. They told me they had some sacks of flour and +two frozen quarters of beef, but there was nothing to +cook it in and no wood to make a fire.</p> + +<p>“There was any amount of cow-dung on the prairie, +and it was dry as chips. I set them collecting that and +soon enough had a fire. I filled a bucket with water +and put it on to boil. I chopped off some meat and +put it in. Then I made some dumplings and put them +in. You just put them into boiling water, you know, +and then they cook at once on the outside and don't +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg483" id="Pg483"></a>come to pieces. If they boil too much they get pappy, +and if not done through they're not good. Most dumplings +you eat in England are not done, but mine were +just right and those ten hungry men had just as good +a supper as anyone could wish for.”</p> + +<p>“Tell us about the coffee you used to make,” said +Sylvia. “What horrible stuff it must have been.”</p> + +<p>“The very best coffee ever I drank,” said Felix.</p> + +<p>“We used to make it in a pot that was nearly a yard +high. We never turned out the grounds, but let them +settle and put in a little more every time we made +coffee, till the pot was so full that it wouldn't hold any +more water.”</p> + +<p>“I don't see anything against it,” I said, when Sylvia +and Gertrude were both expressing their horror. “There +is no tannin or other bad principle in coffee and you +never get anything worse out of it than you do at the +first soaking.”</p> + +<p>“The fellows that work the logs on the river have +their own kind of coffee that they call drip coffee,” said +Felix. “They have a tall pot like ours was and they +tie the coffee in a sack above the water, so that the +water never touches it, but the steam goes up and +fetches it out in drops. They don't change the sack +every time, but keep adding coffee till it won't hold +any more.”</p> + +<p>“The moral of which is?” said Basil, who had for +some time been growing impatient.</p> + +<p>“That there are plenty of ways of cooking an egg +besides frying it,” said Felix, “and that a bit of +common-sense is about the best article you can take +with you out camping. Take your food as raw as you +can get it and know how to cook it. Also know a good +herb when you see it, and never overlook a chance of +getting a meal from the country that will save your +stores.”</p> + +<p class="sig">C.R. Freeman.</p> + +<p><i>Food reformers will have their own opinion about a +diet of shrimps, sardines, tinned tongue and stale coffee +when camping out: the most important part of the +outfit is doubtless an adequate supply of common-sense.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg484" id="Pg484"></a><a name="SEASICKNESS_SOME_REMEDIES" id="SEASICKNESS_SOME_REMEDIES"></a>SEASICKNESS: SOME REMEDIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>In the April and May numbers of the present year we +published an article by Mr Hereward Carrington entitled +“Seasickness: How Caused, How Cured.” The +following supplementary suggestions by the same well-known +writer will be useful to many readers.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="firstletter">A</span> very good plan, when you think of undertaking +a voyage, is to begin to prepare for it several +days in advance. For three or four days, before +embarking, eat only very simple and somewhat laxative +foods—such as fruits—so as to open the bowels well +and tone up the system. This simple diet should be +followed for the first two or three days aboard—of +course not so rigidly, but taking care not to indulge in +many heavy, greasy dishes. Unfortunately, the food +on board is usually very rich and plentiful, and tempts +one to eat. If one suffers from seasickness, there is +not this same temptation, to be sure; but the malady +may certainly be warded off, in the majority of cases, +if only reasonable care be taken of the diet before and +during the voyage, and if instructions herein laid down +be followed.</p> + +<p>As before stated, drugs are as a rule useless for the +cure of seasickness; but on occasion a “seasick cure” +of some kind may prove effective. The harm which +results from the drug may perhaps be more than +counterbalanced by the benefits which the system derives +from the cessation of seasickness. A preparation of this +kind which is very highly recommended by many +travellers is known as “Antimermal,” and though none +of these remedies are to be recommended with assurance, +this one—and perhaps one or two others—might +at least be tried, in cases of dire necessity, when +seasickness has already supervened.</p> + +<p>It is hardly necessary to say that the patient should +remain in the open air continuously, until all symptoms +of seasickness have paused. <i>Live</i> in your deck chair +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg485" id="Pg485"></a>until you feel quite well and able to get up and walk +round. Do not attempt to go downstairs into the +dining-saloon to meals, if you feel in the slightest +“squirmish.” Rather have some hot soup or broth +of some kind sent up to you, and drink it sitting in your +chair. Do not be afraid to drink water at all times, +even if you feel ill—as the water is easily returned, and +it is less strain on the stomach to be able to bring up +something than to find nothing in the stomach when +an effort is made to eject what is not there. Water +will serve to allay this strain, and thus serve a useful +purpose.</p> + +<p>In very severe cases of seasickness, the stomach of +the patient should be emptied and washed out at once. +This is usually an easy matter. Have the patient drink +one or two glasses of water, warm or cold, with a little +salt or bi-carbonate of soda added—say a teaspoonful +to a pint of water. This will have the desired result! +In extreme cases of seasickness, dry cold, such as +ice-bags, placed behind and about the ears, will sooth the +patient, and help to allay his suffering. Cold cloths +to the forehead will also prove helpful. Full baths had +best be omitted, until the attack has worn off, as they +are injudicious on account of the reactions they induce.</p> + +<p>In prolonged cases of seasickness, there is often a +craving for acids and fruit juices. The continued +absence or diminution of the acid contents of the +stomach, and the privation from normal food, accounts +in part for this, and it is highly proper to satisfy such +a craving—providing due care is taken not to add to +the stomach's distress by taking too much juice, or the +juice of unripe fruit, or by swallowing the fibre of the +fruit, which is allowable only when recovery is +complete.</p> + +<p class="sig">Hereward Carrington.</p> + + + + +<h3><a name="IMPORTANT" id="IMPORTANT"></a>IMPORTANT.</h3> + + +<p>If readers who possess copies of the first number of +<i>The Healthy Life</i> (August 1911) will send them to the +Editors, they will receive, in exchange, booklets to the +value of threepence for each copy.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg486" id="Pg486"></a><a name="A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED" id="A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED"></a>A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED +FOOD.</h2> + + +<p><i>In the November number we published a letter from a reader +containing the excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented +to any fair extent with unfired diet should be invited to +contribute to a conference on the subject in </i><span class="smcap">The Healthy Life</span><i>, +and that the symposium should be gathered round the following +points</i>:—</p> + +<ul><li>(1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease.</li> + +<li>(2) Its effect on children so brought up—<i>e.g.</i> do they get the +so-called “inevitable” diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and +<i>especially</i> have they good (<i>i.e.</i> perfect) teeth?</li> + +<li>(3) The effect of the diet in childbirth.</li> + +<li>(4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared +with the cost under ordinary conditions.</li> + +<li>(5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional +dietary (often found amongst food reformers)?</li> + +<li>(6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter?</li></ul> + +<p><i>Two letters were published in the January number. Two more +in February. Others will appear in future issues. We are anxious +to receive a large number of personal experiences, but they must +be brief, and classified under the above heads as far as possible.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<blockquote> +<p class="sig">St Albans.</p> + +<p>In response to your invitation I am sending you my experience +with vegetarian dietary. Although, as you will see, this has not +been altogether “unfired,” I think it should be of interest to +many.</p> + +<p>(1) I became a vegetarian at the time of my marriage, nearly +three years ago, my husband being already a vegetarian of eleven +years. I considered this a good opportunity to commence. +Previous to this I had for some time suffered from indigestion, +which continued for a few months after marriage. I attribute +the cure to the change of diet, and drinking hot water after meals.</p> + +<p>(2) We have one child eighteen months old, totally breast fed +for twelve months, and another four months: on breast and Ixion +Food and some fruit juice.</p> + +<p>She has never had any disease whatever, and so far her teeth +are perfect and she has cut them quite easily. She is a bonny, +sturdy little girl, and very intelligent.</p> + +<p>(3) With regard to childbirth, I previously followed the advice of +Dr Alice Stockholme in “Tokology,” avoiding flesh meats and +bone-making food and adopting a diet of fruit (chiefly lemons) +and rice, brown bread and nut butter, wearing no corsets and +taking frequent baths. The effect during pregnancy was highly +satisfactory. I enjoyed perfect health the whole time, free from +the usual discomforts, and at childbirth I received similar results: +a speedy and safe delivery. Indeed, since marriage, my husband, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg487" id="Pg487"></a>baby and myself, have been singularly free from even minor +complaints.</p> + +<p>(4) As we do not have the specially prepared, expensive +vegetarian foods (supposed to substitute meat), but mainly the +simple foods, I consider the diet less costly than the meat diet.</p> + +<p>(5) We are honestly quite free from the craving for meat or +meat foods.</p> + +<p>(6) In the summer-time we live principally on salads, cheese, +rissoles, etc., made from beans, peas, lentils, etc., fresh fruits, +brown bread and nut butter. In the very cold weather we seem +to need rather warmer stuffs, such as porridge (carefully cooked) +and cooked vegetables, etc.</p> + +<p class="sig">D. Godman.</p></blockquote> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> +<blockquote> +<p><span class="smcap">Brighton.</span></p> + +<p>I have read with the greatest interest the correspondence in +<i>The Healthy Life</i> on the unfired diet. As the majority of your +correspondents have not been living <i>exclusively</i> on unfired food, or +have only done so for short periods, may I suggest that some of +your correspondents or contributors live on an <i>entirely</i> unfired +diet, <i>excluding dairy produce</i>, for a period of six or twelve months +and then relate their experiences. In this way some valuable +evidence would be obtained. At any rate I am prepared to do this +myself.</p> + +<p>With reference to living on the unfired diet on 4d. a day, I +have often had two unfired meals for less than 4d., and two meals +a day are sufficient for anyone. Of course to do this one has to +buy the food which is in season and therefore cheap. Dried fruit +and nuts, followed by a cress salad with oil and lemon dressing, +does not cost more than 2d. An unfired rissole made from grated +carrot and flaked peanuts cost at most a penny, and if followed +by dates or figs would be a sufficient meal, and 2d. would cover +the cost.</p> + +<p>In conclusion, I have no difficulty in producing a “two course” +unfired meal for 2d.—but perhaps I should have left the subject +of cost for Dr Bell to deal with. Yours faithfully,</p> + +<p class="sig">Alfred le Huray.</p></blockquote> + + + + +<h2><a name="MORE_ABOUT_TWO_MEALS_A_DAY" id="MORE_ABOUT_TWO_MEALS_A_DAY"></a>MORE ABOUT TWO MEALS A DAY.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">W</span>ith reference to my article, “Two Meals a +Day,” which appeared in the May issue of +<i>The Healthy Life</i>, several correspondents have +asked me to give more particulars about my life and +diet. I do so gladly; but I must be brief, as the +demand upon space in this magazine is now very great.</p> + +<p>Resolved into a single sentence, what all my correspondents +wish to know is this: Is a two-meal dietary +best for all?</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg488" id="Pg488"></a>To this question, however, a definite answer cannot +be given, for the simple reason that scientific experimentation +with respect to food quantities and times of +meals, etc., has gone such a little way, so that it +would be <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'presumptious'.">presumptuous</ins> to set a limit in regard to meals +and food reduction. To my mind, apart from the +question of the quantity of food to be taken, there is +a great and important field of inquiry open with respect +to the effect of rest upon the stomach and the intestines, +upon the digestive and assimilative powers of the body.</p> + +<p>Now the whole purpose of my article was to show that +a reduction of one's dietary was a matter of training, +of gradual adaptation, but also—and this is the important +fact-of gradual strengthening. My theory is +that the two-meal plan is possible owing to the immense +economy in digestive energy that is effected through +giving the stomach adequate rest, and also through +keeping the blood stream pure and unclogged, almost +absolutely free from surfeit matter. A rested stomach +will get more nutriment out of a small amount of food-stuff +than an overworked stomach will get out of a +much larger quantity. But experimentation which is +sudden and covers a few weeks only, is worse than +useless, as it tends to disprove the very principles that +a saner method of experimentation would probably +establish. And if I can impress this fact upon the reader +I shall have performed a good service.</p> + +<p>Carefully undertaken, and properly graduated, I +believe there are few people in these days who would not +greatly benefit by a reduction in the number of meals +and in the quantity of food they take. By means of a +healthy and cheerful habit of introspection—not morbid +and feverish—I am firmly convinced that by cutting +down their meals most people would not only greatly +improve their health, but their mental and spiritual +condition as well, and also greatly increase their capacity +for work ... And if in this way we can effect such an +improvement in our life and condition it does not really +matter whether we get to the two or even one meal +basis or not.</p> + +<p>As to myself, my work is chiefly literary and my life +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg489" id="Pg489"></a>moderately sedentary. But the fact is that I now have +two moderate meals a day whereas I used to have four +pretty good ones. But I have many friends whose work +is mechanical, and demands much muscular energy, who +are two-mealists. One lady I know, who is one of the +healthiest, strongest and best physically developed +persons I have ever met, is a two-mealist, and not only +does she work at a mechanical occupation for ten hours +a day, but on several evenings each week conducts a +ladies gymnastics class as well. But in her case, as in +mine, the two meal was an ideal that was gradually +and slowly attained, and not a sudden reform. Indeed, +the main thing to remember is that it is all a matter of +training, it being quite impossible to say where the +limit is. For of one thing I am quite sure—viz. that +most people, were they to adopt a slow process of food +and meals reduction, on the lines I suggested in my +article, would be astonished at the result. The number +of people one meets, chiefly among those whose life +is more or less sedentary, who say they can't work as +they should, are subject to pains and heaviness in the +head, constipation and indigestion, is simply appalling; +and on questioning such people I come to the conclusion +that in the majority of cases it is because they eat too +much or too often.</p> + +<p>My meals are very simple, and the simpler they are +the better I like them. I like a cold lunch about noon, +and a hot meal about six. I have tried a wholly uncooked +diet, but as yet my body does not seem ready +for it: perhaps it will be after a little while. The first +meal usually consists of wholemeal bread and fruit, +green or vegetable salads, just according to my needs +at the time. In winter I take a more liberal supply of +dried fruits and nuts. Pulses I eschew altogether. +My second meal consists of a substantial entrée with +one or two conservatively cooked vegetables—occasionally +I have a soup and a sweet in addition. But of +course it is for everyone to find out his or her own ideal +diet; and let me say that it is worth while to do so, even +though it involves much confusion and perplexity during +the period of experimentation.</p> + +<p class="sig">Wilfred Wellock.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg490" id="Pg490"></a><a name="A_BALLADE_OF_SKYFARING" id="A_BALLADE_OF_SKYFARING"></a>A BALLADE OF SKYFARING.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0"><span class="firstletter">Y</span>e whom bonds of the city chain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet whose heart must with Nature's be;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ye who, bound to a bed of pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dream there of torrent and tower and tree,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here behold them—the magic key,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Turned by a thought in yon gates of blue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Even now has revealed to me<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Alps and Mediterranean too.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Why of the bondage of earth complain?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wide as heaven is our liberty!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where are the streets and their smoke and stain<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When to the land of the lark we flee?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where is the sight that we may not see,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cloudland's citadel passing through?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Switzerland beckons with Sicily,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Alps and Mediterranean too.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Here, 'twixt walls with the marble's vein,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oared on a river of gold are we;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There we watch, on a sapphire main,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">White fleets voyage to victory.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Day unto day flashes grief or glee;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Night to night utters speech anew,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Figuring forest and lane and lea—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Alps and Mediterranean too.<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"><h4>envoy</h4> +<span class="i0">Prince whose course through the world is free,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fare you better than dreamers do?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here are the mountains and here the sea—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Alps and Mediterranean too.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">S. Gertrude Ford.</p> + +<p>From <i>Lyric Leaves</i>, by S. Gertrude Ford. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net; +2s. 8d. post free from <i>The Healthy Life</i>, 3 Amen Corner, E.C. +This charmingly bound book makes an excellent holiday companion, +for it contains many beautiful lyrics, all characterised by +serious thought, generous human sympathies and a delicate +imaginative quality.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg491" id="Pg491"></a><a name="A_REMEDY_FOR_LONGEVITY" id="A_REMEDY_FOR_LONGEVITY"></a>A REMEDY FOR LONGEVITY.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">O</span>nce upon a time there was a little boy whose +parents took things very seriously. They +answered all his questions with painstaking +precision. At a comparatively early age he could prove +that fairies were non-existent. At the same time his +toys were marvels of mechanical perfection.</p> + +<p>At the age of seven he was sent to a very efficient +school, where, being naturally a bright boy, he gained +high marks every term and passed all the examinations, +for he had a wonderful and well-trained faculty for +remembering exactly what his teachers had told him.</p> + +<p>When he left school he entered a London merchant's +office, where his knowledge of arithmetic was of the +greatest assistance in bringing him to the front. Moreover, +he could argue very tellingly with all the clerks +and warehousemen, and always knew what the morning +papers were saving about health, neck-ties or religion.</p> + +<p>In course of time he grew a moustache, joined the +Territorials, was made a partner in the firm, married +a well-educated young lady and became a strong +supporter of the local Liberal Club, where his +opinions were so well known that it was unnecessary for +anyone seriously to combat them. He was never known +to vote for the Conservative candidate or to lose his +head. His concluding speech in the historic debate on +The National Health Insurance Act will always be +remembered, by those who heard it, for its earnest +defence of the medical profession. In fact, the Mayor, +who was in the chair, and was a doctor himself, warmly +congratulated the speaker, who was evidently very +pleased.</p> + +<p>Ten years later he became a Town Councillor, opened +several Institutes for the Care of the Poor, and sent +his second son to join the eldest at the same kind of +school at which he (the father) had been so well trained. +About the same date he bought a new edition of the +Encyclopædia Britannica and carefully compiled a list +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg492" id="Pg492"></a>of facts and figures showing that idealists and all +new-fangled ideas were the greatest danger to the increasing +trade and expansion of the Empire.</p> + +<p>At the age of fifty he took a house at Surbiton and +was continually congratulated on his hale and hearty +appearance. His opinions were known and respected +by all who met him. His sons were models of what +the children of such a father should be, and they +supported him in every argument.</p> + +<p>At the age of fifty-two he retired from business. A +month later he had an idea; and it so interfered with all +his opinions, and so affected his general health, that he +died.</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="Fasting2" id="Fasting2"></a><a name="A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE_II" id="A_SIGNIFICANT_CASE_II"></a>A SIGNIFICANT CASE—II.</h2> + + +<p>He stopped smoking tobacco on the second day, and does not +mean to resume its use. Of course he had no alcohol in any form during +the fast, but he never has taken much alcohol, although he was +not a pledged abstainer. The temperature was taken many times and +seems to have been almost always subnormal, about 97 degrees +Fahr., but this is not so unusual a condition as to call for +comment. The chief cause of a subnormal temperature, in my +opinion, is blocking of the body with too much food. No doubt +in prolonged fasting the temperature may fall also; but sometimes +a fast will be the cause of raising a subnormal bodily +temperature, as happened in a case of mine in which on the +twenty-eighth day of the fast there was a large elimination of +urates by the kidneys and a rise of temperature from 96 degrees +to 98.4 degrees. Subnormal bodily temperature has not received +the attention which it deserves. It is usually one of the +forerunners, or prodromata as they are called, of the onset of incurable +diseases like cancer, Bright's disease or apoplexy. The commonly +accepted view that the heat of the body depends upon the food, +and that people eat blubber in the Arctic and Antarctic regions to +keep the bodily heat up, is one of the chief causes for neglect +of the study of subnormal temperature. And it is quite surprising +that physiologists have not thought it necessary to explain why +nature has provided sugar and palm oil and cocoa-nut oil and +ground-nut oil in the tropical regions, as well as abundance of +olive oil in the warm temperate regions of the earth if these foods +keep the bodily heat up. They ought to have been more +abundantly supplied in the Arctic and Antarctic regions if the +accepted view is correct. Besides, if we must eat blubber to +keep bodily heat up in the Arctic regions when the outside +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg493" id="Pg493"></a>temperature is 50 or 100 or more degrees lower than that of the +body, what ought we to eat in the tropics to keep bodily heat +down when the outside temperature is 50 or even 80 degrees +above that of the body? Physiologists have not explained this, +although assuredly an explanation is wanted. But the true +explanation, the correct explanation, would have demolished the +doctrine that bodily heat is due to the food, and so it has not +been given. It is too simple to imagine that the bodily heat is, +like the body itself and all its functions, the effect of the +life-force that inhabits the body and builds up the body so that the +body shall be a fit dwelling-place for itself—this explanation is too +simple and too idealistic for modern science, which is less and less +disposed, we are told, to invoke the aid of a force of life to account +for vital phenomena, although it assumes an attracting force to +account for gravitating phenomena, and an electric and chemic +force to account for electric and chemic phenomena. Modern +science (and ancient science, too, apparently) which sees well +enough that an idealistic or a materialistic explanation would +equally account for the nexus of the phenomena of the universe, +deliberately and almost invariably prefers the materialistic +explanation. She is anxious that we should be kept free of +superstition. But the superstition that forces are the effects of things +does not seem to distress her at all. And so we are told that +gravitation is a property of matter, and are forbidden to think +that perhaps gravitation, a force, procreates matter, a thing, in order +that the effects of the fore may be perceived by dull sense. We +are told that the function of the liver and the brain depends on +the structure of the liver and the brain respectively and we are +not allowed to think that perhaps the force of animal life, +feeling the need of an instrument to secrete bile, on the one hand, +and to secrete cerebral lymph to act as a vehicle for the conveyance +of thought and emotion and higher things, on the other, +introduces the liver with its elaborate structure and the brain with +its still more complicated structure, in order that both the one +function and the other may be well performed. And so, although +all forms of kinetic energy (and among them zoo-dynamic, or the +force of animal life) manifest warmth and luminosity as qualities, +science attributes animal heat to chemic force and refuses to +consider that perhaps zoo-dynamic uses chemico-dynamic for its +own purposes, even if these purposes are unconscious, because +the higher force always dominates the lower. Properly speaking, +science is out of her sphere, though she does not seem to know +it, in making these suggestions. When she keeps herself to the +investigation of facts, their exposition, their sequence and their +laws, in her painstaking and accurate manner, we accept her +revelations thankfully, and beg her to allow us to make our own +philosophic and other explanations in attempting to account for +the existence, sequences and relations of the facts of life.</p> + +<p>After his return home, patient continued to gain weight, as +might have been expected. On the seventeenth day after ending +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg494" id="Pg494"></a>the fast he weighed 140 lbs. and on the nineteenth day 144 lbs. +On that day he received from a hospital a report that the reaction +of the physiologico-pathological test was negative. This has +naturally had a great effect on the patient; and it is worthy of +very careful consideration. Of course one negative result may not +be conclusive although it was positive before the fast. But if the +result should be repeated, and especially if it should prove +to be permanent, the importance of the fact can hardly be +exaggerated, since the suggestion arises in our minds that perhaps +we may be able to cure profound blood-poisoning by fasting, +neither the usual treatment nor the use of Salvarsan enabling the +investigator to say that the result of the pathological reaction +was negative; but this has followed after a heroic fast of 56 days. +The result if confirmed would not be unique. Quite recently I +saw a specific ulcer close to the ankle-joint for which operation +had been recommended. It seemed to me that operation would be +likely to open the joint, and that therefore it was a risky +proceeding. But under a restriction of the diet, putting the young +man on barley-water for a few days and then advising him to +eat once a day only, the ulcer became very much smaller, and no +operation has had to be performed. Blood-poisoning of this +nature, of course, is not caused by improper nutrition, but it may +readily be believed to be aggravated by the ordinary conventional +over-feeding to which, so far as I can see, we are all subjecting +ourselves, especially as persons who put themselves in the way of +contracting blood-poisoning do not generally belong to the class of +those who are attracted by the suggestion that it is noble to keep the +body under, and that if we do not strive to keep the body under, it will +be very likely to keep us under. Although we shall be liable to be +infected, however we live, still we may believe that we shall be +more likely to be badly infected (if we put ourselves in the way +of contracting disease) if we have been previously subjected to the +bad effects of over-feeding. This consideration renders a possible +cure by fasting, a not impossible suggestion. And if, therefore, we +have in fasting the suggestion of a remedy which offers us the +hope of eradicating such a fearful disease from the human system, +it certainly behoves us to make use of it.</p> + +<p>As a rule it seems to me that bad forms of blood-poisoning +of this nature are incurable. In three or four +generations they destroy the strain affected by it, do +what we will. Meantime it shows all the signs and +symptoms of a hereditary disease, for the children are born +suffering, showing a coppery rash, and old before they are young. +And when they get a little older they have no bridges to their +noses, their teeth are ill-formed, their vision is imperfect, their +intellects dull. It seems as if nature could not forgive crimes of +this nature. She seems to treat them as the unpardonable sin. +If we find cancer appearing in a family at 55 years of age in 3 or +4 successive generations, there is no proof of heredity in that. +Inquire and see if like causes acting on like organisms in 3 or 4 +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg495" id="Pg495"></a>successive generations have not produced the disease each time. The +children are not born cancerous, and our efforts to prevent the +disease may succeed. But children often <i>are</i> born with specific +disease, and there is no doubt at all about its being a hereditary +disease. Even now I should not like to sanction marriage in the +case of this man who has heroically fasted for 56 days, although +he seems for the present to have got rid of his disease. But the +outlook is hopeful, more hopeful than I thought, and in the hope +that the suggestion may convey a message of hope to those who +are willing to do penance for crimes against the body, I send out +these remarks. The opinion expressed by the patient that he was +getting rid of the Salvarsan which had been injected into his +blood to cure his disease is, of course, his own only. I offer no +opinion upon it. But I think the whole case very instructive, and +it will be deeply interesting to follow it up with special regard to +the inquiry whether the pathological test remains negative. The +reflective reader of these remarks will need no hint from me to +suggest how a study of questions of this sort raises in our minds +all sorts of other questions, physical, metaphysical, philosophical, +social, religious; what are laws of nature, how they come to be +what they are, whether they can be disregarded without paying the +penalty, and whether we men are bond or free. Each of us will +settle these questions for ourselves, for each of us is responsible +for his own conclusion. But as to the inevitableness with which +such questions do rise in our minds, I take it there can be no +difference of opinion.</p> + +<p class="sig">A. Rabagliati.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING1" id="HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING1"></a>HEALTHY HOMEMAKING.</h2> + + +<p><i>For the benefit of new readers it seems well to explain +that this series of articles is not intended for the +instruction of experienced housewives. It was started +at the special request of a reader who asked for “a +little book on housekeeping, for those of us who know +nothing at all about it; and put in all the little details +that are presumably regarded as too trivial or too +obvious to be mentioned in the ordinary books on +domestic economy.”</i></p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">XXI. Hired Help.</span></h3> + +<p><span class="firstletter">I</span>t does not seem proper to conclude the present +series of articles without touching upon the +“servant problem,” but I do not pretend to be able +to solve it. It is a problem usually very difficult of +solution by the homemaker of small means. If she has +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg496" id="Pg496"></a>but few persons to cater for, and is not the mother of +a young family, she is often very much better off +without hired help, except for a periodical charwoman. +But it is not always indispensable to the woman who +has other duties besides housekeeping.</p> + +<p>I am not here concerned with the housewife who can +afford to keep more than one efficient servant. Indeed, +I am hardly concerned with one who can employ a +really good “general” at from £20 to £25 per annum. +The person I am concerned with is the homemaker who +can afford at most to employ an inexperienced young +girl at from £10 to £14 per annum.</p> + +<p>I will draw the worst side of the picture first, for +although it <i>is</i> the worst side it is true enough, as so +many harassed housewives know.</p> + +<p>The young “general” often comes straight from a +council school where domestic economy had no place +in the curriculum, and from a home in name only. +Such an one is usually slatternly and careless in all her +ways, has no idea of personal cleanliness, and regards +her “mistress” as, more or less, her natural enemy! +She is “in service” only under compulsion, and envies +those of her schoolmates whose more fortunate +circumstances have enabled them to become “young lady” +shop assistants, typists and even elementary school +teachers. If she had her choice she would prefer labour +in a factory to domestic work; but either a factory is +not available, or the girl's parents consider “service” +more “respectable” in spite of its hardships. Its +hardships? Yes, it <i>is</i> its hardships that account for its +peculiar unpopularity. For there are hardships connected +with domestic service in small households that +do not apply to other forms of much harder labour.</p> + +<p>Everyone who is familiar with the small lower +middle-class household knows how often the life of the +little “general” resembles that of an animal rather +than a human being. All day long she drudges in a +muddling, inefficient way, continually scolded for her +inefficiency yet never really taught how to do anything +properly. Her work is never done, for she is always +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg497" id="Pg497"></a>at the beck and call of her employers; yet she lives apart +in social isolation, is referred to contemptuously as the +“slavey,” and even her food is dispensed to her grudgingly +and minus the special dainties bought for Sundays +and holidays. This is domestic service at its worst, of +course, but the prevalence of such “places” in actual fact +is undoubtedly at the root of the young girl's objection to +it. How can she help gleaning the impression that such +work is “menial,” when her employers more or less +openly despise her? Being human, how can she but +envy those of her old friends who have their evenings +to themselves? What contentment can she find in a +life of drudgery unenlightened by intelligent interest +in learning how to do something well? What wonder +that all her hopes and ambitions become centred in the +possession of a “young man,” and that reason—stunted +from its birth for lack of room to grow—being +entirely absent from her choice, she marries badly and +too young, and becomes the mother of a numerous +progeny as helpless, hopeless, stunted and inefficient +as herself?</p> + +<p>Some conscientious women try to remedy this state of +things by treating the girls they take into their homes +as “one of the family.” This <i>may</i> answer well sometimes, +but it has its drawbacks, both for the girl and +the “family.” Husband and wife, brother and sister, +inevitably find the constant presence of a stranger with +whom they have little in common very irksome. While +the girl herself is equally conscious of restraint when +forced to spend her leisure time with her employers. +She would usually infinitely prefer the solitude of the +kitchen, if combined with a good fire, a comfortable +chair and a story book.</p> + +<p>Among the girls I have spoken to on the subject I +have not found “socialist” households popular. One +girl I met refused to stay in such a place for longer +than three days, because she “never had the kitchen +to herself.” Another told me that she found it intensely +boring to take meals with the family, because she was +not interested in the things they talked about.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg498" id="Pg498"></a>I think that the ultimate solution of the “servant +problem” will not be that every woman will do all her +own housework, but that domestic work will become, +on the one hand, very much simplified and, on the other, +will be put on the same footing as teaching, nursing +or secretarial work. That we are beginning to move in +this direction is evidenced by the coming into existence +of schools of domestic economy, to which “ladies” do +not disdain to resort for training. This will undoubtedly +result in domestic labour becoming a much higher-priced +commodity than it is now, the housewife will have +to pay at least as much for three hours help per day as +she now does for nine hours, but the fact that the help +will be skilled, combined with the greater simplicity of +housework, will surely more than compensate for this.</p> + +<p>But what is the homemaker of limited means, who +must have some help, to do under present conditions? +This we must consider next month.</p> + +<p class="sig">Florence Daniel.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES2" id="HEALTH_QUERIES2"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading Dr Knaggs deals briefly month by +month, and according as space permits, with questions +of general interest.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +one side only of the paper, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped addressed +envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Boils" id="Boils"></a>BOILS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Miss L.C. writes:—I should be deeply indebted to you if you +would advise me in the following matter. I have been suffering +from a recurrence of boils on different parts of my body during +the last six months. I have consulted a local doctor, but he can +find no reason for their appearance, but suggested I should try a +mixed diet, to include some animal food, rather than adhere to +vegetarianism as I have done for some two years past.</p> + +<p>My diet is about as follows:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Tumblerful of hot water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast</i> (eight o'clock).—One egg, toasted bread (wholemeal) +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg499" id="Pg499"></a>and butter, with either a little lettuce or marmalade and either +weak tea or cocoa.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch</i> (one o'clock).—Steamed green or root vegetable, with +cheese sauce or macaroni cheese or similar savoury, or nuts. +Boiled or baked pudding or stewed fruit with custard or blanc +mange.</p> + +<p><i>Tea</i> (four o'clock).—Tea or cocoa, with or without a little +bread and butter and cake.</p> + +<p><i>Supper</i> (7 o'clock).—Vegetable soup, milk pudding and a little +cheese, butter and salad and wholemeal bread.</p> + +<p>I am forty-nine years of age, lead a fairly active life, frequently +taking walking exercise. I am very tall and weigh twelve stone. +Have had no serious illness, but been more or less anæmic all my +life.</p> + +<p>If you can tell me whether there is anything wrong in connection +with my diet and suggest the cause of, and treatment for, the +boils I shall be exceedingly obliged.</p></blockquote> + +<p>In order to help this correspondent to permanently +get rid of these boils, we must first ascertain what those +troublesome manifestations are and look to the causes +which produce them.</p> + +<p>A boil is a small, tense, painful, inflammatory swelling +appearing in or upon the skin, and is due to the local +death or gangrene of a small portion of the skin's +surface. This eventually comes away in the form of +a core, and, until this has cleared away, the boil will +not heal or cease to be painful.</p> + +<p>Boils occur chiefly on the neck, arms or buttocks. If +very large they are known as carbuncles, and if they +occur on the fingers or toes they are described as whitlows. +It is often the friction of a frayed-out collar or +cuff, of tight waist clothing, or, in the case of whitlows, +the introduction of some irritant or poison between the +nail and the skin that determines the precise site at +which they will come.</p> + +<p>Boils, although rarely dangerous to life, are usually +accompanied by pain severe out of all proportion to +the extent of surface involved. This gives rise to much +broken rest and loss of vitality, which at once ceases +when the boil has finished its course. Boils usually +occur in series or crops.</p> + +<p>Now large numbers of people wear collars and cuffs +with frayed edges, or handle irritants with their fingers, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg500" id="Pg500"></a>but they do not necessarily contract boils or whitlows. +Therefore, we see that there must be other factors to +be taken into consideration to account for their presence. +The orthodox germ-loving practitioner may tell +you that a boil is a purely local disorder and that a +certain form of microbe, known as the <i>Staphylococcus +pyogenes</i>, is the cause of it. This germ, he asserts, lives +normally on the surface of the skin and, when this +surface becomes broken, it enters the part and infects +it, thereby starting the boil.</p> + +<p>If this is true every person who wears old collars or +dabbles his hands in dirt should without exception contract +boils. This is obviously untrue.</p> + +<p>The factor to be considered, then, is this. What is it +that induces boils in one person and not in another +under identical circumstances? The answer is obvious. +The boil is not a local disease at all, but is a manifestation +of some constitutional defect, or of some +impurity of the blood stream, which enables this microbe +to find a congenial breeding ground.</p> + +<p>The people who suffer most from boils are young +or middle-aged adults, and we usually find the two +extremes among sufferers. There is the full-blooded, +often overfed, individual and there is the pale, debilitated +and emaciated person whose constitution is broken +down by worry, overwork, sexual troubles, unhealthy +surroundings or badly selected foods.</p> + +<p>If we inquire into the constitutional history of these +cases we shall almost invariably discover that the +digestive or assimilative processes of the body are not +working smoothly. This may be due to the worry or +overwork, or to unhealthy surroundings which dis-harmonise +the digestive and nutritive functions, or to +nervous exhaustion from one cause or another, or it +may be due to the wrong diet, which is filling the +colon (or large bowel) with fermenting poisons.</p> + +<p>When the body is clogged in this manner nature +often proceeds to get rid of the accumulating waste +through the skin. By a vigorous effort on the part of +the life-force the impurity is thrown outwards to the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg501" id="Pg501"></a>surface. Looked at in this light a boil is really a most +salutary cleansing agent, and the Nature-Cure practitioner, +who calls it a “Crisis,” often does everything +in his power to produce boils when treating chronic +diseases.</p> + +<p>The alternative is often some more deeply seated +form of elimination, resulting in serious organic disease +of the organs or tissues. One of the first signs of +improvement in disorders like diabetes, consumption, +arthritis, Bright's disease, or even cancer, is the appearance +of boils, showing that the vitality has improved +to an extent sufficient to enable the foreign matter to +be expelled by means of relatively harmless boils. The +hydropathic expert also tries to induce this condition +by means of his mustard and water packs.</p> + +<p>If our correspondent wants to rid herself of her boils +she must adopt all means to improve her vitality and to +cleanse her body of its impurities. She can do this along +many lines. She can take a holiday and rest from her +work; or by positive thinking she can set to work to get +rid of her worries. She can learn to laugh as often as +possible, and to breathe deeply, slowly and fully. If +her house is unsanitary she should make it sanitary, +or move elsewhere.</p> + +<p>Then she must restrict her diet and take only those +forms of food which create a minimum amount of +poison in the system. <i>She must cleanse the colon daily</i> +with warm water enemas, and encourage the action of +the kidneys in doing their rightful part in the elimination +of poisons by the drinking of distilled water or a good +herbal tea on rising, and of clear vegetable broth at +night.</p> + +<p>Clay packs, applied cold, are the best form of treatment +for application to the boils themselves. They +should never be cut or squeezed, as this only intensifies +the trouble. Hot applications, as poultices, are bad, +because they induce the boil to mature prematurely, and +also are conducive to reinfection of the skin in other +parts. Drugs or medicines are of very little use in the +treatment of boils, because they do not go to the root +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg502" id="Pg502"></a>of the trouble. The only remedy that I have found of +any avail is yeast. In former times this was taken +in the form of fresh or dried brewers' yeast, and it was, +if unpleasant, a very effectual remedy. Yeast yields +a free supply of what is called nuclein and nucleinic +acid. These, chemically, are identical with the same +substances found in the human cells. Nuclein is a +powerful antiseptic. It has been found that the toxins +or emanations from diphtheria and other deadly germs +are precipitated and destroyed by nucleinic acid.</p> + +<p>It is for this reason that yeast extracts, such as +Marmite, often have a beneficial effect in disorders +accompanied by the formation of pus matter.</p> + +<p>Our correspondent's diet should be amended as +follows:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—A cupful of unseasoned Marmite.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—One scrambled or lightly poached egg +with stale, yeast-made, wholemeal bread and nut butter, +with lettuce or other salad food. No marmalade; no tea +or coffee.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—1 to 2 oz. of grated cheese or flaked pine +kernels, finely shredded raw cabbage, or grated +radishes, or grated raw roots with oil and lemon dressing. +No cooked savouries, no puddings, nor stewed +fruit with custard or blanc mange should be taken.</p> + +<p><i>Tea Meal.</i>—Cupful of Marmite, only.</p> + +<p><i>Supper.</i>—Clear, unseasoned, vegetable broth, with +Veda or wholemeal bread, or Granose biscuits, with +nut butter and some fresh fruit.</p> + +<p><i>At bedtime.</i>—A cupful of Marmite.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Note.</span>—The unseasoned Marmite should be used, as the ordinary +kind is rather heavily salted.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Poisoning" id="Poisoning"></a>A BAD CASE OF SELF-POISONING.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs H.W. writes:—I should be very glad if you would give me +enlightenment on one or two points about my diet. I am suffering +from a somewhat dilated stomach, also a catarrhal condition of +nose, throat and alimentary canal, with constipation and much +flatulence in the bowels. My teeth are decaying quickly, my nails +have got softer, and I have become anæmic and generally +debilitated, being unable to properly assimilate my food. All my +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg503" id="Pg503"></a>joints crack when moved, and the knee joints creak as well. Is +this a uric acid condition, or do you think it merely due to a +lack of nourishment, causing a lack of synovial fluid? The joints +are not swollen and not painful, they merely crack. My whole +system seems to be over-acid, and my mouth gets sore and +ulcerated. I have got very thin, having lost a stone in twelve +months.