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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of How to Eat, by Thomas Clark Hinkle
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+Title: How to Eat
+       A Cure for "Nerves"
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+Author: Thomas Clark Hinkle
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+Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19762]
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+A CURE FOR "NERVES"
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+"Whosoever wishes to eat much must eat little." Cornaro, in saying
+this, meant that if a man wished to eat for a great many days--that
+is, desired a long life--he must eat only a little each day.
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+HOW TO EAT
+
+A CURE FOR "NERVES"
+
+By
+THOMAS CLARK HINKLE, M.D.
+
+RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
+CHICAGO--NEW YORK
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+Copyright, 1921, by
+RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
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+THE CONTENTS
+                                                         PAGE
+I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES                                13
+II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE                          31
+III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE             55
+IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE                   79
+V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS      109
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+"Nature, desirous to preserve man in good health as long as
+possible, informs him herself how he is to act in time of illness;
+for she immediately deprives him, when sick, of his appetite in
+order that he may eat but little."
+
+--CORNARO
+
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+
+
+
+THE INTRODUCTION
+
+
+This author-physician's cure for "nerves" vividly recalls the simplicity
+of method employed in the complete restoration to health of one of olden
+time whose story has come ringing down the ages in the Book of Books.
+Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a mighty man of valor
+and honorable in the sight of all men, turned away in a rage when
+Elisha, the prophet of the Most High, prescribed for his dread malady a
+remedy so simple that it was despised in his eyes. But "his servants
+came near and said ... 'If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
+wouldest thou not have done it?'"
+
+In "How to Eat" the author offers the sufferer from "nerves" a remedy as
+simple as that Elisha offered Naaman. He gives him an opportunity to
+profit by his well-tested knowledge that overeating and _rapidity_ in
+eating are ruinous to health and shorten life.
+
+It is seldom that there emanates from the pen of a doctor a book which,
+concerning any physical disorder, minimizes the efforts of the medical
+practitioner. While this author-physician gives full credit to the
+conscientious physician for the great service he is able to render in
+all other spheres of his profession, he wholly denies the necessity for
+medical care in cases of nervous breakdown, and discounts liberally the
+benefits to be derived from professional advice except in so far as the
+doctor is the patient's counselor and dictator as to what and how and
+how much he shall eat and drink, and the way he shall employ his time.
+
+Any discourse is valuable which incites a man having a marked tendency
+to depressing, morbid ideas, to rid himself of them. Dr. Hinkle helps
+the sufferer to gain that confidence and cheer which result from
+knowledge of certain immunity from dreaded ills and positive assurance
+of recovery by mere regulation of food or employment along the lines of
+simple, everyday living.
+
+But that alone is not sufficient. It is made quite clear that no one
+thing by itself will insure a cure of "nerves." The cure must come
+through common sense exerted along several related avenues of endeavor.
+No matter how steadfastly one may adhere to directions as to abstaining
+from harmful food and injurious methods of partaking of those foods
+which are beneficial, if he spends the larger portion of his time idly
+rocking in a convenient arm chair, exerting neither body nor mind nor
+will, that which might be gained by proper nutrition is largely
+nullified by lack of physical exercise and mental activity.
+
+That this little book may serve as a spur to the bodily self-denial and
+self-repression and the intellectual and spiritual uplift which make for
+character-building, is the very evident goal of its writer. From
+self-analysis and self-cure he has worked out a philosophy--a system or
+_art_--by which those afflicted with nervous breakdown may be healed.
+And by putting into print the result of his practical experiments in
+diet and exercise he has broadened immeasurably the scope of his
+helpfulness to all nervebound sufferers by placing within their reach
+the simplest of measures by which release is secured from a condition
+which wholly incapacitates for active service or even for quiet,
+everyday usefulness.
+
+It is because the things Dr. Hinkle advises are so commonplace, and
+because the doing of them day after day, year in and year out, is so
+monotonous, that people will be tempted to disregard or make light of
+their helpfulness. But the commonplace things which make up life are all
+important, as Susan Coolidge has so aptly expressed in these lines which
+fittingly illustrate the author's thought:
+
+  "The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky
+  Makes up the commonplace day.
+  The moon and the stars are commonplace things,
+  And the flower that blooms and the bird that sings;
+  But dark were the world, and sad our lot
+  If the flowers failed, and the sun shone not;
+  And God, who studies each separate soul,
+  Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole."
+
+It therefore behooves the sufferer from "nerves" and that great host of
+others who are in danger of a nervous breakdown if they do not speedily
+mend their ways of eating and living, to heed the kindly admonitions
+and follow the precepts of this author who practices what he preaches.
+By persistently doing commonplace things in the most commonplace way,
+keeping ever in mind the great objects to be attained thereby--good
+health, good cheer, and increased usefulness throughout a long life--the
+reader of this little treatise will find it worth many, many times its
+size, weight, and bulk. And heeding the author's admonition, "Go thou
+and do likewise," he will not shorten his life or lose it altogether in
+fruitless quests for the strength and nerve vigor which constantly elude
+him because of lack of self-control and failure to persist in the simple
+but efficacious measures of relief here outlined.
+
+M. F. S.
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+
+
+
+HOW TO EAT
+
+A CURE FOR NERVES
+
+I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES
+
+"What we leave after making a hearty meal does us more good than
+what we have eaten."
+
+--CORNARO
+
+
+It is now over twenty years since I had my first nervous breakdown.
+About ten years later I had another, far worse than the first one. The
+first lasted six months; the second a little more than two and one half
+years. Doubtless if I had not in the strangest way in the world found
+out how to cure myself it would have lasted until now, unless death in
+the meantime had come to my relief. But right here I want to say that if
+you are looking for some new or miraculous treatment for such
+unfortunate people you might as well close the book now, for you will be
+disappointed. There is a cure for "nerves" but the cure is as old as the
+world. The trouble with poor deluded mortals--doctors included--is, we
+are constantly looking for a miracle to cure us, but if we look back on
+all the real cures that we have ever heard about, we shall find they
+were as simple as the sun or the rain. And in the name of common sense
+let me ask: what is the difference _how_ we are cured if we _are_ cured
+and are _happy_ as a result of it? Isn't that enough? Most certainly it
+is.
+
+And now, as we journey along through the pages of this book, I want you
+to know that these words have been written by one who has nothing to
+offer you except human experience. As we proceed you will notice that
+every statement is tremendously positive. When a man has been through
+this literal hell of "nerves" he knows all about it and what can be done
+for it. And so when I tell you the things you must do to get well and
+_stay well_, I want you to understand that I know. There is absolutely
+no theory to be found in these pages. If you put your finger in the
+fire you burn it. You don't have to take your finger out of the fire,
+call in a lot of learned gentlemen and say to them: "Now tell me your
+candid opinion about my finger. Is it burned or is it not?"
+
+And I am just as positive about my cure of "nerves" as you could be that
+fire burned your finger. That brings me to what I want to say about the
+so-called "rest cures" at the sanitariums. It is a well-known fact that
+if a case of "nerves" is pronounced cured at a sanitarium the cure is
+only temporary. Sooner or later every one of these patients goes down
+hill again.
+
+And remember I am talking about people who have nervous breakdowns
+THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. I have no time to spare for the person
+who has brought on his own trouble. I am chiefly concerned with that
+host of children in America--and there is a host, I am sorry to
+say--born of what I choose to call "pre-nervous" parents. The girls of
+such parents frequently break down in high school. And many of the
+finest boys that I know have this dreadful "thing" fastened firmly upon
+them just at the very beginning of their lifework.
+
+You may think I am a little vehement, but to me one of the most damnable
+and disgusting things in the world is that the medical profession
+remains so ignorant concerning the _real cure_ for such cases. I believe
+the late Sir William Osler was the greatest physician of his generation.
+He was not only a man of talent, he was a genius, and his knowledge of
+medicine almost passes understanding. Yet Osler himself was as much in
+the dark concerning the _real_ cure for so-called _neurasthenia_ as the
+physicians who read his works on practice. If one wants to find out how
+ignorant the whole profession is on the subject of a permanent cure,
+let the thing get hold of him, and then let him make the rounds of the
+physicians, follow out their advice, and see where he comes out!
+
+I have said that even the sanitariums of this country--and for that
+matter I might have said of any other country--do not _permanently cure_
+these people. I have ample proof of this statement. I have met these
+people everywhere and no doubt you have, too. Quite recently the subject
+was brought up anew to me. I had written an article on the subject for
+one of the magazines, a magazine having a large circulation. In a very
+short time my mail was literally flooded with letters. Every incoming
+mail brought great numbers of them. They came from physicians of the
+regular school, and from physicians of many other schools, too. I won't
+mention any of them, for this is a treatise on a dreadful affliction and
+how one may get rid of it; it is not intended as a criticism of anyone.
+I have no desire to criticize and I haven't time. I am stating facts
+interwoven with my own life. If the cure is real, the people will find
+it out after they have tried it; if it is not, they will also find that
+out. In fact, it's exactly as Gamaliel, the teacher of Paul, said to the
+men of Israel when they would have slain the apostles for teaching
+Christ's sayings, "Refrain from these men and let them alone: for if
+this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: but if it
+be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." And it's exactly the same way with
+this healing art. The very fact that physicians of all schools of
+medicine--physicians who were sufferers from "nerves"--wrote me, shows
+plainly that they could not heal themselves. I have many letters from
+people who have been in sanitariums for years and who still have
+"nerves." The sanitariums do some people a lot of good, but they cannot
+remove the _cause_ of nervousness. I am certain that the very best rest
+cure for women is the one Dr. Weir Mitchell first used. But such women
+are sure to go down again and again and still again if that is _all_
+that is done for them.