</p> + +<p>I notice that you always advise for dilated stomach greatly +restricting the liquid part of the diet. Will you tell me just +how much one <i>may</i> drink in a day, because when I go without +drinking my constipation and other troubles are worse and the +urine gets thick and muddy.</p> + +<p>You also deprecate milk. This puzzled me until you explained +to a correspondent last month in <i>The Healthy Life</i>. Will you +tell me if the same applies to dried milk—will it tend to increase +intestinal trouble? I am anxious to know this because I have +been relying somewhat on Emprote and Hygiama lately, for I had +got so that I could scarcely digest anything.</p> + +<p>Do you consider it better to use the enema than to take a mild +aperient? I do not want to start with the enema again if I can +possibly manage to do without, because I found that my bowels +depended upon it. And that is why I want to ask if it is absolutely +necessary when on an antiseptic diet to entirely avoid fruit. I +find it so necessary to keep the bowels working naturally.</p> + +<p>I <i>do</i> want you to answer me these questions, because I have got +so worried and fearful (people's theories are so varied) that I +scarcely dare eat any food at all. I am at present taking only +two meals daily (I like the two-meal plan best): at eleven <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> and +6 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> I take a cup of weak coffee on rising, without milk or +sugar—this warm drink seems to start the peristaltic action and +I then get bowel action. I think of changing the coffee for +Sanum Tonic Tea or Dandelion Coffee.</p> + +<p>At eleven o'clock I have an egg with Winter's “Maltweat” +bread and almond butter, and some conservatively cooked +vegetable (celery or carrot or spinach).</p> + +<p>At six <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> I have one or two baked apples, a teaspoonful or +two of malted nuts, or Emprote, and more “Maltweat” bread +and butter.</p> + +<p>At four <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> I take a cup of barley water or carrot water, and +at bedtime another cup of barley water.</p> + +<p>Do you think that if I went on to a milk diet for a time it +would do good?</p></blockquote> + +<p>This correspondent seems to be suffering from auto-toxæmia, +or self-poisoning in a severe form, and a +condition of what is termed arterio-sclerosis or +premature old age. Associated with it are evidently +symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, which is affecting +her joints and teeth. It is not one of ordinary gout or +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg504" id="Pg504"></a>uric acid poisoning. The trouble no doubt has been +caused by past errors of diet, so that the present efforts +at reform have come too late to be of service to her. +Something more than diet is now needed to clear the +acids and toxins from the system. It is not a simple +case of digestive catarrh, for the whole body is affected. +The present diet will answer very well as it stands.</p> + +<p>The first thing to do is to obtain a well-fitting dilatation +belt. This must have leg straps and firmly support the +lower half of the abdomen. The next thing is to promote +skin action so <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'are'.">as</ins> to encourage the clearing out of +poisons along this line of elimination. Vapour baths, +wet-sheet packs or alkaline hot baths can effect this +purpose. An alkaline hot bath should be of a temperature +of 105 degrees Fahr. or more, and to the bath +should be added ¼ lb. of bicarbonate of soda and ¼ lb. +packet of “Robin” starch. She should remain as long +as possible in this so as to well clear the acids from the +skin and induce as much skin action or perspiration as +possible. The <i>first</i> baths must be of very short duration, +and she should be careful to avoid chill after the bath; +it is best to lie prone and completely relaxed for half-an-hour +at least after the bath. Finally massage and +Swedish movements directed to the entire back will +help to disencumber the central nervous system, which +is evidently very badly depleted of its vital force. It is, +of course, a pity the correspondent cannot get away to +a properly organised Nature-Cure home and have the +continuous attention and treatment which her condition +really necessitates.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CORRESPONDENCE1" id="CORRESPONDENCE1"></a>CORRESPONDENCE.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p class="address">Amanzimtoti, Natal.</p> + +<p class="center"><i>To the Editors.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sirs</span>,</p> + +<p class="corresp">You will see that your little magazine finds its way even to +this out-of-the-way corner of the globe, and you may be sure that it +is appreciated. I am specially interested in Dr V. Knaggs' contributions +and should like to ask him a few questions. May I +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg505" id="Pg505"></a>say that I have some knowledge of chemistry and that I try and +take an interest in the scientific aspects of food reform.</p> + +<p>(1) P. 237. What grounds has Dr Knaggs for speaking so +definitely about human magnetism and that of vegetables? How +would he recognise or test for either, and where can I get further +information (scientific) on the question of food magnetism.</p> + +<p>(2) Same page. Dr Knaggs says salt added to cooking +vegetables converts organic salts into inorganic. I cannot follow +that. <i>What</i> organic salts are so converted? One or two examples +would suffice.</p> + +<p>(3) I have been reading Dr Rabagliati's <i>Conversations with +Women Concerning their Health and that of their Children</i>.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> In +it he says that food is not the source (cause) of body energy, but +is used merely to replace waste material. Elsewhere I read that +“Professor Atwater's investigations into nutrition have shown in +a most convincing manner that the body derives <i>all</i> its energy +from the food consumed. This may be regarded as established.” +Which of these definite and contradictory assertions does Dr +Knaggs support, and why? Where can I get information <i>re</i> +Professor Atwater's experiments and other recent works on similar +subjects?</p> + +<p>To me the questions involved are intensely interesting, hence +my queries. I hope they do not read as if I were hypercritical +or sceptical.</p> + +<p>With all good wishes for the success of your healthy little +magazine. I am, yours, etc.,</p> + +<p class="sig">W. Blewett.</p></blockquote> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8">[8]</a> 5s. net. C.W. Daniel, Ltd., 3 Amen Corner, London.</p> + +<p>We handed the above interesting letter to our contributor, +Dr H. Valentine Knaggs, and append his +reply:—</p> + + +<h3><a name="Magnetism" id="Magnetism"></a><span class="smcap">Human Magnetism.</span></h3> + +<p>There is very little information available from ordinary +scientific sources anent the question of the life-force or of +the animal magnetism which animates our bodies and +is the motive force common to all organic structures +whether animal or vegetable. We do know that fresh +fruits and vegetables are strongly magnetic because the +magnetism which they emit can be gauged by means of +delicate galvanometers. It has been found that leaves, +flowers and seeds are positively, and roots negatively, +charged. We also know that the same conditions are +found in the human subject, since Dr Baraduc, who is +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg506" id="Pg506"></a>a celebrated French Psycho-Therapeutist, in his book, +“The Vibrations of Human Vitality,” tells us that he +has invented a machine called a biometer to test these +very vibrations. I have had one of these machines +myself and have experimented with it a great deal. By +its aid we can make the machine work differently with +different persons, and by careful tabulation of records +Dr Baraduc has been able to elicit some very remarkable +information about the magnetic currents which are +constantly flowing into and out of the human body. If +our correspondent really wants to know more about +the wonders of human magnetism he should read some +of the voluminous literature upon the subject published +by the Theosophical Society. Just recently also a Dr +Kilner has invented a form of coloured screen by which +he and others who have some psychic sight can actually +see the magnetic emanations which flow through a +person placed in a darkened room.</p> + + +<h3><a name="SaltCooked" id="SaltCooked"></a><span class="smcap">Salt-cooked Vegetables.</span></h3> + +<p>The one object of the vegetable kingdom is to build +up, for the use of the animal or organic realm, the +constituents found in the mineral or inorganic kingdom. +These mineral constituents are dissolved, sorted out +and built up in the right proportions for the use of +animals when taken as foods. Whenever these foods +are not so eaten they are sent back again to the earth +by the aid of microbes during the process of decay, to +be again available for plant use. Cooking is a process +invented by man which is <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'analagous'.">analogous</ins> to that of decay, +for it dissolves and disintegrates the structures which +Nature has built up. When man eats food that is +partially disintegrated he does not obtain from it the +right sort of nutriment which Nature intended him to +have. To intensify the wrong-doings of the cook, man +further hastens the disintegrating process by adding to +the things that he cooks a due proportion of a common +and very stable mineral, called salt. It is powerful, +because it is not easily disintegrated. The salt greatly +expedites the process of decay, whether in the natural +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg507" id="Pg507"></a>form of fermentation, or whether by the application of +heat, as in cooking. Salt is used in Nature to promote +the flow of those electric and magnetic currents which +are a manifestation of the universal life-force which +pervades all things seen and unseen. It is an essential +constituent of the sea because the ocean is the life-blood +of the earth. It is an essential constituent of our +own blood, because it is needed to make the blood +stream a good conductor of magnetic currents. When +you put this salt into water and then proceed to boil +vegetables in it, it quickly sucks out all the life-force +from them, and if persisted in reduces them to the +state of minerals from which they were originally constructed.</p> + + +<h3><a name="Energy" id="Energy"></a><span class="smcap">Food and the Source of Bodily Energy.</span></h3> + +<p>Dr Rabagliati and Professor Atwater are, I believe, +both right, but the former does not always explain +himself clearly to the lay mind. The life-force or animal +magnetism is the real source of bodily energy, and it +manifests itself only when it has something that resists +or regulates its flow.</p> + +<p>It does this just as certain forms of wire, or other +materials, which possess indifferent conducting power, +resist the flow of electricity through them.</p> + +<p>Electricity cannot manifest as light in the usual +electric lights used in our houses, as heat in the +electric culinary appliances or stoves, or even as power +in the motors which run our trams and trains, unless it +be given the requisite apparatus to bring about the +manifestation required.</p> + +<p>In exactly the same way life cannot manifest itself +as consciousness, with its flow of thoughts, emotions +and bodily activities, without the food which is daily +supplied to the body.</p> + +<p>It consequently depends considerably upon how we +select our daily rations as to how this vital force will +manifest within us.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg508" id="Pg508"></a><a name="HOLIDAY_APHORISMS" id="HOLIDAY_APHORISMS"></a>HOLIDAY APHORISMS.</h2> + + +<p>A Sun Bath needs no Soap.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Man was made for the Weather, not the Weather +for man.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>A long drink often makes a short walk.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>You may bring a man to the Sea, but you cannot +make him think.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>A tanned face doesn't make a healthy body.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Dew paddling should be done in the dark.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>The only things that bathing machines make are +cowards.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>It is better to board yourself than let others be bored +by you.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>“A bore is one who thinks his opinions of greater +importance than your own.”</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>People who throw pebbles into the sea shouldn't dive +near shore.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>A toothbrush is what many forget but few should +need.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Scotland Yard is not in the Grampians.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Cheap food is often dearly bought.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Lyons have no depôts in Skye.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Orange-trees never yet sprang from scattered peel.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>A pear in the hand <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'in'.">is</ins> worth two in the can.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg509" id="Pg509"></a></p> +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 26</span> +<span class="coverright">September<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard.</span></p></blockquote> + +</div> + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION26" id="AN_INDICATION26"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">F</span>ood reformers sometimes forget that “man +does not live by bread alone,” not even when +supplemented by an ample supply of fresh +air and physical exercise.</p> + +<p>It has been pointed out by psychologists that the +more highly organised and highly developed the +creature, the less it depends on nervous energy +obtained via the stomach and the more it depends +on energy generated by the brain. True, the brain +must be healthy for this, and one poisoned by +impure blood, due to wrong feeding, cannot be +healthy. But something more than clean blood is +necessary. For, as change of physical posture is +necessary to avoid cramped limbs, so periodic +reversal of mental attitude (consideration from other +than the one view-point) is necessary to the brain's +health.</p> + +<p>Again, change of air is often prescribed when the +patient's real need is a change of the personalities +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg510" id="Pg510"></a>surrounding him. While for the lonely country +dweller a bath in the magnetism of a city crowd +may be a far more efficacious remedy than the +medicinal baths prescribed by his physician.</p> + +<p>For man lives by <i>every</i> word that proceeds out +of the mouth of God.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="FEAR_AND_IMAGINATION" id="FEAR_AND_IMAGINATION"></a>FEAR AND IMAGINATION.</h2> + + +<p><i>Regular readers will recognise in this article a continuation of +the series previously entitled “Healthy Brains.” The author of +“The Children All Day Long,” is an intimate disciple of one of +the greatest living psychologists, and she has a message of the +first importance to all who realise that true health depends as +much on poise of mind as on physical fitness. We regret that in +the previous article, “Imagination in Play,” the following misprints +occurred:—P. 475, line 4 from top, “movement” should be +“moment”; p. 475, line 5 from bottom, “admiration” should be +“imagination.”</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="firstletter">S</span>ome people are given to excusing their own +uncharitable thoughts by saying, “I suppose I +ought not to have minded her rudeness; I am +afraid I am too sensitive.” In the same way, people +say, “Oh, I <i>couldn't</i> sleep in the house alone” (or let +a child go on a water-picnic, or nurse a case of delirium +or do some other thing that suggested itself), “I have +too much imagination.” In both cases the claim, +though put in deprecating form, is made complacently +enough. The correlative is: “You are so sensible, +dear; I know you won't mind,” which is a formula +under cover of which many kindnesses may be shirked +and many unpleasant duties passed on.</p> + +<p>The sensible, practical people who listen to these +sayings sometimes attach importance to them, so that +a habit has grown up of describing morbidly neurotic +people as “over-sensitive” and cowardly ones as “too +quick of imagination.” Ultimately, this leads to the +thought that both sensitiveness and imagination are +mental luxuries too costly for ordinary folk to grow, +and that it is safest to check, crush or uproot them +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg511" id="Pg511"></a>when we discover them springing up in others or in +ourselves.</p> + +<p>Is not this attitude of mind due to a misunderstanding? +Imagination is an <i>organ of activity</i>; it can be +kept in the highest possible condition of health by +having plenty of exercise; it should be working continually +against resistance. A rabbit's gnawing tooth, +if the opposing tooth be broken, may grow inwards +and cause the creature's death, but the same activity of +growth, if working under suitable conditions, enables +him to go on living and gnawing at his food year after +year without wearing his tools away.</p> + +<p>The problem, then, in economy of effort is: How shall +we use whatever force of sensitiveness and imagination +we have, so as to get its maximum efficiency of usefulness +and its minimum pain and inconvenience?</p> + +<p>For many ages man has been dominated by fear. +His way to freedom, now, is to step out through his +cobweb chains and go right forward with courage and +in faith. So we are told with relentless and almost +tiresome reiteration. It is the fashion, one might +almost say, to have cast off fear, and the one thing an +honest “modern thinker” is afraid of is being afraid. +(To less honest ones it is the thought of <i>being thought</i> +afraid that is a very real and present fear.)</p> + +<p>But, if this standpoint is right, is not fear at least +a vestigial organ, a survival of a mental activity which +served its purpose in times gone by? Is it not even +truer to go further still and say, as <i>each particular +fear</i> serves its purpose it may safely be discarded, but +that, as far as our present knowledge goes, other grades +of sensitiveness, finer shades of imagination of the type +we have called fear, must take its place, to be discarded +in their turn for yet other apprehensions?</p> + +<p>For if we lost the kind of perception that we associate +with fear, if our imagination closed itself automatically +to the suggestion of all sorts of ugly possibilities, should +we not find ourselves soon in the midst of difficulties +akin to those of the hero of the German tale of the +man who felt no pain? We accept the evidence of pain +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg512" id="Pg512"></a>as a guide to action; when we have decided on action we +proceed to get rid of the pain as expeditiously, safely +and permanently as we can.</p> + +<p>The same thing seems true of fear. Over and over +again we laugh at ourselves for fearing something that +either never happened at all or happened in such a way +as to be softened out of all likeness to the monstrous +terror we had created. On the other hand, when misfortune +falls heavily because of our lack of imagination +in not foreseeing possible consequences of particular +actions or events, we lament and complain: “If I +could only have guessed! If I had only known!”</p> + +<p>Fear pure and simple—the imagination of possible +trouble—is a stage we can hardly yet afford to do +without. But when it has roused our attention to a +danger, its work is done. Let us practise turning it +into action; taking due precautions against accident, +guarding against hurting a neighbour's feelings, watching +some possibility of evil tendency in ourselves. Then, +and not till then, may we let it drop. It may pass; it +has done its work. It is no longer our responsibility +to foresee, it is our privilege to lay down the fear and +live happily and at peace.</p> + +<p>Even the dread perceptions of eternal laws come under +the same method. “The fear of the Lord is the +beginning of wisdom,” the <i>beginning</i>: the end is faith +and love.</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>To Our Readers.</h3> + +<p>Readers who appreciate the independence and +all-round nature of <i>The Healthy Life</i> can materially +assist the extension of its circulation by tactfully +urging their local newsagent to have the magazine +regularly displayed for sale. An attractive monthly +poster can always be had free from the Publishers, +3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</p><hr /> +</div> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg513" id="Pg513"></a><a name="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT3" id="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT3"></a>HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT?</h2> + + +<p><i>The <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">article</a> (signed “M.D.”) with the above title +which we published in the <a href="#Pg437">July number</a> has, as we +anticipated, aroused considerable discussion. <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT2">One interesting +criticism</a> appeared in the <a href="#Pg473">August number</a>. We +now publish two further contributions, to be followed, +in our <a href="#Pg545">next issue</a>, by two further articles by <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT4">Dr +Rabagliati</a> and <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT5">Mr Ernest Starr</a>.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="center">I</h3> + +<p><span class="firstletter">A</span>s one who has tried the low proteid diet, and came to +grief on it, I desire to set my experience against that +of Mr Voysey,<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> and to assert that, if it is true for +him, it certainly is not true for me. Mr Voysey indulges +in many loose and generalised statements which do not +help the average man or woman in the least. I imagine +it is these that “M.D.” has in mind when he advises +a certain standard of diet, below which it is not safe +to go. If Mr Voysey can, as Horace Fletcher can, +exist on a very low proteid diet, that does not prove +that all men and women can do the same and be healthily +active; it only shows that he and Fletcher are exceptions +to the average person, and that it may be dangerous +to follow their example. For most men, “M.D.'s” +proteid standard is not so nauseating as he finds it. +Here is a specimen dietary for a day, for a man of ten +stone, following, as most of us do, a sedentary occupation:—</p> + +<ul> +<li>3 oz. cheese.</li> +<li>9 oz. bread.</li> +<li>8 oz. vegetables and salad.</li> +<li>8 oz. fruit.</li> +<li>1½ pints milk.</li> +</ul> + +<p>Will any average person say that that quantity, divided +into three meals, would be nauseating to him? And +is that diet so very expensive that it would be beyond +the means of an agricultural labourer in any country? +It is certainly no mockery. The cost to such a labourer +would probably not exceed 3d. or 4d. Of course the diet +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg514" id="Pg514"></a>can be made as expensive as one chooses, and widely +varied.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9">[9]</a> See <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT2">August number</a>.</p> + +<p>Who amongst ordinary men and women has a reliable +natural taste that would be an infallible guide in all +matters of food? And what a misleading statement +that is which asserts “that all the hardest work of the +world has always been done by those who get the least +food.” Put it to the test on the average person and see +where it leads to.</p> + +<p>My contention is that the average person, throwing +over his or her accustomed meat diet, requires some +definite guidance as to the quantity of proteid, such as +Dr Haig's wide experience and much patient research +have proved needful, or at least advisable, for the continuance +of a healthy and vigorous life; and I will say +that it does not help this average person in the least +to put before him the misty statement that “the quantity +depends on the development that is in progress, and is +only discoverable by the natural guides of appetite and +taste, ruled by reason and love of others.” All very +noble and very well in another place, but hardly meeting +the case of the ordinary person who is seeking a healthy +diet. Nor can you “make the body a more harmonious +instrument for the true life of man” by habitually underfeeding +it. I thought that was a mediæval notion that +had been knocked on the head long ago.</p> + +<p>Is there any man, lay or scientific, Mr Voysey notwithstanding, +who can claim to have as wide an experience +of diet in its relation to health and disease as +“M.D.,” to say nothing of the trained mind and long +years of patient thought that have been exerted in dealing +with the facts of this wide experience. For myself, I +have come to see that, if “M.D.” does not hold in his +grasp the absolute truth in the matter of diet, he is +nearer to it, and is a safer guide, than all your low +proteid advisers, lay or otherwise, where they come +much below “M.D.'s” standard.</p> + +<p>So, using Mr Voysey's phrases, I would urge laymen +like myself to shun that weak-kneed manikin, the low +proteid diet, and unite with me in a long strong pull +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg515" id="Pg515"></a>to get him and others like him out of the rut in which +that sorry weakling holds him.</p> + +<p class="sig">Hy. Bartholomew.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">II</h3> + +<p>The Editors were quite right in saying that the +<a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">article</a> under this heading in the <a href="#Pg437">July issue</a> would +arouse discussion. My wife and I, having discussed +“M.D.” and many others with the title, feel +constrained to put forth a warning against blind faith +in anything which the faculty have to say on dietetics.</p> + +<p>There are of course brilliant exceptions, such as +Dr Rabagliati, Dr Knaggs, Dr Haig, the late Dr +Keith and others, who give chapter and verse for every +statement made; but when we consider the excellent +work of laymen such as Albert Broadbent, Joseph +Wallace, Horace Fletcher, Alice Braithwaite, Eustace +Miles, Hereward Carrington, Edgar J. Saxon, Bernarr +MacFadden, Arnold Eiloart, ordinary folks like ourselves +may be excused if we venture to give our experience +as against that of “qualified” men.</p> + +<p>With your permission, then, we reply to “M.D.'s” +five suggestions in the order he gives them:—</p> + +<p>1. Food qualities are <i>not</i> of extreme importance.</p> + +<p>2. Quantity tables may have been “settled” by +physiologists to their own satisfaction many years ago; +but very good reasons have since been given for altering, +or even ignoring, them.</p> + +<p>3. The particular number of grains of proteid to be +consumed per day is not of serious moment.</p> + +<p>4. That departure from the quantity specified has +not led to disaster is proved by the fact that the human +race still persists, in spite of the very varying eating +customs found in different nations. The great majority +being poor or ignorant, or both, know neither “tables” +nor the need for them.</p> + +<p>5. There can be no reply to such a general statement +as: “The nature of this disaster may appear to be very +various, and its real cause is thus frequently overlooked.”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg516" id="Pg516"></a>In such matters an ounce of personal experience is +worth a pound of cut-and-dried theory. We—my wife +and I—have been reared in an atmosphere suspicious +of doctors, both sets of grandparents having relied +rather on herbs, water treatment, goodness of heart +and faith in God; and their children have had too +many evidences of medical ignorance to accept any +dogmas. We are anti-vaccinators, nearly vegetarian, +and, to come to the point, we have four children who +will persist in thriving on a basis of always too little +rather than too much of food. The respective ages +are girl 13, boy 10, girl 6, boy 2.</p> + +<p>All have been brought up on these lines: never +pressed to eat, but continually asked to chew thoroughly. +Foods “rich in proteid” put sparingly before them. +Milk has been well watered; and eggs, bacon and other +tempting and rich foods only on rare occasions given +to them.</p> + +<p>We would ask readers who can to make the following +experiment: Let your children have a good drink to +start the day, and then run and play; don't offer food +till asked for. You will almost to a certainty find, if you +start this plan immediately after weaning, that day by +day and year after year it is twelve to one o'clock before +they inquire for “something to eat.” We have done +this for twelve years, with children of entirely different +temperament and of both sexes. They go to school, +poor things! breakfastless. During these twelve years +light breakfast for father has been on the table—he +goes without lunch—and not once in fifty do they ask +to join him. Nor, if invited, will they after three or four +years of age.</p> + +<p>The have never had a fever which lasted more than +a day or two, and they are all above average height and +weight.</p> + +<p>They get fruit in season just as asked for, and as +much to drink as they like, <i>but not at meal-times</i>.</p> + +<p>Our experience is over a period of twelve years, and +we have come to the conclusion that the infectious +diseases so prevalent and death-dealing amongst chil<a class="pagenum" name="Pg517" id="Pg517"></a>dren +of all classes, rich or poor, are, in the main, the +result of over-feeding. We find it wise to keep highly +nutritious foods (like eggs, cheese, meat, etc.) away +from children—that is, for regular consumption; a little +occasionally may do no harm.</p> + +<p>You will have it borne in on our minds year by +year, as your children grow up under such a plan, that +Dr Rabagliati, Hereward Carrington and others are +quite right. We do not get our strength, nor heat, +from food. Let the force of animal life (zoo-dynamic, +I believe Dr Rabagliati calls it) have free play, and your +children can't help growing up well and strong.</p> + +<p>In to-day's <i>London Daily Chronicle</i> I see a special +article by Dr Saleeby, under this heading: <span class="smcap">World's +Doctors versus Disease. 5000 Medical Men Meet +To-day. The Triumphs of Three Decades.</span> We +know how much this wonderful faculty knew thirty +years ago about, <i>e.g.</i>, fresh air for consumptives. +There is not a word said in this article (which is a sort +of programme of the weighty matters for discussion) on +the relation of food to the body. That question probably +4950 of them believe was settled by the eminent +physiologists who compiled those “food-tables” years +ago—and in so doing went far to pave the way for the +modern frightful increase of cancer, Bright's disease, +etc., as well as for “scientific” horrors like anti-toxin, +tuberculin—not to mention compulsory eugenics!</p> + +<p class="sig">J. Methuen.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTH_THROUGH_READING" id="HEALTH_THROUGH_READING"></a>HEALTH THROUGH READING.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">D</span>o many people consider reading from the point +of view of health of mind and body—of refreshment +in times of struggle—of recuperation after +knock-down blows of sorrow, disappointment or misfortune?</p> + +<p>Let us begin by saying that some of the greatest +books are not to be read by everybody at all seasons. +When one's heart or ankles are weak, one does not +start to climb mountains, or one may end as a corpse +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg518" id="Pg518"></a>or a cripple. So with one's soul under shock or stress. +Personally, I can imagine nothing more cruel than the +action of two women, one a story-teller of great repute +among the “goody,” who, to a specially stricken and +lonely young widow, tendered as “bed-side books,” +Victor Hugo's <i>Les Miserables</i> and Browning's poignant +<i>The Ring and the Book</i>. If they had wished to +make her realise to the bitterest depths the awfulness +of the world wherein she was left alone, and the +blackest depravity of the human nature around her, +they could not have done differently. <i>Les Miserables</i> +she read till she reached the dreadful scene where a +vicious cad hurls snowballs at the helpless Fantine. +Then the strong instinct of self-preservation made her +put the book aside—not to touch it again for nearly +thirty years. With <i>The Ring and the Book</i> her mind +was too wrung and too weary to wrestle—all it could +receive was a picture of wronged innocence, and +especially of the rampant forces of evil with which she +was left to contend. With the same want of tact and +judgment, if with unconscious cruelty, the gloomy, +fateful <i>Bride of Lammermoor</i> was selected out of all +Scott's novels for the reading of a very homesick youth, +solitary in a strange country!</p> + +<p>Yet we must always remember that, as in affairs of +the body so of the spirit, “what is one man's meat +may be another man's poison.” Some of the wisest +and most successful nurses or doctors will occasionally +permit an invalid to indulge in a longed-for diet which +would certainly never be prescribed. They know that +idiosyncrasy follows no exactly known rule. So we could +tell of one who, amid the dry agnosticism of the later +half of last century, had felt her faith, not indeed extinguished, +but obscured and darkened. From the perusal +of certain writers she had shrunk, perhaps with +cowardice. They were put on such a pinnacle that she +feared she would find no arguments fit to oppose +to theirs. Weakly, she locked the skeleton cupboard. +Then she was attacked by a malady which, while +leaving her mind free and strong, she knew might be +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg519" id="Pg519"></a>very speedily fatal. Straightway she said to her husband: +“In two or three days I shall probably ‘know’—or +cease from all knowing. There will not be long +to wait. Therefore bring me three books,” which she +named, works of authors of extreme agnostic views. +Rather reluctantly he complied with her wish. She +went steadily through the joyless pages, turned the last +with the significant remark: “If this is all they can +say, well!—” The skeleton cupboard, once opened, +was speedily swept out. She quickly recovered, but +never forgot her experience. Yet it must be remembered +that this was the patient's own prescription, and +was permitted by one who thoroughly understood her +temperament. Therefore, though one would never wish +to overrule a strong personal desire, that is quite different +from offering counsel and furtherance—or proving +experiments upon oneself.</p> + +<p>A celebrated woman writer of the middle of last +century was of opinion that young people of both sexes +should not indulge in reading “minor poetry.” “Let +them keep to the great poets, made of granite,” was her +graphic phrase. A woman of singularly self-controlled +nature has confessed that the only time in her whole +life that she experienced an unwholesome moral and +emotional disturbance, after reading a book, was when, +at about twenty-two years of age, she read Emily +Brontë's <i>Wuthering Heights</i>. She dared not finish it: +and when, some time later, a copy was presented to +her, she caused it to be exchanged for another book, +not wishing it even to be in the house with her. Years +afterwards, she read it again, quite unmoved. It may +be added that her first reading was made in the course +of a systematic study of English literature, which had +already led her through the works of Chaucer and +Fielding. She has herself asked: “Is it possible that +the strong and unpleasant effect was produced because +the book was the production of another young woman, +perhaps of somewhat ‘sympathetic’ temperament?”</p> + +<p>Taken as a whole, probably most fiction and all highly +emotional work of any sort should be indulged in +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg520" id="Pg520"></a>sparingly by those in the danger-zone of life, or by any +under special mental or moral stress. History, philosophy +(with sustained chains of reasoning) and biographies +(best, autobiographies) of active and strenuous +lives, should be resorted to by those temporarily doomed +to spells of suspense and involuntary inaction. Invalids +should be encouraged to read Plutarch's <i>Lives</i> rather +than the <i>Memorials</i> of other sufferers, however saintly!</p> + +<p>It may be broadly stated that, during the tragic +episodes which seem to occur in all lives, the most +wholesome reading is to be found in the books of the +great World-Religions—the Bible, and the teachings of +Buddha, Confucius and Mahomet. The Bible is of +course a library in itself, and many of its books are +suited to very widely different circumstances and temperaments. +The Psalms, the Gospels, the Epistle of +St James, and parts of those great poems known as the +“prophetical books” and the more personal and less +doctrinal portions of Paul's epistles are perhaps of +widest application. From the words of Buddha, Confucius +and Mahomet there are many admirable selections—and +one remembers a wonderful compilation of more +than thirty years ago, called <i>The Sacred Anthology</i>, +and wonders if it be out of print. It does not follow +that these works should not be studied at other times +than “tragic episodes.” If this were more often the +case, perhaps there would be fewer “tragic episodes”!</p> + +<p>Next to these come such wonderful books of spiritual +experience as À Kempis's <i>Imitation of Christ</i>, the +<i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>, the <i>Devout Life</i> of Francis of Sales +and others which will occur to the memory.</p> + +<p>Allusion to the <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i> brings us to the +remark that no books are more truly wholesome than +some that can be enjoyed by those of all ages, and of +very varied types of “culture”: in which the children +can delight, and which refresh the aged and weary. +Like Nature herself, they have hedgerows where the +little ones can gather flowers, little witting of the +farther horizons of earth and sky lifted up for the eyes +of the elders. Let the children read the <i>Pilgrim's +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg521" id="Pg521"></a>Progress</i> simply as “a story,” its eternal verities will +sink into their souls to reappear when they too are in +<i>Vanity Fair</i> or in bitter conflict with <i>Apollyon</i>.</p> + +<p>For the same reason, the Book of Proverbs should be +commended to youthful study. Under wise supervision—or +rather, in mutual study—it becomes at once a +series of vivid pictures of primitive Eastern life—for all +allusions should be explained, where possible, pictorially—while +at the same time the memory will be insensibly +stored with shrewd common sense and knowledge of the +world, to be turned to, and drawn upon, as needed.</p> + +<p>And then, while the children revel in the fun and the +fancy of Hans Andersen's <i>Fairy Tales</i>, let the sorrowful +or sore or wounded heart turn to them for solace, +soothing or healing. Hans Andersen enjoys a very +special “popularity” and yet some, who have learned +to love and value him, doubt whether justice has yet +been done to his work. Because it is matchless for the +young, it may be easily forgotten that it can be so, +only by some quality which makes it matchless for all +others. Perhaps some of his most popular stories are +not his most wonderful, but have simply caught the +popular fancy, because of some artist's illustration, or +some personal application to the writer's own history, +as in the case of his <i>Ugly Duckling</i>. How many—or +rather, how few!—can readily recall the pathos and wit +of his <i>Portuguese Duck</i> or the deep philosophy of his +<i>Girl Who Trod on a Loaf</i>?</p> + +<p>It is told of Hans Andersen, a gentle soul in a +homely exterior, which attracted the snubs and neglect +which “patient merit of the unworthy takes,” on some +such occasion was once heard to murmur: “And yet +I am the greatest man now in the world!” It was very +naive of him to say so, even in a whisper, probably +wrung from him only in self-defence, but perhaps he +might have thought it, in solemn silence—and—not been +so very wrong! It may have been part of the very +transparency of his inspired genius that he could not +keep the secret to himself!</p> + +<p>There is at least one reader who declares that she +finds the seeds of all vital philosophy—ancient or +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg522" id="Pg522"></a>modern—in his stories. How much he derived from +those who went before him, it is not for us to say, but +this disciple, herself a devoted student and admirer of +the world's latest teacher, Leo Tolstoy, yet puts Hans +Andersen above him, as having attained in practically +all his work what Tolstoy attained only occasionally—<i>i.e.</i> +Tolstoy's own ideal of what Art should be and do.</p> + +<p>In such a paper as this little can be done beyond +indicating on the broadest lines the kind of reading +which tends to preserve or to restore mental health. +Away with your “problem” novels and “realistic” +poems stated in the filthy material of moral gutters! +Hans Andersen will take some birds, some flowers, some +toys, and will state the same problems, and get the +same eternal solutions, without making the inquirer +run any risk of meanwhile catching moral malaria. +Isaiah will help us to build “castles” for the human race +and for our own future, but he will take care that we +shall remember that righteousness and unceasing vigilance +and unflagging repair must go into the laying +of foundations and the upholding of walls. David, +even in his “cursing psalms,” will exemplify for +you the power of hate and vengeance in your own +heart, and as he holds it up before you, you will see +how small a thing it is, how mean, how ludicrous!</p> + +<p>As a man eats and drinks, so is his body: if he is a +gross feeder, his body will be gross and sensual; if his +food lacks nourishment, he will pine and fade. So it is +with our minds and our morals. With whatever +original “spiritual body” we may start, it needs +spiritual sustenance, spiritual discipline, spiritual sufficiency +and spiritual abstinence. Too often we ill-use it, +as bodies are ill-used, goading its weakness with fiery +excitement, or gorging its greed with sickly sentiment, +or emasculating it by empty frivolity.</p> + +<p>All who desire spiritual health must find out what +books best promote it in themselves: and sometimes +they are found, like wholesome herbs, in very lowly +places. One good rule is never to recommend what +we have not seen proved in ourselves, or on others.</p> + +<p class="sig">Isabella Fyvie Mayo.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg523" id="Pg523"></a><a name="THE_SWAN-SONG_OF_SEPTEMBER" id="THE_SWAN-SONG_OF_SEPTEMBER"></a>THE SWAN-SONG OF SEPTEMBER.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p>This fine sonnet is from <i>Lyric Leaves</i>, poems by S. Gertrude +Ford. 2s. 6d. net (postage 2d.). (C.W. Daniel, Ltd., 3 Tudor +Street, London, E.C.)</p></blockquote> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0"><span class="firstletter">S</span>ing out thy swan-song with full throat, September,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">From a full heart, with golden notes and clear!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No rose will wreathe thee; yet the harebell's here,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And still thy crown of heath the hills remember.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bright burns thy fire, e'en to its latest ember,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The sunset fire that lights thee to thy bier,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Flaming and failing not, albeit so near<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dun-robed October waits, and grey November.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And though, at sight of thee, a chill change passes<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through wood and wold, on leaves and flowers and grasses,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thy beauty wanes not; thou hast ne'er grown old;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Death-crowned as Cleopatra, lovely lying<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Even to the end; magnificently dying<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In pomp of purple and in glare of gold.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">S. Gertrude Ford.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="THE_QUEST_FOR_BEAUTY" id="THE_QUEST_FOR_BEAUTY"></a>THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY.</h2> + + +<p><span class="firstletter">I</span>f you have travelled at all frequently on certain of +the London “tube” railways you may occasionally +have noticed, facing you in the carriage, a small +framed poster which for beauty and imaginative power +has, I should think, never been surpassed in advertising +art. If the first sight of it did not make you catch your +breath you will not, I am afraid, be interested in this +article.</p> + +<p>The poster represents a rich landscape, in which +noble tree-forms show sombre against a tumultuous sky—the +latter an architectural mass of pale cloud, spanned +by a vivid rainbow. Across the lower part of the +picture is a scroll, on which are written, in musical +notation, two bars from Chopin's Twentieth Prelude. +At the top are the words, <i>Studies in Harmony</i>: it is an +advertisement of Somebody & Co.'s wall-papers.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg524" id="Pg524"></a>In both colour and design this poster is very beautiful. +It would be scarcely less so without the rainbow; but +“the dazzling prism of the sky” not only intensifies +the subtle harmony of colour throughout the picture: +it turns the poster into a symbol. And the artist +might well have stopped there; only, you see, he had +an inspiration. When he wrote across the picture those +eight descending chords from the immortal <i>Largo</i> he +made of the poster—a poem.</p> + +<p>I do not know anything about the artist who conceived +this advertisement of wall-papers. I do not +even know his name. But I believe him to be the +herald of an invasion.</p> + +<p>The invasion of life by beauty.</p> + +<p>Do you think it a degradation of art that it should +be enlisted by the makers of wall-papers? Are there +not too many ugly and discordant posters? Do you +consider trade and manufacture so sordid that they +are beneath the ministrations of beauty? It doesn't +matter a new penny whether you answer such questions +with a nod or a no: the invasion has begun. It is +irresistible. Beauty is stooping—stooping to conquer.</p> + +<p>Your ardent social reformer is too often obsessed +with one idea. Across his mental firmament he sees +only one blazing word: <span class="smcap">Injustice.</span> And, fine fellow +though he often is, he is inclined to be impatient with +any talk of art or beauty. “How can beauty grow in +these vile cities?” he cries. “What is the use of +your music, your statuary, your fine pictures, your +poetry, to the starving and the oppressed?” And he +does not see that his passionate desire for justice is at +root the quest for beauty, for fullness and harmony +of life. His stormy sky shows no rainbow: yet it is +there. And so is the stately music, the transmutation +of colour into sound. And if his eyes could be opened +to one and his ears to the other, there would be more +power to his elbow. For beauty is inspiration and +courage—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“My heart leaps up when I behold<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A rainbow in the sky....”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg525" id="Pg525"></a>And there is more than that in it. The cultivation of +a sense of beauty, of harmony, makes reformers less +harsh in their judgments, broadens their sympathies +and helps to save them from becoming mere doctrinaires. +If you have any love for the beautiful you +simply cannot be happy about most Utopias, though +they be Justice itself in civic form; and, when our +“scientific” Fabian has demonstrated to you how to +organise the national life in all its parts into one vast +smoothly working State mechanism you will shudder, +and then laugh. And then, without any rudeness, you +will say: “Hang mechanism and a minimum wage! +Live men and women want living crafts, liberty and a +maximum beauty!”</p> + +<p>And really, I am coming to see that there are a great +many health-culture enthusiasts (not to mention food +reformers) who see no rainbow in the sky and hear no +music in the wind; and even if they did, ten to one they +would see no connection between the two. I verily +believe there are some poor souls who have studied +food questions so closely that they cannot see the sun +for proteid nor the sea for salts. In all meekness, and +knowing the frailty of the human mind (I have written +dozens of articles on diet!), I would prescribe for them +a course of artistic wall-paper advertisements, combined +with the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. He, poor +fellow, had to battle against disease all his short life; +but he managed to end one of his letters something like +this (I quote from memory): “<i>Sursum Corda</i>! Heave +ahead! Art and blue heaven! April and God's larks! +A stately music.... Enter God.”</p> + +<p>A somewhat ecstatic utterance. A trifle too exclamatory. +Perhaps. You and I don't end our letters +like that. (Or do you?) More likely we say something +about the weather down here being miserably cold (or +damp, or dull, or changeable, or hot) and brave out the +lie with “yours truly.” But O for one little spark +from the fire that shone in the soul of R.L.S. Better +to die young with a broken heart, if it were a heart as +brave and gay as his, than beat Methuselah by means +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg526" id="Pg526"></a>of a mincing, calculating, cold-blooded attention to +irritating self-made little rules.</p> + +<p>Oh yes, I know well the value of little rules. And +I know also that Nature offers us only two alternatives—obedience +or death (either sudden or slow). But then +Nature is something more than Mistress and Lawgiver. +She is Beauty. And in that aspect, as in all other +aspects, Nature is unescapable. We turn our backs +on her only to find her awaiting us at the next turn in +the road. Looking at the matter all round, I don't +think we can come to any other conclusion than that +Nature (or whatever you like to call It, Her or Him) is +aiming at beauty all the time. So that we who are +literally, if not figuratively, the children of Nature, had +best do likewise.</p> + +<p>Some mystic or other has said that man's search +for God is God's search for man. If he was right—and +I think he was—it follows that man's quest for +beauty is Beauty invading life; and that the only healthy +life worth the having is that which begins with “Lift +up your hearts!” and issues in “a stately music. +Enter God.”</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + + + + +<h2><a name="SEMPER_FIDELIS" id="SEMPER_FIDELIS"></a><i>SEMPER FIDELIS.</i></h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Do two things worth doing, every day.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be scrupulously polite and kind, rather than witty or entertaining.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cherish cleanliness, sobriety, frugality and contentment.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cultivate sweetness of disposition and tranquillity of mind.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Think before speaking, and so reduce your causes of regret.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Seek peace and be peaceable for <i>lis litem generat</i>.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Begin at home, let home always find you faithfully on duty.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Care carefully for those whom Providence has entrusted to your care.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the reward of the faithful will abundantly yours,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And your heaven will go with you wherever you go.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">“A.R.”</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg527" id="Pg527"></a><a name="MORE_HOLIDAY_APHORISMS" id="MORE_HOLIDAY_APHORISMS"></a>MORE HOLIDAY APHORISMS.</h2> + + +<p>Two's company, three's fun.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Levity is the bane of wit.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Braggers mustn't be losers.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Never put on to-day what you can't put on to-morrow.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>It's an ill mind that finds no one any good.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>It's no use crying over spilt milk: you're better without it.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Look before you sleep.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Never put an excursion ticket in the mouth.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Long hair never made true poets.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Obesity always carries weight.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Look after your manners and your friends will look after themselves.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Cranks of a feather fight together.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>All is not toil that blisters.</p> + + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p><i>To Sea Anglers</i>:</p> + +<p>A live catch is no better than a dead fish.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Better a place in the sun than a plaice on a hook.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg528" id="Pg528"></a><a name="HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING2" id="HEALTHY_HOMEMAKING2"></a>HEALTHY HOMEMAKING.</h2> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">XXI. Hired Help</span> (<i>continued</i>).</h3> + +<p><span class="firstletter">W</span>hat is the homemaker of limited means, who +must have some help, to do under present +conditions? Well, meantime, there is only the +young “general” for her, either the “daily girl” or +one who “lives in.” Of the two I prefer the “daily +girl,” when she can be obtained. And the younger she +can be obtained, other things equal, the better. She +will have fewer bad habits to overcome. Some housewives +object to the daily girl on the score that she may +bring dirt or infection from her home, and also because +she can seldom arrive early enough to help get breakfast. +But a little management overnight can reduce +the labour of breakfast getting to a minimum, and if +the “outings” of the girl who lives in are as frequent +as they ought to be the risk of her carrying infection, +etc., will always apply.</p> + +<p>The “daily girl” has definitely fixed hours of work +and the same chance of enjoying a measure of home +life, of keeping her friends and individual interests, as +the typist or factory worker whose lot the domestic +servant so often envies; while her employers are not +faced with the alternatives of condemning a young +fellow-creature to a solitary existence or forcing an +unreal companionship which is equally irksome on both +sides. It is true that the wages of the “daily girl” +do not equal, in actual money, those of the factory +worker, neither does she obtain the Saturday half-holiday +or the whole of Sunday free. But to set against +this she receives her entire board and, with a kindly +mistress, is not tied down to staying her full time on +days when she is “forward” with her work.</p> + +<p>The life of the young “daily girl,” if her employer +is a conscientious woman, need not be hard nor unpleasant; +very little harder and no more unpleasant +than the lot of the young “lady” who is paying from +£60 to £80 per annum to learn cookery, laundry and +housework at a school of domestic economy. Properly +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg529" id="Pg529"></a>conducted, the relations between employer and employee, +“mistress” and “servant,” are those of mutual aid. +Such relations <i>may</i> be, and too often <i>are</i>, those of an +inefficient little drudge for a “mistress” almost equally +ignorant and inefficient. But when the employer is +an intelligent woman with a sense of justice (I prefer +a sense of justice to sentimental theories about sisterhood—people +do not always treat their sisters justly) +the weekly money payment and food will be but a small +part of the girl's wage. In addition she will receive +a training that will equip her for the “higher” branches +of domestic service, or for homemaking on her own +account. Not every girl has the sense to appreciate this +when she gets it, nor the intelligence to profit by it; +while it is certainly rather trying to the employer when +the girl is “all agog” to “better herself” as soon +as she has gained a bare smattering of how to do +certain things properly. But all this is “the fortune +of war.” Some girls never cease to be grateful to their +first teachers and leave them reluctantly, while other +girls never realise that they have anything to be grateful +for. When gratitude and affection come they are +pleasant to receive. But the motive power of the really +conscientious woman is not the expectation of gratitude +or affection.</p> + +<p>A word to the unconventional homemaker. The +young “general” is a bird of passage. Age and +experience bring with them the necessity of earning +more, and if her first employer cannot periodically raise +the girl's wages the latter must in time seek better +paid employment, probably with a mistress who is not +unconventional. It is unkind, therefore, to refrain +from teaching the girl how she will be expected to do +things in the ordinary conventional house. I do not +mean that the employer ought to slavishly run her +home on conventional lines for the instruction of her +“help.” But it is kinder, for instance, to help a girl +regard a cap and apron with good-humoured indifference, +or as on a par with a nurse's uniform, rather +than as “a badge of servitude.” It is kinder, too, to +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg530" id="Pg530"></a>show her that it is not only “servants” who are +expected to address their employers as “Sir” and +“Ma'am,” but that well-mannered young people in all +conditions of life can be found who use this form of +address to persons older than themselves. I do not +suggest for one moment that any attempt should be +made to delude a girl into the belief that she will not +be expected, in conventional households, to behave with +equal deference to persons younger than herself. Such +deception would be unpardonable. But it is anything +but kind to allow a young girl to drift into careless and +familiar habits of speech bound to lead to dismissal +for “impudence” in her next “place.” There is a +type of person, for example, who seems to believe that, +in order to show that he is “as good as anybody else,” it +is necessary to be rude and familiar. But good manners +are not necessarily associated with servility. And it +is no kindness to help to unfit a girl for getting her +living in the world as it is.</p> + +<p>It may seem that, in this article, I am more concerned +for the “hired help” than the homemaker for whom +I am ostensibly writing. But the points I have touched +on are just those about which I know many thoughtful +women are puzzled. I cannot solve their individual +problems for them, of course, I can only just barely +indicate some of the thoughts that have come to me +on a subject that is so intimately bound up with the +whole of our present unsatisfactory social and economic +conditions that it cannot be adequately discussed in +a little tract upon domestic economy.</p> + +<p class="sig">Florence Daniel.</p> + + +<h3><a name="Cupboards" id="Cupboards"></a><span class="smcap">The Care Of Cupboards.</span></h3> + +<p>There are three methods in general use of caring for +cupboards. Some housewives prefer their cupboard +shelves of bare wood, to be well scrubbed with soap +and water at the periodical “turn-out.” Others cover +all shelves with white American cloth, which only needs +wiping over with a wet house-flannel; while still others +prefer to dispense with the necessity for wetting the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg531" id="Pg531"></a>shelves and line them with white kitchen paper, or even +clean newspaper, which is periodically renewed.</p> + +<p>Of the three methods I prefer the last, with the +addition of a good scrubbing at the spring clean. The +weekly or fortnightly scrubbing is apt to result in +permanently damp cupboards, unless they can be left +empty to dry for a longer time than is usually convenient. +The use of American cloth is perhaps the +easiest, most labour-saving method, but the cloth soon +gets superficially marked and worn long before its real +usefulness is impaired, so that the cupboard shelves +never look quite so neat as after scrubbing or relining +with white paper.</p> + +<p>The larder should be thoroughly “turned out” once +a week. Once a fortnight is enough for the store-cupboard +and for china cupboards in daily use. While +cupboards in which superfluous china and other non-perishable +goods are stored, and that are seldom opened, +need not be touched oftener than once or twice a year.</p> + +<p>In very small houses one cupboard often must house +both china and groceries, thus combining the offices of +storeroom and china cupboard. The larder, strictly +speaking, is for the food consumed daily. But when +larder and store-cupboard have to be combined, the +groceries may be packed away on the upper shelves, +which can be tidied once a fortnight; but the shelves +doing duty for the larder proper should never be left +for longer than a week.</p> + +<p>Nothing betrays the careless housewife like an ill-smelling +larder. All food should be examined daily +and kept well covered. Hot food should be allowed to +cool before storing in the larder. In the summer time +special precautions must be taken against flies, all +receptacles for food which are minus well-fitting lids +being covered with wire-gauze covers or clean butter +muslin. If the shelves are lined with paper, care should +be taken at the weekly change to examine the wood for +stains caused by spilt food that has penetrated through +the paper. These should not be just left and covered +over, but well washed off. With ordinary carefulness, +however, they need not occur.</p> +<p class="sig">F.D.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg532" id="Pg532"></a><a name="BOOK_REVIEWS" id="BOOK_REVIEWS"></a>BOOK REVIEWS.</h2> + +<p class="book"><i>The New Suggestion Treatment.</i> By J. Stenson Hooker, +M.D. Cloth 1s. net (postage 1½d.) C.W. Daniel, +Ltd., 3 Tudor Street, E.C.</p> + +<p>This book is a striking example of the new synthetic +movement in the medical profession. It is an exposition +for the general reader of certain basic principles +of mental treatment and of the author's methods of +applying these; it is also, in reality, an appeal to doctors +generally to put aside prejudice and examine the immense +potentialities of rational “suggestion” healing +methods.</p> + +<p>After examining the main features and disadvantages +of mere hypnotic treatment and passing under review +present-day “mental science,” the author explains +wherein his method of mental treatment both avoids the +dangers of hypnotism and reinforces ordinary self-suggestion. +Throughout there is the frank recognition +that few forms of dis-ease are curable by +one means alone; on the other hand, it is contended that +most disorders, both mental and physical, are remarkably +amenable to a rightly directed course of the new +suggestion treatment, supplemented by other natural +means.</p> + +<p>The narrowness of view that too often characterises +the specialist is entirely absent from this book. It is +throughout thoroughly broad, refreshingly sensible and +profoundly convincing.</p> + +<p class="book"><i>The Cottage Farm Month by Month</i> (illustrated with original +photographs). By F.E. Green. Cloth, 1s. net (postage 2d.). C.W. +Daniel, Ltd., 3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</p> + +<p>Here is a book of immediate social interest, of great +practical value, and of uncommon literary quality.</p> + +<p>In the course of twelve chapters, bearing the titles of +the months of the year, it reveals a welding together of +two things which in many minds have unfortunately +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg533" id="Pg533"></a>become divorced: the practical problems and arduous +labour which no tiller of the soil can escape and—the +keen delight of a poetical temperament in the ever-changing, +yet annually renewed, beauties of earth and +sky and running water.</p> + +<p>It escapes the dry technicalities of the agricultural +text-book, while at the same time conveying innumerable +valuable hints on practically every branch of “small +farming”—advice which springs from the author's +thorough knowledge based on long and often hard +experience.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, while entirely free from that all +too common defect of “nature-books”—hot-house +enthusiasm—it will delight the most incurable townsman +(providing his sense of beauty is not withered) +by its joyous yet restrained pictures of open-air things.</p> + +<p class="book"><i>Simple Rules of Health.</i> By Philip Oyler, M.A. (2nd +ed.). 3d. net. Post free from the author, Morshin +School, Headley, Hants.</p> + +<p>An admirable epitome of what might be called “advanced +health culture without crankiness.” The author +is an ardent advocate of simplicity in all things +and—practises what he preaches. Moreover, he is one of +those who sees health from all points of view: he is as +much concerned with what the English Bible calls “a +right spirit” as with a fit body and a responsive mind. +It is a little book deserving of a wide circulation.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CORRESPONDENCE2" id="CORRESPONDENCE2"></a>CORRESPONDENCE.</h2> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Sleeplessness" id="Sleeplessness"></a>A REMEDY FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.</h3> + +<p>To the Editors</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sirs</span>,</p> + +<p class="corresp">Would you care to publish the following experience +of a cure for sleeplessness:—</p> + +<p>I had no difficulty in going to sleep, but usually awoke +again at about two <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> with palpitation, and it often +took me two or three hours to go to sleep again.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg534" id="Pg534"></a>I cured myself in the following way: I left off supper +and reduced my tea meal by half, and the result was +continuous sleep; the symptoms, however, began to +come back again after a time, so I gradually cut the tea +meal right away, and half of the midday meal as well. +The cure was then permanent and after a time I found +that I could resume the tea meal again. At the present +time I am having a tea meal of fruit only.</p> + +<p>In addition I should advise those who suffer from this +complaint to keep cheerful, and to avoid excessive +physical or mental fatigue and worry. Yours faithfully,</p> + +<p class="sig">“A Six Months' Reader.”</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Lime" id="Lime"></a>IS PURE LIME JUICE OBTAINABLE?</h3> + +<p>The Editors have received the following letter from +Messrs Rowntree & Co., Ltd.:—</p> + +<blockquote style="margin-left:8%;"><p>“We note in your issue of <a href="#Pg437">July 1913</a> under the heading of +‘Lemon or Orange Squash’ a <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: I am unable to find this note.">note</ins> to the effect that bottled +lemon squashes and lime cordials ‘are not pure in the strict +sense of the term, since they are bound to contain 10 per +cent. alcoholic pure spirit by Government regulations.’ We +should be glad to know what is your authority for this +statement. Possibly it is a misprint, because obviously the +Government does not require anything of the kind. Our own +lemon squash and lime juice cordial are entirely free from +any form of preservative, including alcohol. They are made +up from pure lemon juice and lime juice respectively, with +sugar, and contain no foreign ingredient.”</p></blockquote> + +<p>The statement complained of was based on an article +entitled “Fortified Lime Juice” which appeared in <i>The +Chemist and Druggist</i>, 13th May 1911 (page 51). On +again referring to this article we find that the Government +regulation applies only to <i>exported</i> Lime Juice.</p> + +<p>We regret having made this error, and are genuinely +glad to have Messrs Rowntree's assurance that their +own “Lime Juice Cordial” and “Lemon Squash” are +“entirely free from any form of preservative, including +alcohol.”</p> + +<p>Nevertheless, we think our suspicions regarding the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg535" id="Pg535"></a>presence of preservatives in such articles are justifiable +in view of the following authoritative statements made +by <i>The Chemist and Druggist</i> in the article referred +to:—</p> + +<blockquote style="margin-left:8%;"><p>“The British Revenue authorities have drawn the line a +little tighter in the discharge of their responsibility respecting +the soundness of lime-juice intended for exportation or for use +on board ship. The new rule henceforth is to grant a ‘pass’ +certificate for unfortified lime-juice to last for fourteen days +only, at the end of which time another certificate must be +obtained. As this new regulation affects lime-juice in its +natural condition before rum or any other spirit is added to +it, only lime-juice manufacturers or importers are concerned +in the matter.... <i>With such rapidly deteriorating liquid as +lime or lemon juice the addition of the preservative spirit is +a necessity, hence the sooner it is fortified the better.</i> The +Revenue authorities permit duty-free spirit to be used for this +purpose, but in order that lime-juice manufacturers shall have +this advantage of not paying duty on the spirit used the +Revenue authorities insist on approval of the juice and its +subsequent fortification in bond under supervision of the +Crown.... In reference to the proportion of spirit +used, previously the regulation was expressed in a +permissive sense, but now the emphatic “must” is used. In +the last Government Laboratory report it was stated that +396 samples were examined, most of which were lime-juice, +representing nearly 50,000 gallons. Even the fortified article +is re-tested if more than three months old in cask or two +years old in bottle, and this re-testing resulted last year in a +condemnation of several hundred gallons owing to deterioration +during storage. This juice is principally for use in the +Mercantile Marine to combat scurvy.”</p></blockquote> + +<p>From which it would appear that the use of <i>some</i> +kind of preservative is essential with such a rapidly +deteriorating liquid as lime or lemon juice; and if not +alcohol, there are innumerable chemical preservatives +available. We wish we could rely on receiving assurances +from other “Lime Juice” importers and manufacturers +similar to that we have received from Messrs +Rowntree.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p><i>To People with Strong Convictions:</i></p> + +<p>A holiday is the best of all opportunities for appreciating +the opposite point of view to our own: this is +why everyone needs a day's holiday once a week.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg536" id="Pg536"></a><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES3" id="HEALTH_QUERIES3"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading our contributor, Dr Valentine +Knaggs, deals briefly month by month, and according +as space permits, with questions of general interest to +health seekers and others.</i></p> + +<p><i>In all Queries relating to health difficulties it is +essential that full details of the correspondent's customary +diet should be clearly given.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +<span class="u">one side only of the paper</span>, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped addressed +envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Faulty" id="Faulty"></a>FAULTY FOOD COMBINATIONS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>H.E.H. writes.—I should like your opinion of the statement of +the late Mr A. Broadbent, that fruit when taken with starchy +food by dyspeptics delays digestion, and that the digestion of +starchy foods and vegetables occupied only one-third of the time +needed for the digestion of starch with fruit. I have lived on a +strict vegetarian diet and observed the laws of hygiene for two +and a half years, to rid myself of dyspepsia, with great success, +having increased my weight by thirty-six pounds; for the last nine +months of this time I have lived on a largely “unfired” diet, but +am still troubled with acid risings and flatulence and cannot +account for it. Will you kindly enlighten me on the subject?</p> + +<p>I am a carpenter by trade and get eight hours in the open air +every day. I take a tumbler of distilled water hot with the juice +of one orange at 6 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, breakfast at 7.30 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, dinner at 12 noon +and tea at 6 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, all consisting of Wallace unfermented bread and +biscuits, various fruits (mostly apples, bananas and tomatoes) and +nuts, about ½oz. at a meal; also a little cheese, about 1 oz. at a +meal.</p></blockquote> + +<p>The late Mr A. Broadbent was quite right, in my +opinion, when he asserted that fruit taken with starchy +foods delayed digestion.</p> + +<p>To reap the true benefit from fruit it must be taken +alone.</p> + +<p>The dominant element in fruit is oxygen and the +feature of oxygen is its power to start the process of +oxidation in decomposing and disintegrating substances. +It follows that when the stomach is filled with ferment<a class="pagenum" name="Pg537" id="Pg537"></a>ing +food-stuffs, or the tissues are clogged with the +products derived from such, the oxidising action of +fruit will be correspondingly intense.</p> + +<p>The Naturist who applies the Schroth Cure for the +purpose of curing chronic diseases uses fruit as his chief +eliminating agent. The reader will remember that the +peasant healer, Schroth, made his patients take dry +stale rolls alone for three whole days, with nothing +whatever to drink, and on the fourth day, he gave them +a full bottle of white wine, which then caused intense +oxidation, with marked elimination of poisons. His +methods, if successful, were drastic and weakening, and +so the latter-day exponents of Schrothism have modified +this and give their patients zweiback or twice-baked +bread instead of rolls, and on the third or fourth day +make the patient partake freely of fresh fruit. This +process of alternate dry days and fluid days is continued +for some weeks until the cure is complete.</p> + +<p>I have merely referred to this matter to show the +part played by fruit in the body. To a healthy person +fruit is in truth a splendid regenerating food, but it +should, whenever possible, be eaten alone. To a dyspeptic, +fruit is often equally good, if <i>taken by itself</i>.</p> + +<p>The case of vegetables is different, and I hold with +Broadbent that salad or properly cooked vegetables do +go well with cereals, because they contain, not oxygen +and oxygen acids, but mineral elements like soda, lime +and magnesia, which neutralise the acids and toxins +which form in the body as a result of its work. The +vegetable is just as active as the fruit as an eliminant, +but it works on different lines. Cereal foods, if eaten +slowly in a dry condition are made alkaline by the +saliva, so that the vegetables, which are also naturally +alkaline, would harmonise well with cereals if eaten +with them.</p> + +<p>Our correspondent should modify his diet as follows, +and then, I anticipate, he will cease to be troubled with +his acid dyspepsia and flatulence. He should take his +fruit alone, and take any of the crisp unsweetened +Wallace “P.R.” Biscuits in preference to the un<a class="pagenum" name="Pg538" id="Pg538"></a>fermented +bread, which latter is often difficult to +digest:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—A tumblerful of hot distilled water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast</i> (at 7.30).—Fresh fruit only.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch</i> (at 12).—1 to 2 oz. of cheese, preferably home-made +curd cheese; salad of green leaf vegetables; +“P.R.” or Ixion biscuits with fresh butter, or nut +butter.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner</i> (at 6).—1 to 2 oz. of flaked pine kernels, finely +grated raw roots or tomatoes, with pure olive oil; +Granose biscuits, or Shredded Wheat biscuits, and +fresh butter.</p> + +<p><i>At bedtime.</i>—Cupful of dandelion coffee or hot distilled +water.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Neuritis" id="Neuritis"></a>NEURITIS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>E.M.A. writes.—At the age of five years I had an attack of +rheumatic fever through taking a severe cold, and have been +troubled more or less with pains since that time, which I feel sure +are caused through rheumatism of the nerves. I am now fifty-eight +years of age and have been a vegetarian for six years.</p> + +<p>My diet is:—8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, cup of Sanum Tonic Tea; 9 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, Cup of +dried milk; 10 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, half of an apple and a little crust of wholemeal +bread; 1 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> conservatively cooked vegetable, using “Emprote” +for sauce; 4 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, cup of dried milk; 6 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, a little green +salad with St Ivel lactic cheese (size of one large walnut); 9 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>, +cup of dried milk. Do you think dried milk is harmful to me? +I should miss it very much were I to leave it off. I must mention +how great a help <i>The Healthy Life</i> magazine is to me in many +ways.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Neuritis is a painful and wearying form of nerve +trouble which mostly affects the arms and legs. It +can, however, originate in any other part of the body +through the spinal nerve centres. It may sometimes +be due to injury, but the usual cause is some form of +thickening or misplacement of the spinal structures, +which induces pressure upon the nerves as they emerge +through the apertures between the spinal bones. A +careful examination of the back will show the site, and +often the nature, of the thickening or encumbrance +which is present.</p> + +<p>In our correspondent's case the thickening process +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg539" id="Pg539"></a>doubtless occurred as an after effect of the attack of +rheumatic fever.</p> + +<p>The best remedy is suitable osteopathic treatment +for the spine, supplemented by <i>either very</i> hot or <i>quite</i> +cold spinal sitz baths, by acetic acid skin treatment, +or by any other means which will have the effect of disencumbering +the spine. By means of our treatment we +free the painful nerves from harmful pressure and promote +an increased blood circulation in the parts affected. +In this way the cause of the disorder is removed.</p> + +<p>A diet along the following lines would be better than +the present one:—</p> + +<p>8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>—Tumblerful of hot distilled water.</p> + +<p>9.30.—One raw egg beaten up with cream and +vegetable juice or clear vegetable soup made without +salt. Wholemeal bread with plenty of butter and some +celery or watercress.</p> + +<p>1.30 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>—Two conservatively cooked vegetables +done without salt, with grated cheese as sauce and a +Granose biscuit with butter.</p> + +<p>4.—Tumblerful of hot distilled water only.</p> + +<p>6.30.—2 oz. of cottage cheese or cream cheese, salad +and Granose biscuits, or “P.R.” crackers, with butter.</p> + +<p>9.30.—A raw egg beaten up with cream and vegetable +juice or soup.</p> + +<p>I think dried milk preparations are inadvisable in such +cases as these (especially when taken as beverages, as +the “milk sugars” present are very prone to ferment +and to hinder the cleansing of the digestive tract), and +that the required proteid is best obtained from eggs and +curd cheese. Fat is very necessary in nervous troubles; +hence plenty of cream, fresh butter and cream cheese +should be taken; also pure oil with the salad.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Malt" id="Malt"></a>MALT EXTRACT.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>L.F.H. writes.—Is malt extract a good thing to take daily with +an ordinary non-flesh diet, two teaspoonfuls or so at breakfast? +And is the desiccated or dry malt extract to be preferred to the +ordinary sticky article?</p></blockquote> + +<p>Malt extract of good quality, containing an active +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg540" id="Pg540"></a>form of diastase, is a good form of relish to take with +meals. The diastase promotes starch digestion and +makes a good addition to foods of the cereal order. The +thick sticky form is the best because the diastase is +then in an active condition. Dried malt usually will have +this diastase destroyed, hence, although much more +convenient to handle, it is not so good dietetically as +the sticky original extract.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Sugar" id="Sugar"></a>ABOUT SUGAR.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>C.T. writes.—I have read the article on sugar with considerable +interest. I have noted nervous disorders, etc., manifest in cases +of excessive consumption of manufactured sugar. I have been an +abstainer from cane sugar (all commercial sugars, though <i>I do +not know of any objection to milk, sugar</i>) for many years, regarding +it as an unnatural excitant and stimulant as well as being +inimical to digestion. As a physiologist I have taken immense +interest in longevity, feeling that an active life past the age of +ninety-five or a hundred, and upwards, carries with it, in evidence +of right living, the force of demonstration, and more conclusively, +in direct ratio to the advance of years. I firmly believe that all +anomalies will ultimately admit of resolution. In this connection +I could mention a number of strange and paradoxical cases for +which, as yet, I have obtained no solution. I know of +centenarians who began using “sugar” freely late in life. In one +case, when past eighty, a new set of teeth (not odd “supernumeraries”) +appeared all round! How is it, again, that the +natives of the West Indies, when living on sugar (in its crude state, +I suppose) have excellent teeth and perfect health? Is not raw +sugar better the less manufactured it is? On the other side, +Captain Diamond, at 114, attributes his health in great measure +to abstinence from sugar.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Most of these queries are answered in the completed +book<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> published this year. The point about “milk +sugar” not being injurious he will find answered on +page 72.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10">[10]</a> <i>The Truth about Sugar</i>, 1s. net. (C.W. Daniel, Ltd.)</p> + +<p>“Milk sugars” taken to excess with a mixed diet, +or in the form of milk as a beverage, break down into +lactic, butyric and other destructive acids under the +influence of intestinal germs and thus do harm to the +body.</p> + +<p>The natives of the West Indies (page 39) take the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg541" id="Pg541"></a>sugar cane in its natural state as a living vegetable +food—a very different thing from the isolated and +chemicalised sugar on our tables at home. Moreover, +the chewing required helps digestion. This is very +different to the drinking rapidly of sugared beverages, +which do not receive this necessary mouth preparation.</p> + +<p>One is quite prepared to admit that paradoxical cases +do occur where sugar seems to agree well even with +octogenarians, but they are, in my opinion, the exceptions, +and I am constantly coming across cases where +the free consumption of table sugars has proved very +harmful to both old and young.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Stomach" id="Stomach"></a>ULCERATION OF THE STOMACH.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>A.L.M. writes.—Our domestic servant, a girl aged twenty-four, +is suffering from ulceration of the stomach and has had periodical +attacks for the past six years. She has apparently, until she +came to us, eaten and drunk very unwisely. She has been with +us seven months and has been fed on a non-flesh diet since she +came. For the last four weeks tea, coffee and cocoa have been +forbidden, and as little sugar is consumed as possible. She had +a very bad attack in August and we had to call in a doctor is we +did not like the responsibility. He strongly recommended the +hospital and an operation, which would ensure that there would +be no repetition of the complaint. She decided to go and was there +six weeks. After much experimenting there, inoculating and +wondering whether it was tuberculosis, they operated and in due +course she came back. We went to the sea for three weeks and +shortly after our return the vomiting of blood and pains recommenced. +After four days in bed she returned to light dishes, and a +fortnight after another slighter attack came on, which +in twenty-four hours. She takes hot boiled water five times a +day. She suffers also from a horny skin on the palms of her +hands, with deep cracks where the natural lines are. These +periodically bleed. This skin exists also on her heels and the soles +of her feet. Before and after, an attack this skin seems to be worse +than ever.</p> + +<p>I mentioned the fact of the recurring attacks since the operation +to the doctor and he seemed surprised and said the matter must +be constitutional and there was no hope for her.</p> + +<p>My own opinion is that pure food will put her right eventually, +and that these attacks will recur in diminishing force until the +poisons are eliminated front the system.</p> + +<p>Her diet is at present as follows:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Half-pint of boiled water (hot).</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—Either Shredded Wheat softened in hot milk or +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg542" id="Pg542"></a>breakfast flakes and cold milk: followed by either bananas or +apples. Half-pint boiled water (hot).</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Ordinary vegetarian cooked dishes, vegetables conservatively +cooked, some fruit. Half-pint boiled water (hot).</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal.</i>—Wholemeal bread (Artox flour), usually non-yeast, +nut butter. Lettuces and radishes when obtainable. Half-pint +boiled water (hot).</p> + +<p><i>Before retiring.</i>—Half-pint of boiled water (hot).</p></blockquote> + +<p>It has been shown by Brandl and other investigators +that ulceration of the stomach can always be produced +in animals by feeding them with an excess of sugar +foods. The same thing applies to human beings, who, +if fed with an excess of sweetmeats, sugar, milk or soft +mushy cereals, will first contract catarrh of the stomach, +which will ultimately deepen into a condition of ulceration.</p> + +<p>The rationale of the process is this: Fermentation +and putrefaction of the foods eaten to excess produce +in the stomach various acids and toxins. These +become absorbed and pass into the liver. Then the +liver becomes clogged, its flow of blood is obstructed +and this naturally retards the flow of food from the +stomach. That organ becomes congested and inflamed +and, when the lower end, or pylorus, is obstructed, this +congested state may easily deepen into ulceration. We +also nearly always find a tender spine, showing that the +nervous system has equally participated in the conditions +produced, and this nervous factor intensifies the +trouble by retarding the due working of the digestive +functions.</p> + +<p>What we have to do to cure a case of ulcerated +stomach is <i>to withhold the foods which create fermentation</i>. +Then the liver will be allowed time to work off +the poisons which are clogging its substance and when +this has come about the stomach will slowly return to +its normal condition.</p> + +<p>The diet which our correspondent cites is badly +arranged. It is a mistake to give fluid <i>with</i> the meals, +and the mushy food at breakfast and the soft food at +dinner should be changed to drier and crisper forms of +nutriment.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg543" id="Pg543"></a>The following diet would be a distinct improvement:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Half-pint of boiled hot water, sipped +slowly; or quarter-pint Sanum Tonic Tea, taken hot.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—A Shredded Wheat biscuit <i>eaten dry</i> and +well buttered; a lightly boiled egg and some finely +grated raw roots, especially carrots and turnips.</p> + +<p>In a case of this sort it is best not to mix cereals +with fruits.</p> + +<p>An alternative breakfast would consist of <i>fruit alone</i> +such as two apples, finely grated at first, or two bananas +mashed and mixed with pure olive oil and sprinkled +with flaked nuts but care must be taken that the +pulped banana is well chewed.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Grated cheese, or cream cheese, with some +finely chopped salad, or grated raw roots, or conservatively +cooked vegetables (preferably roots or onions +baked fairly dry by the casserole method) can be taken +at this repast. Follow with a slice or two of cold +ordinary toast or rusks with butter.</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal.</i>—Half-pint of hot boiled water with a little +lemon or orange juice added to it for flavouring.</p> + +<p><i>Supper</i> (about 6.30).—Stale standard bread with +butter and curd cheese or an egg. The non-yeast bread +should be avoided as in the weak state of the stomach +it will not be properly digested; besides, the bran may +irritate the lining in the present condition of the +stomach. As soon as the stomach has regained its +power of digesting food, and the ulcers have healed, +then fine wholemeal biscuits of the Wallace or Ixion +kind can be taken, but the unfermented bread had better +be avoided.</p> + +<p><i>At bedtime.</i>—A half-pint of hot water.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Unfired" id="Unfired"></a>GOING TO EXTREMES IN THE UNFIRED DIET.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>W.O.C. writes.—As a bachelor who (not believing in, and +therefore doing without domestic help) is anxious to reduce time +spent on cooking to a minimum, I shall be glad if Dr Knaggs will +tell me whether the use of the oven, pan and kettle are necessary +to healthy diet. For instance (1) would a diet of bread and butter, +biscuits, cheese, fruit (fresh and dried), ordinary cold water and +cold milk, be as healthy as a diet of hot vegetables, puddings, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg544" id="Pg544"></a>cocoashell, etc.? (2) Are cooked lentils, butter-beans, macaroni, +etc., more beneficial taken hot than after they have cooled? (3) +Could uncooked vegetables <i>of sufficient nutriment</i> be substituted for +these? I shall be glad if it is quite safe to live entirely on +raw foods, whether fresh or “prepared.”</p></blockquote> + +<p>The use of the oven, pan and kettle is not essential +to a healthy diet, but few people in this changeable, and +often cold, depressing climate are willing to forgo their +occasional use. One cannot get hot water for a drink +without a kettle or a small saucepan and a gas ring, +and hot water is often a very comforting and useful +drink, especially where an effort is being made to break +off the tea and coffee habit.</p> + +<p>A diet of bread and butter, biscuits, cheese, fresh and +dried fruits is excellent, provided our correspondent also +includes grated raw roots and salads as the medicinal +part of the regimen, and keeps the fresh fruit to itself +as one meal of the day. Cold water or cold milk could +also be taken in the place of hot water or hot milk, +although I deprecate the use of milk as a beverage unless +a person is willing to live entirely on milk like a baby +does. The hot vegetables are uncalled for, provided +the raw vegetables are substituted for them. The +puddings can well be discarded. Cocoashell beverages +are useful in very many cases.</p> + +<p>Beans or lentils can be eaten sparingly in a raw state +if first soaked, then flaked in a Dana machine, and +afterwards flavoured with herbs or parsley. I certainly +think that, if they <i>are</i> to be cooked, the taste is better +if eaten hot; but there is no reason why cold cooked +lentils should not be eaten any more than is the case +with an other form of cooked food. Uncooked vegetables +will not take the place of lentils, because they +are of a different order of food-stuff. The uncooked +vegetable would go well with the lentils as neutralising +agents of the acids into which all nitrogenous foods +break down in the body. Most people will find that +nuts, cheese and eggs are better sources of proteid +than lentils or other “pulse foods.”</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg545" id="Pg545"></a></p> +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 27</span> +<span class="coverright">October<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard.</span></p></blockquote> +</div> + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION27" id="AN_INDICATION27"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapj"><span class="dropcap">J</span></span>ust as there is a pride that apes +humility, so there is an egotism that +apes selfishness, a cowardice that apes +stoicism and an indolence that apes +effort. This is especially apparent in +matters pertaining to health.</p> + +<p>How often, on the plea of not causing worry or +expense to others, does a man or woman not put +off taking necessary rest, or consulting a doctor, +until a slight ailment that once would have yielded +to treatment becomes an irreparable injury.</p> + +<p>Such conduct is often admired as unselfish, but +for unselfishness and stoicism a psychologist would +read fear, indolence and egotism. Fear of being +thought hypochondriacal and fear of facing facts; +shrinking from the exertion involved in the effort +to become healthy and from the pain involved in +witnessing the possible distress and anxiety of +friends should the complaint prove serious—regard<a class="pagenum" name="Pg546" id="Pg546"></a>less +of the fact that its neglect and resultant incurability +would cause infinitely more distress; above +all, that mental egotism which breeds in its victim +an unreadiness to acknowledge that he does not +<i>know</i> what may be wrong and to take prompt steps +to remedy his ignorance.</p> + +<p>It is not fair, of course, to attach too much blame +to the patient. Such faults as those cited above are +in themselves symptoms of nervous disease. Body +and mind act and react upon one another. Nevertheless, +the practice of the virtues loses its meaning +when there is no pull in the opposite direction.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="IMAGINATION_IN_INSURANCE" id="IMAGINATION_IN_INSURANCE"></a>IMAGINATION IN INSURANCE.</h2> + + +<p><i>Regular readers will recognise in this article a continuation of +the series previously entitled “Healthy Brains.” The author of +“The Children All Day Long” is an intimate disciple of one of +the greatest living psychologists, and she has a message of the +first importance to all who realise that true health depends as +much on poise of mind as on physical fitness.</i></p> + +<p><span class="dropcapiup" title="Transcriber's Note: This illuminated capital I is upside-down here as in the original."><span class="dropcap">I</span></span>t is an unpleasant subject, but have you +ever faced the fact that your widow might +be left in poverty?</p> + +<p>We all know the phrases that come so +glibly from the lips of the insurance agent. +Perhaps the very fact that it pays companies +to spend thousands a year on the salaries of agents, and +other thousands on broadcast eye-catching advertisements, +shows that there are many things which our +imagination only accepts “against the grain.” Fire, +storm, loss by theft or burglary, sickness, disablement +and death we do not, by choice, dwell on these things +in thought.</p> + +<p>Now some people are inclined to pet this impulse of +turning away. “Do not think dark thoughts,” they +tell us, “the best insurance is unconsciousness, <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'insousiance'.">insou<a class="pagenum" name="Pg547" id="Pg547"></a>ciance</ins>, +denial. Misfortune will pass you by if you do +not look for it.”</p> + +<p>Perhaps there is something to be said for this method +when it comes with absolute spontaneity from the innermost +nature. But if for the radiant apprehension of +beauty and health we substitute an effort to cling to the +picture of good when our very bodies and nerves are +warning us with suggestions of evil, we run grave risks. +By adopting someone else's sense of freedom from +danger and repressing our own conviction that for us +a certain danger, more or less remote, exists, we are +putting great pressure upon ourselves. At times of ill-health +or accidental worry, a sleepless night may bring +us an agonising succession of imaginative pictures, +those very pictures which we have attempted to banish +from our daily life. If we have still greater power of +repression these grim images, forbidden throughout +every moment of waking life, may reappear in dreams.</p> + +<p>(Of the still more serious dangers of repression and +of its relation to various forms of insanity, this is hardly +the place to speak.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> It ought not to be necessary to +appeal to alarming instances in order to make us attend +to a suggested warning.)</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11">[11]</a> See Bernard Hart's illuminating treatment of the whole subject +in <i>The Psychology of Insanity</i>, Cambridge Manuals of Science.</p> + +<p>Now if we decide to regard all fear as a suggestion +of precaution, the emotional part of it to be laid aside +as soon as it has fulfilled its function of arousing interest +and directing action, it is easy to see the psychological +justification for insurance.</p> + +<p>Of course pecuniary insurance is but one instance of +such sequences of action, though it happens to be a +rather obvious one. In a different field, most of us +know the delightful feeling of relief experienced after +consulting a doctor about some symptom that has perhaps +been troubling us for a long time. “May I +safely do this? Ought I to refrain from that?” and +such perpetually recurring irritations to the attention are +replaced by the knowledge that it is now the doctor's +business to decide whether this or that is “serious,” +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg548" id="Pg548"></a>and that as long as we carry out his orders we may lay +aside all worry about the matter.