+
+Now frankly, if Christian Science could cure such cases and make them
+_stay_ cured I should want a practitioner of this cult to treat them.
+But Christian Science simply cannot cure them because the underlying
+cause of this trouble is _physical_, not _mental_. In other words, the
+mind becomes ill because the body is made ill by certain poisons, and
+the nature of the disease is so peculiar that most of these miserable
+sufferers will not even try a thing unless some one brings them
+overwhelming evidence of its having wrought a cure. Or, if they do try
+it, they usually quit the treatment before nature has had time to do her
+work and set their bodies right.
+
+I have the most profound sympathy for such people. I want to speak
+directly to them. That is the task that I have set myself in this work.
+I want to talk directly to those of you who are sufferers from "nerves."
+I see you in every state, in every city, in every village, and
+throughout the farming districts of this country. I have received
+letters from many farmers who are suffering with this "thing." To them
+let me say, I know just how you feel, and from the very bottom of my
+heart I pity you. I know the horrible suffering of each one of you. I
+don't care what your ambition has been or is. I don't care what your
+situation in life may be. I don't care how rich or how poor you are. I
+don't care how much trouble you have had, or the nature of it. I want
+you to know these words are being written by one who knows more about
+your sufferings than you can imagine. I want you to believe this,
+because it is true. If you have longed and prayed for death, remember
+that the one who is writing these words also has longed and prayed for
+death. But one thing you must be sure to remember: while you are waiting
+and trying to get well you must have _patience_.
+
+I recollect one beautiful day in early spring when traveling in Nebraska
+I passed a little cemetery. How sweet and restful the place seemed, and
+as I looked out over those little white stones I prayed silently that
+the great God who made me would not hold me much longer on earth, that
+He would soon grant me the rest and peace which I believed was to be
+found only in death and the grave. But _remember this_: In those dark
+days never for a moment did I think of taking my own life! These words
+may reach some one who has had such a thought. If so, I say to you that
+to take one's life is the most cowardly thing a human being can do. This
+is the only place where I feel like being severe with you people. Shame
+on the man or woman who will not go on to the end fighting honorably!
+And now if you have ever given thought to such a thing, blot it from
+your mind forever. I can see how these miserable people might long for
+death, as I did. But no matter how we may long for release through
+death, the God of nature must be the judge of our time of going.
+
+Now this brings me to what I want to say about such sufferers going
+insane. Believe me, they never do! Remember this always. You won't
+become insane. You couldn't if you tried! In letter after letter among
+the flood of them I have had from all over this country and Canada, I
+read how the poor sufferer feared he or she might be going insane. I
+know, poor souls, just how you feel. That feeling is, I think, the most
+dreadful of all things connected with "nerves." I suffered from it for
+years. It is a dreadful feeling, but there is not the least bit of
+danger of such a thing happening to you. You will _not_ go insane. Such
+persons can't. Do you really get me? Such persons cannot go insane. This
+disease is nothing but what we call a functional nervous trouble. And so
+forget about the danger of insanity for all time. You can be cured, but
+you will make your return to health just that much slower by harboring
+this fear. And it would be simply foolish for you to go on thinking it
+possible after I--let me say it again--after I have told you that it
+cannot happen. For the value of this treatise lies in the "I." Its value
+is just like that of the treatise by Cornaro. He lived it. And so
+likewise have I lived it. I have been laid low with this malady. I have
+staggered in black despair with staring eyes and bleeding feet and
+crying soul along this road strewn with thorns and stones. I know what
+it is to lie awake all night and cry like a baby, with none to know and
+none to tell me what to do. I know what it is to be tremendously
+ambitious. Ambition! Ambition! Ah, God of Heaven! How a poor soul
+suffers who beyond everything else, craves to be able to do something
+big in this world because he knows he should, yet is held down by this
+dreadful thing, "nerves!" And how little, how unspeakably little, do
+physicians, even the greatest of them, know, actually know, how we
+suffer, unless indeed there be one in whose own body the fiend has sunk
+deep its talons.
+
+After I had my first breakdown I made up my mind to study medicine
+because something told me that I was one of those "peculiar" people who
+just _think_ there is something the matter with them. Is it not strange
+that with all the advance that has been made in general medicine, little
+or nothing has been done for the relief of the people born with this
+curse hanging over them?
+
+I wish this book could be put into the hands of every nervous parent
+for, think as you may, all nervous parents beget nervous children. But
+does it follow that such children should have a nervous breakdown almost
+before they are out of their teens? No, decidedly not; and what is more,
+they never should and never would break down, if they had proper food.
+
+I look back with horror on the many nights of my childhood when I
+suffered with "night terrors." And right here let me say: no child will
+_ever have night terrors_ if he is given just what he should eat, and is
+kept from overeating. And now a few words about the _first_ great point
+concerning the prevention as well as the cure of "nerves."
+
+Nervous people, and many others as well, eat too much. That, you say, is
+nothing new. But that is just where the dreadful wrong begins; and why
+there has been tragedy after tragedy, and why even while this is being
+written there will be many more tragedies. You will hear lecturers
+say--I myself have said it, and to large audiences: "You people eat too
+much." But if that's all that is said, people straightway go away and
+say: "Oh, yes, he's right, of course. We all eat too much." And there it
+ends. Until recently people did not know--most of them don't know
+yet--that each day they are actually bringing the grave nearer by
+overeating.
+
+Not long ago the great life insurance companies of this country held a
+notable convention in the city of New York. Now after everything had
+been said and done, after every phase of life insurance had been
+discussed, what do you suppose was the great outstanding statement from
+that remarkable body of men who know more about why people die than any
+other body of people on earth? It was this: "The average American _man
+or woman_ dies at the age of 43 because he eats what he wants to eat
+rather than what he should eat." That means, of course, that
+practically all Americans overeat. They are all like the child who says,
+"I'm not hungry for bread and butter. I'm hungry for cake." And I find
+that most of these poor deluded nervous sufferers eat what they want
+under the supposition that it is good for them because they crave it. I
+myself used to do so. I would eat candy by the pound. And it is odd but
+quite true that nervous people crave the very things that hurt them
+most. But there is no more sense in eating what you crave because you
+crave it than there is in the man who is addicted to alcohol, drinking
+alcohol because he craves it. I once used tobacco; I craved it, but I
+did not need it just because I craved it. It is true the body naturally
+needs some fats, some carbohydrates; in fact, a balanced ration, as we
+shall see later. But I want to make it mighty plain here that never was
+there a greater error than that of supposing you need chocolates or
+sweets just because you crave them. And you don't need to overeat, and
+keep on doing it, just because you must eat.
+
+
+
+
+II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE
+
+  "He who pursues a regular course of life need not be apprehensive
+  of illness, as he who has guarded against the cause need not be
+  afraid of the effect."
+
+  --CORNARO
+
+
+We have now come to the second step in the cure of "nerves"--eating the
+right food in the right way. You must chew all food until it is of the
+consistency of cream, and you must also sip all liquids slowly. And now,
+as you read these things that I have set down, I want you to remember
+this: doing any one thing--and doing that alone--will not cure this
+malady. No, it is doing a number of things at the right time. I know
+this is true because I have tried it. For a time I chewed my food to a
+cream, but that was the only thing I did in an endeavor to get well. I
+was doing none of the other things that are absolutely necessary for a
+cure. This is one great trouble with all such people. They will
+Fletcherize for a time and then say there is nothing to that because it
+does not cure them. Well, as I've said, that alone will not, and I want
+to dwell at length on this because nobody knows as well as I do, what
+harm such a belief does the nervous sufferer.
+
+Trying out Fletcherizing alone, which I say must be done together with
+other things if you want to get well and stay well, is like taking the
+handle of an axe and going out into the woods to cut down a tree. Now
+with Fletcherizing you have a perfectly good handle, but you know very
+well that you can't cut a tree down with only an axe handle. But that is
+not the fault of the handle. The fault is obviously your own. Now
+suppose you get the axe and fit the handle to it. You can then cut the
+tree down if you work hard enough at the task. Again, suppose you cut
+the tree half way through and quit. Will the axe keep on until the work
+is done? You know it will not, and you very well know if you wish to be
+cured you must keep on doing your part of the work or dieting will be of
+no value whatever to you. Now suppose a man comes along and tells you
+that the axe you have is no good and therefore it is no use for you to
+keep on trying to use it. That is exactly what some physicians still say
+about Fletcherizing.
+
+But you say, "I must cut this tree down. Nobody will do it for me; how
+shall I get it down? Can you give me an axe that will cut it down?"
+
+"Oh, no," he replies, "but anyway there's no use fooling with that one."
+
+Then, if you are determined to do the work, you say, "I have to cut the
+tree down. You have no other axe to offer me, so I'm going to try the
+one I have." And you go ahead and cut down the tree. Then just as you
+have finished, the man comes your way again, and in great delight you
+call out to him: "Come and see! I cut this tree down with the axe you
+said was no good!"
+
+The man comes over to you and says, "Where's the tree? I don't see it!"
+
+You are astonished and you tell him, "There it lies on the ground right
+before your eyes! Can't you see it?"
+
+But he turns and walks away saying: "There is no tree there; it is all
+in your mind."
+
+This is exactly what people with "nerves" have been told again and again
+by physicians, by relatives, and by most other people who have never had
+"nerves."