</p> + +<p>So in the case of fire insurance, what we are really +buying with our annual premium is freedom from haunting +questions as to the loss that would ensue if our +house or shop or office were burnt down or damaged. +Whenever the thought comes, it may, as far as the +money loss is concerned, be dismissed.</p> + +<p>We see then that instead of keeping the suggestion of +such misfortunes before us, as some people might allege, +the act of insurance substitutes for vague and recurrent +fears a formal and periodical recognition of possibilities, +a recognition, too, that contains within itself a precaution +against some of the results of the misfortune +should it ever occur. What we buy, at the cost of a +fixed number of pounds or shillings of money and a few +minutes of time once a year, is the right to put the +dangers out of our consciousness altogether and yet +leave no residuum of repressed fear to split up our +personality or give us indigestion.</p> + +<p>If we choose, for some reason or other, to let our +imagination dwell on the objective side of the possibility +we have insured against, we shall find a pleasure in +thinking of what can be done by many people working +together. If we need help to meet some misfortune, it +is ours as a right, not doled out to us through others' +pity. And every year that we have made no claim we +have the delight of knowing that we are helping those +who need.</p> + +<p>The art of working together is yet in its infancy. +But if even the present standard of method devised for +money insurance were to be adopted in the deeper +matters which we so often allow to trouble us, what an +advance in mental development we should have made +and what new possibilities of safe action would be +opened up!</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Every youth should learn to do something finely and +thoroughly with his hands.—<i>Ruskin.</i></p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg549" id="Pg549"></a><a name="THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM1" id="THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM1"></a>THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF +VEGETALISM.</h2> + +<blockquote><p>This article has been translated from the French of Prof. H. +Labbé, the head of the <i>laboratoire à la Faculté de Médecine</i>, in +Paris. It reflects a rather characteristic aloofness to any considerations +other than scientific or economic. But it will well +repay careful study.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p></blockquote> + + +<h3 class="center">I</h3> + +<p><span class="dropcapv"><span class="dropcap">V</span></span>egetarianism has been the object of +many attacks, and has also been warmly +defended. Most of its adepts have sought +to give the value of a dogma to its practice.</p> + +<p>For quite a number of people “vegetarianism” +is a kind of religion, requiring of +its votaries a sort of baptism, and the sacrifice of many +pleasures. It is this which justifies the infatuation of +some, and the systematic disparagement of others.</p> + +<p>“Vegetalism”<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> cannot pretend to play a similar +part, or to lend itself to ambiguity. To be a “vegetalist” +is to choose in the vegetable kingdom, with a +justified preference, foods susceptible of filling the +energy-producing needs, and the needs of the reparation +of the human system.</p> + +<p>“Vegetalism” is a chapter of dietetic physiology +which must utilise the precise methods and recent discoveries +of the science of nutrition.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12">[12]</a> The word “Vegetarianism” implies a judgment of the qualities +which such a diet entails. This word is derived, in fact, from the +Latin adjective “Vegetus” (strong). The word “Vegetalism,” +which we oppose to the preceding one, admits only the establishing +of a fact, that of the choice—exclusive or preferred—of the +nutritious matters in the vegetable kingdom.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">II</h3> + +<p>Before putting “vegetalism” into practice the first +point is to know whether the foods of “vegetal” origin +contain, and are susceptible of producing regularly, the +divers nutritive principles indispensable to the organisation +of an alimentary diet. The principles are the follow<a class="pagenum" name="Pg550" id="Pg550"></a>ing:—Proteid +or albuminoid substances; hydrocarbonated +and sweet substances fatty substances; mineral +matters, alkalis, lime, magnesia, phosphates and chlorides, +etc. In most compound foods, no matter of what +origin, mineral materials almost always exist in sufficient +quantities. The most important amongst them, at all +events, are found combined in liberal, even superabundant, +portions in dishes of vegetal origin. The +analysis of the ashes of our most common table vegetables +fixes us immediately to this subject: Leguminous +plants supply from about three to six per cent. of ashes, +rich in alkalis, lime and phosphates. Potatoes, green +vegetables and fruit as a whole absorbing considerable +quantities of mineral elements. These are the elements +of a nature to allow a precise reply to this question +which we propose to expound briefly.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">III</h3> + +<p>In order to examine a food thoroughly, for the purpose +of ascertaining if it can be advantageously introduced +for consumption, whether albumins, fats, hydrate +of carbon, or sugar, etc., or again an association of +these principles in a composite article of food are in +question, divers researches must be carried out before +giving a final judgment.</p> + +<p>If a more or less complex article of food is in question, +before considering it as a good nutriment, its centesimal +composition, or its immediate composition, should be +established; its theoretic calorific power should be +known, and it should be measured if this has not yet +been done.</p> + +<p>Besides the calorific yield thus estimated <i>in vitro</i>, the +real utilisation in the human organism of articles of food +alone or mixed with other foods should be determined, +taking simultaneously into account their effects, whether +tonic, stimulating or depressing.</p> + +<p>From a different point of view it is no longer allowable +to neglect before judging whether such and such +a nutritive substance is advantageous, the valuation of +what we have called, with Prof. Landouzy, the economic +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg551" id="Pg551"></a>yield—that is to say, the price of the energy, provided +by the unity of weight of the article of food.</p> + +<p>It is only in reviewing “vegetal” substances, taking +these divers titles into consideration, that we shall be +justified in attributing to the practice of “vegetalism,” +integral or mitigated, its definite value.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">IV</h3> + +<p>Only a few years ago, when Schützenberger, emulator +and forerunner of Fischer, Armand Gautier, Kossel, first +disjointed the albuminoid molecule, to examine one by +one its divers parts, the composition of the various +albumins was very little known. Whether, therefore, +albumins of the blood, or those of meat or eggs, were in +question, these bodies were hardly ever separated, +except through physical circumstances, amongst others +by constant quantities of different coagulation. As to +the centesimal formula and the intimate structure of the +different protoid substances, they could be considered +as closely brought together.</p> + +<p>From this fact, the physiological problem of the +utilisation of albumin was simpler. No matter which +article of food contained this albumin, its nutritive +power by unity of weight remained the same. At the +present time the number of albumins is no longer +limited. It is not now physical characteristics founded +difficult separations which arbitrarily distinguish those +bodies from each other. The individuality of each of the +albumins results from its formula of deterioration, under +the influence of digestive ferments, or of chemical bodies +acting in a similar way, as do mineral acids and alkalis. +For want of constituary formula this methodical +deterioration makes known the number of molecules +(acids or other bodies) which are responsible for the +structure of each albumin. These deleterious formula +of proteid matter are not less suggestive than composition +ones. They reveal notable differences between +“vegetal” and animal albumins.</p> + +<p>To be sure, animal albumins (beef, veal, mutton, +pork, etc.) which we are offered in an alimentary flesh +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg552" id="Pg552"></a>diet, resemble more nearly the structure of our own +bodily albumins than do the gluten of bread or the +albumin of vegetables. This fact seems actually the +best support of the theory which affirms the superiority +of the flesh over the vegetable diet. Such a remark is +therefore well worth discussing by showing that the +consequences which can be deduced from it are paradoxical, +and rest upon hypothesis which, not very acceptable +in theory, are hardly verified in practice.</p> + +<p>Admitting that albumin plays in alimentary diet only +the plastic part of reconstruction of used-up corporal +matter, it might be advantageous to ingest but one +albumin the composition of which is very similar to +our own. By virtue of the law of least effort such a +one in equal weights ought to be of more service than +a foreign albumin, as it requires less organic work. +For man, albumin of animal origin ought to be more +profitable in equal weight than vegetable albumin. In +the organism, indeed, albumin passes through a double +labour. After the intestinal deterioration, followed by a +passage through the digestive mucus membrane, a re-welding +of the liberated acids takes place, with a formation +of new albumin.</p> + +<p>If, therefore, alimentary albumin's mission is, not to +be definitely burnt up in the organism, but to help in the +plastication of the individual, the more its initial formula +approaches the definite one to which it must attain, the +more profitable it becomes, giving out less useless fragments +and waste. Animal albumin approaching more +nearly to human albumin, is also the one whose introduction +into the daily alimentary diet is most rational. +This statement seems to be the defeat of vegetal albumin. +But let there be no mistake. It consecrates at +the same time the triumph of anthropophagy, for there +could not be for man a more profitable albumin than his +own, or that of his fellow-man! This should make us +pause and reflect, before allowing this deduction to be +accepted.</p> + +<p>Besides, these arguments <i>ad hominem</i> do not +appear to us necessary for repelling such an interpreta<a class="pagenum" name="Pg553" id="Pg553"></a>tion +of facts. Modern works have shown us that the +greater proportion of ingested albumin played, in fact, +a calorific, and not a plastic, part. Under these conditions +one is justified in doubting whether there takes +place with regard to the total albumins ingested a work +of reconstruction thus complicated in the organism, after +their first deterioration. Evidently one may come to +believe that this complicated labour applies only to the +more or less feeble portion of albumin really integrated.</p> + +<p>Practically speaking, the best criterion for judging +the utilisation of an ingested albumin lies in the persistence +of the corporal weight, allied to the ascertained +fact of a stable equilibrium in the total azotized balance-sheet +which is provided by the comparison of the +“Ingesta” with the “Excreta.” From this point of +view there exists the closest similitude between the +albumins of animal and those of vegetable origin; both, +in fact, are capable of assuring good health and corporal +and cellular equilibrium.</p> + +<p>However, the digestibility of vegetable albumins +seems to remain slightly inferior to that of animal +albumins. 97 per cent. of the animal fibrine given in +a meal are digested, where 88 to 90 per cent. only of +vegetable albumins are absorbed and utilised. It is +a small difference, but not one to be overlooked. We +must say, however, that the method one employs in +determining these digestibilities takes from them a part +of their value, and renders difficult the comparison of +results obtained. Sensibly pure albumins are too often +compared in an artificial diet. One deviates thus from +the conditions of practical physiology. In fact, in ordinary +meals, all varieties of foods are mixed together, +acting and reacting upon each other, reciprocally modifying +their digestibility. If one conforms to this way of +acting towards alimentary albumins, the results change +sensibly. In the presence of an excess of starch, under +the shape of bread, for example, vegetable albumin +seems to be absorbed in about the same proportions as +animal albumin.</p> + +<p>If, in a flesh diet, animal albumins are always con<a class="pagenum" name="Pg554" id="Pg554"></a>sumed +nearly pure (lean meat containing hardly anything +but albumin, besides a little fat, and an inferior +quantity of glycogen) vegetable albumin is always, on +the contrary, mixed with a number of other substances. +This is doubtless one of the reasons which causes the +digestibility of vegetable albumins to vary, the foreign +nutritive matters being able to bring about, under +certain circumstances, and in cases of superabundant +ingestions, a real albuminous “saving” in the newest +sense of the word.</p> + +<p>Besides, a prejudicial question makes the debate +almost vain. When it was admitted by such physiologists +as Voit, Rubner and their school that from 140 +to 150 grammes of albumin in the minimum were daily +necessaries in the human diet, a variation of a few units +in the digestive power presented some importance. +Nowadays the real utility of albumins is differently +appreciated. The need of them seems to have been +singularly exaggerated; first lowered to about 75 gr. by +A. Gautier, it has dropped successively with Lapicque, +Chittenden, Landergreen, Morchoisne and Labbé, by +virtue of considerations both ethnological and physiological, +to 50 grs., 30 grs. and even to 25 or 20 +grammes. The “nutritive relation”—that is to say, the +yield from albuminoid matters to the total nutritive +matters of diet—is thus brought down from 1/3 its +primitive value to 1/15 or 1/20 at most. It follows +that the slight inferiority found in the digestive powers +of vegetable albumin appears unimportant. It is sufficient +to add 2 or 3 more grammes of albumin to a +ration already superabundant of from 40 to 50 grammes +of vegetable proteins to bring back a complete equilibrium +in the use of vegetable and animal varieties. +The theoretical inferiority of vegetable albumin thus +almost completely disappears.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Labbé.</p> + +<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>If your system has become clogged, go slow—and +fast.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg555" id="Pg555"></a><a name="ODE_TO_THE_WEST_WIND" id="ODE_TO_THE_WEST_WIND"></a>ODE TO THE WEST WIND.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0"><span class="dropcapo"><span class="dropcap">O</span></span> Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each like a corpse within its grave, until<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill<br /></span> +<span class="i0">(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With living hues and odours plain and hill<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wild Spirit which art moving everywhere;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On the blue surface of thine airy surge,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like the bright hair uplifted from the head<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of some fierce Mænad, even from the dim verge<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of the horizon to the zenith's height,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of the dying year, to which this closing night<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Vaulted with all thy congregated might<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Black rain, and fire, and hail, will burst: Oh hear!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg556" id="Pg556"></a>And saw in sleep old palaces and towers<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Quivering within the wave's intenser day,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All overgrown with azure moss, and flowers<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So sweet the sense faints picturing them! Thou<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For whose path the Atlantic's level powers<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The sapless foliage of the ocean know<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And tremble and despoil themselves: Oh, hear!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The impulse of thy strength, only less free<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than thou, O uncontrollable! if even<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I were as in my boyhood, and could be<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Scarce seemed a vision,—I would ne'er have striven<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">One too like thee—tameless, and swift, and proud.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">What if my leaves are falling like its own?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The tumult of thy mighty harmonies<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And, by the incantation of this verse,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Be through my lips to unawakened earth<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">Percy Bysshe Shelley.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg557" id="Pg557"></a><a name="WHAT_MAKES_A_HOLIDAY" id="WHAT_MAKES_A_HOLIDAY"></a>WHAT MAKES A HOLIDAY?</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapw"><span class="dropcap">W</span></span>hat is it makes a holiday? Some people +want Paris, some Monte Carlo, one man +cannot be satisfied without big game to +hunt, another must have a grouse moor. +The student has his sailing boat, the young +wage-earner his bicycle, three girl friends +look forward to their week in a Hastings boarding-house. +Almost anything may be “a change”; most +things, to someone or other, are “a holiday.” What +does it all mean?</p> + +<p>The sands of West Sussex are wide and free, firm +and smooth for walking with bare feet, lovely with +little shells and sea-worm curves and ripple marks and +the pits of razor-shells. Above them are the slopes of +shingle, gleaming with all colours in the September +sun. Farther up again, the low, brown crumbling +cliffs crowned with green wreaths of tamarisk. The +sea comes creeping up, or else the wind raises great +white breakers; if the waves are quiet, old breakwaters, +long ago broken themselves, smashed fragments here +and there of concrete protections put by man, gaps in +the cliff and changes in the coast-line, remind us of the +vast force behind the gentle and persistent lap of water. +The beach itself reminds us of it; there a flint and here +a rounded pebble made out of brick or glass, worn down +from man's rubbish to sea's proof of power.</p> + +<p>Over it all are the children, brown-legged and bare-headed. +(Is it something in the weather this year that +has given us the particular red-brown, suggestive of +shrimp and lobster, that is the colour-vintage of 1913?) +Babies with oilskin waders, bathers, girls in vividly +coloured coats walking along the sands; all make up +the picture and give us once again the thrill of holiday.</p> + +<p>Inland, the Sussex lanes are green and the trees are +broad and shady. Thatched cottages are everywhere, +and barns with heavy brows; yesterday I saw some pots +put for shelter from the sun under the far-projecting +thatch of a farmhouse. The gardens are full of sun-<a class="pagenum" name="Pg558" id="Pg558"></a>flowers +and hollyhocks, fuchsia and golden rod; the +walls are covered with jasmine and passion-flowers. +Old, old churches make us feel like day-flies. The yew +in the churchyard five minutes' walk from here is said +to be 900 years old; the church itself is thirteenth +century, but into its walls were built fragments of a +former church, far older, on the same site. It carries +us more than half-way back to the foundation of Christianity. +Dim tales of heathen earls and Norman kings +hang around the villages, and the very floor of the sea +beyond the land is richly laden with stores of half-forgotten +memories.</p> + +<p>Which of all these things makes these days my holiday?</p> + +<p>All of them, perhaps. Present moving life, and long-past +history, the mighty movement of nature and the +changes of geologic time: sheer beauty too and the +gaiety of amusements and excursions; do not all have +their place in unwinding us from the tight coils we make +for our working days?</p> + +<p>Freedom to take from the world whatever is there of +beauty and of interest—it really hardly matters what +or where; freedom enhanced by sympathy, perhaps, for +we seem to need some comrade in our play; so many +days and nights following each other—no matter exactly +how many—for letting ourselves go, and letting the +world and all its power and wonder flow into us; that, +whatever be place, time and conditions, is the making +of a holiday.</p> + +<p class="sig">C</p> + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>To Our Readers.</h3> + +<p>Readers who appreciate the independence and +all-round nature of <i>The Healthy Life</i> can materially +assist the extension of its circulation by tactfully +urging their local newsagent to have the magazine +regularly displayed for sale. An attractive monthly +poster can always be had free from the Publishers, +3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</p><hr /> +</div> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg559" id="Pg559"></a><a name="HEALTHY_LIFE_ABROAD" id="HEALTHY_LIFE_ABROAD"></a>HEALTHY LIFE ABROAD.</h2> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">“Hygie.”</span></h3> + +<h4><i>A New Definition of Neurasthenia.</i></h4> + +<p>We cull the following definition of neurasthenia from +our French contemporary: Neurasthenia is discouragement +of the soul. Being in a state of discouragement +the soul ceases to take care of the body and allows it +to become encumbered with waste products. The body +in its turn becomes so defective that the soul is incapable +of repairing the enfeebled organs and throws +the body away into the water or leaves it somewhere to +be crushed or abandons it by some other means. +Neurasthenia may be compared to an indolent mechanic. +He neglects to oil his engine. It runs off the rails and +is smashed.</p> + + +<h4><i>Fresh Departures.</i></h4> + +<p>The Vegetarian Society of France has introduced +three new sections into its organisation. The first is +documentary, and aims at the collection, centralisation +and classification of all information bearing on food +reform. The second deals with domestic economy and +hygiene. A number of ladies willing to devote themselves +to the popularisation of the leading ideas of +vegetarianism have joined this section. They offer +advice and instruction to all who wish to familiarise +themselves with food reform principles. The third +section is concerned with physical training and outdoor +games, with special reference to the relationship between +these things and a non-flesh regimen.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">“Vegetarische Warte.”</span></h3> + +<h4><i>Nietzsche as Fruitarian.</i></h4> + +<p>“A simple life,” wrote Nietzsche in 1879, “is very +difficult at the present time,” and went on to explain +its difficulties and to suggest that even the most determined +would be obliged to leave the discovery of the +way to a wiser generation. He himself, however, took +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg560" id="Pg560"></a>some steps upon the way during his stay in Genoa, +when he lived on bread and fruit and spent but a few +shillings a week. Eggs were occasionally included, and +artichokes—and the little cookery he needed was done +by himself over a spirit lamp. His winter in Genoa, +he declares, was the happiest in his life and saw the +production of his “Twilight of the Gods.”</p> + + +<h4><i>Food Reform in Russia.</i></h4> + +<p>The movement goes ahead rapidly in Russia. Hardly +a town of any size but has now its vegetarian restaurant. +This year the first Russian Vegetarian Congress has +been held. It seems to have been a very successful +gathering. “Seldom,” writes one who was present, +“have I experienced such a strong impression as was +made upon me by this first vegetarian congress in +Moscow.” Unity seems to have been the prevailing +note. Papers were read on the general significance and +the various aspects of vegetarianism, followed by discussions. +Amongst the various excursions undertaken +was a pilgrimage to Yasnaya Polyana, including a visit +to Tolstoy's grave.</p> + +<p>A Vegetarian Exhibition has also been held in +Moscow. It included a fine show of fruits and vegetables, +exhibits of various substitutes for leather, soaps +made of vegetable oils, an abundance of Russian and +foreign vegetarian literature of all sorts, from the +noblest reaches of theory to the most invaluable details +of practice. The next Congress is arranged for Easter +1914, at Kiev.</p> + + +<h4><i>A Hopeful Sign.</i></h4> + +<p>Fifteen years ago the Berlin municipal authorities +stoutly refused Professor Baron's offer to found an +orphanage which should be conducted on vegetarian +principles. At the present moment it is being arranged +that all school children shall be taught the value of +vegetables and leguminous preparations and the wholesomeness +of a diet that is relatively non-stimulating +and practically meatless.</p> + +<p class="sig">D.M. Richardson.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg561" id="Pg561"></a><a name="THE_CURTAINED_DOORWAYS" id="THE_CURTAINED_DOORWAYS"></a>THE CURTAINED DOORWAYS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapi"><span class="dropcap">I</span></span>n George Macdonald's <i>Phantastes: a Faery +Romance for Men and Women</i> it is told +how a man found himself in the midst of a +great circular hall built entirely of black +marble. On every side and at regular +intervals there were archways, all heavily +curtained. Hearing a faint sound of music proceeding +from one of these hidden doorways he went towards it +and, drawing aside the hangings, found a large room +crowded with statuary, but no sign of an living +creature. Yet he was certain the music had proceeded +from that particular archway. Greatly puzzled, he let +the curtain fall and stepped back a few paces. At once +the music continued. Stepping stealthily and quickly to +the curtain, he again lifted it, and received a vivid +impression of a crowd of dancing forms suddenly +arrested: something told him beyond dispute that at +the moment he had drawn the hangings aside what +were now lovely but motionless statues had sprung +each to its pedestal out of the mazes of an intricate +dance. Sound and movement had been frozen, in a +flash of time, into a crowd of beautiful forms—in stone. +No statue but seemed to tremble into immobility as the +intruder's gaze turned this way and that no marble +face but seemed to be aglow with the music that had +died with his entry; no white limb but seemed to be +tremulous with the rhythm of the dance that had +ceased so suddenly.</p> + +<p>If the subtlety and imaginative truth of this story +should lead you to read the whole book, I shall have +had the privilege of introducing you to what is surely +one of the finest and most delicately wrought fantasies +in the English language, a fantasy so permeated with +beauty and truth that you will neither wish nor need +to look for the “moral”.</p> + +<p>But whether you read <i>Phantastes</i> or not, I may +be allowed to suggest that the incident I have at<a class="pagenum" name="Pg562" id="Pg562"></a>tempted +to describe conveys one of the secrets of +healthy living.</p> + +<p>It is a trite saying, that health is harmony. But I +plead for a much wider and fuller interpretation of +harmony than is customary. <i>Mens sana in corpore +sano</i>—a sane mind in a healthy body—does not fill all +the requirements of a healthy life. It is but an excellent +theme, wanting orchestration.</p> + +<p>It is good to aim at a harmonious working of one's +internal arrangements if one has had the misfortune +or the folly to break that harmony. The physical +basis of life must be attended to if we would be well. +Only, you cannot stop there without imperilling the +whole scheme.</p> + +<p>Again, it is good to train the body by means of +exercise, play, singing and handicraft; all these things +react both upwards and downwards, outwards and +inwards. For example, one of the special virtues of +tennis, if it be played at all keenly, is the necessity for +making one's feet (those neglected members!) quick +and responsive to the messages of eye and brain. In +an increasingly sedentary age the rapidly growing +popularity of tennis is, for this one reason alone, a +good omen. But if you play tennis, or any other +healthy outdoor sport, or learn how to sing, or how to +breathe, or if you do Müller's exercises daily, for the +sole purpose of benefiting your liver or developing +your muscles, or of “keeping fit,” you will miss the +real prize.</p> + +<p>It is good, also, to train the mind to be logical, +critical and balanced: it is good to cultivate a retentive +memory and to store up useful facts. But if while you +are aiming at intellectual fitness and alertness you +allow these good things to obscure other and better +things, if, in short, you let means become ends, you +will never be healthy, because you will miss half the +joys of living.</p> + +<p>There are many very skilful performers on musical +instruments. They have set themselves, or their +parents have set them, to gain certain prizes, distinc<a class="pagenum" name="Pg563" id="Pg563"></a>tions +or qualifications. No music is now too difficult +for them to execute. But that is exactly what they do—they +execute it: destroy its head and heart by sheer +mechanical perfection. They have mastered the piano, +or the organ, or the violin, or their own voice; but +music eludes them.</p> + +<p>You see why I began with that tale of the curtained +doors, the mysterious music, and the quivering statuary. +There is an elusive, haunting quality about life and +all living things which, if we look for it and listen to +it, imparts a glamour, a rhythm, a beauty to everything +that is worth doing. The great danger is that +in the pressure of work, the hurry of play, the pursuit +of health, or the training of the mind we miss the very +thing which can give meaning and value to all these +things. The severely matter-of-fact people don't +go near the curtained doors, and if they did, would +discover only a lot of cold, lifeless statues. Whoever +heard of statues dancing? Whoever heard of music +without instruments? And yet this very sense of a +lyrical movement imperfectly seen, and of a temporarily +frozen music, is not only the very secret of all art: it +is a slender guiding clue to the centre of everything....</p> + +<p>And in the house of every man, and of every woman, +are the curtained doorways.</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT4" id="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT4"></a>HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT?</h2> + + +<p><i>This discussion arose out of the <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">article</a> with above +title, by “M.D.,” which was published in our <a href="#Pg437">July +number</a>.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="center">III</h3> + +<p><span class="dropcapi"><span class="dropcap">I</span></span> lift my hat to M.D. and trust that, as +I don't know him, the somewhat jarring +difference that I have with his views will +not be put down to personal feeling. A.A. +Voysey has put my first objection quite well +from the layman's point of view. He says +“there is no agreement between those who have been +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg564" id="Pg564"></a>taught physiology.” This is true. Playfair's full diet +is different from Voit's. Voit's is different from +Atwater's. Atwater's is different from Chittenden's.</p> + +<p>The custom of reducing the diets to calories, inasmuch +as it introduces a false theory, has had a disastrous +effect on progress, and has been a great hindrance to +the attainment of knowledge. If the coal in the fireplace +<i>were</i> the cause of the heat of the fire (but is it?), +there is no analogy between the elevation of the heat by +hundreds and even thousands of degrees when the fire +is lighted, and the elevation of half-a-degree or a degree +which occurs when food is taken into the body, especially +when we remember that a similar elevation of temperature +occurs when work is performed by means of the +body without eating or drinking at all.</p> + +<p>It is quite evident to every clear seer, or it ought to +be, that the force of animal life or zoo-dynamic is the +cause of the heat of the body, just as the electric force +is the cause of the liberation of heat through the battery, +and the chemic force is the cause of the heat of the +fire, and that zoo-dynamic and electro-dynamic and +chemico-dynamic are forms or species or varieties of +the one omnipotent and eternal energy by which all +things in this universe consist. The aggregate of all +the particular forces makes up the eternal energy which +is one. They are all species of the one, but it is convenient +and even necessary for our limited intellects to +consider them separately, for the indefinite number of +the facts and also their intricacy and complexity stagger +and overwhelm us unless we do; and indeed they stagger +us even when we try to treat them and take them up +separately for consideration and examination. But now +for the proof of A.A. Voysey's statement.</p> + +<p>Ranke found he required 100 grammes proteid; fat +100 grammes; carbo-hydrate 240 grammes to keep him +going. These he could have got from 9 oz. of lean +meat or 250 grammes, 18 oz. of bread or 500 grammes, +12 oz. or 55 grammes of butter and 1 oz of fat (I do not, +of course, suggest that it would have been wise for him +to get them so). Moleschott's demands are: proteid +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg565" id="Pg565"></a>120 grammes, fat 90 grammes, carbo-hydrate 333 +grammes. Voit demands for hard work: proteid 145 +grammes, fat 100 grammes, carbo-hydrate 450 grammes. +Atwater demands for hard work the following:—proteid +177 grammes, fat 250 grammes, carbo-hydrate 650 +grammes. Horace Fletcher, we are told by Professor +Chittenden, took for a time, when everything was +accurately measured and weighed: proteid 44.9 +grammes, fat 38 grammes, carbo-hydrate 253 grammes. +Cornaro lived on 12 oz. of solid food and 14 oz. of red +wine a day for a period of something like 60 years, +from 38 years of age to about 97, and had vigorous +health during the time except when he transgressed +his rule. Of course, he was not a hard physical worker—<i>i.e.</i> +he did not do the work of a navvy. But how, +in view of these differences, can M.D. say: “These +quantities were settled by physiologists many years ago, +and no good reasons have since been adduced for +altering them”? It is amazing to me to read such a +statement. It reminds me of a statement by a distinguished +physician in London during last year to the +effect that we could not give a growing schoolboy too +much food—we could not over-feed him. My opinion, +on the other hand, after a long experience, during which +time my eyes have not been shut, is that the large +majority of the diseases of humanity are due to mal-nutrition +and that the form of that mal-nutrition is +over-feeding—not under-feeding. This opinion should +be taken for what it is worth. But to test it we should +ask ourselves: What is the reason for the necessity to +take food into the body? Is it to give strength and +heat to the body? Or is it to restore the waste of the +body sustained by the action on it of the force of life or +zoo-dynamic which inhabits it? The demands for food +will vary and vary much according to the way in which +we answer this question. As you allowed me to discuss +this question in <i>Healthy Life</i> in July and August of last +year I must not take up your space by discussing it +again. But the answer we give determines the amounts +of food that we require to take, since, obviously, if the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg566" id="Pg566"></a>strength and heat of the body depend upon the food, +the more food we take the more strength and heat shall +we have; while, if the function of food in the adult or +grown body is only to restore the waste of the body, the +question is how much is the waste. There are various +ways in which this question can be answered and I +cannot go into them now; but I say, in my opinion, the +waste is very much less than is commonly supposed. +The body, I take it, is made by zoo-dynamic or the +life-force to be a fit habitation for itself. The body +must waste when the life-force acts through it, and that +waste must be restored by food and sleep, or the body +will die; since things (the body) cannot act as the +medium of conveying forces (zoo-dynamic or the life-force) +without wasting under their action. But so beautifully +has the body been made by zoo-dynamic that it +wastes very little, much less than is commonly supposed, +by the action of zoo-dynamic through it. Not seeing +this, we ingest into the body far more than is required +to restore its waste, and so we fall ill, for, obviously, +if we ingest more than the quantity necessary for this +purpose we choke the body up and render it inefficient +for its purpose as an instrument for work.</p> + +<p>Now this is precisely what seems to me to happen +in life. As we are all under the double delusion that the +strength of the body and its heat come from the food, +we all with one accord put far too much food into the +body, and when we find that we die, all of us, generation +after generation, at from 50 to 70 years of age, we make +up little proverbs to justify our unphysiological conduct +and say that three score years and ten are the measure +of the duration of life. M.D. says that “some twenty +years ago most people lived fairly close to the old +physiological quantities” (but what are these? for we +have seen how they vary), “now they have been cut +adrift from these and are floundering out of their +depth.” May I remind M.D. that people are now living +longer than they did twenty years ago. How does he +account for that? No doubt some of the increase in +the length of life is due to the diminution of the birth +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg567" id="Pg567"></a>rate, but still I suppose M.D. would admit that there +is an increase in the duration of life over and above +what can be accounted for in this way. If so, how +does he account for it?</p> + +<p>M.D. says, further: “For the public it will now +probably suffice if they insist on raising (or considering, +A.R.) the question of quantity” (of +food, A.R.) “wherever they suffer in any way.” +I agree with all my heart. But M.D. implies, if I +read him aright, that the public should increase +the quantity of their food when they suffer in any +way. I, on the other hand, and rather unhappily for +myself, am convinced that the raising of this question +implies that it should be answered in the exact opposite +way to that of M.D. and that we should diminish our +food if we “suffer in any way.” And I can point to +Nature's own plan as a corroboration of the truth of +my view, for her plan when we suffer in any way is to +fling us into bed and take away our appetite, or at least +to diminish our appetite if we are not so ill as to require +to remain in bed.</p> + +<p>The whole question of medical practice depends on +the answer we give to this question, and therefore one +might go on indefinitely with its discussion. Neither +the Editors' space and patience nor my time allow of +this; but I should like to ask M.D., with all respect, if +he remembers what Dr King Chambers said of the starvation +that comes of over-repletion? Dr King +Chambers occupied one of the most prominent places +as a consultant in London (very probably, I suppose) +when M.D. was a very young man. My late lamented +friend, Dr Dewey of Meadville, Pennsylvania, used +the phrase “starvation from over-feeding,” not +knowing that Dr King Chambers had used practically +the same expression before him. That I made the +same discovery myself, and independently, is not, I +take it, a sign of acuteness of intellect or of observation. +The amazing thing is that every practitioner is not +compelled to make the same discovery. But if it is a +true discovery, then it follows that all the signs of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg568" id="Pg568"></a>lowered vitality referred to by M.D., while they <i>may</i> be +caused by under-feeding, may also be caused by over-feeding +and may therefore require for proper treatment, +not increase of the diet, but diminution of it. A low +temperature, therefore, a slow pulse, languor, pallor, +inanition, fatigue, good-for-nothingness, inefficiency, +anorexia, anæmia, neurasthenia, etc., etc., may all be +due to blocking of the body with too much food as well +as to supplying it with too little. Fires may be put out +by heaping up too much coal on them. To make them +burn briskly we ought to push the poker in and gently +lift the coal so as to admit of the entrance of air. Then +in a while our fire will become brisk and bright. And +so it may be in the body. Nay, my opinion is that +almost always these marks of depression are caused by +blocking up of the body and that therefore the proper +treatment is, as a rule, not increase but diminution of +the diet. The place in the body in which the blocking +first occurs is the connective tissues or the tissues that +connect every part with every other. It is here that +the lymph is secreted, and as the lymph joins the +thoracic duct which conveys the products of digestion +to the blood, it is obvious that lymph-secretion is a +complementary digestive process and it is also obvious +how blocking up of the connective tissues, which is the +immediate cause of anorexia and inanition, usually +comes to exist in the body.</p> + +<p>M.D. talks of “natural food.” He seems to be a +vegetarian? Good. But is not the question of how +much food we ought to eat equally urgent whether we +are vegetarian or omnivorous? I think it is. I do not +think that the chief cause of our illnesses to-day is +taking wrong or unsuitable food. In my opinion we +are ill mainly because we take suitable food too often +and because we take too much of it. My answer to the +question, therefore—“How Much Should We Eat?—A +Warning”—turns on the previous question: +What is the Function performed by Food in +the Body? As I think that this function in +the grown body is only to restore the waste, the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg569" id="Pg569"></a>warning in my mind is far rather that we should take +less than that we should (as M.D. advises us) take +more. I agree with him in the view that “chronic +starvation is insidious.” But, as I believe that “chronic +starvation” is usually a form of Dr King Chambers's +“starvation from over-repletion” and of Dr Dewey's +“starvation from over-feeding,” I am bound to be of +the consequent opinion that it is to be met, not by +increase, but by diminution of the diet. This is one of +my reasons for thinking that none of us ought ever to +eat oftener than twice a day, under fifty years of age, +and that after that we would do well to eat once a day +only. I feel sure that if we altered our habits in these +ways, we should add very much both to the duration +and to the efficiency of life. This is not a question of +dietetics only. The issue is of the most practical character. +What an addition of five or ten or fifteen or twenty or +twenty-five years to the average duration of life might +mean to this people and still more to the people of the +whole globe is unpredictable by mortal man. But it is +evident that it would be of the very greatest import to +humanity. This is the great issue of the discussion +of this subject. It seems to me that illness might be +enormously diminished and health and efficiency and +happiness immensely increased. But I think that these +boons might be obtained, not by indulging the body +and its appetites, but only by the exercise of a wise +restraint and government over it. It is at least very +much to be desired that more agreement might be +manifested in the opinions and practice of qualified +physiologists so that the public might have clear guidance, +and not as at present, be advised in ways so +conflicting that they do not know what or whom to +believe.</p> + +<p class="sig">A. Rabagliati, M.D.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<h4><i>To Tourists:</i></h4> + +<p>Every little village has a little shop where you can +buy nasty little sweets.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg570" id="Pg570"></a><a name="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS2" id="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS2"></a>PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p>He was a native of Liverpool, but had liver for many years in +the Isle of Wight—<i>Edmonton</i> (Canada) <i>Journal</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Funny he didn't go to Poole and leave his liver +behind him.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p> +REAL FLESH FOOD FOUND AT LAST.<br /> +—From an advt. in daily papers.<br /> +</p> + +<p>Evidently we have all been vegetarians and knew it +not.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Nothing can replace salt.—From an advt. in <i>Punch</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Many food reformers advantageously replace salt +with nothing.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>The golf craze has been greater this autumn than in any +previous year. Nobody is quite safe from the fever. It seizes +those who mocked at it, and pays no respect to sex or age.—<i>British +Weekly</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>By the time the next Medical Congress comes round +it is expected that at least three distinguished bacteriologists +will have discovered the golf-fever microbe. +They will probably agree to call it <i>Mashilococcus +Caddes</i>.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Between lunch and dinner take another tumbler of water cold. +Take a glass of cold water half-an-hour after lunch, half-an-hour +after tea, half-an-hour after dinner, and before going to bed at +night. Never drink between meals.—<i>Woman's Life</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>All other methods failing, try putting your watch +half-an-hour on after each meal.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>I once got a circular from a man who grew potatoes containing +his photograph, and, I think, an autobiography.—<i>Musical +Standard</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Not nearly so convenient as one of those automatic +egg-stamping hens.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p><i>Stop-Press News.</i></p> + +<p>A “pocket clipper” has been invented (according to a certain +catalogue) which can be used for the beard or hair at back of +neck.</p></blockquote> + +<p>But surely people who can do anything so clever as +grow a beard on the back of the neck ought not to be +tempted to clip it off.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg571" id="Pg571"></a><a name="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES2" id="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES2"></a>HEALTHY LIFE RECIPES.</h2> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">More Egg Dishes.</span></h3> + +<p><span class="firstletter">I</span>n our issue of May 1912 we published a number of +special recipes for eggs. These were much appreciated. +And even now this and other back numbers +are asked for. We now give some further recipes.</p> + +<p>It should be remembered that eggs are a simple +form of animal food and much purer than meat. +They are also easily digested by most people. They +therefore form a very useful substitute for flesh-foods, +especially where the latter have only recently been +discarded.</p> + +<p>The normal progress towards a more or less ideal +diet involves, of course, the elimination of eggs as well +as of other dairy products. But wise food reform +proceeds always by steps.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Savoury Baked Eggs.</span></h3> + +<p>Melt a little butter, or vegetable fat, in an open +earthenware baking dish; break into this as many eggs +as required. Cover thinly with grated cheese; add a +knob of butter and bake till set. The dish can be +placed direct on the table.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Egg on Tomato.</span><a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></h3> + +<blockquote><p>One egg, two medium-sized tomatoes, butter.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Skin the tomatoes; cut in halves and put them, with +a small piece of butter, into a small stewpan. Close +lightly, and cook slowly until reduced to a pulp. Break +the egg into a cup, and slide it gently on to the +tomato. Replace the pan lid and the egg will poach in +the steam rising from the tomato.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13">[13]</a> This recipe is from <i>The Healthy Life Cook Book</i>, a new and +revised edition of which is in contemplation.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Savoury Egg Fritters.</span></h3> + +<blockquote><p>Six eggs, two large tomatoes, half-teaspoon mixed dried herbs, +about three tablespoons ground biscuits (“Ixion” or any of the +unsweetened “P.R.” kinds).</p></blockquote> + +<p>Hard boil three of the eggs and chop them finely. +Skin the tomatoes, mash them and add to the chopped +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg572" id="Pg572"></a>eggs with the remaining eggs (well beaten), herbs and +biscuit powder. Should the mixture be too moist to +mould add more biscuit powder; if too dry add a little +water. Cut and shape into finger shapes and either +fry in olive oil or bake on buttered tin or open earthenware +baking dish. (The last-mentioned is the best +method, as the baking dish can be brought to the +table as it is, and there is only one dish instead of two +to wash up afterwards.)</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Savoury Egg Patties.</span></h3> + +<p>The above Egg Fritter mixture made rather moist +may be used as a filling for savoury patties.</p> + +<p>Make for these a short crust with ½ lb. of Artox meal, +3 oz. of Nutter and water. Slightly bake the shells of +pastry (made thin) before adding the filling, and finish +to a golden brown.</p> + +<p>Serve these and the fritters with either brown gravy +or white sauce.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Sweet Egg Soufflé.</span></h3> + +<blockquote><p>Five eggs, ¾ lb. soft cane sugar, 1 oz. ground rice, 2 oz. of +butter, rind of half a lemon.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs. Beat up +the yolks and sift in the ground rice, sugar and grated +rind of the lemon. To this batter add the well-whisked +whites. Well heat the butter in a frying pan, turn in +the batter and fry over gentle heat till set. Fold over +the edges and place on well-greased flat dish and bake +for barely a quarter of an hour. Sift over some soft +cane sugar and serve very hot.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Snow Eggs.</span></h3> + +<blockquote><p>Three eggs, one and a quarter pints of milk, a teaspoon of +soft cane sugar, vanilla flavouring.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs +and whisk the whites to a very stiff froth +with the sugar. Put the milk into a saucepan and +when it boils drop in whites of eggs in small pieces +shaped between two dessert spoons. Only a little should +be cooked at a time in this way, and each should be +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg573" id="Pg573"></a>allowed to poach for two minutes, and when done +should be taken out with a slice and put on a sieve to +drain. When all the whites are used in this way, strain +the milk and add it to the well-beaten yolks. Pour into +a double saucepan and stir over the fire till the custard +thickens; flavour with vanilla to taste.</p> + +<p>When <i>cold</i> pour into a dish and lay the snow eggs +on top.</p> + +<p>(Kindly supplied by Mrs Edith Wilkinson.)</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Egg-raised Cherry Cake.</span></h3> + +<blockquote><p>9 oz. good “standard” flour, 5 oz. Nutter (or other nut fat), +5 oz. cane castor sugar, 2 oz. preserved cherries (glacé), 2 oz. +well-washed sultanas, 2 oz. ground almonds, four eggs, outer rind of +lemon (grated).</p></blockquote> + +<p>Beat Nutter and sugar to a cream; add eggs one by +one, beating all the time; have ready the flour, with the +fruit, grated lemon rind and ground almonds mixed in, +and add gradually to the above mixture, beating all the +time, and until of even consistency throughout. Line +a cake tin with double thickness of buttered paper, pour +in the mixture and bake in moderate oven about one and +a half hours.</p> + +<p><i>Any housewife who doubts the possibility of making +light and dainty cakes without the now customary +baking powder and baking soda, etc., should try the +above recipe. No one could wish for a more excellent +cake.</i></p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Note On Casseroles.</span></h3> + +<p>Now that casserole cookery (<i>i.e.</i> cooking in earthenware +dishes, both open and covered) is becoming more +widely known and practised, readers will be glad to +know that many housewives believe in boiling new +earthenware before using it, as this effectually toughens +and hardens it. This is particularly efficacious in the +case of ordinary brown kitchenware, the articles being +placed in a large pan of cold water which is then +brought slowly to the boil. After being allowed to boil +for ten minutes remove the pan and allow the water to +cool before taking out the ware.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg574" id="Pg574"></a><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES4" id="HEALTH_QUERIES4"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading our contributor, Dr Valentine +Knaggs, deals briefly month by month, and according +as space permits, with questions of general interest to +health seekers and others.</i></p> + +<p><i>In all Queries relating to health difficulties it is +essential that full details of the correspondent's +customary diet should be clearly given.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +<span class="u">one side only of the paper</span>, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped +addressed envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Perspiration" id="Perspiration"></a>EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Miss R.E.N. writes.—I am troubled with excessive perspiration. +I neither eat meat nor drink tea. I have a cold sponge bath +down to my waist every morning, and I change all my clothes +when I go to bed. My diet is, roughly, as follows:</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—Oatmeal porridge with toast or bread and jam or +golden syrup. Hot water.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Peas, beans or lentils, eggs, cheese. Vegetables: +potatoes and onions, or carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, turnips. +Puddings, fruit or milk wholemeal bread, not much sugar +except for sweetening fruits, etc.</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal.</i>—Wholemeal bread and butter, nuts, jam, cake, +pastry; hot water.</p> + +<p><i>At bedtime.</i>—Hot water or coffee.</p></blockquote> + +<p>If our correspondent wishes to remedy this excessive +perspiration she must get a hot towel-bath daily (all +over),<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> wearing porous linen-mesh underclothing next +the skin. She should also discontinue the soft sugary +and starchy foods, and not mix fruit with other foods +(it is best taken by itself, say, for breakfast). She needs +more of the cooling salad vegetables. The following +diet would be a great improvement:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Half-pint of hot boiled water, sipped +slowly.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—Wholemeal bread or biscuits and butter +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg575" id="Pg575"></a>(all made without salt), with salad or grated raw roots. +Stop porridge, jam and golden syrup. Avoid drinking +at meals.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Two eggs, or 2 oz. of curd cheese. Two +vegetables cooked in casserole without salt; wholemeal +bread or biscuits and butter; a few figs, prunes, dried +bananas, or raisins, washed but not cooked. Avoid +milk puddings or stewed fruits as too fermentative and +heating.</p> + +<p><i>Supper meal.</i>—1 to 2 oz. flaked nuts, some crisp +“P.R.” or “Ixion” biscuits with nut butter. Some +fresh salad or grated roots. Stop jam, cake and +pastry.</p> + +<p><i>At bedtime.</i>—Half-pint of hot boiled water, or clear +vegetable soup, sipped slowly.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14">[14]</a> The Sanum Oxygen Baths are also excellent in a case of this +kind.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Ulcerated" id="Ulcerated"></a>DIET FOR ULCERATED THROAT.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs L.B. writes.—Do you think it would be wise for a person +suffering from ulcers in the throat and on other mucous membranes +to adopt a diet devoid of meat, yeast and salt?</p></blockquote> + +<p>It would certainly be wise to discard meat and salt +in a case of this kind, but yeast is sometimes useful +taken as “unflavoured Marmite.” The chief cause +of ulcers is the abuse of the soft cereal and sugary +foods. In a case of this sort I should advise a diet +consisting exclusively of well-dextrinised cereals—<i>e.g.</i> +Granose, Melarvi, etc.—with plenty of grated raw roots +and finely chopped salads and tomatoes. This can be +combined with curd cheese, raw or lightly cooked eggs, +flaked nuts or Brusson Jeune bread as the proteid part +of the diet.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Farming" id="Farming"></a>FARMING AND SCIATICA.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs A.C.B. writes.—For two months my husband, who leads an +active open-air life, has had severe pain all down the back of his +left leg. It is like neuralgia, and comes on worse when sitting. +He has been a farmer all his life, but is anything but strong and +constantly taking cold. Are these pains likely to be due to wrong +food?</p></blockquote> + +<p>This pain is evidence of sciatica. Chills alone will +not produce sciatica, which has its real cause in the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg576" id="Pg576"></a>system being choked up with acids and toxins of various +kinds. In such a case as this, warm water enemas +should be taken freely to clear the colon well; sugar, +milk and all starchy mushy foods should be strictly +avoided; vegetables should be taken either as baked +roots or as fresh salads; eggs and cheese should be +substituted for meat; and plenty of fresh butter should +be taken. Boiled water, <i>between meals</i>, will be good, +but nothing should be given to drink with food. Salt, +pickles, and greasy or highly flavoured foods should be +avoided.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Brights" id="Brights"></a>TEMPORARY “BRIGHT'S DISEASE” AND HOW +TO DEAL WITH IT.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Miss E. would like to know what kind of diet is suitable for one +who has been suffering from Bright's Disease following a serious +illness. Why should meat have any bad effect upon the kidneys? +She does not take it, although her medical man advises the use of +it at once.</p></blockquote> + +<p>It is not an uncommon thing for people who have +suffered from an acute septic fever to find albumen +temporarily present in the urine. This is due to the +irritant action of the toxins and other poisons (which +the fever is the means of ejecting) upon the structure of +the kidneys. The kidneys are filters and they remove +the bulk of the soluble waste of the body.</p> + +<p>The practitioner frequently finds albumenuria in cases +of scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., and the +object of his treatment is to prevent this condition of +kidney irritation from becoming an established disease +(Bright's disease).</p> + +<p>Flesh foods, and especially meat extracts and meat +soups, are the worst possible wherewith to feed these +fever cases, because they throw so much extra work +upon the kidneys. Meat is composed mainly of proteids. +It also contains the urinary wastes and the toxins (due +to fear) which were in the animal's body and on the +way to elimination when it was killed.</p> + +<p>This sufferer should take one meal per day consisting +of fresh fruit only; the rest of the diet should consist +of salad vegetables and finely grated raw roots, home-<a class="pagenum" name="Pg577" id="Pg577"></a>made +curd cheese, dextrinised cereals (such as Melarvi +biscuits, Shredded Wheat, “P.R.” crackers, Granose +biscuits, Grape-Nuts, twice-baked standard bread, etc.) +and fresh or nut butter.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Phosphorus" id="Phosphorus"></a>PHOSPHORUS AND THE NERVES.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>W.H.H. writes:—I should be very grateful if Dr Knaggs could +help me with any information or hints regarding phosphaturia. +I suffer much from this troublesome complaint.</p></blockquote> + +<p>We have to remember that the nervous system is two-fold. +The one, or conscious portion, consists of the +brain and spinal cord, from which all the nerves or +branches travel to all parts of the body and give us +dominion over them. The other, or subconscious, called +the sympathetic nervous system, lies on either side of +the front of the spine as two long chains with centres, +or ganglia, at intervals. This second system is not +within our control and has to do with the regulation of +our vegetative functions, including the bulk of the +digestive process.</p> + +<p>All nerves, whether they come from the brain or from +the sympathetic system, ranging to their smallest terminals, +are built alike of cells, and these cells secrete +a complex <i>fatty</i> substance, called <i>lecithin</i>, whose +dominant element is phosphorus. This phosphorus has +to be supplied to the body with food, and as food, and +it cannot be properly utilised or assimilated by the body +or used by the nerves to build up their <i>lecithin</i> unless +it is eaten in the form of organic compounds.</p> + +<p>The tissues of the body are continually dying, as a +result of work done, and are continually being replaced +by fresh young tissues as needed. It is the function +of the nerves to manage this work for us as well as to +similarly arrange for reproduction.</p> + +<p>In order to control the functions of the various organs +and tissues and to regulate the rate at which they +reproduce themselves, the nerves extend their terminal +branches, not only into every tissue, but into every +microscopical unit of such tissue, and the part of the +cell which represents the nerve terminal is the inner +structure called the nucleus.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg578" id="Pg578"></a>Now it will be obvious that the more the two nervous +systems are worked the greater will be their depletion +of <i>lecithin</i> and the more need there will be for fresh +supplies of phosphorus in the daily food rations.</p> + +<p>The person who works hard, whether it be manual +labour or brain work, needs food and rest at intervals +in order that the nerves may recuperate and replenish +their stocks of <i>lecithin</i>.</p> + +<p>A goodly proportion of uncooked foods rich in phosphorus +must be supplied to make good the wear and +tear, and the digestion must equally be efficient if these +food-stuffs are to become assimilated.</p> + +<p>Cooking of food to a large extent breaks down the +organic phosphorus salts and makes them inorganic. +In this state they are of but little use to the body. Poor +digestion associated with putrefactive fermentation +equally converts the organic salts into inorganic ones. +These pass into the blood and are promptly eliminated +by the kidneys as waste (<i>phosphaturia</i>) and thus they +never reach the nerves at all.</p> + +<p>We must remember that phosphorus is usually found +in natural foods bound up with the proteid and especially +with that proteid which has to do with the reproduction +of the species. For this reason man instinctively resorts +to the use of egg-yolks, and to the various seeds (such +as nuts, wheat, barley, etc.) because of their rich phosphorus +content.</p> + +<p>These proteid-bound phosphorus salts can only be +properly utilised when the hydrochloric acid of the +stomach juice is well formed, for it converts them into +acid salts which are readily absorbed. Therefore to +ensure free absorption we must always remember to +give the phosphorus-containing foods with such meals +as will cause free secretion of the gastric acid.</p> + +<p>When fermentation is active and the stomach juices +are weakened the germs of the intestines rapidly break +up the phosphorus constituents of the proteids and make +them inorganic. Therefore the first thing to do when a +person is found to be suffering from <i>phosphaturia</i> is to +stop the intestinal fermentation by a right diet, clear +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg579" id="Pg579"></a>the bowels of their accumulated waste poisons and give +the nerves plenty of rest. Another consideration to bear +in mind is that the nerves need fat wherewith to build +up the <i>lecithin</i>. An excessive fermentative sourness of +the stomach makes the food so acid when sent into the +bowels that the bile, pancreatic and other intestinal +juices cannot neutralise them, and so the fats themselves +are not emulsified and digested, which fully accounts for +the mental depression and debility of which these +patients complain.</p> + +<p>People who are suffering from “nerves” in any form +need plenty of pure fat (fresh dairy butter, cream, nut +butter, fruit-oils, etc.) and an abundance of natural +fresh vegetable products at once rich in phosphorus and +iron and in organic alkaline acid-neutralising earthy +salts. These arrest fermentation and so enable the +phosphorus and the fat to become duly assimilated.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Bananas" id="Bananas"></a>CANARY <i>VERSUS</i> JAMAICA BANANAS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>R.B., Lincoln, would like to know if there is very much +difference, as regards food value, between the Jamaica and Canary +banana. “I have heard it said that the Jamaica is only fit for +the dust-heap. Well, I cannot very easily think it is so useless, +and at the same time I have an idea that the Canary is the +better of the two. I should be very pleased to know if you think +there is much difference between them.”</p></blockquote> + +<p>The difference between Jamaica and Canary bananas +is due to the length of time necessary for them to reach +us from their place of growth. It takes, I believe, nearly +twice as long for a ship to travel from Jamaica as from +the Canary Islands. Hence the fruit imported from the +latter place can be picked in a much riper condition +than would be the case with the Jamaica article. This +probably accounts for the better quality and flavour of +the Canary banana. Besides this the climate may have +some determining influence. To say that the Jamaica +bananas should be discarded because they are of a less +satisfactory food value or because their flavour is less +developed is uncalled for. The disparity in price is also +very marked, so that the poor can readily procure the +Jamaica banana where they would not be in a position +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg580" id="Pg580"></a>to afford the better class of fruit coming from the +Canaries. I have discussed this subject in p.34 of my +book, <i>The Truth about Sugar</i>.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CORRESPONDENCE3" id="CORRESPONDENCE3"></a>CORRESPONDENCE.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Leytonstone</span></p> + +<p><i>To the Editors.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sirs,</span></p> + +<p>Enclosed please find P.O. for a copy of <i>The +Healthy Life</i> to be sent to Carnegie Public Library, close +to Midland Station, Leytonstone, also to The Alexandra +Holiday Home, Y.W.C.A., Alexandra Road, Southend-on-Sea. +At the latter home there are something like +500 to 600 visitors every year, many of whom are semi-invalids. +No doubt the magazine will be scorned by +many, yet I am quite certain that there are others +amongst the number there who will gladly welcome +the truths it teaches, and if only one or two are helped +to live a more healthy and therefore more happy life, +it will be quite worth while. Please do not mention my +name in either case. Yours, etc., X.</p></blockquote> + +<p>There is every reason why <i>The Healthy Life</i> should +be known and read in every public library in the United +Kingdom. In this we are entirely dependent upon those +readers who are ready to follow the excellent example +of the above correspondent. A year's subscription—2s.—is +a very small price to pay for bringing the message +of this magazine before the public in this way. We +should like to hear from readers in all parts.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>Back Numbers</h3> + +<p>If readers who possess copies of the first number +of <i>The Healthy Life</i> (August 1911) will send them +to the Editors, they will receive, in exchange, +booklets to the value of threepence for each copy.</p><hr /> +</div> + + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg581" id="Pg581"></a></p> +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 28</span> +<span class="coverright">November<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard.</span></p></blockquote> + +</div> + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION28" id="AN_INDICATION28"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapi"><span class="dropcap">I</span></span>t was the slave-woman who laid her +child under a bush that she might spare +herself the pain of seeing it die!</p> + +<p>One of the commonest sources of +mental and moral confusion is to mistake +the egotistic shrinking from the sight of suffering +with the altruistic shrinking from causing it and +desire to relieve it.</p> + +<p>The so-called sensitive person is too often only +sensitive to his or her own pain and, therefore, finds +it difficult in the presence of another's suffering to +do what is needed to relieve it.</p> + +<p>The healer, the health-bringer, the truly sympathetic +person, does not even hesitate to inflict pain +when to do so means to restore health.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg582" id="Pg582"></a><a name="CASTLES_IN_THE_AIR" id="CASTLES_IN_THE_AIR"></a>CASTLES IN THE AIR.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p><i>Regular readers will recognise in this wonderfully simple and +suggestive article a continuation of the series previously entitled +“Healthy Brains.” The author of “The Children All Day Long” +is an intimate disciple of one of the greatest living psychologists, +and she has a message of the first importance to all who realise +that true health depends as much on poise of mind as on physical +fitness.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p></blockquote> + +<p><span class="dropcapo"><span class="dropcap">O</span></span>f all the occupations which imagination +gives us, surely none is more popular or +more delightful than the planning out of +future days. Pleasure and fame and +honour, work and rest, comfort and +adventure: all things take their turn in +our romances.</p> + +<p>Not all the castles are for ourselves alone. In +childhood it is our school, our club, our town that is +to be the centre of great events. The young man's +castle is a nest to which he hopes to bring a mate. +The mother sees the future coronet or laurel-wreath +round the soft hair of her baby's head. And we all +build castles for the world sometimes—at least for our +own country or our own race. Sometimes we knock +them down and rebuild again in rather different shape—Mr +Wells has taught us what a fascinating game it is.</p> + +<p>Sometimes, especially perhaps in little, unimportant +things, our imagination does centre chiefly around our +own activities. What we mean to do, what we might +do, what we would like to do: there must be something +else besides selfishness and waste of time in the constantly +recurring thoughts.</p> + +<p>Who does not know the charm of looking down the +theatre-list of the morning paper? One may be too +busy or two poor to go often to the play, but the very +suggestion of all the colour and interest is pleasant. +Who does not like looking over prospectuses of lectures +and classes at the beginning of the winter session? +“I <i>should</i> like to go to that course on Greek Art. +Oh, it is on Mondays, then that is no good. German, +elementary and conversation. How useful that would +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg583" id="Pg583"></a>be! Gymnasium and physical culture; how I wish I +had another evening in the week to spare!”</p> + +<p>Railway books, again, and guides and travel bills—how +delightful they are! It is easy to plan out tours +for one's holidays up to the age of 100. “Brittany; +oh yes, I must go there one day. And Norway, that +must really be my next trip.” The Rockies, the cities +of the East, coral islands of the Pacific—they all seem +to enrich our lives by the very thought of their possibilities.</p> + +<p>Again, who does not love a library catalogue? To +go through with a pencil, noting down the names of +books one wants to read is a form of castle-building by +no means to be despised.</p> + +<p>Some people get the same pleasure out of house-hunting; +they see an empty house and go and get the +key in order to see over it. The chances of their ever +living there are practically none, but the view gives a +stimulus to their inventive activity: they plan out how +they would furnish the rooms and fill the empty hearths +with dreams.</p> + +<p>Is not the same thing the explanation of shop-gazing? +The woman who has bought her winter coat +and hat does not as a rule refrain from looking any +more into shop windows till the spring; instead, she +clothes herself in imagination in all the beautiful stuffs +she sees displayed, and if some of the things demand +ballroom, racecourse, golf links or perhaps the Alps for +the background, why, so much the better, the suggestion +puts, as it were, a view from the windows of her +castle in the air.</p> + +<p>A garden—a dozen square yards or reckoned in +acres—is full of material for our imagination; indeed, a +seedsman's catalogue or a copy of “Amateur Gardening” +will often be enough to start us; long lines of +greenhouses will build themselves for us, or rockeries, +or wild glens with streams in them, and the world will +blossom round about us.</p> + +<p>Sometimes it is ambition that calls us, personal or +professional; we get beforehand the sweet taste of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg584" id="Pg584"></a>power upon the tongue. It may perhaps be sometimes +the rewards of work, riches and honour and so on, but +more often, I think, the dreams of youth circle round +the work itself. We will be of use in the world, we +will find new paths and make them safe for those +coming after us to walk in, we will get rid of that +evil and set up a ladder towards that good; we will +heal, teach, feed, amuse, uplift or cherish the other +human beings round about us. We will store only for +the sake of distributing; we will climb only to be better +able to give a helping hand.</p> + +<p>Well, there are some danger signals at cross-roads +of our dream-way, some precautions to be observed if +we would not let romance obscure and hinder us in +our search after reality. But none of these “castles” +are bad in themselves. <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'Is'.">In</ins> so far as they quicken our +attention power, deepen our thoughtfulness, make our +activities more elastic and keep us from carelessness +or sloth, they are surely all to the good as episodes in +our development.</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM2" id="THE_SCIENTIFIC_BASIS_OF_VEGETALISM2"></a>THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF +VEGETALISM.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p>This article, the earlier part of which appeared in the October +number, is from the French of Prof. H. Labbé, the head of the +<i>laboratoire à la Faculté de Médecine</i>, in Paris. It reflects a +characteristic aloofness to a any considerations other than scientific +or economic. But it will well repay careful study.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p></blockquote> + + +<h3 class="center">V</h3> + +<p><span class="dropcapt"><span class="dropcap">T</span></span>hough the consumption of vegetable +foods seems to offer a slight disadvantage +from the point of view of albuminoid +matters, this is not the case touching +hydro-carbonated matters and sugars. +The vegetable kingdom constitutes the +almost exclusive source of these alimentary principles. +One cannot indeed take much account +of the consumption of the .5-.6 per cent, of glycogen +which exists in the animal muscle partaken of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg585" id="Pg585"></a>under the shape of butcher's meat. There is hardly +enough in this for a large eater of between 200 and 250 +grammes of meat, to find in hydrocarbonated matters +the 1/300 or the 1/400 of the daily ration. Hydrocarbons +are necessarily borrowed from the vegetable +foods. This is also the case with sugars which do not +exist in the animal kingdom in appreciable quantities. +It is the same thing with alcohol which is obtained only +from the vegetable kingdom.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">VI</h3> + +<p>As to fatty matters, animal foods, like vegetable +products, are abundantly provided with them. Moreover, +from the point of view of digestibility and capability +of assimilating, one may say that there is a +quasi-absolute identity between animal and vegetable +fats. The reason which would induce us to prefer either +would not seem to be of a physiological nature. The +economics, which we shall see further on, take this upon +themselves, as the most serious reproach which can be +made against the use of animal dishes is doubtless their +dearness, and the reason which militates most in favour +of the predominance of a vegetable diet is to a certainty +its cheapness.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">VII</h3> + +<p>Such are, briefly expounded and refuted, the fundamental +objections which can be brought against the +vegetarian diet and the “vegetalian” customs. There +exists, in fact, no serious physiological or chemical +reason for not satisfying our needs solely with foods +of vegetable origin. It may be interesting to note that, +in reality, the most confirmed flesh eaters support their +energy-producing needs mainly with vegetable products. +In the mixed diet universally practised meat plays but +a small part.</p> + +<p>In meat the waste in preparation and consecutive +waste at table is considerable. To really introduce 200 +grammes of meat into the stomach, nearly 400 grammes +must be purchased, and expensively put into use. What +do these 200 grammes really bring in nutritive elements?</p> + +<table summary="Calculation of the fat and albumin content of a piece of meat."> +<caption style="text-align:left; font-variant:normal;"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg586" id="Pg586"></a>Meat.</caption> +<tr><td style="text-align:right;">200 gr. (mod. fat.) at 18%</td><td>albumin</td><td style="text-align:right;"> = 36 gr.</td><td> album., about.</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align:right;"><span style="margin:auto 2em auto 2em;">"</span><span style="margin:auto 3em auto 1em;">"</span>5% </td><td>fat </td><td style="text-align:right;"> = 10 gr.</td><td> fat, about.</td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td></td><td style="text-align:right; border-top:thin solid black;">46 gr.</td><td></td></tr> +</table> + +<p>These 46 grs. constitute barely the 8 per cent. of the +total weight of a ration, averaged in nutritive elements, +calculated as follows:—</p> + +<table summary="Table showing the albumin, fat, and carbohydrate content of a ration."> +<tr><td>Albumin </td><td style="text-align:right;">80</td></tr> +<tr><td>Fatty matters </td><td style="text-align:right;">70</td></tr> +<tr><td>Hydrates of carbon </td><td style="text-align:right;">350</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>This is a very feeble proportion.</p> + +<p>If one turns to the calorific point of view, in order to +estimate the share of energy useful to the organism, +we arrive at much the same conclusion. The 46 grs. of +nutritive animal elements barely provide 230 thermal +units which can be utilised, while the total diet which +we are considering brings a power of disposal of nearly +2,350 thermal units. It is, even then, barely 10 per +cent. of the total energy. The most convinced flesh +eaters, those who buy 400 grs. of meat a day for their +consumption, must learn, willingly or unwillingly, that +the animal element enters only in an infinitesimal part +into their real substance and reparation.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">VIII</h3> + +<p>Beyond this very feeble nutritive help is there, then, +in meat, anything else which makes the use of this +article of food necessary, agreeable or particularly +strengthening? It is incontestible that meat contains +stimulating substances, which, as Prof. Armand Gautier +has said, play the part of nerve tonics, and have perhaps +a direct action on the circulation.</p> + +<p>These special meat matters are found concentrated in +the gravy. Meat gravy, in fact, beside a feeble proportion +of albuminoid matters, or solubly derived +quantities, <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'polypetides'.">polypeptides</ins>, etc., in notable proportion of +liberated acids, contains a certain quantity of matters, +qualified by the generic name of extractives; a notable +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg587" id="Pg587"></a>quantity of these extractive matters being creatine and +creatinine, as well as substances of which the fundamental +nucleus is the puric grouping. These purins, +by the name which E. Fischer attributes to them, +derive from a special grouping which it would be supposed +exists in a hypothetic body, but which is not +known in a state of liberty, purin. This first term +gives rise to a series of bodies in lateral groups, of +which the most interesting are caffeine and theobromine. +Amongst these substances the one which has +the maximum of oxidation is no other than uric acid. +Caffeine and theobromine enjoy nervine properties and +energetic vascular actions. These properties minutely +studied are utilised every day for therapeutic purposes. +It is probable that the other bodies of the series which +are met with in the extract of meat enjoy analogous +physiological properties. These substances are ingested +without discernment, often in great excess, and daily, +by people who consume meat.</p> + +<p>Amongst these latter, many would not dare to drug +themselves with a centigramme of pharmaceutic caffeine, +whereas they absorb each day 0 gr. 5 and more, +of its homologous <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'constitutents'.">constituents</ins>.</p> + +<p>Therefore, in the same way as chocolate, tea and +coffee, meat has a stimulating effect on the system. +He who is accidentally deprived of it finds that he experiences +a passing depression. This obviously proves +that by the exaggerated use of meat, one drugs and +doctors oneself without discernment. However this may +be, the judicious part played by meat must apparently +be reduced to that of a condiment food destined to +produce in a measure the whipping-up which is useful, +and sometimes indispensable to the system. We cannot +here discuss the expediency of action and the +harmlessness of the dose of substances reputed stimulating. +But one can ask oneself whether, to attain +this object of stimulation, carnivorous feeding is indispensable, +and if vegetarianism could not supply the need.</p> + +<p>The reply is easy: the vegetable kingdom disposes +of a variety of stimulating articles, such as tea, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg588" id="Pg588"></a>coffee, kola and cocoa. Through their active substances +these foods are nerve tonics of the first order, less +dangerous in their use than meat, because more easily +assimilated, of far more continuous effects, less mixed +with other substances, sometimes noxious, and consequently +more measurable. Besides, in pulse food, +quantities of purins are found as important as in meat. +If the part they play has not been systematically +studied from the point of view of their effects on the +nervous organism, they still give rise to the same +terminal products, such as uric acid. One can quite +well argue that the pulse purins have physiological +effects comparable to those of meat purins. On the +other hand, vegetable purins have the considerable advantage +of being less easily precipitated in the urine, +after the human interorganic metabolism, than those +resulting from the metabolism of flesh material.</p> + +<p>This explains why a frequent use of a vegetable diet +offers appreciable advantages in the amelioration of +arthritic diatheses so common amongst us. Certain +effects observed in these diatheses arise from the purins, +from their localisation in the system, and their vitiated +metabolism. The use of a moderate vegetable diet is +the best means of treatment in order to relieve, to +ameliorate, even to cure, arthritic diathesis.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">IX</h3> + +<p>Such are the certain physiological advantages which +the predominant use of vegetable products are capable +of offering. If one takes the pure energy-producing +point of view, the superiority of the vegetarian diet +becomes greater still. From the fine works of A. +Chauveau, modern physiology has shown us that muscle, +in working, consumes sugary materials. These are +provided by ingestions of sugar in a natural state, of +dextrine or of starch; for a less important part, the +glycogen of the system may also arise from hydrocarbonated +cords existing in the molecule of certain +albumins. Therefore it is only in an infinitesimal part, +due to the fibrine of meat, and to the small proportions +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg589" id="Pg589"></a>of glycogen which it contains, that flesh diet intervenes +in the direct production of kinetic energy.</p> + +<p>The demonstrations which have been essayed, touching +the muscular superiority of vegetarians, appear +superfluous to us. Such experiments could only have +a positive value if they were made on both series of +antagonistic subjects, with alimentary powers of energy-producing +equality.</p> + +<p>It should be distinctly understood that the vegetarian +does not profit by any mysterious forces. The habit +of preferring to nourish oneself with vegetable foods, +can, at most, or at least, favour the physiological +integrity of the subject, shield him against disease and +assure his revictualment with foods recognised as active +and easily measurable.</p> + +<p>One cannot leave alcohol out of the list of advantageous +vegetable foods. In fact, provided one keeps to +strictly limited doses, it may be included among the +alimentary foods, on a footing comparable to that of +sugar. If one knew how to use without misusing it, +alcohol might become a daily food.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">X</h3> + +<p>Another order of ideas which one cannot pass by in +silence at the present time militates in favour of vegetable +alimentation. Dietetics cannot neglect economic +problems. A flesh diet is very costly. In large towns, +like Paris, at a time when everything is increasing in +cost, one must be favoured by fortune to be able to +indulge in the real luxury of consuming the calories of +meat. As we said in 1905, with Prof. <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'Laudouzy'.">Landouzy</ins> and +M. Labbé, in our inquiry into popular Parisian alimentation, +the calorific energy of meat comes, on an average, +to between 15 to 20 times dearer than that of bread or +pulse foods.</p> + +<p>The diet with a vegetable predominance may therefore, +by those who adopt it, be considered as much less +costly than a mixed one. Does not this fact, then, +deserve to be taken into consideration and compared—startlingly +illustrative—to the ingenious calculation +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg590" id="Pg590"></a>recently made by Lefèvre in his examination of vegetarianism? +One acre of land planted for the purpose of +breeding cattle produces three times less living strength +than an acre planted with wheat!</p> + +<p>Is it not criminal, or at any rate ill-judged, for the +richness and health of the country to have, by the laws +of a draconian protectionism, spurred the French agricultural +population along the road to the breeding of +cattle, thus turning it away from cultivation? These +laws are the cause, on the one hand, of the high price +of wheat, owing to the abandonment of its culture and +the barriers opposed to its entrance, and on the other, +of the dearness of meat, owing to the stock and the +land which the cattle require.</p> + +<p>Under these facts economists have indeed a direct +responsibility, as for more than fifty years economic +orthodoxy has presented meat as a necessity, whereas +it is the least advantageous particle amongst so many +others.</p> + +<p>In conclusion, let us hope that future distinctions of +“Vegetalists,” vegetarians or flesh eaters may be completely +abolished. <i>In medio stat virtus.</i> The dietetic +regimen, the general adoption of which must henceforth +be desired, must reject all preconceived and hereditary +ideas, and unite in one harmonious use all foods with +a hygienic end in view. The place of each one amongst +them and its predominance over the others should be +determined only by conforming to reasons at the same +time physiological and economic.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Labbé.</p> + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>To Our Readers.</h3> + +<p>Readers who appreciate the independence and +all-round nature of <i>The Healthy Life</i> can materially +assist the extension of its circulation by tactfully +urging their local newsagent to have the magazine +regularly displayed for sale. An attractive monthly +poster can always be had free from the Publishers, +3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</p><hr /> +</div> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg591" id="Pg591"></a><a name="HEALTH_AND_JOY_IN" id="HEALTH_AND_JOY_IN"></a>HEALTH AND JOY IN +HAND-WEAVING.</h2> + + +<p><i>This article gains additional interest from the fact +that it has been written by one who works her own +loom and teaches others the ancient and healthy art +of hand-weaving.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="dropcaph"><span class="dropcap">H</span></span>and-weaving is an art, a handicraft, +one aspect of which we are apt to forget—namely, +that it is a splendid health-giver. +Indeed, all who have felt the rhythm of the +loom, as they throw the shuttle to and fro, +and in blending colours and seeing the +material grow thread by thread, can witness to the +power of the work to banish both the large and small +worries that eat away our health of mind and body. +The hand-weaver learns to look upon his (or her) loom +as a very good friend.</p> + +<p>The possibilities in weaving are immense, and the +great difficulty that always confronts the weaver is +the impossibility of letting gussets into the day: the +end of the week comes all too soon.</p> + +<p>One very satisfactory thing about weaving is the +fact that from the very first we can use the things +woven, even those we learn on.</p> + +<p>First, there is plain weaving, with which we can +make dress materials and many things for household +use. Then come fancy and striped materials, which +require more knowledge and ingenuity.</p> + +<p>There are endless varieties in bands of different +patterns thrown in with the shuttle, or shuttles, sometimes +as many as a dozen of which may be in use at a +time. These can be used for the purpose of ornamentation. +In weaving these no end of play of colour can +be made, by using many colours in rotation, either as +the groundwork of plain material, under the patterns, +or as the pattern itself.</p> + +<p>Metal threads can also be used of various kinds, +either as an entire texture, or to enrich the fancy bands.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg592" id="Pg592"></a>Lastly, there is inlay weaving, by which we can put +in by hand, with little separate bobbins, as we go along, +any cross-stitch design, lettering, monograms, figures +and designs of every description.</p> + +<p>Anyone with a knowledge of carpentry can make +his own loom, the construction being of a very simple +nature. In fact, the Orientals erect a few sticks, dig +a hole in the ground to sit in, tie their warp up to a +tree, and then produce the most charming work, both in +texture and colour.</p> + +<p>The warp can also be made as these people often +make theirs, by fixing it to sticks stuck into the ground, +and walking backwards and forwards with the thread, +singing as they go. Yes, singing! I think we English +folk might learn from them to put more joy into our +work, that fountainhead of life and health. We are +apt to take such a serious view of ourselves and of all +we do. So often, too, we only feel the dull and quiet +colours, instead of using the many brilliant ones that +nature loves so well. Once we begin working in, and +appreciating, these we realise the exhilarating effect on +our spirits. Indeed, I think we are only beginning to +realise what a great influence colour has upon us, and +all that colour signifies, each colour having various +meanings of its own.</p> + +<p>Many people are now realising that we are surrounded +by a halo of colour woven by our character—the most +highly developed people being surrounded by clear, +bright colours. It is strictly true that we are all +weavers, every day of our lives. By following the +laws of nature we make the finest texture composed of +all the most glorious colours or qualities in the Universe, +so by degrees bringing ourselves, and others, into +perfect harmony and peace.</p> + +<p class="sig">Minnie Brown.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg593" id="Pg593"></a><a name="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT5" id="HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT5"></a>HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT?</h2> + + +<blockquote><p><i>This discussion arose out of the <a href="#HOW_MUCH_SHOULD_WE_EAT1">article</a> with above +title, by “M.D.,” which was published in our <a href="#Pg437">July +number</a>.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p></blockquote> + + +<h3 class="center">IV</h3> + +<p><span class="dropcapi"><span class="dropcap">I</span></span>n dealing with this vitally important question, +we shall most of us, I take it, agree +upon certain points. In the light of recent +knowledge upon, and extended experience +of the subject, one such point which now +appears incontrovertible is that there are +thousands die annually—directly or indirectly—through +overfeeding where one dies through insufficient nourishment. +And it may at once be said that, as regards +these thousands, the death certificates are practically +valueless as data in relation to erroneous dieting, so that +in this way we can never get at a correct estimate as +to the actual number of deaths due to overfeeding. +Bright's disease, gastric and intestinal affections, +growths of various kinds, cancer, etc., are each in their +turn certified as the “Cause of Death.” Most often, +however, the initial cause is the overloading of the +system with an amount of food beyond that which is +necessary or healthful—and thereby clogging up the +tissues, the organs and smaller bloodvessels.</p> + +<p>But it may be said: “How can you substantiate +such a general and sweeping statement?” In the first +place—and this is profoundly significant—other things +being equal, it must be acknowledged by all unbiased +people that the small and moderate feeders do not +contract disease in anything like the proportion that +big feeders do, and as a natural consequence live longer +lives.</p> + +<p>Further, it must surely be quite evident by this time +that there is a sufficiently large enough number of +people who are thus existing in good health—and +steadily regaining it where it has been lost—on the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg594" id="Pg594"></a>lines of moderate feeding. And the number is accumulating +at a rapid pace; more and more are coming into +line with those of us who, having thus found health +in themselves, their patients and friends, are preaching +the practice of two meals a day, and sometimes only +one where there is serious organic disease to combat—thus +defying the dicta of those eminent physiologists +who “settled” the question years ago.</p> + +<p>Now I quite admit—it would be impertinence to do +otherwise—that “M.D.'s” statements and views must +not be ignored, must indeed be respected. And he tells us +that he “heard of,” in one day, three cases which “went +wrong” through underfeeding; well, for those three +cases we can point to hundreds who are <i>going right</i> +through eating just enough and not too much. I am +prepared, on the other hand, to admit the danger of +a continued semi-starvation diet; our difficulty is to +define in each individual case what exactly would be +a semi-starvation, and what a sufficient diet. It is +impossible to have a fixed standard for everybody. +After all, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”; +often it is a matter of experimenting for some little +time, and in this way we could judge largely of the +result of our dieting by our state of general health.</p> + +<p>On some main points of the question I am now +absolutely convinced—viz.:</p> + +<p>1. Excessive bulk is always dangerous, often disastrous, +causing sudden death in a large number of +cases.</p> + +<p>2. Starchy foods are best strictly limited as we get +along towards middle age and beyond.</p> + +<p>3. A life which is largely mental or sedentary will +be healthier and longer on a strictly moderate diet.</p> + +<p>4. A life largely of physical labour must be dealt with +on its own particular conditions.</p> + +<p>5. At all times due regard, of course, must be paid +to age, weight, etc.</p> + +<p>6. On the whole, “eminent physiologists” have +erred on the side of excess of proteid being advised.</p> + +<p>7. Middle age is the critical time of life in respect +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg595" id="Pg595"></a>to a man's diet in other words, I would say in +axiomatic form that as a man feeds at or about middle +age, so will he be for the rest of his life.</p> + +<p class="sig">J. Stenson Hooker, M.D.</p> + + +<h3 class="center">V</h3> + +<p>As a very interested reader of this discussion I should +be very glad to know exactly what “M.D.” means by +<i>each pound</i> of <i>bone</i> and <i>muscle</i> in the body weight? +What proportion (approximately) is it to total body +weight? I have been trying to keep up to Dr Haig's +9 grains per lb. of “body weight” and find that it is +too much for my digestive powers, which are very weak +owing to chronic nervous dyspepsia. If I take 15 per +cent. or 20 per cent. <i>less</i> proteid my troubles are so +greatly lessened that I feel that to continue to take the +lower amount would mean perpetual relief. But there +have been so many warnings, including M.D.'s, of the +dangers of under-nutrition, that I am in a quandary; +and others of your readers too.</p> + +<p>If M.D. means grains per lb. of <i>something less</i> than +total body weight, a lesser amount of proteid than I try +to take may have his sanction, and be safe for me.</p> + +<p class="sig">Jno. A. Cookson.