+
+I tell you these things so that when you begin to eat sparingly and chew
+your food to a cream you may fortify yourself against well-meaning but
+mistaken friends and relatives. And, oddly enough, it does seem that the
+individual with "nerves" has more friends and relatives than any other
+person in the world.
+
+Remember you must not only chew your food to the consistency of cream
+for one or two months, you must make this practice a lifelong habit. If
+you cannot take time to eat a meal in this way, you had much better go
+hungry. To people who travel and must frequently take their meals in
+railroad eating houses, I would say, get some bread and butter
+sandwiches and eat them slowly while on the train. There is always a
+chance to secure all you need to eat, too. You may not always be able to
+sit an hour at the table--the time we should give to a meal if we eat as
+we should. I know many object to this rule on the ground that if we
+followed it we should get nothing else done. But that is nonsense. Did
+not the Master of us all say, "Are there not twelve hours in the day?"
+Then can we not devote three of the twelve to our food? If we have nine
+hours in which we are at our highest efficiency, is it not good sense,
+if we eat three meals a day, to give three hours to these meals? There
+is only one sane answer to the question; we should take an hour for a
+meal.
+
+Every now and then some magazine writer will state that the chewing of
+food to a cream does not help anybody. He will tell you that you can
+swallow your food any old way and it will not hurt you in the least. In
+fact, I actually saw an article in one of our leading periodicals
+containing just such statements. We should, I suppose, have only pity
+for an editor who would give space to such stuff, and should also pity
+the poor wretch who by writing it is striving to attain notoriety. At
+any rate there is one excellent thing about such lies, they do harm for
+only a little while. When people find out that a thing is harmful to
+them, they usually quit it, no matter how many notoriety seekers are
+urging and encouraging them to keep on.
+
+Usually the sufferer with "nerves" is the only one in the household who
+will eat sparingly and chew his food slowly. But now and then I find an
+intelligent, sympathetic man who will do so because it is helpful to his
+wife. He sympathizes with her infirmity, and with fine self-denial eats
+as she does. And note this: he usually derives benefit from so doing.
+Time after time when I have put a nervous woman under this regimen, and
+then her husband elected to go along with her, I have had the man come
+to me and say: "Well, doctor, I declare I'm feeling a whole lot better
+myself! I don't get sleepy any more during the daytime, and that pain I
+used to have in the region of my liver is gone!" And so on and on.
+
+The fact is just this: anybody who follows the rules that I learned to
+apply in my own case cannot fail to be benefited. And although those not
+inclined to "nerves" can eat a greater variety of food, it's greatly to
+be desired when there is a nervous person in a household of grownups
+that all other members of the family enter together into this thing. It
+could not fail to help every one of them. To be truthful, in the
+beginning you will all find it mighty hard to persist in chewing all
+your food to a cream. Mouthful after mouthful of food will get away from
+you when you are not thinking. This just goes to show how we are in the
+habit of bolting our food. At first people who Fletcherize or chew their
+food perfectly, usually lose weight. I most certainly did. I lost about
+twenty pounds because of it, but I was so well and felt so good I could
+almost have jumped over the North Star.
+
+I know that, unfortunately, a lot of people with "nerves" have started
+to chew their food carefully and to eat sparingly, but the minute they
+found themselves losing weight they were frightened and quit. They went
+on carrying that ten or twenty or thirty pounds of flesh and all the
+time suffering the tortures of the damned just in order that they might
+keep it. But of what benefit are a certain number of extra pounds of
+flesh and how can a man explain such a senseless action?
+
+The astonishing thing is that many physicians are willing to condemn a
+cure just as soon as they find the patient has lost a pound of beef. But
+as I said before, the primary mission of man in this world is not to
+raise beef. I do not find fault with the raising of beef in the feeding
+yards, but if beef must be raised let us confine the industry to the
+cattle pens and stock yards. Let us not worship it to the degree that we
+would rather live in hell than part with a few extra pounds that
+overload our own bodies.
+
+Now just here I want it distinctly understood, as I have said before,
+that this text is primarily for _functional nervous cases_. Tubercular
+people belong to an entirely different class. They should live out of
+doors day and night and should, if possible, be treated at outdoor
+institutions established for such cases. But the individual with
+"nerves" will find what he needs and will find it abundantly if he has
+enough determination to take hold of it and keep at it.
+
+On the part of many it will take all the determination they have to chew
+their food to a cream and always eat sparingly. In regard to the amount
+of food taken, judgment must of course be used. We all know that it is
+possible to eat too little. But you should always quit eating while you
+still feel you would like a little more. I know of no better guide than
+this to offer you. But I have observed that the person who eats slowly
+and chews his food to a cream never eats as much food as he would if he
+bolted it. It is just like letting a thirsty horse drink water. I
+remember, as a boy on the farm, when I led a very thirsty horse from
+the field to the water tank how rapidly he would swallow. If my father
+were with me, after the horse had drunk a while he would say, "Make him
+hold his head up." Frequently when I did so the horse would draw a long
+breath and drink no more. Had he gone right on drinking, as a thirsty
+horse will if you permit him to do so, he might have drunk twice as much
+as was good for him. And that's the way people eat. As a result the
+horse that drinks and drinks and drinks when he is very thirsty
+sometimes dies in a few hours. I have seen a horse die from drinking too
+much water and I have also seen people die in a few hours after a
+terrible gorge that they could not get rid of. Do you know that most
+nervous people have a way of sitting down to the table and eating until
+they are literally full? If you could take out the stomach of such a
+person and look at it, the sight would frighten you. And with good
+reason. For as a result of this habit many nervous people have dilated
+stomachs. But if they would correct their manner of eating there is
+usually enough tone in the muscular walls of the stomach to get it back
+to normal. I marvel again and again over how miraculously nature
+restores herself even after she has been terribly abused, if only she is
+given a chance.
+
+I am certain that all human beings would be more efficient if they
+chewed all solid food to a cream and sipped all liquids slowly. The late
+Professor William James, the great Harvard psychologist, testified to
+the value of such a habit, as did a number of other distinguished
+Harvard professors. I regret that some physicians still hold out in
+their belief that it does no good although the evidence stands out as
+clearly before them as a tree along the roadside. But they are like the
+physician who some years ago declared that bathing was bad for people. I
+recall how hard we all bore down upon him, as he richly deserved, and
+how the Journal of the American Medical Association printed a short poem
+ridiculing him. I am quite certain that the members of the Regular
+school of medicine have progressed infinitely farther toward the cure of
+diseases than members of all the other schools combined. I do not say
+this simply because I happen to be a physician of the Regular school; I
+say it because a candid survey of what has been accomplished, and by
+whom, proves it. But as to diet, we have done little compared with what
+we should do. We have made no greater progress along this line because
+so many of us have been blinded by prejudice--the curse of the human
+race.
+
+With regard to chewing all food to a cream, most modern writers on
+dietetics, while acknowledging that this super-mastication is useful,
+maintain that it does not increase the value of the food. But they err
+greatly in this, as we can prove in a very few words: If a certain
+amount of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates is bolted by a nervous man
+suffering from a breakdown, it will cause intestinal toxemia as a result
+of the bolted food, but if he chews the food to a cream it will be
+digested in a normal manner and will not cause gas in the stomach or
+intestines. The proper amount of food is absorbed and nourishes the man
+as it should. Now did not the thorough mastication of that food increase
+the value of the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates? The thing is a
+self-evident fact. In the first case a man takes food which quickly
+turns to a loathsome poison. In the second instance the same kind of
+food is so thoroughly mixed with the ptyalin in the saliva that whatever
+is eaten becomes of value as protein or fat or some other food element.
+
+After many years of sad experience with this malady we call "nerves" I
+am convinced that the reason why people have this disease is because
+they are literally "food drunk." I have treated men who had been on an
+alcohol debauch and I know how terribly depressed they are after such a
+spree is over. It is exactly the same way with the pre-nervous people
+that break down. They sit down to a big meal and overeat. There is a
+temporary stimulus, just as in the case of the person who takes
+intoxicants, followed by that terrible mental depression that all who
+have suffered from "nerves" know. And because the individual with the
+"nerves" is overeating two or three times each day, he stays drunk with
+the poisons that form in his stomach and intestines. Such people
+over-assimilate the poisonous products of proteins, especially of
+sugars. Of course this may seem oddly stated because we would not want
+any absorption of the poisons in the intestines, but it is probable that
+nature can and does take care of a little of it there in the healthy
+individual.
+
+It is perfectly absurd to say, as some physicians still continue to say,
+that no poisonous matter is ever absorbed in the intestinal tract. Give
+a child something that causes intestinal indigestion and see how quickly
+he has a rise in temperature. This fever is the direct result of poisons
+absorbed in the intestines. In the case of the nervous adult, however,
+this poison does not as often result in fever as it does in a horrible
+mental depression and a complete inability to perform any sort of work.
+
+And so there seems no question but that this terrible malady we call
+"nerves," or a nervous breakdown in any of its many forms, is in a
+majority of cases the result of the wrong eating habits of the
+individual. The chewing of all food to a cream will go far toward curing
+the trouble, but in most cases this alone will not effect a cure. It
+would not have done so in my own case, although I did see much
+improvement as a result of that practice alone.
+
+And here I want to say this: There are many who say they cannot eat acid
+fruits because of the distress they cause. Now if such people would
+always chew an apple, a pear, or other fruit to a cream, no distress
+would result from eating fresh fruit. But such people must follow in
+detail the diet I shall give farther on.