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>There appears to be a sincere attempt in “M.D.'s” +article to prove that a physiologist is the best guide +in diet. But, as one can get the degree of M.D. without +any scientific knowledge of dietetics, the inference that +one would be likely to make from such an alarming +article is erroneous. I say “alarming” because vague +statements are made as to patients who were rescued +just in time to be stimulated by over-feeding into a +semblance of health, and we are treated to a list of very +alarming symptoms in the last paragraph on <a href="#Pg443">p. 443</a>.</p> + +<p>“M.D.” says, “Suppose that the animal fed for +years on unnatural food has become so pathological that +it can no longer take or digest its natural food.” How +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg596" id="Pg596"></a>grateful to M.D. for this statement will be those who +long for an excuse to cling to the spoiled, boiled and +unnatural dishes of which the popular diet mainly +consists! And how they will continue to overeat themselves, +content to avoid the truth regarding food +quantities.</p> + +<p>Living on a right and natural diet, a man or woman +will correct the effects of wrong living. This will +bring crises, and unless they know that this is Nature's +attempt to rid the body of unwanted and effete matter +they may be duped into returning to their high feeding, +either by those whom “M.D.” calls diet quacks or by +qualified quacks.</p> + +<p>I do not believe it possible for anyone to die for lack +of indication that they were eating too little.</p> + +<p>The opposite is what people die of. If we carefully +read Dr Rabagliati's article in the same issue we shall +rightly ask what would be the results of analyses and +measurements in such a case.</p> + +<p>About a year ago we had a young woman under our +care who had suffered with deafness and other troubles +for years. She had tried dietetic treatments, “uric-acid-free” +and otherwise, and had at last been told that +her deafness was incurable, being due to heredity and +deficiency in the organs of hearing. She was extremely +thin when she came to us, but we did not measure her, +nor analyse unclean excreta, nor weigh her.</p> + +<p>She saw an M.D. who was in sympathy with the +philosophy of fasting, and she fasted (taking water only) +for 28 days. She then had four days of fruit juice, and +was so disappointed at having broken her fast prematurely +that she continued it for another 12 days, making +44 in all—40 days actual fasting.</p> + +<p>[<i>During this period she was living an almost complete +out-door life.</i>—<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p>During the fast many interesting phenomena were +witnessed, chief among which was the discharge from +ears and nose—significant indeed to all who study +Nature's ways. Result: normal hearing restored. This +was nearly twelve months ago; and, having heard of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg597" id="Pg597"></a>her recently, we find that, though she had had a cold, +there has been no recurrence of deafness. I wonder +what assistance measurements would have been in this +true cure. The patient (an adult) weighed 4st. 8 lbs. at +the end of her fast and could then walk short distances.</p> + +<p>The way in which “M.D.” dismisses “a little gout” +in his last paragraph but one almost leads one to think +that he is unaware of the failure of the natural defences +of the body that must have gone on in a very serious +degree before the manifestation of gout became possible.</p> + +<p>I respectfully submit this problem to “M.D.”:—If +a very thin patient can go without food entirely for 40 +days, with only benefit accruing, <i>how many centuries</i> +will it take for a fairly fat person to die through slightly +under-eating?</p> + +<p>As Dr Haddon has said, the proteid myth will die +hard, but there are physiologists who, with their faces +to the light, are finding the truth of man's requirements +in food and who know that absolute purity and simplicity +are the ideals to be sought and that all food we eat +more than is absolutely necessary is a diversion of +energy to carnal channels.</p> + +<p class="sig">Ernest Starr.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_DOCTORS_REASONS_FOR" id="A_DOCTORS_REASONS_FOR"></a>A DOCTOR'S REASONS FOR +OPPOSING VACCINATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapi"><span class="dropcap">I</span></span>n opposing vaccination I am aware that it +is a thankless task to brave the abuse and +antagonism which everyone who attempts +to move forward in the work of medical +progress is sure to encounter.</p> + +<p>In order that I may not be regarded as +prejudiced against the dogma of vaccination, I will +preface my remarks with the confession that I was at +one time myself a confiding dupe of the “tradition of +the dairymaids.” While attending medical college I +was told that inoculation with cow pox virus was a +certain preventive of small-pox, and like most other +medical students I accepted with childlike faith and +credulity the dictum of my teachers as so much infallible +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg598" id="Pg598"></a>wisdom. After an experience derived from treating a +number of cases of post-vaccinal small-pox in patients +who gave evidence of having been recently and successfully +vaccinated, I awoke to a realisation of the unpleasant +fact that “protective vaccination” was not all +that was claimed for it. I thereupon began a study of +the vaccination problem in all its bearings. After several +years of reading, observation and experience I became +fully convinced that “successful” vaccination not only +fails to protect its subjects from small-pox, but that, +in reality, it renders them more susceptible to this +disease by impairing their health and vitality, and by +diminishing their power of resistance.</p> + +<p>Personally, I have known of recently vaccinated +patients dying from small-pox while having the plainest +foveated vaccine marks upon their bodies, and I have +seen other individuals who had never submitted to +vaccine inoculation have variola in its mildest and most +benign type.</p> + +<p>In view of such experience I refused to ignore the +evidence of my own senses, and determined to follow the +dictates of reason instead of the dogmas of faith, and +have, consequently, for the past fifteen years refused +to pollute the blood of a single person with vaccine +virus.</p> + +<p>I oppose vaccination because I believe that health is +always preferable to disease. The principle and practice +of vaccination involves the introduction of the contagion +of disease at least twice, and, according to numerous +authorities, many times, into the human organism. The +disease conveyed by vaccination causes an undeniable +impairment of health and vitality, it being a distinctly +vaccine “lymph,” is taken from a lesion on the body +of a diseased beast, and inserted by the vaccinator into +the circulation of healthy children. The performance of +such an insanitary operation, in the very nature of the +case, is a violation of the cardinal principles of hygiene +and of sanitary science.... Moreover, this operation is +in direct controversion of the basic principles of aseptic +surgery, the legitimate aim of which is to <i>remove</i> from +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg599" id="Pg599"></a>the organism the products of disease, but never to +<i>introduce</i> them.</p> + +<p>The prime aim of the modern surgeon is to make +every wound aseptic and to keep it so. The careful +operator employs every means at his command to clear +the field of operations of all bacteria. He utilises every +particle of the marvellously minute and intricate technique +of asepsis to prevent the entrance through the +wounded tissues of any disease elements before, during +or after the operation. He fears sepsis equally with +death, and yet, under the blighting and blinding influence +of an ancient and venerated myth inherited from +his ignorant and superstitious forbears of a pre-scientific +age, he will deliberately inoculate the virulent infective +products of diseased animal tissues into the circulation +of a healthy person. And as if to cap the climax of his +stupidity and inconsistency, he performs the operation +under “aseptic precautions.”</p> + +<p>The poisonous matter which nature wisely eliminates +from the body of a diseased calf in an effort to save its +life and restore it to health is seized upon by the vaccinator +and implanted into the wholesome body of a +helpless child. Think of the unparalleled absurdity of +purposely infecting the body of a healthy person in this +era of sanitary science with the poison from a diseased +beast, under the senseless pretext of protecting the +victim of the ingrafted disease from the contagion of +another disease! Can inconsistency go further?</p> + +<p>I oppose the practice of vaccination because it is not +known what vaccine virus is, except that it is a mixed +contagion of disease. We hear much these days about +“pure” virus and “pure calf lymph.” Nothing could +be more absurd and meaningless than the flippant talk +indulged in by vaccinators and the purveyors of vaccine +virus about “pure calf lymph,” a hybrid product of +diseased animal tissues. “Pure virus” translated into +plain English is pure “animal poison.” The phrase +“pure calf lymph” is applied to an brand of vaccine +virus now in use is a misnomer for two reasons. It is +not “pure” and it is not “calf lymph.”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg600" id="Pg600"></a>Calf lymph is the normal nutrient fluid which circulates +in the lymphatic vessels of the calf. Lymph is +described by physiologists as a “transparent, colourless, +nutrient alkaline fluid which circulates in the +lymphatic vessels and thoracic ducts of animal bodies.” +Lymph is a physiological product, while the so-called +“pure calf lymph” used by vaccinators is a pathological +product, derived from a lesion on a diseased calf. The +difference between calf lymph and so-called “pure calf +lymph” is as great as is the difference between a food +and a poison. The vaccine mixture now most generally +used by the medical profession is known under the name +of “glycerinized vaccine lymph,” but it is not <i>lymph</i> at +all. It is made by utilising practically the entire lesion +or pock on the heifer when it is in the vesicular stage. +Such a lesion is broken open and scraped with a Volkmann +spoon until the whole of the tissue is forcibly and +roughly curetted away, consisting of pus, morbid serum, +epithelium, fibrous tissue of the skin, and any foreign +matter on or in it, constituting what is called “pulp.” +This pulp is then passed between glass rollers for +trituration and afterwards mixed with a definite amount +of glycerine and distilled water. This complex pathologic +product of unknown origin is injected into the +wholesome bodies of helpless children under the false +but plausible name of “pure calf lymph.” ...</p> + +<p>I oppose the practice of vaccination because under +whatever pretext performed the implantation of disease +elements into the healthy human organism is irrational +and injurious. It is subversive of the fundamental +principles of sanitary science, while the attainment of +health as a prophylactic measure is rational and in +harmony with the ascertained laws of hygiene and consistent +with the canons of common-sense. I am firmly +convinced that the absurd and unreasonable dogma +which assumes to conserve health by propagating +disease should receive the open condemnation of every +scientific sanitarian. That this health-blighting delusion +conceived in the ignorance of a past generation +should find lodgment in the minds of intelligent people +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg601" id="Pg601"></a>enjoying the light of the world's highest civilisation is +to my mind inexplicable....</p> + +<p>Sanitation and isolation of the infected offer the only +rational and effective antidote for these disorders. +Away, then, with the abominable and filthy subterfuge! +Give us health instead of disease. Health is the great +prophylactic.</p> + +<p>No man in perfect health can be truly said to be susceptible +to the infection of small-pox, nor to that of any +other zymotic disease. Vigorous health confers immunity +from disease-producing agents as nothing else +can. It is usually after the vital functions have become +impaired by the effects of vaccination or some other +injurious cause that individuals become susceptible to +small-pox infection.</p> + +<p class="sig">J.W. Hodge, M.D.</p> + +<p>[<i>The above article can be obtained in pamphlet form from the +publisher. Wm. J. Furnival, Stone. Staffs.</i>—<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="THE_NEW_RACE" id="THE_NEW_RACE"></a>THE NEW RACE.</h2> + +<p class="center">(<i>Specially written for <span class="smcap">The Healthy Life.</span></i>)</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0"><span class="dropcapa"><span class="dropcap">A</span></span> new race on the ruins of the old<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Build we: a temple of the human form<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Fairer than marble, since with life-blood warm,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Well crowned with its appointed crown of gold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Russet or ebony; lines clear and bold<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Beneath—a citadel no ills can storm,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Buttressed with health; a type to be the norm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In that great age the world shall yet behold.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">For now the laws of Health and Heaven are seen<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In their identity, life's body and soul;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Though, like divorce, disease may come between<br /></span> +<span class="i1">What God hath joined; but at the human goal,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where the New Race rules, splendid and serene,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sit Health and Holiness, made one and whole.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">S. Gertrude Ford.</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg602" id="Pg602"></a><a name="THE_PLAY_SPIRIT" id="THE_PLAY_SPIRIT"></a>THE PLAY SPIRIT.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapw"><span class="dropcap">W</span></span>e all long for reality. Most of the amusements +in the world are imitations of the +reality for which we long. They promise +a satisfaction they are unable to give. +Drink, mechanical love-making, all snatched +gratification of the senses, religious excitement, +revivalist meetings, and so forth, most theatre-going +and sports, all simulate the real glory of life. They +bring an illusion of well-being. They produce a glow +in the nervous system. They cause the outlines of +everyday life as we know it to grow suffused. They +give us a momentary sense of heightened power and +freedom. We float easily in a happy world. A sort of +relaxation has been achieved. The less common forms +of amusement bring us nearer to the gateway of reality. +For some, they have been the rivers leading to the +ocean of truth itself.</p> + +<p>Art, for instance, the interpretation of life in terms +of beauty; the “artist,” the man in whom sensuous +perception is supreme, offers us a sublime aspect of +reality. He dwells in the universe constructed for him +by his senses and tells us of its glories. He achieves +“freedom.” The veil covering reality is woven for him +far thinner than for common men. He sees life moving +eternally behind the forms he separates and “creates.” +And to those of us who are akin to him, who are +temperamentally artistic, he offers freedom of a kind. +The contemplation of a work of art releases the tension +of the nerves. To use the language of psychology it +“arrests” us, suspends the functions of our everyday +surface personality, abolishes for a moment time and +space, allows the “free,” generally suppressed subconscious +self to come up and flood the surface intelligence, +allows us for a moment to be ourselves. But, +still, this momentary relaxation, this momentary “play,” +this holiday from the surface “I,” remains an affair +dependent upon suggestive symbols coming from “without.” +The supreme artist achieves freedom. We, who +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg603" id="Pg603"></a>in matters of art are the imitative mass, can only have +“change,” a new heaven and earth, a fresh “culture.”</p> + +<p>Then there is love. That promises, at the outset, +complete escape into freedom and reality. And supreme +lovers, both of individuals and of “Humanity,” have +indeed found freedom and the pathway to reality in love. +But ordinary everyday people rushing idolatrously out +to find themselves in others find in the end only another +I. The religions perhaps work best and longest. But +even here average humanity, where the mystical sense +is feeble, are thrown back in the end upon ethics—and +go somewhat grimly through life doing their duty, living +upon the husks of doctrine, the notions and reports of +other men.</p> + +<p>If the play spirit within us, that longing for the real +joy of life, for real relaxation and re-creation, fares so +poorly for most of us in the amusements large and +small that life offers to our leisure moments, is it any +better in the “games” the individual chooses for himself—hobbies, +for instance? Can these generally +“instructive” and “useful,” generally also solitary, occupations +be called play? Are they not merely a reversal +of life's engine, rather than an unmaking and a remaking. +They are merely a variant of life. They are +very truly called a “change of occupation.” They are +led and dominated, commonly, by the intelligence. They +contain no element of freedom. The same defect is +found in all organised “games.”</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>Real play, like every other reality, comes from what +our mechanical and practical intelligences have called +“within.”</p> + +<p>Real play arises when the “I” is in direct contact +with the myself, with Life, with God, with the actuality +moving beneath all symbolic representations.</p> + +<p>It is only when “I,” the practical, intelligent, +abstract-making, idealising, generalising, clever, separated +“I,” the “I” which has a past, a present and +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg604" id="Pg604"></a>a future, renounces its usurpation of the steering +apparatus, that play can be. “I,” to play or to pray or +to love, must be born again. “I” must relinquish all. +“I” must have neither experience nor knowledge, +neither loves nor hates, neither “thought” nor “feeling” +nor “will”—nor anything that can arrest the +action of the inner life. When this complete relaxation, +which has its physical as well as its mental aspect, is +achieved, then and then only can “I” rise up and play. +Then “I” shall rediscover all the plays in the world in +their origin. “I” shall understand the war-dance of +the “savage.” “I” shall know something about the +physical convulsions of primitive “conversion.” The +arts may begin to be open doors to me. “I” shall have +stood “under,” understood my universe, in the brief +moment when “I” abandoned myself to the inner +reality. The words of the great “teachers” will grow +full of meaning. My own “experiences” will be re-read. +I shall see more clearly with my surface intelligence +what I must do. I shall be personal in everything, +personal in my play. Surface self-consciousness +which holds me back from all spontaneous activity will +disappear in proportion as “I” am immersed in the +greater “me.”</p> + +<p>Look at that woman walking primly down the lane +to the sea with her bathing-dress. She is a worker on +a holiday. But she cannot play. She goes down every +day to bathe in the Cornish sea, the sea that on a +calm sunny day is like liquid Venetian glass and flings +at you, under the least breeze, long, green, foam-crested +billows that carry you off our feet if you stand even +waist-high. She potters in the shallows and splashes +herself to avoid taking cold. Her intelligent “I” is +uppermost. Her world of every day never leaves her. +She will go back to it as she came, unchanged. Her +wistful face betrays the seeker lost amidst unrealities. +If the “I” were a little more intelligent, she might +try to defy the surrounding ocean, to pit her powers +against it, to swim. She would learn a most practical +and useful and withal invigorating accomplishment. If +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg605" id="Pg605"></a>her busy, watchful “I” could be arrested she might +“see” the billows, the sky and the headlands reared on +either side of her bay. She might dance into the water, +and see her world dance back. She would fling herself +amongst the wavelets where she stands and splashes. +She might give herself up and know nothing but the +beauty and strength around her. It would not teach +her to swim, but she would have taken a step towards +the great game of walking upon the waters.</p> + +<p class="sig">D.M. Richardson.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="TRAVELS_IN_TWO_COLOURS" id="TRAVELS_IN_TWO_COLOURS"></a>TRAVELS IN TWO COLOURS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapo"><span class="dropcap">O</span></span>ne is often tempted to suspect that in +some schools there is a deep-laid plot to +destroy in the bud any love for poetry which +children may possess. Otherwise how is +it that little boys and girls are made to +commit to memory William Blake at his +highest reach of mystical fire, as in <i>Tiger, Tiger, +burning bright</i>, or William Wordsworth at his lowest +ebb of uninspired simplicity, as in <i>We are seven</i>? +These are very popular, apparently, as poems for +children to recite; yet in the one case it is beyond +any teacher's power to show children the unearthly +flaming beauty which alone gives the poem its peculiar +quality and undefinable power; and in the other the +maudlin sentimentalism and almost priggish piety of +the verses are positively dangerous to the child's health +of mind. Both types of recitation work out in the end +to this—that when the child attains adolescence, and +the great world of literature dawns on the hungry mind, +an evil association of ideas has been established—the +association of poetry, the highest of all arts, either +with the saying of lines without meaning, or with the +learning of “poems” devoid of what wholesome youth +really desires or enjoys.</p> + +<p>People may wrangle all night as to whether the +normal healthy child is at heart a mystic or a realist; +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg606" id="Pg606"></a>whether he likes fairy tales because they show him a +magical world where flowers can talk and umbrellas +are turned into black geese, or because they tell of +strange romantic things happening to a real human boy +like himself; but there can be no shadow of doubt that +much of the verse intended for children is either too +clever in its humour to make them laugh, or too bald +in its matter or tone to stir the romance that is never +quite asleep in their hearts. There are really +surprisingly few versifiers who have altogether avoided +these errors. Some of George Macdonald's <i>Poems for +Children</i> are almost perfect, both as regards lyrical +form, simplicity of language and in the unobtrusiveness +of the inner truth they convey. For example,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“The lightning and thunder<br /></span> +<span class="i1">They go and they come;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But the stars and the stillness<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are always at home.”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But others come perilously near mere versified moralising. +Lewis Carroll's nonsense verses in the two +famous <i>Alice</i> books are supreme among their kind; +but are they not sometimes just a shade too ingenious, +or too adult in wit? Probably Stevenson, in those +seemingly artless poems in <i>A Child's Book of Verse</i>, +comes nearest to a level perfection. Who has ever +approached him in his power to understand and express +the small child's world, desires and delights, without +a trace of the grown-up's condescension or +self-consciousness?</p> + +<p>Well, these great ones are no longer in the world; +yet, with the recognition of their genius, there is the +usual danger of bemoaning the lack of worthy successors. +Not but what there is some excuse for such +lamentation; for this reason that every Christmas +there is a veritable flood of children's verse, a great +deal of which is either painfully didactic, painfully +sentimental, painfully funny or painfully foolish.</p> + +<p>What I wish to do at the moment is to call attention +to the fact that there is one man alive in England—one +of many, I do not doubt: but one at a time!—<a class="pagenum" name="Pg607" id="Pg607"></a>who +is doing “nonsense verses” for children which are +guiltless of all the faults I have indicated above.</p> + +<p>Jack Goring is known among some of his friends as +“The Jolly Rhymster.” He writes his verses first +for his own children, and then publishes them from time +to time for the pleasure of other children. The secret +of his success is partly that he knows that even small +children like a story to be an adventure; partly that +he understands how their own romances, the things +they picture or hum to themselves when well-meaning +adults are not worrying them, or rather, trying to +amuse them, begin—wherever they may end!—with a +perfectly tangible object, such as a pillar-box, a rag-doll +or a toy locomotive. One of “The Jolly +Rhymster's” best things begins—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“Finger-post, finger-post, why do you stand<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pointing all day with your silly flat hand?”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>—which is exactly the sort of question that a very small +child in all probability does really ask itself when it +has seen a finger-post day after day at a cross-roads. +How the poem continues and where it ends you must +find out for yourself. It's all in a book called <i>The +Ballad of Lake Laloo</i>.</p> + +<p>In the recently published volume<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> that now lies +before me, this telling of a tale of wonder which begins +with an ordinary thing is again evident. Nip and Flip, +aged six and four respectively, are the adventurers; and +they make three voyages in this little book. In the +first, <i>The Fourpenny-Ha'penny Ship</i>, they circumnavigate +the world. Now please note how Mr Goring +strikes the right note at the very outset:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“Nip and Flip<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Took a holiday trip<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On a beautiful fourpenny-ha'penny ship<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With a dear little handkerchief sail;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And they sang, ‘Yo ho!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We shall certainly go<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To the end of the world and back, you know,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And capture the great Seakale.’”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15">[15]</a> <i>Nip and Flip.</i> By Jack Goring. Illustrated by Caterina +Patricchio. 1s. net (postage 1½d.). C.W. Daniel, Ltd., 3 Tudor +Street, London, E.C.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg608" id="Pg608"></a>And there follows a picture (in black and gold) of this +strange monster, just to make sure that no one will +suppose they were out after a vegetable.</p> + +<p>The tale moves along, as such stories should, very +rapidly. Thus—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“And when they came to the end of the world,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their dear little handkerchief sail they furled<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And put on the kettle for tea.”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But you have only just time to look at the tea things +when—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“But alas! and alack<br /></span> +<span class="i0">About six o'clock<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The good ship str<i>a</i>ck<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On the Almond Rock<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And split like a little split pea.”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>So the story goes on, through divers adventures,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“From Timbuctoo to Timbucthree”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>and so at last home again.</p> + +<p>The next voyage is to the land of Make-Believe on +a Christmas Eve, “in a long, long +train of thought.” In the course +of this tale we are given a little +picture of Flip herself, and here it +is for you to look at. +<span class="figleft"> +<img src="images/flip.png" height="300" width="168" title="Flip" alt="A girl wearing a dress, with a ribbon in her hair." /> +</span> +Only, in the +book her shoes and stockings, the +inside of her skirt, and the squiggly +things on the top of her head are +a bright golden colour.</p> + +<p>The third voyage is all the fault +of a toy monkey—“six three-farthings +and cheap at the price”—and +takes them among whales, +mermaids, sea-serpents and other +deep-sea creatures.</p> + +<p>Here, then, are delightful little pictures on every +page, which even a two-year-old will enjoy. And here +are verses which most boys and girls under seven or +eight will like to learn. And the best of it is that +it doesn't matter a bit if they do “sing-song” them, +for they are the kind of verses which only sound right +from the lips of quite small children who have never been +taught elocution.</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg609" id="Pg609"></a><a name="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS3" id="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS3"></a>PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p>SOUP.—Oxtail from 10 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>—From a Restaurant Menu.</p></blockquote> + +<p>What it was in the early morning it would be indiscreet +to inquire.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>I learn that a serum for mumps is now being made at +the Pasteur Institute. “A number of monkeys were +inoculated with the serum,” says <i>The Times</i> (30th July), +“and a mild form of the disease was produced.” It is +an age of scientific progress, so we may expect news +shortly of sera for toothache, hiccough, and the hump. +It will not be necessary to inoculate camels for the last.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>You will say—with Mr Arnold Bennett, the distinguished playwright +and novelist—“the tonic effect of ********* on me +is simply <i>wonderful</i>.”—From an advt. in <i>Punch</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>You may join in the chorus if you like, but you +mustn't all expect to be simply <i>wonderful</i> playwrights +and testimonialists.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">A Strange Shampoo....</span> “I make my chemist get the stallax +for me,” said she. “It comes only in sealed packages, enough +to make up twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, and it +smells so good I could almost eat it.”—<i>Secrets of Beauty</i> column +in <i>The Daily Sketch</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Which only shows how careful one has to be.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>In the days to come every army will fight on bloodless food.—<i>Herald +of the Golden Age</i>.</p></blockquote> + +<p>When every army fights on bloodless food, we may +be just as far from the Golden Age as we are now.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>I am told that an obscure practitioner who sent up +an account of some interesting discoveries, addressed to</p> + +<blockquote><p> +MEDICAL CONGRESS,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">DIETETICS SECTION,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">LONDON.</span><br /> +</p></blockquote> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg610" id="Pg610"></a>has had his communication returned by the Post Office, +marked <i>Not Known</i>.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<p>There is no truth, it is said, in the rumour that a +secret meeting was held during the Congress to discuss +the proposed raising of the rate of commission payable +by surgeons to physicians.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES3" id="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES3"></a>HEALTHY LIFE RECIPES.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Some “Emprote” Recipes.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="dropcape"><span class="dropcap">E</span></span>xaggeration is popularly regarded as +one of the vices of food reformers; but it +is certainly no exaggeration whatever to +say that Mr Eustace Miles and the restaurant +associated with his name have had a +large share in bringing about the more +sympathetic attitude towards “food reform” noticeable +on all sides to-day.</p> + +<p>Mr Miles is no amateur in the gentle art of self-advertisement: +he would be the first to admit it. But +the advertisements have resulted undoubtedly in a very +large number of people taking the first steps towards +food reform, people who are repelled by the out-and-out +“vegetarian” propaganda.</p> + +<p>There are those who view with disfavour the introduction +of manufactured or artificial foods into the health +movement; they think it hinders simplicity. There is +a truth in this; but, on the other hand, it must be +recognised that the great majority cannot be reached +save by meeting them half-way. This applies to the +flavours of foods, the digestibility of foods and the +convenience of foods. Few can go straight from beef +to nuts. After generations of abuse the human digestive +system has to be humoured if the ideal is to be approached. +And in this invaluable work of meeting +people half-way and of humouring their tastes and +digestions, the restaurant in Chandos Street, London, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg611" id="Pg611"></a>the specially prepared foods made and sold there and the +strongly individual, thoroughly sane and pleasantly +straightforward advocacy of Mr. Eustace Miles have +been a very important factor.</p> + +<p>The idea behind “Emprote”—the Eustace Miles +Proteid Food—is that, being a blend, in powder form, +of various kinds of proteid (the proteids of milk, of +wheat, and so forth) it supplies the right kind of substitute +for flesh foods not only because it is so easily +assimilated, but because it is in a very convenient and +easily kept form.</p> + +<p>We believe such foods have a very definite and +necessary part in the progress of the individual from +the customary unhealthy diet to the better ways of +feeding. The following recipes illustrate some of the +methods of using “Emprote.” They are taken from +the booklet <i>45 Quick and Easy Recipes for Healthy, +Meatless Meals</i>, to be obtained for 2½d. post free from +40 Chandos Street, London, W.C.—</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Savoury Cheese Sandwiches.</span></h3> + +<p><i>NOTE.—These Savoury Sandwiches can form a complete meal +with a little salad (dressed with oil and lemon juice), or celery +or lettuce or watercress or other salad material.</i></p> + +<blockquote><p>3 oz. of cheddar cheese; 1 oz. of “Emprote”; the juice of half +a lemon; two tablespoonfuls of fresh tomato pulp or tomato +chutney; a pinch of celery salt.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Prepare some slices of not too new bread and butter. +Mill the cheese, add to it the “Emprote” and the +celery salt, then add the tomato pulp or chutney and the +lemon juice. Mix all well together into a smooth stiff +paste, and spread upon the slices, and form sandwiches, +which may be eaten with watercress or lettuce or +cucumber. If the material is too moist, mix in a little +more “Emprote,” or else “Procrums.”</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Macaroni Cheese.</span></h3> + +<blockquote><p>One teacupful of macaroni; two tablespoonfuls of milled cheese +one tablespoonful of butter; one dessertspoonful of flour; one +tablespoonful of “Emprote”; one large cupful of milk.</p></blockquote> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg612" id="Pg612"></a>Boil the macaroni for half-an-hour in a little water. +Strain the macaroni and put it in the bottom of a +buttered dish. (Put the liquid in the stock-pot, to +thicken a soup.) Mill the cheese, and put half of it +over the macaroni. In the small saucepan make a sauce +of the butter, flour, milk and “Emprote.” Pour this +over the macaroni and cheese, sprinkle the rest of the +cheese on the top, put in the pan to brown, then serve.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Stuffed Vegetable Marrow.</span></h3> + +<p>Mince two large onions very fine, and fry in 1 oz. of +butter; add 3 oz. of “Proto-Savoury,” one dessertspoonful +of Nutril, 1 oz. of breadcrumbs (or “Procrums”), +and one egg. Scoop the seeds from one large +vegetable marrow, fill with the mixture, and bake for +one hour. Serve with Apple Sauce.</p> + +<p><i>NOTE.—“Proto-Savoury,” “Nutril,” and “Procrums” are +special “E.M.” products and are readily obtainable from health +Food Stores, etc.</i></p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">A Nourishing Gravy Ready In A Minute.</span></h3> + +<p>When cutlets or croquettes are heated up, or when +macaroni or vegetables or a vegetable stew (none of +which are really adequate substitutes for meat) are to +be made nourishing, mix some of the E.M. Savoury +(or Mulligatawny, or Blended) Gravy Powder, with hot +water, to the thickness of gravy, and add to the dish.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%; margin:1em auto 1em auto; display:block;' /> + + +<h3>NEW METHOD OF PREPARING FRUIT +FOR THE DINNER-TABLE.</h3> + +<blockquote> +<p>In cold weather fruit is often cold, and if heated in an oven +may be injured partially or wholly. Here is, perhaps, a new way +of warming fruit which has been tried and proves satisfactory. +Wash the apples, pears, oranges, bananas and wipe them and place +on a dish on the dinner-table. Also place a jug of boiling water +and a bowl upon the table. Then when the fruit is required pour +the hot water into the bowl and place the fruit in it and cover +with a plate until warm enough to eat comfortably. Bananas +should be peeled before placing in hot water.</p> + +<p class="sig">“A.R.”</p></blockquote> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg613" id="Pg613"></a><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES5" id="HEALTH_QUERIES5"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading our contributor, Dr Valentine +Knaggs, deals briefly month by month, and according +as space permits, with questions of general interest to +health seekers and others.</i></p> + +<p><i>In all Queries relating to health difficulties it is +essential that full details of the correspondent's customary +diet should be clearly given.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +<span class="u">one side only of the paper</span>, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped addressed +envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Eczema" id="Eczema"></a>ECZEMA AS A SIGN OF RETURNING HEALTH.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs M.K. writes:—Until the last few years I have been subject +to sciatica and a certain amount of dry eczema. About a year +ago my health greatly improved, with the exception of the eczema, +which has much increased the last year, coming out in large angry +spots which irritate. I am 69, small, spare and white, have never +been strong until a year ago, have led a sedentary life, being an +artist. Three years ago I left off eating meat. My diet at present +is:</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Cup of hot rain-water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast</i> (8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>)—Unfired Bread with butter and pine nuts; +cup of weak tea, no sugar.</p> + +<p><i>At 11.</i>—One raw apple.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner</i> (1 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>)—One lightly boiled egg or an omelette, with +“Artox” home-made bread, and butter conservatively cooked +celery or <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'brocoli'">broccoli</ins>; stiff milk pudding with eggs in it, or “Artox” +pastry.</p> + +<p><i>Tea</i> (5 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>).—Weak China tea “Artox” bread, and butter, +and home-made plain cake.</p> + +<p><i>Supper</i> (8.30).—Slice of bread and butter; tumblerful of hot +rain-water sipped at bedtime.</p> + +<p>I have not been able to digest uncooked vegetables, excepting +lettuce; nor do I eat other fruit than apples; any sweet things +cause acidity. I do not suffer with constipation.</p></blockquote> + +<p>In this case it will be noted that the skin disease +occurred simultaneously with a marked improvement in +health. This shows that Nature was adopting her usual +plan of forcing the impurities outwards to the surface +and that the change of diet made this possible. With +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg614" id="Pg614"></a>her body less encumbered with waste a return of health +became possible.</p> + +<p>The plan now to adopt is not to check this skin +trouble but to cure it along safe lines by amending the +diet and purifying the skin itself by means of warm +alkaline baths.</p> + +<p>These baths, which should be taken twice a week at +first, are made by adding a ¼lb. of bicarbonate of soda +and a ¼lb. of “Robin” starch to an ordinary hot bath +at a temperature of 105 degrees, which can be gradually +increased to 110 degrees as the correspondent can bear +it. In this the bather stays for from ten to twenty +minutes to well soak out the acids and the oily greasy +waste from the surface. The starch is added because it +moderates the action of the alkali and leaves a comfortable +gloss on the skin after the bath is finished. The +bath gradually clears the poisons from the skin and +encourages the free action of perspiration, thus promoting +the further elimination of waste acid poisons +and at the same time clearing the skin and making it +healthy.</p> + +<p>The next thing to do is to amend the diet so that +as little waste as possible shall be formed. Rice is the +cereal that contains the least amount of waste of any +kind and this should therefore be the cereal selected. +The wholemeal, although good for most people, is not +suited to this case. A strict salt-free diet is also necessary, +as it is often the retention of salt in the system +that leads to the presence of eczema. The following +amended diet should suit the case, and it should be continued +until the skin has quite cleared itself:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Cup of filtered boiled rain-water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—Cottage cheese, 2 oz.; rice, boiled or +steamed without salt (large plateful), with Granose +biscuits or toasted “Maltweat” bread.</p> + +<p><i>At</i> 11 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>—More rain-water (not fruit).</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—The same as breakfast.</p> + +<p><i>Tea.</i>—Hot rain-water only.</p> + +<p><i>Supper, 6.30.</i>—The same as breakfast.</p> + +<p>When the skin is quite clear the correspondent can +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg615" id="Pg615"></a>return to the wholemeal bread (but biscuits made with +“Artox” would be better than the yeastless bread), +and also to a more varied diet generally, as at present.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Deafness1" id="Deafness1"></a>DEAFNESS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>J.G. writes:—My hearing got bad about twenty years ago, +caused I think by a cold in the head. When in bed I can hear +the tick of a watch with the left ear but the other is almost stone +deaf. I am not much at a loss in ordinary conversation, but +in trying to hear people speak I lose much of what is said. +Although I have no real pain, my head is rarely clear, feeling +full and congested. I have now and again a slight sensation +of giddiness or reeling. The right ear runs some offensive matter, +and there is always a hissing sound. I live what is, I think, a +simple life, but I must confess to a little smoking. My general +health is good. I am a working farmer and fairly active for one +of my age (69). My diet is generally as follows:</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—One or two cups of warm water, sometimes with +lemon juice.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—An apple or orange, oatcake and dairy butter. +Baker's bread and one cup of tea.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Nil, or perhaps I should say that I eat an apple or +orange before each meal or a bit of turnip or even cabbage.</p> + +<p><i>Supper.</i>—Potatoes with fish, and milk pudding. On some days +it may be broth with meat cooked in it.</p> + +<p><i>Before retiring.</i>—Nothing but water, or at other times oatcake +and one cup of milk.</p></blockquote> + +<p>There does not seem to be much prospect of this +correspondent recovering the hearing of his right ear, +as the conditions have lasted so long. He might, however, +certainly try by diet and hygiene to get rid of the +unpleasant discharge and the noises. To effect this he +should carefully syringe the ear once or twice a day +with a weak solution (1 grain to the ounce) of permanganate +of potash, using an all-rubber ear-syringe.</p> + +<p>Then he should get someone to well stretch the upper +bones of the spine and to massage well the muscles at +the back of the neck to induce, thereby, a better circulation +in the nerves and blood-vessels which proceed +from that part of the spine into the ears. In this way +he will be able to ensure a removal of the clogging +poisons which are lurking in the bad ear and thus +promote less noises and a better health state of the ears +generally. The diet should be amended as follows:—</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg616" id="Pg616"></a><i>On rising.</i>—One or two cups of warm water, with +lemon juice added.</p> + +<p><i>At 8. Breakfast</i>.—Apples, oranges or other fruit +only. <i>Take plenty of fruit at this meal and eat it at no +other time.</i></p> + +<p><i>At 12. Lunch.</i>—One boiled egg or some cream +cheese: Oatcakes and butter or good wholemeal biscuits +(“P.R.” or “Ixion” kinds) and butter, and a plateful +of finely grated raw roots (carrots, turnip, etc.).</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal.</i>—One cupful of Hygiama, using water in +place of milk.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner.</i>—Cheddar cheese or cottage cheese (the latter +is best); potatoes and a green vegetable, cooked by +baking or steaming, without salt. No broth or meat. +(Meat and especially meat broths are very undesirable +in this case.)</p> + +<p><i>Before retiring.</i>—Hot water only.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Deafness2" id="Deafness2"></a>ANOTHER CASE OF DEAFNESS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>J.A.B. writes:—I have been a reader of <i>The Healthy Life</i> for +the last six months, and am suffering from a complaint since I +was three years old. When three years old I was attacked by +scarlet fever and on getting better I had a discharge from my +right ear. This continued for several years, then it would +disappear and reappear at short intervals of say a few weeks. +This last few years the discharge has disappeared for six months, +only to reappear again for a week with severe pains in back +over right shoulder and right side of neck. I always feel weak +and tired when discharge reappears and sometimes experience +pains in the head and cannot remember anything for a few +minutes.</p></blockquote> + +<p>This correspondent needs a suitable diet in order to +purify his blood stream and to promote elimination of +bodily poisons which are evidently affecting his ears. +He also needs suitable massage and stretching movements +applied to the upper part of the spine, which is +functioning badly. Then he can supplement this by +taking Turkish baths or wet sheet packs to promote a +free action of the skin and thus clear away poisonous +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg617" id="Pg617"></a>waste from the system. The same diet as recommended +to the previous correspondent should be tried.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Concerning" id="Concerning"></a>CONCERNING COTTAGE CHEESE.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs C.E.J. writes:—I have been making cottage cheese curdling +the milk with lemon juice, as recommended in <i>The Healthy Life</i>. +Suppose the milk contains disease germs, would not this cheese +be injurious, as the milk is not sterilised by being brought to +boiling point? I have also been drinking the whey from the same, +as it as given in <i>The Healthy Life Beverage Book</i>. I notice in +a reply given in this month's issue that Dr Knaggs states that +the whey of the milk is the dangerous element. Since reading +this answer I have been somewhat in doubt as to drinking the +whey. I should like to know if it can be taken without harmful +effects.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Ordinary unboiled milk, free from preservatives, is far +less dangerous to health than boiled milk, because +Nature inserts in the raw milk certain germs known as +the lactic-acid-producing bacilli, which protect us from +the injurious germs. These lactic germs cause the milk +to go sour and produce in this way the much-extolled +soured or curdled milk. They convert the sugar of the +whey into lactic acid by a process of fermentation. If +milk is boiled it cannot go sour because the germs +natural to it have been destroyed by the heat and it +becomes necessary to introduce fresh lactic germs into +the boiled milk as is done in the artificial production of +curdled milk. Failing this, milk will undergo, not +lactic fermentation, but <i>putrefaction</i>, and thereby +develop highly dangerous qualities.