+
+Now, facts cannot be stated too strongly. It is certain acid fruits will
+cause distress if you do not chew them to a cream. I would swell up like
+a toad if I ate only one apple hurriedly. I don't dare think what might
+happen to me if I ate three or four in that way. I might possibly find
+myself transformed into a human balloon and float away into space. But I
+don't eat apples that way--not now. Some who read these pages may think
+it very strange, yet it is quite true that there really are persons
+suffering with "nerves" who have not gumption enough to follow this
+simple rule of chewing all food to a cream. I despair of ever helping
+those people. They still continue to dispose of a big meal in fifteen
+minutes, and then insist they have chewed all their food carefully. I
+have had that thing happen right before my own eyes. Then think of their
+complaining that they cannot eat apples because they cause so much gas
+in the stomach!
+
+One reason why a large number of such people are troubled with gas, even
+though they do chew their food to a cream, is because they immediately
+follow a meal with one or two cups of tea or coffee. Now please remember
+this: An individual afflicted with "nerves" has no business drinking
+either tea or coffee. He should let them both alone. Plain hot water is
+the very best drink in the world for a nervous person. If you want a
+drink after your meal drink a cup of plain hot water. And you should
+also drink a cup of hot water half an hour before breakfast. If you do
+not care for breakfast, and feel you do not need this meal, drink the
+hot water anyway. The victim of "nerves" should never drink during the
+meal but after it, if he must drink anything at all. He should also
+drink a pint or more of cold water between meals every day.
+
+Now, another thing with regard to chewing all solid food to a cream. It
+has been proved over and over again in my own case and in that of many
+others, that in doing this the brain and muscles are both made stronger
+and keener for work, that those who chew their food in this way have
+much greater endurance, both mental and physical, than those who do not.
+
+Today if I should relax my vigilance in respect to chewing my food I
+should soon go down again. But with this aid, which I now so easily
+employ, combined with exactly the right things to eat, I find I need
+have no fear. It has been ten years since my last breakdown and in that
+interval I have done the very best work and by far the hardest brain
+work of a lifetime. I do not believe people break down from overwork.
+You may think that a perfectly absurd statement. But I have good grounds
+upon which to base my belief. If nervous people would eat sparingly and
+chew their food to a cream, eating the foods I shall mention later on, I
+am confident they would rarely, if ever, break down.
+
+It is certain that in the last ten years, with the greatest mental
+strain on me, I should have gone down again, and perhaps more than once,
+if I had not found what caused "nerves" and how to prevent it. In the
+meantime I have written ten or more books, and every writer, at least,
+knows what a nerve-racking profession writing is. In addition to all
+this mental labor I have gone right ahead with my medical practice.
+Surely there is balm in this particular Gilead.
+
+But if you will not chew your food to a cream you need not expect to win
+the entire reward. And you must do this not only one day or one week or
+one month or one year, but all the days, weeks, months, and years that
+you may live. And, alas! I know only too well all the trouble
+well-meaning but deluded people who sit at the table with a nervous
+individual will make him when they discover how much time he is taking
+to chew his food. At first, because of the length of time I spent at a
+meal, such people thought I must be eating as much as a horse. But, here
+and there, for I was in many places, when people found out what I was
+doing, they would only courteously deride me for being so gullible about
+what they termed fads.
+
+We are all well aware that the vast majority of Americans do not chew
+their food to a cream or anything like it. And there are those,
+therefore, who advance as an argument that because the majority do not
+there must be something wrong with the minority who do. Well, let us
+follow this out a little: Not so many hundred years ago everybody
+believed the world was _flat_. But their theory did not make it flat.
+And so, even though thousands of people who crowd our eating houses do
+bolt their food, that does not prove there is no danger in the practice.
+And they who do it are digging their graves with their teeth.
+
+_Chew your food!_
+
+
+
+
+III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE
+
+  "He who leads a sober and regular life, and commits no excess in
+  his diet, can suffer but little from disorders of any kind."
+
+  --CORNARO
+
+
+People who are the offspring of nervous parents and who have had a
+nervous breakdown should not eat commercial sugar, eggs, or animal food
+of any kind whatever. These statements may seem wholly unimportant to
+some people, but I realize what a tremendous bomb I throw into the camps
+of others when they read them. You see, for centuries people have
+believed meat and eggs to be the best of all foods; so when I make a
+statement like the foregoing, the effect is not unlike that which
+followed Columbus' statement that no matter what people believed, the
+fact was that the earth was round, not flat. From the very beginning it
+has not made a single bit of difference as to what physicians or
+anybody else thought; facts count. And no matter what we may think or
+how long we have thought it, facts go right on being facts just the
+same.
+
+Sometimes, even after twenty years' experience, about once in two or
+three months--because there is nothing else at hand--I find myself
+eating a small bit of meat. This usually happens when I am on a lecture
+tour. But if I eat only a small slice of bacon at the evening meal I
+dream bad dreams and the next morning feel drowsy, heavy, and sluggish.
+Animal foods as well as eggs and commercial sugar poison all those born
+of nervous parents. I have proved the truth of this by my own case and
+by several years' observation of other cases.
+
+Do your children have "night terrors"? You answer, yes. Well, let me
+tell you how to stop these horrors in the little ones. If you give them
+meat--and remember you should never give them pork--let them have a
+very small piece at noon, never at night. And they should never be
+permitted to have it for breakfast. Give the child his one small bit of
+meat at noon. For the evening meal give him some cereal with milk or
+cream, but no sugar. Give him all he wants of this special dish, but
+nothing else at that meal, and you will find his "night terrors" and
+moaning will cease.
+
+I look back on most of the nights of my childhood with horror, for until
+I became a man I talked in my sleep and had the most horrible dreams. I
+used also to get up in my sleep and walk about the room. My parents were
+well aware of the fact that all of their eight children were poor
+sleepers, and of them all I was by far the worst. And, although it was
+innocently done, the food they were giving us was poisoning us. You
+don't need to think that in order to take poison you must have
+strychnine or arsenic. No, indeed you don't. We were fed exactly as
+hundreds and thousands of poor little ones are being fed now as this is
+being written. We were fed on meat, eggs, and fats, and when we became
+ill, friends round about us thought they were doing something real kind
+when they sent in a nice piece of fried rabbit or some celebrated golden
+brown fried chicken. But we vomited at the sight of the food--which was
+really our salvation.
+
+I have two boys of my own. The elder, a sturdy chap not yet ten years of
+age, has to have clothes for a fourteen-year-old boy, and he is much
+stronger than any boy of his age he has ever met. The younger boy is now
+seven and his physical development is wonderful for a child of that age.
+Now these boys hardly know what an egg is. They never eat one. As to
+meat, I am certain that since they were born they have not eaten it on
+an average of once a week. They have eaten a little, but you will admit
+that eating meat not more than once a week, and often going weeks
+without a bit of it, certainly is eating very little. There have been
+times when they have not seen meat for three months.
+
+Now, I don't eat as I do and have my children eat as they do just for a
+fad. I think nothing is more stupid and silly than for people to do
+certain things just because somebody else does them. We should all have
+good sound reasons for our actions in this world. We should all try our
+very best to use sound common sense. That's why I say that people who
+are the offspring of nervous parents should not eat animal food of any
+kind after they are twenty-one, and they should never at any time eat
+eggs. It would be far better for them if they did not eat commercial
+sugar. But I do admit that when some of these people get well by
+dieting, they are able to eat sparingly of all these things and still
+keep well. But some people can never eat them and I am one of the
+number.
+
+I remember one summer about two years ago I was on a lecture tour for a
+Chautauqua Bureau, and it seemed that surely I got into the very worst
+eating places that summer that I ever had in my life. For three or four
+days I ate only eggs, as they seemed to be about the only food I could
+get besides bread and butter. At the end of the third day--I remember
+the time very well--when night came I could not sleep, and just as when
+I had one of my nervous breakdowns, that old feeling of inexpressible
+gloom began to settle over me. I knew instantly the cause of it, because
+twice before when I had purposely experimented with eating eggs I had
+had similar experiences. I immediately took a heavy cathartic and after
+having thoroughly rid myself of the poison I again slept well.
+
+But I am not alone in this fight against the use of eggs for nervous
+people. John Burroughs said that eggs poisoned him, and I have talked
+with men of great wealth and great business ability who have reached the
+top by their own efforts, who have told me that eggs poisoned them.
+
+Now I have found that for these nervous people animal food is a slow
+poison. Sooner or later it will do its work.
+
+And just here I wish to say that there are some people who seemingly can
+eat almost anything and not suffer from so doing. Last summer I talked
+with Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of Leo Tolstoy, the celebrated Russian
+writer. The Count, who is also a lecturer, told me that he was obliged
+to have eggs and that he had eaten them all his life. He said his
+appetite was never satisfied unless he ate eggs. He is now past sixty,
+and apparently is strong and rugged. Now eggs no doubt are good for him.
+But right here is where infinite harm can be done to nervous people like
+myself. People who can eat everything--and among physicians seemingly
+there are many who can do so--will say to these poor sufferers:
+
+"Why, it's all nonsense about things hurting you! Eat anything you want
+and all you want and then forget about it."
+
+Physicians have said that to me and during the past twenty years I have
+heard them say it thousands of times to others.