</p> + +<p>When a person takes soured milk its lactic acid acts +as a powerful germ destroyer and in a certain concentration +it actually kills the lactic germs as well. It also +keeps down the disease-producing germs of putrefaction +which work in an alkaline medium (opposite to acid) by +depriving them of the sugar of the whey.</p> + +<p>Boiled milk, if set on one side, in warm weather, +speedily becomes alkaline and putrid or putrefactive. It +is in this condition that, when babies take it, they are +made dreadfully ill with diarrhœa and inflammation of +the stomach and bowels. Hence it is the chief cause of +the appalling mortality among infants in hot weather.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg618" id="Pg618"></a>Mrs F.K.J. need have no fear of any harm coming +to her as a result of eating cottage cheese, but she +should not take the whey unless she has decided to +undergo a whey cure and take <i>nothing but whey</i>; in this +latter case, there being no other foods taken, there will +be no germs to act harmfully upon it. If there is much +flatulence and stomach or bowel trouble sweet milk or +whey will simply feed the germs which are the cause of +the digestive trouble, or self-poisoning, and are thus +far better discarded.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Obstinate" id="Obstinate"></a>DIET FOR OBSTINATE COUGH.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Miss N.S. writes:—For the last three weeks I have been +troubled with a very bad cough It started in the first place with +a cold in the head and then it got on my chest, and do what +will I cannot get rid of it. I have been having honey and lemon +juice, and also each morning have taken olive oil and lemon +juice beaten up together, but without (apparently) any effect. I +have bad coughing fits in the night and the next morning I do +not feel up to much.</p> + +<p>I may say that I have not taken meat for about six years, and +I try to follow the kind of diet advocated in <i>The Healthy Life</i>.</p> + +<p>I am 23 years of age and a typist in an office, which is about +4 miles from my home. I try to get out in the fresh air as much +as possible to counteract any bad effects which may arise from my +work. My people at home are very much opposed to my food +reform sympathies and efforts.</p></blockquote> + +<p>This correspondent should consult a sensible doctor +about this cough and thus be on the safe side. It is +unwise to allow a cough to become chronic without +ascertaining the cause of it. Coughs are often due to +stomach and liver trouble, as distinguished from lung +trouble. In either case a salt-free diet will greatly help. +Thus</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast.</i>—All fresh fruit, nothing else but fruit. +Apples best. (<i>Not</i> stewed fruit).</p> + +<p><i>Lunch.</i>—Boiled or steamed rice, done without salt; +about 2 oz. cottage cheese or a poached egg; a little +raw carrot, turnip or artichoke, finely grated, with +dressing of fruit-oil beaten up with a raw egg. The +grated roots must be well chewed; as a change they +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg619" id="Pg619"></a>may be cut up and cooked in a casserole with very little +water.</p> + +<p><i>Dinner.</i>—Potato baked in skin, with fresh butter, a +little cheese, or flaked nuts, and a few plain rusks, or a +saucer of P.R. Breakfast Food, dry, with cream. The +honey and lemon juice should be disgarded in favour of +liquorice (little bits being sucked at intervals) or of +linseed tea. I have often found an obstinate cough yield +to a diet which contains lactic acid buttermilk, combined +with the use of the new oxygen baths. The lactic +acid buttermilk can be obtained from any good dairy +and should be taken in the morning fasting and at bedtime.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Grapes" id="Grapes"></a>WATER GRAPES.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>W.G.B. writes:—Referring to article in January number entitled +“Grape juice for all,” I think perhaps it would interest +others besides myself if Dr Knaggs would give us his opinion +on the value of what are commonly termed “Water Grapes,” as +compared with more expensive kinds.</p></blockquote> + +<p>On the Continent the grape cure is a popular method +of treatment. It is especially good for those who are +anæmic and underfed as well as for those who suffer in +the opposite way from over-feeding. It depends upon +which condition is present as to the kind of grapes +selected for the cure.</p> + +<p>Fully ripe grapes with but little acidity (water grapes) +are best suited for persons suffering from anæmia and +malnutrition. The unripe or sour grapes answer best +for cases of over-eating associated with constipation, +gout and allied disorders of nutrition. The excess of +acid and cellulose helps the bowels and promotes +elimination of the gouty poisons.</p> + +<p>Our correspondent will note that for thin people who +are pale and deficient in vitality the water grapes will +be found most salutary. They are best taken alone at +breakfast without the addition of any other form of food.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Cereal" id="Cereal"></a>CEREAL FOOD IN THE TREATMENT OF NEURITIS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>E.J.H. writes:—A friend of mine who is suffering from an +attack of neuritis (not badly) is desirous of trying the diet of twice-baked +standard bread as recommended by Dr Knaggs in an answer +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg620" id="Pg620"></a>to a query in <i>The Healthy Life</i> some months since. She has +asked me if Dr Knaggs would limit the quantity of this bread +taken in the course of the day. If Dr Knaggs will very kindly tell +me this I shall be greatly obliged.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Neuritis is a form of rheumatism or gout which +involves the nerves. Its usual starting centre is the +spine itself, from which all the nerves of the body +spring. The diet needs to be greatly restricted so that +the poisons can be eliminated. The most important +foods to cut down are the cereals because they are very +slow to digest and are apt to cause constipation with +its attendant self-poisoning of the system with uric and +other acids. Horses and animals suffer from neuritis +from over-feeding with cereals and beans, and the stockbreeder +or horse expert usually restricts these foods and +gives plenty of grass, hay, chaff and green clover, which +corrects the trouble.</p> + +<p>The same thing applies equally to man. He should +take his cereals in the form they are the most easily +assimilated—namely, twice-baked or dextrinised. Thus +“pulled” or twice-baked bread, Granose or Melarvi +biscuits, or rusks, or toasted “Maltweat” bread are +the best form of cereal for people suffering from neuritis. +Other treatment besides diet restriction is, of course, +needed to cure neuritis, because we have to clear the +clogged tissues of the poisons which are interfering with +right nerve action. Thus we can resort hot alkaline +baths, Turkish baths, massage and Osteopathic stretching +movements to help in this respect.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>Back Numbers</h3> + +<p>If readers who possess copies of the first number +of <i>The Healthy Life</i> (August 1911) will send them +to the Editors, they will receive, in exchange, +booklets to the value of threepence for each copy.</p><hr /> +</div> + + + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg621" id="Pg621"></a></p> +<div class="cover"> +<p class="center"> +<span class="coverleft">Vol. V<br /> +No. 29</span> +<span class="coverright">December<br /> +1913<br /></span> +<img src="images/title.png" width="220" height="330" +alt="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." +title="THE HEALTHY LIFE +The Independent Health Magazine +3 Amen Corner London E.C." /></p> + +<blockquote><p><i>There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and +Philosophers will all speak the same language and +understand one another.</i>—<span class="smcap">Claude Bernard.</span></p></blockquote> +</div> + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="AN_INDICATION29" id="AN_INDICATION29"></a>AN INDICATION.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapt"><span class="dropcap">T</span></span>here are some statements, the very +simplicity and truth of which create a +shock—for some people. For instance, +there are certain seekers after health who +ignore and are shocked by the very +obvious truth that “brain is flesh.” A brain +poisoned by impure blood is no fit instrument for +the spirit to manifest through, and “mental suggestion” +must inevitably prove of no avail as a +cure if the origin of the impure blood be purely +material.</p> + +<p>It is just as futile, on the other hand, to treat the +chronic indigestion that arises from persistent +worry, or indulgence in passion, by one change +after another in the dietary. The founder of homœopathy +insisted that there was no such thing as a +physical “symptom” without corresponding mental +and moral symptoms. “Not soul helps flesh more +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg622" id="Pg622"></a>than flesh helps soul.” Thus the Scientist and the +Poet come to the same truth, albeit by different +ways.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="PLAIN_WORDS_AND_COLOURED" id="PLAIN_WORDS_AND_COLOURED"></a>PLAIN WORDS AND COLOURED +PICTURES.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapw"><span class="dropcap">W</span></span>hile most of us would at first sight find +fault with Mr G.K. Chesterton's sweeping +advice—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0">“And don't believe in anything<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That can't be told in coloured pictures,”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>many would probably end by endorsing it. +But we should do so only because we were able to +give a very wide and varied meaning to “coloured +pictures.”</p> + +<p>No one ever made a coloured picture of the “wild +west wind”; but there are plenty of coloured pictures +in which there is no mistaking its presence. We all +believe in wireless telegraphy (now that it is an accomplished +fact) which is, in itself, untranslatable into +colour or line; but its mechanism can be photographed, +and its results in the world of men and ships are in all +the illustrated papers. Music, which is pure sound, is +to some the surest path to the Reality behind this +outward show things; yet to some at least of such +music is indeed form and colour, even though the +colours be beyond the rainbow. For in truth, everything +worth believing in, all those things, those ideas, +which renew the springs of our life, have form and they +have colour. Even to the colour-blind one word differeth +from another in glory.</p> + +<p>This is no idle fancy, no mere subject for academic +debate: it is the most practical subject in the world. +For even as the body is fed not by food alone but by +the living air, so is the spirit nourished not alone by +right action but by inspiring ideas. Ideas are pictures; +and the best ideas are coloured pictures.</p> + +<p>Hence the great value of words. It is idle to speak +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg623" id="Pg623"></a>of “words, idle words,” as though they were the +transient froth on the permanent ocean of thought. +They are the vehicle, the body of thought. If the +thought be shallow or silly, the words will indeed be +“idle.” But if the idea be inspiring the words will be +the channel of that inspiration.</p> + +<p>The greater part of this power in words is lost to +us to-day. Everything tempts us to hurry over words. +We talk too quickly to be able to pay that respect to +words which they deserve; and we read the newspaper, +the magazine, the novel, the play, the poem, with the +same disastrous haste. We devour the words but lose +their essence. Hence there is a grave danger that +through this neglect we shut out one of the main +streams by which our life must be fed if it is not to +shrink into mere fretful existence.</p> + +<p>There is a curious idea in some minds that fine +language consists of long words difficult to understand. +Nothing could be farther from the truth. Most of +the great words—the words of power, as the old +Kabalists called them—are short words, words in common +use. And how common is the sound of them in +the mouth of the preacher! Not long ago I heard an +intelligent and cultured man reading one of the many +beautiful passages from the English Bible:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“Ye dragons, and all deeps;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fire and hail, snow and vapour;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Stormy wind fulfilling his word;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mountains and all hills;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fruitful trees and all cedars, ...”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>and he read it as though it were a draper's sale bill. +And yet it needs but a very little imagination for such +a passage to become a series of vivid pictures. Fire, +hail, snow, vapour, hills, mountains, cedars, dragons +and deeps—every word is “a word of power” if only +there is no hurry, if only each word as it comes is given +time to call up the picture of the real thing before the +inward eye.</p> + +<p>And you may hear children of fourteen and fifteen +who have passed examinations in “English” recite +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg624" id="Pg624"></a>line after line of, say, Matthew Arnold's <i>The Forsaken +Merman</i> with a glib self-assured colourlessness due +solely to the fact that no teacher has ever taught them +respect for simple words. And what simpler words +could there be than these, for example—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“Where great whales come sailing by,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sail and sail, with unshut eye,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Round the world, for ever and aye”?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Simple, common words; yet if there is that leisurely +attention to each one as it comes what an exhilarating +picture arises of the great sea-beasts, and of “the +round ocean and the living air.”</p> + +<p>I am not pleading for the stylist's concentration on +words which exalts them above the things they body +forth. The most vivid and beautiful description of +dawn in the English language—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“Night's candles are burned out, and jocund morn<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>though spoken by the most sensitively vibrant voice in +the world, can never come near the real dawn breaking +across real mountains. But the point is that those two +lines composed of simple English words have power, if +we pay them respect, to create the dawn within the +mind, and to supply the spirit with that beauty which +is its very breath.</p> + +<p>If this patience with words, this respect for the +familiar fine things of our native tongue, this desire to +make them yield up their strength and beauty, if this +has nothing to do with healthy living I don't know what +has. William Wordsworth's—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“And vital feelings of delight<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall rear her form to stately height”<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>is only a metrical expression of a great and practical +truth. You do not need to be a “Christian Scientist” +to know that ideas and emotions can affect the stoop +of the shoulders or the lines of the mouth. Other people +besides “Eugenists” have observed that ugly or mean-spirited +parents seldom have beautiful children.</p> + +<p>But though the power of ideas is a commonplace, +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg625" id="Pg625"></a>and though psychologists tell us how much we may +improve mental concentration by letting the words of +any sentence call up each its own picture, what they a +omit to do is to recognise the need of the human spirit +for beauty. You can concentrate your thought on the +list of pickles in a grocer's price list: it is doubtless +a good exercise. But the same exercise directed to some +great phrase, such as Emerson's <i>Trust thyself: ever' +heart vibrates to that iron string</i>; or some vivid lyrical +image such as <i>All the trees of the field shall clap their +hands</i>, or even a complete poem of simple words but +permanent beauty, such as that one of Wordsworth's +beginning <i>I wandered lonely as a Cloud</i>; this will not +only improve concentration and sharpen memory: it +will enrich the mind with ever-available sources of +inspiration, courage and joy.</p> + +<p class="sig">Edgar J. Saxon.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="THE_WORLDS_WANDERERS" id="THE_WORLDS_WANDERERS"></a>THE WORLD'S WANDERERS.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0"><span class="dropcapt"><span class="dropcap">T</span></span>ell me, thou star, whose wings of light<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Speed thee in thy fiery flight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In what cavern of the night<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Will thy pinions close now?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanzadc"> +<span class="i0">Tell me, moon, thou pale and grey<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pilgrim of heaven's homeless way,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In what depth of night or day.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Seekest thou repose now?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Weary wind, who wanderest<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like the world's rejected guest,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hast thou still some secret nest<br /></span> +<span class="i2">On the tree or billow?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class="sig">Percy Bysshe Shelley.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg626" id="Pg626"></a><a name="CLOUD-CAPPED_TOWERS" id="CLOUD-CAPPED_TOWERS"></a>CLOUD-CAPPED TOWERS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapb"><span class="dropcap">B</span></span>uilding castles in the air has always +been one of the favourite amusements of +mankind. To it we owe much, not only +of the zest of life, but also of motive power +for overcoming difficulties and reaching out +towards new possibilities. Yet all literature, +and tradition that is earlier than any written +literature, is full of a deep note of warning; over and +over again we see in the dim past the shadow of a +tower that was built in vain, of walls that were piled +too high and toppled into ruin, of crests that tapped the +thunder-clouds and drew down lightning to their own +destruction. Evidently man has seen danger in his own +desire! The castle must be built with wisdom as well +as with industry and boldness if it is to escape disaster +and to become a storehouse, a safe defence or a vantage-ground +for surveying earth and sky.</p> + +<p>There is one obvious precaution we should observe in +building our castles, and that is to realise that all which +we imagine and think about tends sooner or later to +externalise itself and pass into action. Every idea tends +to glide into an ideal. Nearly all thinkers have recognised +this, and have seen that morality lies much farther +back than action, farther back than conscious will. +Banquo had dreams of ambition, as had Macbeth, but +they dealt differently with them; while Macbeth allowed +his visions to lead him on to treachery and murder, +Banquo prayed against the temptations that came to +him in sleep. To most of us imagination, sleeping +or waking, comes in less dramatic form, but we should +all think more sanely and act more wisely if we interposed +a definite revision by the conscious mind and will +of all our plans and ideals between their (perhaps quite +automatic) formation in our imagination and their translation +into fact. Slack muscle should go with the daydream +or picture of the future; we should not strike +or clench or lift until we have decided that the action +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg627" id="Pg627"></a>is right and just and wise. The girl who counted her +chickens and broke the eggs is a true enough example: +every doctor and coroner knows many instances of +results far more tragic.</p> + +<p>But sometimes the vision has nothing in it but what +is pure and good and noble. Are there any dangers +even here?</p> + +<p>There is this danger always, that we find the picture +so lovely and so satisfying that we cannot summon up +courage and energy to turn away from it towards the +serious work which it suggests. The castle in the air +is radiant and tall, but it is generally meant as a model +for a tougher building made out of common earth, by +toil and pain, amidst mud and dust. It is so much +easier, as Sordello knew, to imagine than to do. Actual +circumstances, real life, other people all this that lies +round us is sterner stuff than our easily moulded material +of dreams. Who has not at some time or other lain +sleepily in bed of a morning and gone through in +thought the processes of getting up, until a louder call +or an alarum bell has awakened the realisation that the +task is not yet begun? Who has not been tempted +to shirk practice of some sort in thinking of a prize? +Who has not sometimes built expectation higher and +higher until his demands of fate have become so great +that, in despair of making good, he has let the whole +plan slip away into the valley of forgotten dreams?</p> + +<p>These dangers, the almost involuntary carrying out +of unworthy aims that have been cherished in thought +and the loss of vigour for real achievement, due to too +easy an indulgence in blameless aspiration, are fairly +obvious and have long been recognised.</p> + +<p>There is another that has been seen from time to +time and occasionally expressed.<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> We have seen that +too loose a dream-world may make the world in which +we live seem dull and ordinary. But is not the converse +at least as often true? If our thought-world is too +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg628" id="Pg628"></a>narrow, too selfish or too weak, all our ordinary work, +sound and compact though it may be, is stultified, misdirected, +often wasted. We all know how in the industrial +world something more than industry is needed; +in the emotional world something more than a clumsy +and unapprehending goodwill. We need a certain insight +to turn these solid qualities of labour and feeling +to the best account. “A man's reach should exceed +his grasp,” a great poet tells us, and even the birds or +beavers do not go on quite blindly with their building, +but, when effort on effort has been destroyed by wind +and water or man's interference, they at last accommodate +their instinct to circumstances so as to give +themselves a better chance of fulfilling their deeper +purpose. In many ways we have hardly outgrown +the beaver stage: wars, accidents, disease, disputes—how +many times must we try over again the same path +which has led us before into trouble and disaster before +we put our imagination seriously to work on the problem +and try to find some more complete solution?</p> + +<p>Of all the dangers of the use of the imagination, +perhaps the greatest of all is the neglect to use it, the +denial of it and its consequent starvation.</p> + +<p class="sig">E.M. Cobham.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16">[16]</a> Mrs Book sees an allusion to this danger, as well as to the +first, in the warnings against covetousness in the Tenth Commandment.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="THE_PLAY_SPIRIT_A_CRITICISM" id="THE_PLAY_SPIRIT_A_CRITICISM"></a>THE PLAY SPIRIT<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a>: A CRITICISM.</h2> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17">[17]</a> See the article, “<a href="#THE_PLAY_SPIRIT">The Play Spirit</a>,” in the <a href="#Pg581">November issue</a>.</p> + +<p><span class="dropcapw"><span class="dropcap">W</span></span>ith your contributor's description of the +play spirit, that happy leisure from self and +its responsibilities in order that time and +thought and heart may be filled with wider +inspiration, most of your readers will, I +think, entirely agree, and all of us will be +grateful for the spirited claim on behalf of “play.”</p> + +<p>The one criticism that occurs to the mind is that a +touch of professionalism, of patronage towards the +ordinary person, has crept into the author's thought +and peeps out through many of the sentences.</p> + +<p>“Common men” ... “ordinary everyday people” +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg629" id="Pg629"></a>... “average humanity,” ... “a worker” who ... “cannot +play”; does the writer of the Play Spirit +really show us what is in their hearts? He is an +artist in words, he is a keen admirer of other arts, he +is interested in thinking; it seems all but impossible +to him that anyone can have “freedom” without the +power of expressing it, without even the consciousness +of its possession.</p> + +<p>We are all too apt, I think, to imagine that our own +discoveries of the mystery and magic of life are peculiar +to ourselves, or shared only with a sympathetic few, +passed on sometimes (by the <i>very</i> few who have both +will and power to do so) to such of the outsiders as +are interested enough to enter into that enchanted +garden and take gifts from it. But has not the supreme +discovery of the greatest artists, philosophers and +teachers been that the “everyday people” <i>do</i> live as +deeply and broadly as the thinkers and artists? They +are inarticulate and cannot tell what they see, but to +them life is made amusing, or interesting, or consecrated +according to their temperament.</p> + +<p>Who can say what the Cornish sea means to that +tired worker? At least it seems a boldness that is +almost insolence to decide what it did <i>not</i> mean to her!</p> + +<p>Has not every life its revelations? Is it not because +we do <i>not</i> see as God does that some one particular +life which strikes across our path cannot reveal its +revelation over again to us?</p> + +<p>Surely “the commonplace is the highest place.” Or +rather, there are no hierarchies of the soul. Artist or +seamstress or carpenter, we live by the glory that flows +to us through whatever curtains of environment are +round us.</p> + +<p>I have not a word of criticism for the writer's ideal. +All that I would suggest is that the ideal is really +present in the world, “common” as the “everyday” +flowers at his feet. Not all can sing or paint or write, +but many more can laugh or run and all, perhaps, can +love and pray.</p> + +<p class="sig">L.E. Hawks.</p> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg630" id="Pg630"></a><a name="ON_LEARNING_TO_BREATHE" id="ON_LEARNING_TO_BREATHE"></a>ON LEARNING TO BREATHE.<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></h2> + + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18">[18]</a> This is article has been specially written as a preface for <i>Health +Through Breathing</i>, by Olga Lazarus, shortly to be published +(1s. net).</p> + +<p><span class="dropcapt"><span class="dropcap">T</span></span>o breathe correctly and sufficiently is to live +more healthily. This dictum is incontrovertible, +and it becomes my pleasant duty +herein to demonstrate its truthfulness. And, +after a careful perusal of the hundred exercises +which the authoress has so clearly and +succinctly described, I am still more convinced of the +very great, one might almost say of the tremendous, +importance of deep-breathing exercises. What has +struck me so forcibly in this little book is the fact that +there is no undue enthusiasm evident; no embellishment +of the subject; no extravagant claims for the system +advocated; just a plain sane, sober and intelligent +description of procedures of immense value to all who +would either keep, or improve, their health. The +authoress has, as it were, laid before the reader a feast +of good things in the way of physical culture, and leaves +it at that. She seems to have brought into purview a +splendid variation of the exercises, and indeed every +mode of breathing and exercise likely to be beneficial—to +those in health as out of it.</p> + +<p>Reverting for a moment to the supreme importance of +the subject, I may say that it has of late years come +home to me more than ever, and with greater insistency, +that innumerable ills of to-day are due to faulty breathing +and lack of correct physical exercises generally. I +wonder how many of us could conscientiously say that +we devote fifteen or twenty minutes regularly every day +to the system? And yet such a great deal could be done +for health in that time! No, we “haven't time,” or +we “oversleep ourselves so often,” or we make some +such other flimsy excuse; but of course we ought to +“make time,” we ought not to “oversleep ourselves.” +The fact is, rather, that most of us are too lazy to go +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg631" id="Pg631"></a>through the exercises, even though we may know of +their transcendent benefit. In the words of the poet: +“Let us, then, be up and doing”—that is, up in time in +the morning in order to be going through exercises +such as described in this little volume.</p> + +<p>It is within my personal knowledge, and must be +within the personal knowledge of every actively engaged +physician, that but very few of us yet have any idea, +in spite of all the teaching and the advocacy of it, of +really deep and scientific breathing. If the system could +be made quite general and enforced upon us—especially +when young or adolescent—we should not see, as we +do now, <i>thousands</i> walking about the streets whose +nostrils are too narrow through insufficient breathing, +whose lungs are not properly inflated as they inspire; +and, as a consequence, who have neither the bloom nor +the carriage of health.</p> + +<p>Perhaps if I show here how vastly important it is for +us to have our blood well oxygenated, it may be some +sort of encouragement for Mrs Lazarus's readers to +persevere with and <i>work into their lives</i> the system she +advocates and describes.</p> + +<p>If we did not renew the oxygen in our lungs to a +sufficient extent, we should die in a few minutes. We +can do without food for many days; without water for +less days, but only for a few minutes without oxygen. +Anything which tends to increase the intake of this +vitally important element, whether deeper breathing or +exercises, will have a very pronounced effect upon +our general health. Now deep breathing is, <i>par +excellence</i>, the way to bring about this desirable condition. +It may interest the readers of this little book +if I remind them that in the ordinary way the total +capacity of the lungs is about 340 cubic inches; as a +rule, the amount of air breathed amounts only to some +20 or 30 cubic inches, but this, by special effort, can +be increased by some 110 cubic inches. Thus it is +demonstrated how much more air we could take into +the lungs by better and deeper breathing, thereby securing, +sooner or later, a greater natural expansion of the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg632" id="Pg632"></a>lungs, with the result, of course, of improved health +generally.</p> + +<p>It would surprise most people if they tested their +breathing capacity by the aid of the spirometer, to +discover how inefficiently they did breathe; in other +words, how much below the normal was the amount of +air they were usually inspiring. Encouragement might +also be found in the matter—incentive, that is, to learn +how to breathe and exercise correctly and scientifically—if +mention were here made categorically of the very +profound influences upon certain physiological processes +of our organisation which are brought about if we would +but mend our ways in this respect. Space will only +allow of a few such to be detailed.</p> + +<p>1. The circulation is improved and equalised. This +implies much more than appears on the surface: it +means that the blood is made to flow from any +congested internal organ (such as the liver, stomach, +etc.) towards the peripheries—that is, the extremities +and everywhere where there is the capillary system—the +changing-place between the venous and the arterial +blood; thus we at the same time warm our extremities +and relieve internal congestion. In other words, “to +bring the blood to the surface” in many conditions of +ill-health is of paramount importance.</p> + +<p>2. It will strengthen the action of the heart and lungs. +For lack of proper breathing exercises the heart's walls +get thin, the expansive power of the lungs' tissue gets +less, and as a consequence, when any little extra strain +is thrown upon either, permanent damage is often the +result.</p> + +<p>3. In any tendency to constipation, indigestion and +similar conditions, such exercises are especially beneficial, +and that both by flushing the system with more +oxygen and by mechanically exerting pressure on the +different organs—thus giving those latter what is +actually a good massaging!</p> + +<p>4. Indirectly, such exercises must of necessity be +splendid for “nerves,” as we thus get these supplied +with a larger amount of purified blood, and of course +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg633" id="Pg633"></a>this must result in better and heightened nerve and +brain action.</p> + +<p>And all this—and much more which we have not +space enough to deal with—being so, it might now +be well asked, who and what class of individuals would +benefit by these exercises. The list is a long one, and +would include practically all growing children and +adolescents—in order that adenoids, narrow chests, +debility in general, malnutrition and a host of other +abnormal states might be either cured or prevented. +Innumerable adults would also benefit by such exercises: +those who are in health, in order to keep so; those who +are depressed mentally, or who are suffering from constipation, +dyspepsia, anæmia, obesity, debility, etc.</p> + +<p>Even those who are “getting on” in years could, +with care and caution, go through such exercises to +advantage, providing, that is, that their heart, lungs +and blood vessels are fairly normal; it is only where +there is serious organic disease such exercises must be +withheld.</p> + +<p>Thus we have a big field for such a system which Mrs +Lazarus has described so fully in this little work of +hers; it deserves wide recognition, and my final word +to the reader is not only to keep the book as a “boon +companion,” but to encourage others to purchase it and +to carry out its most excellent teachings.</p> + +<p class="sig">J. Stenson Hooker, M.D.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="LETTERS_OF_A_LAYMAN" id="LETTERS_OF_A_LAYMAN"></a>LETTERS OF A LAYMAN.</h2> + +<h3><a name="Doctors" id="Doctors"></a><span class="smcap">1.—Doctors and Health.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="dropcapm"><span class="dropcap">M</span></span>edicine is a progressive science—and +art, if we judge by the statistics given of +the fall in the rate of mortality. Even +this, however, must be carefully analysed, +because a good deal of the fall of mortality +is due to the great reduction in the birthrate +which has taken place in the last twenty years. +Still, after this has been allowed for, there is probably +a balance in the doctors' favour—something to the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg634" id="Pg634"></a>good of the science and art of medicine. Doubtless +the science is improved and the practical advice offered +by medical men is better and more effectual than it used +to be.</p> + +<p>A layman, nevertheless, may be forgiven if, with all +due deference, he is tempted to believe that many of +the benefits attributed to medicine have been achieved +through attention to sanitation—cleanliness and +ventilation. Of course this is due to the work of +science, which necessarily includes the members of the +medical profession, but it is not due to medical science +<i>qua</i> medical science.</p> + +<p>The terms ‘sanitation’ and ‘sanitary’ nearly always +connote only ideas associated with cleanliness, +free ventilation, etc. They scarcely connote ideas of +food management, or, if they do, it is only to the +extent of inferring that food shall not be adulterated +or of bad quality—and perhaps that there shall be +enough of it.</p> + +<p>Such questions as what food shall we eat, and how +much; what are the real reasons for taking food into +the body, whether it is to give strength and heat to the +body or only to supply the body's waste, as Dr Rabagliati +contends—these and other relevant questions are +usually left to unorthodox members of the medical +profession to declare upon. They seem to be very +important questions, but we do not find that they were +discussed—or ever mentioned—at the thirty-fourth +International Medical Congress, which completed its +sittings several months ago.</p> + +<p>Obviously, the practical questions of food supply are +answered very differently, according as one <i>believes</i> +they must be answered one way or another, as, for +instance, in Dr Rabagliati's or Dr Haig's way. But +that they are questions not worthy of consideration +by doctors in congress may be taken as an ominous +sign.</p> + +<p>It must not be forgotten that we owe many valuable +discoveries of medical science to qualified members of +the profession, just as discoveries of mechanical science +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg635" id="Pg635"></a>are made by men working at their respective trades. +We have sorrowfully to admit, however, that nearly +all the great achievements upon which medicine plumes +herself are in the direction of increasing the doctors' +power over his patient, and seldom of giving his patient +power over disease. It is also true that the advocacy +by unorthodox members of the profession of simple and +natural remedies often involves them in a charge of +charlatanism, and subjects them to persecution by +medical associations.</p> + +<p>If the medical profession were all that it is supposed +to be, it might be good that the reformer should suffer +in solitude while his experiments and methods were +subjected to adequate tests and criticism. If the +associated physicians and surgeons jealously guarded +the public from quackery while they impartially investigated +every fresh discovery, the true reformer would +welcome the protection afforded him from the “counter-currents +of senseless clamour” within the doctors' own +ranks, occasioned by party and vested interests.</p> + +<p>It may be true that “loneliness tends to save the +Seer from becoming a charlatan and to make of him a +true Reformer.” But it is not that peculiar loneliness +of the Seer that the medical trade unions afford the +reforming physician. That is inevitably and sufficiently +accorded him by the “unwillingness of the masses to +enter into the thoughts of the Seers.”<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> An ignorant and +inert people will always follow a charlatan, because +they like to do things which are mysterious and involve +no trouble on their part.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19">[19]</a> The reason “Why the Prophet should be lonely” is perfectly +elaborated in a chapter under that title in <i>Logic Taught by Love</i>, +from which I have quoted.</p> + +<p>The Seer among doctors is boycotted by his fellow +medicos <i>after</i> he and his co-workers have tested their +experiments for themselves, weeded out what is false +from what is true, and proved their methods to be right. +Not only that, but too often it turns out that it is +proper food selection, cleanliness, personal effort and +restraint advocated by doctors as substitutes for serums +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg636" id="Pg636"></a>and drugs, which excites the opprobrium of medical +coteries. Whereas, the misguided Serum Specialist, +who ought to be saved from himself, and from whom +the public ought to be protected, is given full medical +honours—and facilities to become that most dangerous +type of charlatan, the licensed one.</p> + +<p>There are doubtless many abstract questions of health +and disease which orthodox and unorthodox doctors alike +are unable satisfactorily to settle. But if that be admitted, +then it is certainly not in the public interest that +serum treatments should be accepted as almost the +last words in medical science. More anti-social still +is it to attempt to justify the compulsory orders of +Parliament that expensive sanatoria shall be built to +cope with disease that might be more economically and +more satisfactorily treated.</p> + +<p>Is there not too little consideration given to theoretical +issues underlying practical experience of disease? +Is there not too great an anxiety to force remedies +at the public expense before all the bearings of the +different questions and their phases have been considered? +All new methods savour too much of compulsion. +They all require the provision of large armies +of officials to carry them out. It is interesting to note +that the successors of the men who told us how grievously +the Church has failed because she is established, +should be so anxious to more firmly establish the +medical priesthood.</p> + +<p>Modern statecraft calls out to us: ‘we will appoint +officials to inquire into and decide upon what is to be +done, but we will make no inquiries into the real nature +of this disease and that: we will find out remedies +which, in the form of serums to be injected into the +blood, shall counteract the effects of disease: we will +also appoint, at your expense, doctors to perform these +operations: we will force the man whose family may +have the misfortune to contract a disease, which the +doctors have not told him how to prevent, to submit +them to such treatment.’ But nothing is said about the +desirability of exercising government over oneself, one's +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg637" id="Pg637"></a>body and one's mind! And nothing is <i>said</i> either, but +it is suggested, that, if one accepts meekly coercive +treatment by official doctors, one may probably be +able to ignore the laws of life and health without having +to pay the penalty.</p> + +<p>No sane and properly instructed citizens would be +satisfied to have State officials compel them to do what +they ought to do for themselves. It is because of this +and because the suggestions and compulsions of modern +medicine are in keeping with the prevailing philosophy +that accumulates knowledge without wisdom, that we +need such counteracting influences as are afforded by +journals like <i>The Healthy Life.</i></p> + +<p class="sig">Layman.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_DOCTOR_ON_DOCTORS" id="A_DOCTOR_ON_DOCTORS"></a>A DOCTOR ON DOCTORS.</h2> + + +<p>“I charge that whereas the first duty of a physician +is to instruct the people in the laws of health and thus +prevent disease, the tendency has ever been towards +a conspiracy of mystery, humbug, and silence.”</p> + +<p>“I charge that the general tendency of the profession +has been to depreciate the importance of personal and +municipal cleanliness, and to inculcate a reliance on +drug medicines, vaccination, and other unscientific +expedients.”</p> + +<p class="sig">Alexander Ross, M.D., F.R.S.</p> + +<div class="box"><hr /> +<h3>To Our Readers.</h3> + +<p>Readers who appreciate the independence and all-round +advocacy of <i>The Healthy Life</i> can materially +assist the extension of its circulation by tactfully +urging their local newsagent to have the magazine +regularly displayed for sale. An attractive monthly +poster can always be had free from the Publishers, +3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</p><hr /> +</div> + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg638" id="Pg638"></a><a name="MODERN_GERM_MANIA_A_CASE" id="MODERN_GERM_MANIA_A_CASE"></a>MODERN GERM MANIA: A CASE +IN POINT.</h2> + + +<p><span class="dropcapu"><span class="dropcap">U</span></span>nder the sensational heading, <i>Doomed to +Carry Germs: Woman Typhoid Victim for +Life</i>, the following account appeared recently +in <i>News of the World</i>:—</p> + +<blockquote><p>Almost unique in medical history is the case of +a woman typhoid carrier, who, it is said, will +carry the bacilli with her through life. The case is described by +Dr Barbara Cunningham in a report of the Manchester Medical +Officer of Health. In order that the woman shall cease to be +a source of danger—as she has been keeping lodgers—the health +authorities are giving her 7s. a week, and that, with her old-age +pension of 5s., will be sufficient to keep her without +lodgers. The case has aroused much interest in Manchester. +The principal restrictions on the part of the Health Department +are that she must not cook or wash for anyone. Anyone can, +however, cook for her. In discussing the case Dr Martin, who +for 25 years was Medical Officer of Health for Gorton, remarked +that in some cases of typhoid carriers the infection ceased to +exist for a time, but it was unusual for it to exist year after +year. “The reason for the woman referred to carrying the +typhoid bacilli with her through life is,” he added, “because +of a peculiarity of constitution. There is no remedy to be found +for it at present, and no means of freeing her from the germs, +hence the reward offered by an American to anyone who can +find a remedy for such cases. The germs themselves are proof +against remedies, and they go on multiplying. The woman +is incurable, and you cannot kill the germs without killing +the woman. It is the first case, to my knowledge, +where the health authorities have taken such measures to +prevent a spread of the infection.” The history of the affair +is interesting. The woman's case had been reported to the +authorities, and when her lodger became ill with typhus she +was suspected, and was found to be giving off large numbers +of typhoid bacilli. She was placed in Monsall Hospital for +two months, during which time she was treated with gradually +increasing doses of vaccine prepared in the Public Health +Laboratory, York Place. When discharged, three separate tests +were made as regards the typhoid bacilli. For one week after +her discharge the organisms did not reappear, but during the +second week a few colonies were grown, and in the third and +fourth weeks the number increased. Shortly after that her +lodger developed enteric fever.</p></blockquote> + +<p>This case is instructive, because it shows very clearly +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg639" id="Pg639"></a>the utter futility of the modern method of treating infectious +diseases by means of drugs and vaccines.</p> + +<p>It is well known that the infecting agent or microbe +found in cases of typhoid fever originates in man himself, +that, in fact, it is essentially a man-made disorder. +Dr Budd, who was the first to fully investigate this +important subject, brought together the most convincing +considerations to show this.</p> + +<p>We know further that impure water and milk, shellfish +and certain foods which are contaminated with +sewage are capable of giving rise to epidemics of this +complaint.</p> + +<p>This was shown in Paris in May last, when a plumber +carelessly connected a pipe along which Seine water +flowed to a drinking-water pipe. The typhoid germ is +always present in Seine water and this mistake cost the +lives of twenty people.</p> + +<p>Dr Freeman, an American doctor, who has studied +the habits of the typhoid germ, tells us that it does not +survive so well outside the human body as does the +tubercle microbe, but it can, nevertheless, do an incalculable +amount of mischief when the local authorities +are careless about the matter of sewage disposal.</p> + +<p>A great deal has been heard of late of what are +termed Typhoid Carriers. There are apparently numbers +of people who, while they appear to be in good health, +yet harbour these germs and are thus liable to infect +others with them; and the problem is what to do with +them.</p> + +<p>The orthodox authorities, as happened in the case +cited above, would like to isolate them indefinitely and +even to pension them off for life, but this seems to be +a hopeless way out of the difficulty.</p> + +<p>The remedy seems obvious to me. Let us stop the +drugs and serums and use common-sense hygiene of +the body instead. This must be patent to anyone who +has any knowledge of the subject; but why the authorities +do not put it into execution I am at a loss to +imagine. Surely the right thing to do is to clear away +the impurities in which the typhoid germs live. <i>By +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg640" id="Pg640"></a>depriving them of the material or soil in which they +grow and propagate we should practically starve them +out of existence.</i></p> + +<p>Moreover, this seems to me to be a perfectly easy +procedure. If this woman were handed over to me for +treatment I should at once place her on an antiseptic +diet consisting solely of salads, grated roots, fresh +fruits, sour buttermilk and dextrinised cereals. The +effect of this diet would be to cleanse and sterilise the +entire digestive tract, and thus break up and clear +away the soil in which the microbes are living. Supplementary +to this cleansing diet other means could be +adopted to effect a general purification of the whole +body. Thus vapour baths could be used to promote +skin action; beverages could be taken morning and +night, consisting of distilled water with lemon juice or +suitable herbal “teas” to promote free action of the +kidneys; and colon-flushing treatment could be used to +fully cleanse the colon, or large bowel.</p> + +<p>By combined treatment of this rational order, I am +convinced that this woman would speedily become freed +from her unpleasant visitors and would be enabled to +return to her relations without, as it were, a stain +upon her character.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="BURIED_TALENT_COMPETITION" id="BURIED_TALENT_COMPETITION"></a>BURIED TALENT COMPETITION.</h2> + + +<p>The Editors of <i>The Healthy Life</i> are convinced that +there are many men and women who can write well +and interestingly on subjects relating to health in its +many aspects; and they wish to unearth this talent.