+
+Personally I do not believe in Christian Science--physicians of the
+Regular school do not believe in it; but do you know that when a
+physician says to a sufferer from "nerves," "It's all nonsense about
+what you eat hurting you; eat anything you want and then forget about
+it," that physician is fully endorsing Christian Science. He is telling
+the person to whom he is talking that there is no such thing as physical
+suffering. Of course, such a physician is nothing but a fool. Yet that's
+why so many of these people turn to Christian Science. Yes, that is
+exactly why they try it. It bolsters up a sufferer for a time just as
+contact with a magnetic and hopeful personality may for a time bolster
+one up. But such persons almost always go back to the sanitariums.
+"Nerves" is not a mental disease; that is, the seat of the trouble is
+not mental but physical, and the mental phase of "nerves" is only a
+symptom, or rather one of the symptoms of the disease.
+
+We people who have gone down into the dark valley have experienced a
+million, more or less, different kinds of feelings. I fully believe one
+half of the American people are the offspring of nervous parents. This
+means that there are fifty-five million of this nervous type of
+Americans. This type includes people all the way from the man in an
+office who gets angry quickly, to the individual who is in a state of
+complete collapse. And the man who is afflicted with nothing more than a
+quick temper, or is living under high nervous tension, is liable to
+beget children who will suffer from the malady in a far worse degree
+than ever he will, unless, indeed, he eats only the things he should eat
+and observes a number of other rules besides the two I have already laid
+down.
+
+Now, the ideal diet for nervous people is a slightly modified vegetarian
+diet. To be specific, it is a Lacto-vegetarian diet minus eggs. There
+are, however, two things included in this diet that I would warn one in
+the beginning to eat of sparingly. These are bananas and cooked cabbage.
+If they agree with you, well and good; but if they do not, let them
+strictly alone.
+
+Eat all kinds of vegetables, both fresh and cooked. Eat all kinds of
+fruits, especially fresh fruits. There is an old saying and a good one,
+"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
+
+There are a thousand ways to prepare vegetables and fruits for the
+table, and there are a number of books that give good recipes. If a
+nervous individual has never yet had a breakdown I believe he can safely
+eat most of the vegetarian dishes that have eggs in them, but it would
+be a serious mistake to select the special dishes that contain eggs and
+live on those just because they contain eggs.
+
+I believe, too, that after a nervous person is restored to health, if he
+strictly observes the rules of eating sparingly and of chewing all food
+to a cream, he may safely try out such courses as are found in
+_Bardsley's Recipes for Food Reformers_ or _Broadbent's Forty Vegetarian
+Dinners_.
+
+It may seem odd, but there are people who for some reason or other lack
+the instinct, or whatever is needed, to know that a certain thing they
+eat hurts them. I have had men and women sit in my office and say with
+the utmost sincerity that they were certain that it wasn't anything they
+ate that hurt them because they never had any pain in the abdomen.
+Sometimes these people were in a dreadful state of nervous breakdown. So
+you see the danger that lies here. If you know, you can always tell what
+special thing disagrees with you. For example, I know eggs disagree with
+me, and like John Burroughs and many others, I know when they harm me.
+Therefore, after you have recovered you might try being your own
+physician. But if you are not sure as to what disagrees with you, you
+would much better stick to a vegetarian diet and go without eggs the
+remainder of your days.
+
+Commercial sugar also is the cause of many breakdowns among the people
+of this country. And is it not strange how these poor suffering people
+crave sweets--the very thing they should not have. They will argue with
+themselves--and some physicians will agree with them--that they should
+go right on eating candy because they want it. But, as I have already
+said, there is just as much sense in saying a man should have whiskey
+because he craves it or that a young man should have tobacco because he
+craves it, as to say that any one should have candy because he craves
+it. There is absolutely no sense in such an argument. If you are
+suffering from a nervous breakdown, for sixty days quit eating candy and
+everything sweet except honey, and follow the other rules I have already
+laid down. It may be that you will have to stick to this diet for three
+months. But try it. That is exactly what cured all my bodily ills and
+brought my soul out of the dark and gloomy night after everything else
+had failed. I do not mean to say that this diet alone cured me, but I do
+say it was the biggest factor in the cure. There are, however, some
+other things that it would be worse than folly to ignore. This I shall
+come to later. But just here I want to have it understood that this
+thing of eating--how you eat, and how much you eat, and what you
+eat--is of transcendent importance in the cure.
+
+Of course, under some circumstances connected with cases of breakdown,
+nothing but the good judgment of friends will avail. For example, the
+question of how much one shall eat is something that not all the books
+in the world nor all the physicians in the world can determine. I say,
+always quit while you want a little more. I cannot say more or less than
+that.
+
+So many have written me recently asking just what I eat, that it may be
+a help to some of them if I set down here just what I ate today. I ate
+no breakfast at all. Sometimes I go for weeks without eating breakfast.
+This is especially apt to be the case if I am engaged in writing a
+magazine article or a book. I find my brain is much clearer and that I
+can work much better when I eat no breakfast. But I do drink one or two
+cups of very weak tea. I use just enough tea to color the water. Now I
+do not advise everybody to go without breakfast. Some people tell me
+that they have a headache unless they eat something. And some writers
+say that if they do not eat a little breakfast they cannot write so
+well. Thus you see where the question of common sense and using your own
+judgment comes in. There are always a few things you will have to decide
+for yourselves. At noon I ate about two handfuls of corn flakes with
+milk and cream but no sugar, finishing with about four ounces of bread
+pudding that had a little brown sugar in it. Now, in mid-afternoon, as I
+write this, I am not hungry. Tonight I shall eat another dish of corn
+flakes and some buttered toast and three or perhaps four good-sized
+apples, I usually eat three or four apples a day. If I want a piece of
+pie for lunch, I eat it, but I eat nothing else.
+
+I live on the plainest of plain foods. Apples used to create a lot of
+gas in my stomach, but now they do not because I chew them to a cream.
+Milk used to make me constipated, but it does not when I chew the cereal
+with it carefully and eat a number of apples.
+
+Most nervous people are constipated. But apples are really the salvation
+of nervous people. If you are constipated, drink, or rather, sip, a
+glass of hot water half an hour before breakfast, then eat nothing for
+breakfast but apples; eat two big ones and chew them slowly to a cream.
+Go to stool regularly every morning. This habit is half the cure of
+constipation.
+
+Apples, of all things I know, are the finest things for the liver. If
+you take a patient ill from chronic indigestion, whose stools are clay
+colored, and put him on a diet of apples, if he chews properly, in less
+than twenty-four hours the stools will be of the regulation dark brown
+color, as they should be when the liver is working in a normal,
+healthful manner. And eating apples will work in exactly the same way
+with children as with adults.
+
+Apples, apples, apples! Eat them no matter what the price. You remember
+how good Adam found the apple--or at least we presume it was an apple
+that he found so good--and I can think of no other single thing that
+would tempt a man to make all the trouble he did. If he had to sin, then
+I'm for Adam every time, for I think had I been in his place and Eve had
+offered me a big juicy red apple, I should have taken it and eaten it. I
+don't know but that I might even have eaten it without the invitation. I
+think that Adam's great mistake was not so much in eating the apple as
+in trying to lay the blame on the woman. Nobody should ever apologize
+for having eaten an apple.
+
+Now, generally speaking, there is one thing a nervous parent--or any
+other kind of parent for that matter--should never say to a child. Never
+tell him he is nervous. If we realize that our children are the
+offspring of nervous parents, it is, as I have already suggested, much
+better for all concerned, for we cannot avoid a danger unless we know
+what or where the danger is. When we know the child is nervous we should
+plan carefully, leaving out of his diet all pastries and rich greasy
+foods, and keep him largely on a vegetarian diet. But, as I have already
+suggested, we do not need to diet a nervous child as strictly as we do a
+nervous adult where infinite harm has already been done. Give the
+nervous child meat only a part of the time, and if he goes without eggs
+it will be all the better for him. I wish from the bottom of my heart
+that I had never tasted an egg!
+
+What a fine thing it would be if we so trained our children that they
+would never suffer from "nerves"! And usually it could be done. The
+belief that because nervous parents have broken down their children
+sooner or later must break down, is our greatest curse. But such a
+belief is absurd, for if dieting, outdoor exercise, and a few other
+simple rules are observed, there is no danger that it will happen. To be
+sure, these rules must be definitely understood and strictly adhered to.
+
+If we treat this misfortune in the manner I shall mention later, we can
+make our lives more successful and infinitely happier than the lives of
+those who have never learned self-control. For instance, I am far
+healthier than men all around me who seem to be able to eat three
+Christmas dinners each day. They sit at the table and boast about being
+"good feeders," then later they come to me for pills, saying, "There is
+nothing the matter with me, doctor, but I thought I had better take a
+little medicine so I won't get ill." But they don't fool me. I know
+exactly what is the matter with them. They are so full of pork they
+can't think. To tell the truth, we people who have suffered from a
+nervous breakdown or some illness akin to it, and have learned that we
+must eat right or die, are of all people the most fortunate.
+
+Every now and then I hear some good old sister, with a face like a full
+moon and jowls like a bloodhound, say, as she finishes her third piece
+of mince pie,--her waist line having extended accordingly,--"Isn't it
+too bad about poor brother Jones! He looks so terribly thin! They say he
+has fallen away from one hundred and sixty pounds to only a hundred and
+fifty. And they do say he can't eat meat and eggs at all! The poor man!"
+
+But the real facts of the case are that brother Jones is able to walk
+ten miles any day, and the possibility is that in the not distant future
+he will read in his morning paper that sister Sue Portly has been
+operated on for gall stones and the number reported is almost
+unbelievable, about three hundred, in fact. And so, all the time sister
+Portly was feeling sorry for lithe, energetic brother Jones, she was a
+walking stone quarry, as it were, and yet didn't know it.
+
+So don't worry because you have to diet or because after reading these
+lines you determine that you must begin to diet. For, whoever you are,
+and wherever you may be, you belong to a most fortunate class of people.
+
+And now I wish to say some things about what nervous people should do
+besides dieting, and especially do I wish to say these things to those
+now suffering from a nervous breakdown. Much of it at least will apply
+to children of nervous parentage. You will observe as you go along that
+I keep mentioning "these children." I do so always with the thought in
+mind that there is absolutely no need for them ever to break down if
+these common sense rules are followed. I take it that not any one of us
+or a number of us, but that all of us love our children more than we
+love ourselves. Admitting the truth of this, then we should all be
+interested in this system for them as well as for ourselves, for as
+their nerves are so shall their success be.
+
+
+
+
+IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE
+
+  "Better to hunt in fields for health unbought.
+  The wise for cure on exercise depend;
+  God never made his work for man to mend."
+
+  --DRYDEN
+
+
+People in this country are now beginning to get away from the idea that
+a man or woman who is past sixty is getting "old." When the Rev. John
+Wesley, the itinerant preacher and author, was eighty-eight years
+old--please note the eighty-eight--he walked six miles to keep a
+preaching appointment. When asked if the walk tired him, he laughed and
+said: "Why, no! Not at all! The only difference I can see in my
+endurance now and when I was twenty is that I cannot run quite so fast."
+
+I know there are calamity-howlers who say: "Oh, well, some people are
+born to success and long life and some are not!" The individual who
+permits himself to get into that frame of mind is doomed and no one can
+help him. Such reasoning is of course all nonsense. John Wesley was
+always a spare eater. Yet he lived an active outdoor life, often
+traveling forty and even sixty miles a day on horseback. He never failed
+to keep an appointment on account of the weather. And he was a tireless
+worker, often preaching four and five times a day. At the same time he
+read and wrote every spare moment, turning out a large amount of
+literary work.
+
+Dr. Eliot, ex-President of Harvard College, a constant writer and
+speaker, and among the greatest of American educators--now nearer 90
+than 80 years of age--is also a moderate eater. He says, "I have always
+eaten moderately of simple food in great variety. This practice is
+probably the result, first, of a natural tendency, and then of confirmed
+habit and much experience under varying conditions of work and play.
+From much observation of eating habits of other people, both the young
+and the mature, I am convinced that moderation, simplicity, and variety
+in eating are more important than any other bodily habit towards
+maintaining good health, power of work, and, barring accidents,
+attaining to enjoyable old age."
+
+It is interesting to note what that eminent lawyer, legislator, and
+orator, Chauncey M. Depew, had to say on the occasion of his
+eighty-seventh birthday about a simple diet and reaching the century
+mark. "The true philosophy of life is this: The more you like a thing
+the more reason there is for giving it up if you find it is not good for
+you. If you treat nature properly, nature will adjust herself to you.
+
+"My diet is very simple. I have the same breakfast every day in the
+year, and it consists of an orange, one four-minute egg, one half of a
+corn muffin, and a cup of coffee which is mainly hot milk. I have this
+at half past eight. My hour of rising is seven every morning.
+
+"For luncheon I partake principally of vegetables, with no meat, and a
+glass of water. This is at one o'clock. At dinner I skip most of the
+courses and enjoy small portions of vegetables, fish, and fowl. I never
+eat between meals and consume now less than half I did at fifty."
+
+The vigor and long life of Bishop Fallows of Chicago are mainly due to
+his living and mental habits and to his simple diet. He is well over 85
+years of age, but few men of three-score years can do as much work, the
+year round. There are two or three sermons and several public addresses
+each week, and the work of a large parish--from marriages and
+christenings to funerals and parish visitings--which is never slighted.
+An active Grand Army man and Civil War veteran, he is asked to address
+countless military and patriotic gatherings, and his energy seems as
+tireless as his spirit is willing. His ability to meet these demands can
+be traced back to simple living and simple eating.
+
+The Bishop is temperate in all things, and refuses to worry. He neither
+drinks nor smokes.
+
+In regard to his diet he says, "I eat very little meat, but take plenty
+of fruit, cereals and vegetables. I take regularly before breakfast a
+cup of hot grape juice. I use it frequently at other times. I take
+buttermilk daily." Night and morning he takes simple physical exercises,
+and always walks at least a couple of miles each day.
+
+The Bishop's ancestors were long-lived. His great grandfather lived to
+be 96; his grandfather, 91; his eldest brother, 93. His father's death
+from a fall occurred at the age of 81. He has a brother who is 92. This
+in itself is evidence that he comes of a family in which right
+living--which means simple living--has prevailed until its effects have
+shown in each succeeding generation.
+
+The world-renowned American inventor, Thomas A. Edison, now in his 75th
+year, has today a mind as brilliant and ingenious, and a skill as
+remarkable for inventing things that are of practical use, as when at 21
+he invented his automatic repeater which did so much for telegraphy. And
+Edison is another spare eater. What he ate at the three meals of the day
+on which he wrote the following letter, is characteristic of the small
+amount he eats every day in the year.
+
+And you will learn that this is true of every man or woman who has lived
+long and is still doing active brain work. And so, once for all, let us
+think right about this matter. We get out of ourselves just about what
+we put into ourselves or do for ourselves in the way of food and
+exercise.
+
+[Transcriber's Note: The following is the text of a letter from Mr.
+Edison that was included as an illustration in the book.]
+
+From the Laboratory
+of
+Thomas A. Edison,
+Orange, N.J.
+
+March 2, 1921.
+
+Dr. Thomas Clark Hinkle
+Cawker City, Kansas.
+
+Dear Sir:
+
+Your letter of February 25th was
+received. My food for the one day on which
+your letter was received, was as follows:
+
+BREAKFAST
+
+Cup coffee 1/2 milk, 1/2
+coffee.
+Two pieces toast, 2-1/2" × 4",
+1/4" thick.
+Another piece toast with
+two small sardines on it.
+
+MIDDAY MEAL
+
+Glass milk.
+Two pieces of dry toast.
+
+EVENING MEAL
+
+Two glasses milk.
+Three pieces very thin dry
+toast.
+Small piece steak, 1-1/2" wide,
+3/8" thick, 3" long.
+Small baked potato.
+One piece nut chocolate.
+
+Yours very truly,
+
+Thos A Edison
+
+[Transcriber's Note: This additional note was handwritten on the
+typewritten letter being reproduced in this section.]
+ Weight 185 lbs
+
+Can diminish this
+diet without loss of weight
+E
+[Transcriber's Note: End of letter.]
+
+Most people do not take enough systematic outdoor exercise. And
+exercise, I would have you understand, is another essential in the cure
+of one who has "nerves." But I am quite sure that a lot of bad advice
+has been given women sufferers along this line. I find that as a rule,
+women make better progress, at least at first, with complete rest or as
+much rest as they can possibly get. I have seen great harm come from
+telling a woman afflicted with "The Mysterious Disease"--as it is often
+called--to take long walks. I am always extremely careful about telling
+such a woman to indulge in vigorous exercise. Some women, of course, are
+much stronger than others. My advice to a woman is to walk in the open
+air unless she is so ill she cannot walk at all without becoming very
+weak. And here again each person must use common sense and decide the
+matter herself. But no person with a nervous breakdown should ever work
+at any task or take any kind of exercise to the point of exhaustion.
+
+I well remember a man who came to me some years ago suffering from this
+malady. He had been trying to get well by doing heavy stunts in a
+gymnasium. He was very muscular, in fact he was an athlete, and was
+still under twenty-five years of age. His cheeks were ruddy, and to the
+ordinary observer he appeared to be in the pink of condition. But he had
+that peculiar expression of the eyes that flashed his story to me as
+plainly as if blazoned forth by the letters of an electric sign. I told
+him at once that he could never hope to cure his nerves by such violent
+exercises.
+
+And right here let me advise men in this condition not to run. I receive
+many letters of inquiry from young men with broken-down nerves who tell
+me they are taking long walks and finishing with a run. To all such I
+say: Do not run. I know all about it for I have tried it. I was on my
+university football team. And all my life I have been fond of athletics.
+I am still fond of this kind of life and always expect to be, but
+exercise is frequently overdone by nervous people. Usually, the
+physically strong man who breaks down with "nerves" thinks at once of
+physical training. But strange as it may seem, you can make such a man's
+muscles as hard as iron but that alone will not cure him. And it is true
+that many people in this condition do not seem nervous for they are not
+at all shaky, as some think an individual should be if he is the victim
+of a nervous breakdown.
+
+I well remember that one day when at my worst I could not work nor
+concentrate my mind on anything. I chanced to be in Topeka, Kansas, and
+passed a shooting gallery. I was a good rifle shot and I had been taking
+long walks and shooting Kansas jack rabbits. I went in, picked up one of
+the rifles, and started firing at the biggest target. I rang the bell
+twice on that target in succession, and then aimed at the finest target
+there and rang the bell twice in succession on that. The proprietor was
+very much surprised, saying it was remarkably good shooting; and yet I
+was down and out with "nerves." I have seen many athletes who, to the
+untrained observer, looked well, but who in reality were nervous wrecks.
+Outdoor exercise alone will not cure such people, or if seemingly it
+does--and this is important--sooner or later the individual is sure to
+go down again. You have first to remove the cause, and that is largely
+wrong diet. Now of course it is only reasonable to say that if such an
+individual does not get out of doors at all he cannot get well.