</p> + +<p>They therefore offer a <i>First Prize</i> of <i>Two Guineas</i>, a +<i>Second Prize</i> of <i>One Guinea</i>, and a <i>Third Prize</i> of <i>Books</i> +(published at <i>The Healthy Life</i> Office) to the value of +Half-a-Guinea, for the best ESSAY, SKETCH or +SHORT STORY appropriate to the pages of <i>The +Healthy Life.</i></p> + +<p>Please read the following Conditions carefully:—</p> + +<p class="center"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg641" id="Pg641"></a>CONDITIONS.</p> + +<blockquote><ol><li> Each Essay, Short Story, or Sketch must contain <i>not less +than 1000 words</i>, and <i>not more than 2000 words.</i></li> + +<li> Each Essay, Short Story, or Sketch must be written (or +typed) on one side of the paper only, leaving at least one inch of +margin on which each 100 words must be indicated in figures.</li> + +<li> Each attempt must be accompanied by the front cover (or +top part of cover showing date) of either the December or January +numbers. (Where more than one MS. is sent in by one contributor, +extra covers in proportion must be enclosed.)</li> + +<li> The full name and address of the competitor must be written +at the foot of last page, in addition to the competitor's <i>nom de +plume</i> (if any).</li> + +<li> All Essays, Short Stories or Sketches must be sent in not +later than the 31st of January 1914, addressed <i>Buried Talent</i>, +<i>The Healthy Life</i>, 3 Tudor Street, London, E.C.</li> + +<li> No one who is at present, or has ever been, a regular +contributor to <i>The Healthy Life</i> is eligible for a prize.</li> + +<li> The Editors reserve the right to publish any contribution +sent in under this Competition.</li> + +<li> The decision of the Editors will be final and no correspondence +can be entered into with unsuccessful competitors.</li></ol></blockquote> + +<p>Competitors are asked to note that legibility of handwriting +will carry weight as well as intrinsic merit.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES4" id="HEALTHY_LIFE_RECIPES4"></a>HEALTHY LIFE RECIPES.</h2> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Soups.</span></h3> + +<p><span class="dropcapm"><span class="dropcap">M</span></span>any cases of ill-health demand that the +meals should be as dry as possible. Having +granted this, it will be admitted that +there is quite a proper place for soups in +ordinary everyday food reform catering.</p> + +<p>The chief objection to ordinary soups is +that they are made on a basis of meat stock and +flavoured with one of various “meat extract” preparations. +Meat stock, meat gravy and meat extract all +alike represent the least desirable elements in flesh +food, namely, the acids and tissue-wastes of the living +animal at the moment of its death—acids and tissue-debris +which were on their way to normal excretion +via the lymph channels, veins, etc.</p> + +<p>It is therefore only common-sense to avoid such +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg642" id="Pg642"></a>soup-bases, especially as the most excellent soups can +be made without recourse to any animal product.</p> + +<p>The juices of vegetables, being rich in alkaline +“salts” and other organic elements, are the +natural cleansing agents in a rational diet. Hence +to obtain a maximum <i>remedial</i> effect, vegetable soup +should be taken in the form of a clear, unflavoured +broth, quite apart from the solid meals, and preferably +on retiring. But for the dinner or supper soup, +some richness of flavour and creaminess of substance +are pleasing and legitimate.</p> + +<p>The following recipes explain, first, how to prepare +vegetable “stock,” and then how to make rich, creamy +nourishing soups, on the basis of that “stock.” Each +recipe will, of course, suggest variations.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">How To Make Vegetable Stock.</span></h3> + +<p>Put any fresh vegetables in season in a large stewpot—being +careful not to include <i>overmuch</i> cabbage or +other coarse green leaves, as these give a rather strong +flavour—with a quart or more of water, cover, and +simmer gently for at least two hours. The outer leaves +discarded when preparing vegetables for the table, the +stalks and stems, and the peelings of apples, potatoes, +etc., should all be used for stock, care being taken, of +course, to cleanse them well first, cutting out any +insect-eaten or decayed parts.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Almond Cream Soup.</span></h3> + +<p>Mix two tablespoonfuls of fine wholemeal or good +“standard” flour into a smooth paste with a little +water, add this to the hot stock (as above), and stir till +soup is thickened. Just before serving stir in a tablespoonful +of Almond Cream (either “P.R.” or Mapleton's).</p> + +<p><i>The addition of the almond cream gives the above a nutritive +value, apart from the tonic and cleansing elements in the stock.</i></p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Nourishing Artichoke Soup.</span></h3> + +<p>Pare, scrub and cut into small pieces, 1 lb. of artichokes +and put immediately into a pan with a pint of +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg643" id="Pg643"></a>water or milk and water. Boil till soft, then rub +through a wire sieve, using a wooden spoon. Put +back in pan, add a little more water, a little chopped +parsley, and a small piece of butter (or nut butter). +Bring to the boil, stirring well; stir in a tablespoonful +of Pinekernel Cream (“P.R.” or Mapleton's), and +serve at once.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">Leek And Celery Soup.</span></h3> + +<p>Put four well-cleansed medium-sized leeks (cut up +small), the outer parts of a head of celery (chopped), +a quart of water and 2 oz. unpolished Japan rice, into +a pan and simmer for two hours. Rub through wire +sieve, return to pan, bring to the boil, and serve.</p> + +<p><i>This soup is not so much nutritive as cleansing and antiseptic.</i></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="TASTE_OR_THEORY" id="TASTE_OR_THEORY"></a>TASTE OR THEORY?</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Fruit and the Oxalic Acid Bogey.</span></h3> + + +<p><span class="dropcapm"><span class="dropcap">M</span></span>any and varied are the creeds of Health +Reformers, but all may be included within +two main camps. And the opposing +battle-cries are Instinct <i>versus</i> Intellect, +Taste <i>versus</i> Theory, <i>à priori versus à +posteriori</i>, Motives <i>versus</i> Purposes. Some +overlapping and confusion of creed may be found in +both camps, but in the main one is filled with lovers of +Nature, the other with devotees of Science.</p> + +<p>“We believe in simplicity,” cries the Nature-lover +from the meadow where he is taking a sun-bath; “you +are so complex, so artificial.”</p> + +<p>“We believe in being ‘sensible,’” retorts the devotee +of Science from the cabinet where he is taking an +electric light bath, “you are so extreme.”</p> + +<p>“Not extreme—consistent. Your treatment varies +every month as the decrees of ‘Science’ change.”</p> + +<p>“But your treatment varies every minute as the +wind and clouds change. I can keep mine constant +with mathematical accuracy, or vary the light to a +nicety by pressing a button.”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg644" id="Pg644"></a>And so also is it with regard to diet. The person who +talks learnedly about germs and calories (though he never +saw a germ or measured a calorie in his life) will be +found in the same camp with the electric light advocate, +while this other who cultivates a taste in harmony with +Nature by consuming what he likes best of her unaltered +products, he is found arm in arm with the sun-bather. +But Science will by no means allow him to eat his +uncooked food in peace. “If we all adopt <i>that</i> diet,” +her pseudo-disciples cry, “what is to become of the +potatoes?”</p> + +<p>Now, with regard to uncooked foods, it would seem +that as little fault can be found with ripe fruit in its +natural state as with any article of diet. Yet even here +“Science” holds up a warning hand and is succeeding +in scaring people away from one of the most harmless, +most wholesome and most neglected of foods.</p> + +<p>Leaving generalities, let us come to a specific case, an +actual difficulty propounded to me by a sufferer, one +who had spent her substance till she could spend no +more in having various parts of herself examined and in +learned prescriptions and processes of cure, but who +found herself as far from health as ever. Obsessed by +certain theories of “Science,” this lady had acquired +a dread of sugar <i>in every form</i>. Hence her query addressed +to me: “In your book, <i>No Rheumatism</i>, you +say that sugar is to be avoided. Why, then, do you +recommend fruit, which is mostly sugar?”</p> + +<p>I replied as follows: “The reason I recommend ripe +uncooked fruit—in spite of its containing a certain +quantity of sugar—is that it contains also purifying +salts, and that for most people it is the pleasantest form +in which these salts can be taken. Moreover, fruit +sugar appears to be more wholesome than that formed +from starch. When you say that ‘fruit is mostly +sugar,’ are you not leaving the water of the fruit out +of account? As the water often amounts to 90 per cent. +this makes all the difference. Taking the fruits generally +grown in this country the average proportion of +sugar is seven per cent.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg645" id="Pg645"></a>[This statement is based on the following figures +given in Goodale's Physiological Botany:—</p> + +<table summary="The percentage of sugar in several fruits."> +<tr><td>Apples </td><td>contain </td><td>7.73 per cent. sugar</td></tr> +<tr><td>Pears </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>8.26 <span style="margin:auto 2em auto 2em;">"</span> "</td></tr> +<tr><td>Plums </td><td><span style="margin:auto 1em auto 1em;">"</span> </td><td>3.56 <span style="margin:auto 2em auto 2em;">"</span> "</td></tr> +<tr><td>Strawberries </td><td> </td><td>6.28 <span style="margin:auto 2em auto 2em;">"</span> "</td></tr> +<tr><td>Gooseberries </td><td> </td><td>7.03 <span style="margin:auto 2em auto 2em;">"</span> "</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>Grapes are stated to contain 24.36 per cent, but often +contain much less and sometimes even more.]</p> + +<p>“Now a person eating fruit <i>ad lib.</i>, but allowed other +foods, will hardly ever eat more than a pound or two +a day (generally less). But suppose him to eat two +pounds. Seven per cent. of this is 2¼ oz. If he eats +only 1 lb. he takes 1⅛ oz. sugar. Now compare this +with the amount he gets from starchy foods, say, bread, +which contains fifty per cent. of starch and sugar. As +the starch, if it is to be assimilated, must be (and as a +general rule practically all is) converted into sugar +during <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: The original reads 'digeston'.">digestion</ins>, we get from 1 lb. of bread 8 oz. of +sugar (to be exact, nearly 9 oz., because starch forms +rather more than its own weight of sugar). But the +weight of bread allowed for daily food, if no other +starchy or sugary food is taken, is—according to orthodox +physiology books—1 lb., 11 oz., yielding over 14 oz. +of sugar. Now I reduce the starchy food to 8 oz. or +less (<i>No Rheumatism</i>, p. 34), yielding at most about +4½ oz. of sugar. You see, then, that the patient can +now afford to take even 2 lbs. of fruit, because this will +bring his total of sugar up to only 6¾ oz., as against +14 oz. allowed by the orthodox. And if, as I recommend +(p. 33), fruits containing but little sugar (especially +cucumbers) are taken, his total sugar under my regime +will be even less than 6¾ oz.</p> + +<p>“As so many people fail to distinguish between fruit +sugar occurring naturally in fruit and ordinary separated +and concentrated cane sugar, or even beet sugar separated +by various chemicals—‘shop sugar,’ in fact—I +translate for you a passage from Dr Carton's <i>Trois +Aliments Meurtriers</i><a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a>:—</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20">[20]</a> <i>Some Popular Foodstuffs Exposed</i>, translated by D.M. +Richardson. 1s. net. Daniel.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg646" id="Pg646"></a>“‘Let us proceed now to the study of the third +deadly food. The sugar contained in vegetables and +raw fruits is a living aliment, physiologically combined +with the protoplasm of the vegetable cells, associated +with ferments and with vitalised chemical salts. The +absorption of this natural sugar is effected by a +harmonious contact, by an exchange of energy between +the living vegetable cells and our living digestive cells.</p> + +<p>“‘The sugar of commerce, on the contrary, is a dead +food which has lost all association with vegetable protoplasm, +with vitalised mineral salts and with oxidising +ferments which would render it physiological. It is +nothing more than a drug, a dangerous chemical, because +Nature has nowhere presented it to us in this +form.... Its absorption involves an anti-physiological +irritation which over-excites the viscera, and when +repeated ends by profoundly altering them.’”</p> + +<p>“This is all very well,” cries Pseudo-Science, “but +people may eat too much fruit.”</p> + +<p>“Certainly, but then I warn them at once,” quoth +Taste.</p> + +<p>“But they have an idea it is good for them, and they +disregard your warnings.”</p> + +<p>“If they ‘have an idea’ which runs counter to my +warnings and my penalties, to say nothing of my +promises and my rewards, then they can only get that +idea from you, Mr Pseudo-Science, with your theories +and your figures and your long words.”</p> + +<p>“Why not from your relative, Unnatural Taste? +Anyhow, it is my duty to warn them.”</p> + +<p>“If they don't heed my warning, they certainly won't +heed yours,” says Taste.</p> + +<p>“But I can paint such a picture of the trouble they +store up for the future if they persist in excessive fruit +eating!”</p> + +<p>“Never mind about persisting and storing up for the +future. I punish excess in fruit eating as in everything +else by prompt discomfort and pain.”</p> + +<p>“But what do you know about oxalic acid?”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg647" id="Pg647"></a>“Enough to avoid it. Like every other poison it is +repugnant to me.”</p> + +<p>“Yet fruit which is so nice in the mouth may ferment +in the intestines and form that very poison. Then what +are you going to do about it?”</p> + +<p>“Take care that not too much fruit is eaten another +time.”</p> + +<p>“But in the meantime the oxalic acid already formed +must be neutralised at once.”</p> + +<p>“No, no! It would be a pity to do that. Oxalic +acid is the latest fashion. What would your patients +do without it? And what would you do without your +patients?”</p> + +<p>“It must be neutralised at once. It can only be +neutralised at the cost of abstracting lime from the +system. Result: oxalate of lime, forming calculus, or +‘stone,’ which you don't want, and tissues depleted of +lime which you do want.”</p> + +<p>“So you get your patients after all. In fact, having +‘neutralised their oxalic acid’ to escape you, they come +back to you with two diseases instead of one. It seems +to me you are a very profitable investment, Mr +Pseudo-Science.”</p> + +<p>“Really, Mr Taste, you would not, I presume, have +me suppress the truth simply because it happens to be +profitable?”</p> + +<p>“But is it the truth? What proof have you?”</p> + +<p>“I presume you are ignorant of the fact that animals +have died with all the symptoms of oxalic acid poisoning, +simply through taking too much sugar.”</p> + +<p>“What kind of animals? You chose such as are +used to taking shop sugar as part of their ordinary +food, of course?”</p> + +<p>“Well—no; not in that form. The subjects of the +experiment were rabbits.”</p> + +<p>“Ah! And from these you draw deductions about +man who has been eating artificial sugar for ages. How +like a vivisectionist! But what doses of sugar did the +rabbits get?”</p> + +<p>“About one-fortieth of the body-weight.”</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg648" id="Pg648"></a>“That would be as if a man of 150 lbs. weight should +take 3¾ lbs. sugar at a meal! And since it is excessive +fruit you are warning us against, can you tell me how +many pounds of fruit—say, apples—one must take in +order to get that amount of sugar in a day? No less +than sixty pounds. Really your warning seems a little +superfluous.”</p> + +<p>“It is all very well for you to scoff, Mr Taste, but +if it were not for me you would know nothing about the +latest diseases. I really believe you would be content +to go right through life without knowing that you had +a duodenum or an appendix.”</p> + +<p>“Quite” assented Taste cheerfully.</p> + +<p class="sig">Arnold Eiloart, B.Sc.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED_FOOD" id="A_SYMPOSIUM_ON_UNFIRED_FOOD"></a>A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED FOOD.</h2> + + +<p><i>In November, 1912, we published a letter from a reader containing +the excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented to +any fair extent with unfired diet should be invited to contribute to a +conference on the subject in</i> <span class="smcap">The Healthy Life</span>, <i>and that the symposium +should be gathered round the following points:—</i></p> + +<p>(1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease.</p> + +<p>(2) Its effect on children so brought up—<i>e.g.</i> do they get the +so-called “inevitable” diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and +especially have they good (<i>i.e.</i> perfect) teeth?</p> + +<p>(3) The effect of the diet in childbirth.</p> + +<p>(4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared +with the cost under ordinary conditions.</p> + +<p>(5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional +dietary (often found amongst food reformers)?</p> + +<p>(6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter?</p> + +<p><i>A number of interesting letters have been published this year, +and we shall be glad to receive a large number of personal experiences, +but they must be brief, and classified under the above +heads as far as possible. The following is a striking piece of +personal evidence.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<blockquote><p class="address">Buckhurst Hill, Essex,<br /><span style="font-variant:normal;"><i>28th April 1913.</i></span></p> + +<p class="center">To the Editors of <i>The Healthy Life.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sirs,</span></p> + +<p class="corresp">As a slight contribution to the interesting discussion +which is taking place in your magazine, will you allow me to give +you a short summary of nearly sixty years experience of the +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg649" id="Pg649"></a>effects, in my own case, of flesh eating, vegetarianism and the +uncooked food diet.</p> + +<p>This is not a fairy tale, as some may be inclined to think, but +a plain unvarnished statement of facts.</p> + +<p>The flesh-eating period lasted for seventeen years. When three +months old I was the unfortunate victim of vaccination poisoning, +and for years afterwards was continually in the doctor's hands. +The best medical men in this country and America were +consulted; for months daily visits were paid to a noted Chicago +specialist in the hope that he might be able to effect a cure, but +it was a case of “love's labour lost,” and, instead of improving, +my condition grew steadily worse.</p> + +<p>During all these years, drugging was constantly going on, the +pills and potions ordered were religiously swallowed, and, strange +as it may seem, the ordeal was survived. Flesh meat was eaten +daily, and, of all the members of the medical profession consulted, +not one of them ever hinted that a change of diet might be +beneficial.</p> + +<p>When 17 years of age my attention was drawn to an article +in <i>The Phonetic Journal</i> on the advantages of a non-flesh diet. +By this time, being thoroughly tired of taking endless quantities +of useless, poisonous and expensive drugs, I decided, there and +then, to throw “physic to the dogs,” making up my mind that +if death did come, and it seemed to be staring me in the face, I +would, at any rate, die a vegetarian.</p> + +<p>Within six months the most dangerous symptom had completely +disappeared and has never recurred, but, although greatly benefitting +by the new diet, and enjoying on the whole fairly good +health, yet there were frequent attacks of rheumatism, lumbago +and neuralgia; dyspepsia, with its attendant pain and flatulence, +often made life miserable; now and again the liver would rise +up in rebellion, bringing in its train vertigo, blurred vision and +severe headaches; constipation, that bane of modern life, was a +source of endless trouble, in fact, for many years the enema had +to be used once or twice a week, and last, but worst of all, came +those sharp, shooting, lancinating pains, one of the premonitory +symptoms of cancer.</p> + +<p>Obviously, there was still something radically wrong somewhere, +and on retiring from practice, a great deal of time and attention +was devoted to the subject, innumerable experiments were made, +and, ultimately, results obtained, the value of which cannot be +exaggerated.</p> + +<p>Five years ago the uncooked food diet was commenced, and +from the very first week a steady improvement took place. The +constipation vanished as if by magic; there has not been the +slightest touch of rheumatism or neuralgia for at least three years +the liver is now an unknown quantity, the dyspepsia is a thing of +the past, and, most important of all, the cancer symptoms are +entirely gone, and in their place has come an abounding health, +vigour and vitality that is marvellous. The years seem to have +“rolled back in their flight”; all the centres of life are reju<a class="pagenum" name="Pg650" id="Pg650"></a>venated; +and the hopes, feelings and aspirations of youth sway me +now as they did nearly half-a-century ago. Work, mental or +physical, is a perfect pleasure, and to feel fatigue is almost +unknown.</p> + +<p>What a glorious gift life really is has never been realised till +now, and the wealth of the Indies would not induce me to go +back to the flesh-pots, or live on cooked foods again. This diet +gives two important advantages: firstly, the elimination of all +excess of starchy matter prevents the formation of needless fat, +and, secondly, the entire absence of artificially sweetened food +removes one of the main causes of over-eating.</p> + +<p>Will people ever learn that fat, instead of being a sign of health, +is the very reverse, that every ounce of superfluous adipose tissue +means more work for the heart, diminished vitality, lessened +energy, and, when excessive, is not only a distinct menace to +longevity, but to life itself?</p> + +<p>I never take more than two meals a day and very often only +one, which consists of raw vegetables, nuts, olive oil and unfired +bread; the second meal, when required, is a simple fruit salad.</p> + +<p>When a vegetarian the writer lived for years on a shilling a +week; it costs rather more now, the oil, nuts, fruit and bread +being more expensive than beans, rice, meal, etc., but the difference +is so trifling that it is not worth talking about.</p> + +<p>Whilst “Fletcherising,” deep breathing, distilled water, olive +oil, fasting, saltless food, the open-air life, regular exercise, etc., +were valuable allies, it was not until the powerful aid of uncooked +food was invoked that the real benefits began to appear and life +became a real joy. Yours, etc.,</p> + +<p class="sig">John Reid, M.B., C.M.</p></blockquote> + + + + +<h2><a name="HEALTH_QUERIES6" id="HEALTH_QUERIES6"></a>HEALTH QUERIES.</h2> + + +<p><i>Under this heading our contributor, Dr Valentine +Knaggs, deals briefly month by month, and according +as space permits, with questions of general interest to +health seekers and others.</i></p> + +<p><i>In all Queries relating to health difficulties it is +essential that full details of the correspondent's customary +diet should be clearly given.</i></p> + +<p><i>Correspondents are earnestly requested to write on +<span class="u">one side only of the paper</span>, giving full name and address, +not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. +When an answer is required by post a stamped addressed +envelope must be enclosed.</i>—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + +<p><span class="u">Every inquiry must be accompanied by the front cover +(or upper part of same showing date) of a recent number</span> +of <i>The Healthy Life</i>.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg651" id="Pg651"></a><a name="Onion" id="Onion"></a>ONION JUICE AS HAIR RESTORER.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs M. McC. writes:—In your book, <i>Onions and Cress</i>,<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> on +p. 49, it is stated that the juice of onions mixed with honey will +change the colour of hair from grey to black. Will you be +kind enough to tell me in what proportion these should be mixed, +as, of course, if not in a proper mixture, the hair would become +so clogged. And will you also kindly tell me how one is to +extract the juice from the onions, whether they are to be boiled +or squeezed when raw.</p></blockquote> + +<p>With regard to the use of a mixture of onion juice +and honey as a hair restorative the reader of my little +book must remember that it is largely a compilation of +quotations from old herbal books, and it gives the +history, use and folklore of these interesting edibles. +I am not responsible for this recipe and cannot therefore +vouch for its utility. We know, however, that +onions contain a wonderful sulphured oil and that +sulphur in one form or another is an important ingredient +of most hair preparations which restore colour. +The raw juice evidently should be used, and this can +be extracted either by pounding and grating and then +extracting the juice under pressure, or it can be readily +obtained in any quantity by putting onions through the +Enterprise Juice Press. The amount of honey, I think, +to be added to this juice should be very small, otherwise, +as our correspondent surmises, the preparation would be +very sticky and objectionable. Would any reader care +to try this and report upon it?</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21">[21]</a> <i>Onions and Cress</i>, 6d. net (postage 1d).</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Sciatica" id="Sciatica"></a>SCIATICA.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mrs M.G. writes:—My husband is a sufferer from sciatica; +has had it for some years, on and off, but just lately he seems is +to get it constantly—sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. He has +been taking some salicylate of soda, and I have tried to persuade +him to give it up. His age is 42. For his meals he takes, on +rising, an apple or a cup of apple tea; an hour afterwards his +breakfast, which consists of two tablespoonfuls of a proteid food +mixed with distilled water, and a hard biscuit, two slices of +whole meal brown bread, nut butter, and watercress or lettuce. +During the morning he drinks barley water. For dinner, a salad +and a few ground nuts and hard biscuits and an apple; sometimes +home-made nut meat and spinach, hard biscuits and dried or fresh +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg652" id="Pg652"></a>fruit. For tea, a salad or lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cress, +and Shredded Wheat and wholemeal bread. Last thing at night, +a few steamed onions and distilled water. His bowels are in +good condition, very regular, but he has this constant gnawing +pain. If you can help me in any way as to a change in his +diet, it will be a relief to me. I do not mind the trouble of +preparing things for him. It is about two months ago that he +has taken to drinking distilled water, which I make myself. His +occupation is very sedentary, with long hours, sometimes from +six in the morning till nine at night. He has a bicycle, and gets +as much exercise as possible.</p></blockquote> + +<p>From the description given one would assume that +the sedentary occupation and long hours of work have +caused this correspondent to fall into bad postural habits +of sitting and standing, coupled with excessive depletion +of his nervous energy. The diet given is on good lines +and, with the addition of home-made curd cheese and +eggs as proteid, might certainly be continued as it +stands, especially as the bowel action is regular. What +the correspondent does need is less hours of work; more +physical exercises of a brisk back-stretching nature, and +certain spinal stretching manipulations of an Osteopathic +nature. Full deep breathing in fresh air will +also be beneficial. The lower part of the spine, from +which the sciatic nerves originate, needs the most +attention.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Paraffin" id="Paraffin"></a>REFINED PARAFFIN AS A CONSTIPATION REMEDY.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mr E.H. writes:—Will Dr Knaggs very kindly say whether +Refined Paraffin, now being given so generally for the relief of +constipation, may be regarded as a harmless method of overcoming +this trouble or whether its use might lead to harmful +results. I am told that this preparation of oil is not assimilated, +and is therefore harmless, but I should much appreciate Dr +Knaggs' opinion on this matter.</p></blockquote> + +<p>The use of refined paraffin as a remedy for constipation +is just now all the rage with the orthodox medical +profession. There is nothing really to be said against +its right use, provided it is made to serve as one of the +means to an end. It has been proved that this paraffin, +which is quite tasteless, odourless and easy to swallow, +is not absorbed by the system but passes unchanged +and unaltered through it. It acts therefore as a mere +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg653" id="Pg653"></a>mechanical lubricant. The one thing to remember is +that its use should be combined with a curative diet, +so that it need not be taken indefinitely.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="DSD" id="DSD"></a>(1) DRY THROAT; (2) SACCHARINE; (3) DILATED +HEART.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>Mr L.S. writes:—I have read <i>The Healthy Life</i> from the +appearance of the first number, and I have studied the Answers +to Correspondents, but have not observed a case identical with +my own, hence my reason for troubling you.</p> + +<p>(1) The back part of mouth next throat has a curious glazed +appearance—no cough or expectoration. I am inclined to think +it extends to and includes the stomach. I have always a good +appetite, but am not well nourished; much under weight. Age +44 years; school officer; cycle 25 miles a week.</p> + +<p>Eat meat sparingly, not a pound a week. Live principally upon +eggs and bread and butter—(three eggs a day): “Digestive Tea” +two and three times a day.</p> + +<p>2. Is saccharine less harmful than sugar for sweetening?</p> + +<p>3. As the result of a nervous breakdown I had five years ago +I suffer from a dilated heart, consequently—I suppose—I have +palpitation occasionally, oftener when in bed. I don't think my +heart is really normal since my breakdown five years ago.</p> + +<p>4. Would bathing myself with cold water over the region of the +heart strengthen the muscles? Would you please suggest anything +for strengthening heart. Are lemons or eggs injurious to the +heart?</p></blockquote> + +<p>1. The throat symptoms indicate a dry, irritable, +heated condition of the mouth and throat which, as +the correspondent surmises, equally affects the stomach +and the rest of the digestive organs. He should have a +breakfast of fresh fruit only, take salads and grated +raw roots with his meals and stop tea altogether. He +can drink distilled water and vegetable or lemon drinks +(unsweetened) instead.</p> + +<p>2. Saccharine is a mineral substance, a fossilised +product of putrefactive action in the coal age. It is +closely analogous to carbolic acid, which equally originates +from microbic action. By leaving off sugar and +replacing it by saccharine our correspondent gains +nothing. He is simply leaping from the frying pan into +the fire. It is best for him to cultivate a taste for +unsweetened or even acid drinks.</p> + +<p><a class="pagenum" name="Pg654" id="Pg654"></a>3. A dilated heart is usually an after effect of a +dilated stomach, which strains it, just as it does every +other organ, whether in the chest or the abdomen.</p> + +<p>4. Bathing the chest with cold water is not desirable. +What is needed is that the correspondent should drink +as little fluid as possible and pay close attention to the +condition of his digestive mechanism. If the organs +are dilated or misplaced he should wear a belt and take +suitable gentle Osteopathic exercises.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Stammering" id="Stammering"></a>TREATMENT FOR STAMMERING.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>A.M.D. writes:—Could you kindly give in <i>The Healthy Life</i> +magazine some suggestions as to the best method to follow in a +case of stammering (slight) in a boy of ten or eleven years who +has been rather left to himself, the hesitancy in speech being +regarded as incurable?</p></blockquote> + +<p>This boy should be trained by someone who understands +how to cure stammering. The correspondent +would do well to consult Miss Behncke of 18 Earl's +Court Square, S.W., who makes a speciality of treating +such cases.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="Anaemia" id="Anaemia"></a>WHY THE RED CORPUSCLES ARE DEFICIENT IN +ANÆMIA.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>A.M.D. writes:—Is there any way, independent of diet, of +increasing the red corpuscles in the blood? I have tried walking +nine miles a day, thus getting up free perspirations. What of this +method? I did imagine that this resulted in a better condition +of the skin, the latter losing in a measure the white and parched +appearance.</p></blockquote> + +<p>A deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood, which +shows in anæmia, is usually caused by self-poisoning. +When food ferments or putrifies in the colon, owing to +faulty diet and other causes, certain toxins are created. +These become absorbed into the blood and there destroy +the red corpuscles. Walking is a good form of exercise, +but it will not suffice alone to remedy this type of +anæmia unless the diet and general habits of the patient +are so arranged that the unsanitary condition of the +colon is also remedied. The correspondent will find, if +she studies the replies to others in this magazine, many +details as to diet, etc., for rectifying bad conditions in +the bowels.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a class="pagenum" name="Pg655" id="Pg655"></a><a name="Blending" id="Blending"></a>THE CORRECT BLENDING OF FOODS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>T.B.W. writes:—Is it inadvisable for a dyspeptic (and sufferer +from constipation) to eat salad, or cooked vegetables, and stewed +fruit at the same meal; also, do I do right in eating bread and +butter (preferably crust) or hard biscuits with stewed fruit or +soft vegetables, etc.? Would you please inform me the best Still +that I can obtain—preferably one that does not require much +attention, and is fairly portable, and that does not cost much +to work?</p></blockquote> + +<p>I do not believe that it is right to mix salads or +cooked vegetables with stewed fruits. It is better to +take them at separate meals.</p> + +<p>It is, in my view, equally bad to take cereals (<i>i.e.</i> +bread, biscuits, etc.) with stewed fruits. The reason +is that cereals call for an alkaline form of digestion in +the mouth which the acid fruits or the added sugar +greatly retard.</p> + +<p>I believe strongly in the all-fruit breakfast or all-fruit +supper, when fresh, dried, or even stewed dried +fruits (possibly with some fresh cream) can be taken +alone, without either cereals or vegetables.</p> + +<p>Cereals go best with salads and cooked vegetables, +because of the alkalinity of the latter which harmonises +with the salivary secretion intended for the digestion of +grains.</p> + +<p>The Gem Still is the best to buy. It is well made and +does not need much attention. The large automatic +commercial size is, however, the best if any quantity +is needed, as it works throughout the day with practically +no attention when properly adjusted.</p> + + +<h3 class="health"><a name="NonFlesh" id="NonFlesh"></a>DIFFICULTIES IN CHANGING TO NON-FLESH DIET.</h3> + +<blockquote><p>F.C.W. writes:—I shall be glad if you will inform me from +your experience whether, after one has broken from the customary +meat diet and adopted a “reform” diet, there is any real difficulty +in reverting to the former state. I have seen it stated that +vegetarian diet did not call into action all the natural powers of +the digestive organs, and, this being so, the tendency was for +them to become weakened so that the food reformer eventually +found himself unable to digest meat. I believe some health +culturists make practice of taking meat twice a week. I have +been about seven or eight weeks on reform diet, and though better +in some ways have to confess to a feeling of deficient energy and +nerve power. I was once told by a doctor that I could not afford +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg656" id="Pg656"></a>to do without the stimulating effect derived from meat. I propose +making a test of the two methods, but should like to hear from +you in reply to the above query. Another new feature I have +noticed on the new diet is a thinness of the teeth and a feeling +of weakness in them generally.</p></blockquote> + +<p>This correspondent omitted to supply his amended +diet, so this was asked for and is as follows:—</p> + +<blockquote><p><i>On rising</i> (6.40).—Cup of cold water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast</i> (8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>).—Porridge, boiled egg or white fish done in +oven. Turog brown bread and butter; a banana; cup of coffee.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch</i> (12.45, <i>at The Home Restaurant</i>)—Nut or cheese +savoury and one vegetable, a sweet dish, a few dates or a nut and +fruit cake.</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal (in office at 5).</i>—Bread and butter, piece of cake, +large cup of cocoa.</p> + +<p><i>Supper.</i>—One of following:—</p> + +<p>(a) “Force” with stewed prunes and junket; small piece of +cheese with wholemeal biscuit.</p> + +<p>(b) Milk pudding and stewed fruit; small piece of cheese and +biscuit.</p> + +<p>(c) Vegetable soup with toast.</p> + +<p>(d) Bread and milk and fruit cake.</p> + +<p><i>On retiring</i> (10 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span>).—Cup of hot milk.</p></blockquote> + +<p>The correspondent adds further:—</p> + +<blockquote><p>I have only been about eight weeks on food reform and the +general result, so far, is less susceptibility to draughts and ability +to sleep with windows open top and bottom, which I could not do +before, and a feeling of lightness and freshness. On the other +hand, I have not the same nerve force or power. I am of a +highly sensitive nervous disposition, and the latest trouble is with +my teeth. I was told yesterday by a dentist that a non-flesh diet +is harmful to them and that were one to eat meat only, there +would be no trouble! Perhaps it is owing to the dates and nut-and-fruit +cakes which I have been eating, or to a general weakened +condition due to want of finding my natural diet. I have a friend +who is a fine specimen of physical development, and on his going +on to food reform he had to have his teeth seen to. I suppose it +would not be the softer diet giving his teeth less to do. I am at a +disadvantage as I can get nothing specially prepared at home and +can only add to my diet articles which I can prepare myself. I +like my liquids fairly sweet and I like liquid foods. I am a +catarrhal subject and when this starts at the back of the nose the +hearing is affected.</p></blockquote> + +<p>Whenever a person changes from a meat diet to one +that is of the non-flesh order the digestive organs have +to learn how to adjust their secretions to the altered +diet. This applies just as forcibly when a food reformer +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg657" id="Pg657"></a>wishes to return to the “flesh-pots.” After a long +course of abstinence from meat the food reformer does +find it difficult to return to it. This is due not so much +to the difficulty in digesting it as to the violent stimulation +and grossening of the body which it induces.</p> + +<p>I have never heard of any food reformer who discarded +meat for ethical or humane reasons who willingly +returned to meat so that he could if necessary be in a +position to digest it.</p> + +<p>With regard to the loss of energy and nerve power +the correspondent must distinguish between real weakness +and absence of stimulation. The first effects of +discarding meat show a deficient energy due to the +absence of stimulation. When this has passed it gives +place to a feeling of buoyancy and energy which is +permanent.</p> + +<p>The dental weakness is aggravated, if indeed it is not +actually <i>caused</i>, by the milk puddings, porridge, cake +and sugared beverages which are a feature of this +correspondent's diet, and to the absence of salad vegetables. +If he amended his diet somewhat as follows he +should make steady progress in energy and general +fitness:—</p> + +<p><i>On rising.</i>—Tumblerful of cold water.</p> + +<p><i>Breakfast</i> (7.15).—One lightly boiled, baked or +poached egg; Veda bread and butter, a little watercress +or other salad. A small cup of Hygiama in place of +the sugared cocoa.</p> + +<p><i>Lunch</i> (12.45).—Nut or cheese savoury and one vegetable; +baked pudding by preference for second course, +or simply a nut and fruit cake; no dates.</p> + +<p><i>Or</i> salad with grated cheese or cream cheese, or flaked +pine nuts; followed by a piece of the excellent wholemeal +cake supplied at the restaurant this correspondent +frequents.</p> + +<p><i>Tea meal.</i>—One cup of Salfon cocoa (unsweetened), +preferably without other food.</p> + +<p><i>Supper</i> (6 to 7) (This meal is at present far too +mushy).—Cream cheese, Veda bread with fresh butter or +<a class="pagenum" name="Pg658" id="Pg658"></a>nut butter, salad, tomatoes, cucumber, etc., with dressing +of pure oil and lemon juice.</p> + +<p><i>Or</i> simply fresh ripe fruit, with dried fruit and cream; +no cereals.</p> + +<p><i>On retiring.</i>—Cupful of hot unsweetened lemon water, +or weak barley water; no milk.</p> + +<p class="sig">H. Valentine Knaggs.</p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CORRESPONDENCE4" id="CORRESPONDENCE4"></a>CORRESPONDENCE.</h2> + + +<p><i>All Correspondence should be addressed (and all contributions +submitted) to the Editors</i>, <span class="smcap">The Healthy Life</span>, +3 <i>Tudor Street, London, E.C.</i></p> + + +<h3><a name="CottageCheese" id="CottageCheese"></a>COTTAGE CHEESE.</h3> + +<blockquote><p class="address"><span class="smcap">Wilderton, Bournemouth.<br /> +Bournemouth.</span></p> + +<p><i>To the Editors</i>,</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sirs,</span></p> + +<p class="corresp"><i>Re</i> Mrs C.E.J.'s letter and the reply +thereto: I should be inclined to doubt the wisdom of +making this from unboiled or uncooked milk unless one +had it from one's own cows and could supervise the +dairy oneself. The average milk that comes into towns +from country farms is—well, it's unthinkable. There's +a saying that what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't +grieve over, but that doesn't alter the fact that the +average cow is none too clean, the average milker's +hands and clothes (to say nothing of his face, hat and +head) none too clean, the milking-place none too clean, +and the circumstances of transit such as don't make for +cleanliness. I have put it very moderately, as those +who know country dairy farms will admit. Those who +particularly want clean cheese from uncooked milk +should buy it from a County Council dairy farm or +similar institution. Yours truly,</p> + +<p class="sig">B.C. Forder.</p></blockquote> + + +<h3>WILL OTHER READERS DO LIKEWISE?</h3> + +<p>Mrs <span class="smcap">E. Bumpus</span> writes (7th October 1913):—</p> + +<blockquote><p>I am ordering two copies each month from my local +newsagent.... I thought he might be induced to show +copies of your publication in his window.</p></blockquote> + +<p>[An attractive blue poster is supplied each month free by the +Publishers to all genuine agents who apply for the same.—<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3><a class="pagenum" name="Pg659" id="Pg659"></a><i>THE HEALTHY LIFE</i> IN THE LIBRARIES.</h3> + +<p>Mr <span class="smcap">C.H. Grinling</span> writes (25th October 1913):—</p> + +<blockquote><p>I note the suggestion on <a href="#Pg580">p. 580</a> of the <a href="#Pg545">October number</a> +of <i>The Healthy Life</i>. A friend enables me to ask you +to send <i>The Healthy Life</i> regularly for one year to the +Woolwich Public Library, William Street, Woolwich. +I enclose 2s. The librarian will see that it appears on +the magazine-room table regularly.</p></blockquote> + +<p>[There is every reason why <i>The Healthy Life</i> should be known +and read in every public library in the United Kingdom. In this +we are entirely dependent upon those readers who are ready to +follow the excellent example of the above and other correspondents. +A year's subscription—2s.—is a very small price to pay for bringing +the message of this magazine before the public in this way. +We should like to hear from readers in all parts.—<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + +<h3><a name="FruitOils" id="FruitOils"></a>FRUIT-OILS AND NUTS.</h3> + +<blockquote><p class="address">Westcliff-on-Sea, <span style="font-variant:normal;">22<i>nd Oct.</i> 1913.</span></p> + +<p><i>To the Editors</i>,</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Sirs,</span></p> + +<p class="corresp">With reference to the last paragraph of “<a href="#Phosphorus">Phosphorus +and the Nerves</a>” on <a href="#Pg579">p. 579</a> of the <a href="#Pg545">October +number</a>, I should be obliged if I could be informed +through your correspondence columns (1) what are the +“fruit oils” recommended therein and (2) how they are +to be taken. (3) Is olive oil good to take? (4) Is it +good for children? If so how is it to be administered? +(5) What nuts are richest in phosphorus? I enclose +my card, and remain, yours truly,</p> + +<p class="sig">W.W.</p></blockquote> + +<p>(1) Any olive oil that bears a thorough guarantee of purity +(such as “Minerva” Olive Oil, “Crême d'Or” Olive Oil, etc.); +also any pure nut oil (such as supplied by Mapleton's or The +London Nut Food Co.); also the pure blended oil sold as “Protoid +Fruit Oil.” Our advertisement pages should be studied for +further details.</p> + +<p>(2) Suggestions were given on <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's Note: I am unable to find this reference.">pp. xxxiii and xxxv</ins> of the +<a href="#Pg581">November number</a>.</p> + +<p>(3) Yes, excellent.</p> + +<p>(4) Yes, they usually take it more readily than adults, for the +latters' palates are generally spoilt. For its use see <i>Right Diet for +Children</i>, by Edgar J. Saxon, 1s. net.</p> + +<p>(5) Almonds and walnuts. If the nuts are found difficult to +digest try them in a finely prepared form, as in Mapleton's +Almond Cream, “P.R.” Walnut Butter, or “Protoid” Almond +Butter.—[<span class="smcap">Eds.</span>]</p> + + + + +<h2><a class="pagenum" name="Pg660" id="Pg660"></a><a name="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS4" id="PICKLED_PEPPERCORNS4"></a>PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.</h2> + + +<blockquote><p>Lady Cheylesmore was wearing a magnificent cock pheasant's +plume. The eagle eye of the customs official caught sight of it +and handed her a pair of scissors to help her detach it.—<i>Daily +News.</i></p></blockquote> + +<p>Now we know what a really well-trained eagle eye +can do.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Perhaps the only remnant of the awful sameness characteristic +of the typically English kitchen is the bacon and egg breakfast to +which the average Briton clings with wonderful tenacity. The +mere possibility of infidelity to that national dish is enough to +make one shudder. No one could be such an iconoclast as to +suggest a variant from the traditional breakfast; it would be +table-treason of the worst kind.—<i>Daily Telegraph.</i></p></blockquote> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">A middle-aged Briton named Leary,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of bacon and eggs got so weary,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That for no other reason<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He committed high treason—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But whether he shuddered's a query.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Silver-fox furs are rapidly becoming more and more rare, and +this fact lends a special interest to the wonderful collection of +these skins now being shown this week by Revillon Frères at +180 Regent Street. These beautiful silver foxes, to the number of +over a hundred, are grouped in eight large showcases on the ground +floor, and represent the latest arrivals from Revillon's Canadian +outposts, where they have special facilities for securing these rare +skins.—<i>Daily Chronicle.</i></p></blockquote> + +<p>A ninth large showcase containing specimens of the +steel traps in which “these beautiful silver foxes” are +caught, and in which they remain till “collected,” +would give added interest to the collection at 180 Regent +Street.</p> + +<div class="hr"><hr style='width: 45%;' /></div> + +<blockquote><p>Sixty-six persons banqueted at Gorleston on a single “sea-pie,” +which weighed 200 lbs. Prepared by an old smack skipper, it was +built in three stories. The foundation consisted of beef bones, and +inside were six large rabbits, half-a-dozen kidneys, thirty pounds +of beef steak.—<i>Daily Chronicle.</i></p></blockquote> + +<p>Not to be confused with the Gorleston Mausoleum.</p> + +<p class="sig">Peter Piper.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HEALTHY LIFE, VOL. 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