+
+That is one trouble with many of our women today. They will go on a diet
+and stick to it, but they will not get out of doors. If they do go out,
+they ride a little distance in a street car or in an automobile to do
+some shopping. Or they go to a store and spend a good deal of time
+there--indoors, mind you--and then are whirled home again. Some of them
+seem to think that is taking outdoor exercise, but of course it is not.
+So many times they have said to me, "Why, I do get out!" Yes, they do
+get out, but they immediately go indoors again.
+
+The nervous individual, unless the collapse is so severe that the first
+few weeks must be spent in bed, should get out of doors at least three
+or four hours a day, every day in the week. This is a general rule that
+should be observed by everyone. It takes genuine courage, I know, for a
+man or woman to spend this much time out of doors. And I know that those
+who are compelled to work for a living cannot take three hours all at
+one time. But labor conditions in this country are such that I am sure
+the vast majority of our people could spend this much time outdoors in
+wholesome recreation if they would make up their mind to do so.
+
+And remember this: After the nervous person is cured he should never let
+anything prevent him from continuing such outdoor exercise. I am
+constantly trying to make this point--when you get well you should stay
+well. One breakdown is bad enough; don't have another. And you will not
+have another if you will change the habits of a lifetime as you are
+advised to do.
+
+Among farmers there are many, the offspring of nervous parents with bad
+eating habits, who suffer from nervous breakdowns. So you see exercise
+out of doors alone will not cure such cases. Sometimes a farmer will
+tell me he fears to give up eating meat because he will grow weak as a
+result. But just here I wish to call your attention to the fact that
+there are nations that have for ages lived on this lacto-vegetarian
+diet. I myself have not eaten meat or eggs for ten years. At least I
+have not eaten them except the few times mentioned. And every time I did
+break the rule I was harmed far more than I was benefited. I am very
+sure the farmer who chooses this lacto-vegetarian diet will thrive on
+it.
+
+Members of our profession discovered not very long ago that at an
+advanced age the peasants of Bulgaria are a wonderfully preserved people
+both mentally and physically. Foolishly a great number of the profession
+immediately jumped to the conclusion that buttermilk alone did the
+miracle for these people. The drinking of buttermilk became such a fad
+that some of the largest of our physicians' supply houses began and are
+still making "buttermilk tablets." And physicians, many of them, are
+credulous enough to prescribe them. They might just as well prescribe
+chalk. While buttermilk tablets are harmless, they are of no benefit
+whatever. How easily fooled people--physicians included--may be!
+Bulgarian peasants are strong and rugged and live to a great age not
+because they drink buttermilk, but because they live on milk and fruits
+and vegetables and stay out of doors. Buttermilk is a good healthful
+drink, but it is only a minor reason for the health and strength of the
+Bulgarian peasant. Now, really, could you think of anything more absurd
+than to prescribe buttermilk or buttermilk tablets as the fountain of
+youth when the patient is breaking all the laws of health, as most
+buttermilk laymen and physicians are doing? It seems almost impossible
+that people--physicians in particular--should for a moment believe such
+things. But they do. Barnum said there was a "sucker" born every minute,
+and this certainly seems to be true.
+
+No, there is no royal road to health. The buttermilk-tablet route will
+not take you there. If you will live out of doors as Bulgarian peasants
+do, and if you will eat as they do,--as man is expected to eat,--you
+will live just as long as they do, and you will get a great deal more
+out of life and be much more helpful to others. When the "time" comes
+round for your next buttermilk tablet, do not take it. Instead, do as
+those peasants do--leave off eating meat and take a two-hour walk in the
+sunshine. Then when nine o'clock comes, like the Bulgarian, go to bed
+and stay there until morning.
+
+If the person afflicted with "nerves" expects to get well and stay well,
+he must go to bed at an early hour and get eight or nine hours of sleep
+not only some nights but every night in the week. When one begins
+dieting and taking outdoor exercise he should go to bed regularly at an
+early hour even though he has not been sleeping well. No matter how many
+sleepless nights he has experienced before beginning this regime, he
+should retire early just the same, because, sooner or later, sleep will
+come and the relaxed body is resting even if the individual does not
+sleep. Now I have been through all this lying awake at night, so I know
+from experience that it is best to go to bed early and at a regular
+hour. If you can, you should sleep nine hours. Nervous people need more
+sleep than others. Sleep is a better restorer of nerves than anything
+else we can try. I do not believe that ten or even eleven hours' sleep
+would be harmful to a nervous adult, because very often I have seen such
+a person benefited by it.
+
+Children should have all the sleep they want up to ten or twelve hours.
+But after a child has wakened in the morning he should be permitted to
+get up. It is not good for him to lie in bed after he wishes to rise,
+for nature is calling him to get up and exercise.
+
+The nervous individual not only should exercise systematically out of
+doors but he should play some game. You remember when we were children
+how much we loved to play? Well, to give up play when we grow up is all
+nonsense. And just because people quit playing is the reason they have
+wrinkles and frowns. Did you ever notice how often people laugh when at
+play? There is something about play that compels one to laugh. And what
+all people need, nervous people and others as well, is to get into the
+habit of laughing more.
+
+And it is not hard to find something to play. I like to play at basket
+ball with a child, and I can enjoy tossing a ball for an hour if the
+child will stick to the game that long. Playing basket ball in the open
+air on a sunshiny day is one of the very finest exercises in the world.
+
+If you are suffering from "nerves" and are able to be out of doors at
+all,--I mean if you are well enough to be out, and at least nine out of
+ten sufferers are,--get a basket ball and get some one to play with you.
+If at first you are poor at catching the ball you will with practice
+improve. Gradually toss the ball a little higher and a little higher
+until you have difficulty in catching it. Any woman or girl can stand
+this sort of open air exercise. If the weather is cold, no matter; wrap
+up and play anyway. But enter into the game with spirit. Playing the
+regular game of basket ball is too violent exercise for the nervous
+person. The victim of "nerves" should always keep in mind that it is
+mild outdoor exercise that will do him good.
+
+Tennis is too violent an exercise for people who have had nervous
+trouble. Anyway, there is no use in one's doing anything that will make
+his heart beat like a trip-hammer. A women can toss a basket ball and
+laugh and get rosy cheeks and grow younger and prettier as easily as
+when playing tennis.
+
+Golf is also good exercise, but a large number of people who work for a
+living and suffer from "nerves" would have little chance for exercise if
+golf were all that could be offered them. Furthermore golf is
+practically only a summer game, and an individual belonging to the
+pre-nervous class needs outdoor exercise every day in the year. But golf
+is excellent exercise, and there is nothing better if one has the time
+to give to it and has access to links.
+
+Bicycling is splendid exercise for nervous people, but automobiles are
+so numerous that it is now considered almost dangerous to ride a wheel
+on any of our main traveled roads.
+
+Mountain climbing, I believe, is not to be recommended for most people
+suffering from "nerves." I have known such people to go to Colorado and
+spend some time climbing mountains, and then come back much worse than
+when they went away. My advice to the nervous person who goes to the
+mountains is to be out of doors all the time he can, but to take things
+easy. It would be better for such a person to walk about slowly on the
+level ground through some of the towns or along the foothills.
+
+Let leisure be your watchword in a hill country. I know I injured my
+nerves out in Colorado one summer because I was ill advised. Mountain
+air is good for you, but the mountains will do you more good if you
+simply look at them. If you think you must go to the top, take a burro.
+You will find that the burro will give you a lesson in how to do things
+in a leisurely way. Do not get out of patience with him and whip him.
+Remember that the burro is smarter than you are in regard to the
+business of mountain climbing. He has never had a nervous breakdown, and
+if you will let him have his own way he never will have. It will do you
+good to let him have his way; he affords a tremendous lesson in
+patience. Patience, that's just what we need, and we need it badly.
+
+Walking slowly in the open air for two or three hours is the best
+exercise for man. Fortunately, like the water we drink, it is free to
+the poor as well as the rich.
+
+For the nervous man who is able to do it, I know of nothing better to
+build up muscles and keep the liver and other internal organs in good
+shape than sawing wood. Don't scorn this sort of exercise because you
+have been told that the ex-Kaiser is taking it. That is not to be laid
+up against the wood or the exercise, for, quite fortunately, the wood
+does not care who saws it.
+
+Get some wood, then, and a buck saw, and saw wood for your own benefit.
+You can do this morning and evening. Wood sawing brings into play every
+muscle in the body, and the exercise is just enough to make a man
+comfortably tired without doing him harm.
+
+Many people who go to sanitariums for a cure pay from fifty to
+seventy-five dollars per week for the privilege of sawing wood, and you
+can take this exercise just as well and at considerably less expense at
+home, sawing your own wood instead of that of the sanitarium.
+
+Another splendid diversion for a man with "nerves," if he can have it,
+is a small workshop where he can make just any old thing out of boards
+and nails. If one is apt in this line, he can make things that will
+interest children. This sort of work requires a certain kind of
+concentration that is most excellent for the nervous sufferer. This
+suggestion would of course apply to a woman, too, if she cared to try
+such an experiment. Sewing, and especially fine needlework, is very
+trying to a woman's nerves, and if she has broken down under that kind
+of work she should quit it and do something else. If she has to make her
+living in that way, she of all people should observe the outdoor rules
+as well as rules for dieting.
+
+I am sure nervous people profit by frequenting all possible outdoor
+games. If a number of people afflicted with "nerves" could get together
+and take daily walks and at the same time determine that their
+conversation should always have a humorous slant, it would help all of
+them wonderfully.
+
+Riding in an automobile is beneficial if the machine is driven slowly
+and the patient is kept out of doors from three to four hours. But the
+fast driving that is generally done is bad for these people. They come
+back from a ride worse than when they started.
+
+It may be set down as a general rule that any form of outdoor exercise
+or play is good for the nervous person if it is not violent.
+
+Nervous people should, if possible, take a vacation once a year and get
+into new surroundings. I am certain, however, that it does not make any
+difference where one lives. A man is just as likely to have a breakdown
+in one part of the world as another. While on these vacations he should
+stick to his rules just as rigidly as when he is at home.
+
+I have had letters from people in Canada and from others in Florida who
+have suffered nervous breakdowns. In California some go to pieces. I
+have had many letters from people living there who have broken down.
+People also break down in Colorado and in New York; in fact, in every
+state in the Union. Climate does not seem to make any difference so far
+as this trouble is concerned, with the exception that in high altitudes
+I have observed nervous people are inclined to be more restless than
+elsewhere. Some years ago I went up Pike's Peak, to the Summit House. I
+went to bed and spent the night there, but I do not say I slept, for in
+reality I slept only about half an hour. I was not at all sick at the
+stomach, as so many are who climb up there; I had prevented this by
+eating a very light breakfast and chewing my food to a cream. But I was
+extremely nervous. I have found a great many other nervous people who do
+not feel quite right when in a high altitude. As a general rule, sea
+level is as good a place as a nervous individual can find to live. But
+people break down there, too. The diet, you see, is the big thing. And
+when I say "diet" I mean the way food is eaten and the amount eaten
+quite as much as I do the kind of food eaten.
+
+And once more let me say, systematic outdoor exercise also counts, and
+you can't keep fit if you exercise only one, two, or three days a week.
+Some people who take long walks in the country on Sunday think that will
+suffice. But it will not. You must have exercise every day and must have
+some play along with it. Gymnasium work is of very little value as
+compared to outdoor exercise.
+
+In the summertime, gardening is a splendid form of exercise. And so is
+the care of a small flock of chickens, which is possible for those
+living in the smaller towns. It is always better, when taking outdoor
+exercise, to have something definite to do. When walking it is a good
+plan, if you can, to have some definite place to go. And if you have an
+agreeable companion to keep up a rapid-fire talk, that will help also.
+All these things are mentally stimulating.
+
+Then, if possible, sleep the year round on a sleeping porch. If you
+don't possess a porch, then, have all the windows in your sleeping room
+wide open day and night.
+
+If for a time you have to take physic, it is best to take some hot
+mineral water half an hour before breakfast. But adhering to dieting and
+exercise, and eating enough apples, usually overcomes constipation.
+
+Now, there are some things about which a person must use his own good
+judgment. For instance, if you have any bad teeth you should at once go
+to a good dentist and have them attended to. Nobody with bad teeth can
+have good health.
+
+Again, if your tonsils have become mere pus sacs you will have to go to
+a good nose and throat specialist and have them removed before you can
+expect to have good health. This, however, applies to all people,
+whether nervous or not.
+
+The same thing is true with regard to your eyes. If you are suffering
+from eye strain because you need glasses, you cannot hope to get well of
+"nerves" until your eyes are properly fitted to glasses by some reliable
+eye specialist. These are things that each individual must discover and
+do for himself. He should consult a dentist, an oculist, an aurist, or
+other specialist according to his particular need.
+
+
+
+
+V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS
+
+  "Neither melancholy nor any other affection of the mind can hurt
+  bodies governed with temperance and regularity."
+
+  --CORNARO
+
+
+A very sad thing about some nervous people is the fact that in their
+lives there are domestic or other troubles which no physician can
+overcome. Some of them live in depressing surroundings, but for all
+these there is hope. There is no doubt that if we can restore the brain
+to a perfectly normal, healthful state the human being can bear more
+suffering than when the brain is affected. Perhaps when speaking of the
+spirit we had better call it that, rather than the brain, for that
+mysterious something we call spirit does make its home in the brain of
+man. This has been proven scientifically. So then, in this life the
+temple of the spirit, or soul, does affect the mind. And when I say this
+life, I take the opportunity to say here that I not only believe in the
+immortality of the soul, but now, at 45, I am as certain of it as I am
+of my own existence. But for some reason--although as yet no one
+understands why it should do so--when this temple in which the spirit
+dwells is out of condition, it affects the soul or spirit. So, you see,
+if we can make the physical man or woman well, we most certainly can
+help the spirit that dwells within the body.
+
+And so I recommend dieting, temperance in eating, and the careful
+chewing of food to all those sufferers who unfortunately live in
+depressing surroundings and cannot get away from them. When referring to
+the many pitiful letters I have received from poor human beings thus
+situated, I realize that I am treading on sacred ground. Such things are
+written, of course, to a physician in confidence and the confidence must
+therefore be forever sacred. I have not only had letters from these
+unfortunate people, but have repeatedly come in contact with many of
+them in their every day life. I know well what added suffering such
+conditions bring to them.
+
+I know of nothing in this world more pitiful than a noble,
+high-spirited, ambitious woman, pure and clean of heart, who marries a
+man and becomes the mother of his children and is then condemned to live
+the life of a mere animal. And all too frequently the opposite also
+obtains. Sometimes a man of high, pure purpose finds that he has chosen
+as the mother of his children a coarse, sensual woman. Now why in the
+world were these two people attracted to each other? This is one of
+life's biggest puzzles to those who have thought much along this line.
+In many instances extreme youth is the reason given. While youth is
+mating time, it also is the time of bad judgment. Thousands of young
+people have made this dreadful mistake simply because they married too
+young. On the other hand, youth is not altogether to blame. When people,
+young or old, are courting, each individual endeavors to appear at his
+or her best before the other. Without being actually aware of it, under
+such circumstances both man and woman are doing all that lies in their
+power to deceive one another.
+
+If people would do their courting in everyday clothes, and if the girl
+would go about her housework while the man looked on, or better still,
+if he helped her with it for one or two years, they would undoubtedly
+become better acquainted.
+
+But, after all, except, perhaps, in unusual cases, there is absolutely
+nothing by which people know that they are going to be properly mated.
+If a man with a tendency to neurasthenia breaks down and is tied to a
+nagging wife, that is usually the last straw in the way of his
+recovery.
+
+This is just as true of the woman who breaks down and has a nagging
+husband. There are, I regret to say, thousands of such cases all over
+the country. On the other hand I have had a man come to me and say that
+he was willing to do anything on earth to aid his wife, but he could not
+get her to diet or even to make a serious attempt to get well. I am
+always tremendously sorry for such a man because he has a mighty heavy
+burden to bear. Such a wife should try to get well as much for the man's
+sake as for her own. She should understand that she is needlessly
+torturing the one best friend she has on earth.
+
+A woman of this kind should remember that, no matter how much she may
+suffer, she is hopelessly selfish if she will not do all in her power to
+diet and to obey other necessary rules that will enable her to get rid
+of the malady. Sometimes when a physician puts this before her kindly
+but firmly it results in her making a beginning and by and by getting
+well. I have seen this happen many times. And I wish to say right here
+that while I believe I was born with some natural tact, yet if I had not
+gone through all this horrible suffering myself I should not, I know, be
+able to say the things that would induce these people to do that which
+it is their duty to do.
+
+And here is one big difficulty I have always had to contend with. Some
+of these people have tried so many so-called nonsense cures--eating
+buttermilk tablets, for instance--and have had no benefit from them,
+that they are unwilling to try the one and only thing that will cure
+them--the thing that will cure them as sure as the sun shines. I wonder
+why it is that since the time of Christ people are always looking for a
+sensational or miraculous cure. Our life and everything pertaining to it
+is miracle enough, if we only had the sense to see it.
+
+The woman or the man with "nerves" is not going to get well eating
+buttermilk tablets or taking patent dope while lying on a couch and shut
+in a house. You must bestir yourself. You must get out of doors, and
+above all, you must eat right. Today thousands of these people are
+languishing in hospitals and sanitariums, and most of them will come out
+only to go back again and again. The institutional treatment is good for
+the beginning of the cure, but if an individual with "nerves" is going
+to get well and stay well he must change his lifelong habits.
+
+And I want to say again, that any person, man or woman, in the midst of
+depressing conditions can triumph over them if he will eat as he should
+and live as he should. There is something about the human soul, if it is
+pure and fine, and if proper attention is given to right living, that
+will enable a person to meet great sorrow and triumph over it. In fact,
+no amount of sorrow can defeat a person who keeps his heart and body
+right.
+
+And I would have you all realize that there is something far more to us
+than mere bones and veins and nerves. I know the terrible tendency of
+the one with "nerves" to get angry. But lay fast hold of yourself. Fight
+anger as you would poison, because in reality it is poison to your
+nerves. Anger will hurt you; it will hurt anybody. But no matter how
+hard you find it at first, get control of your temper. If you succeed in
+doing this in a year you will have won one of the greatest victories man
+can win in this world. I would rather meet a so-called plain man who has
+perfect control over his physical and mental faculties, and sit and talk
+quietly with him, than to meet the Prime Minister of England or the
+President of the United States if either lacked this control. For I say
+to you that no matter what others may say, the true measure of success
+does not rest in the position you occupy but in your having complete
+control of yourself.
+
+If you are to gain this control it means that each day you are
+confronted by a mighty big task, but if finally successful, you will
+have accomplished the greatest thing a man can do in this life. Now,
+here is something for you to take hold of, you who all these years have
+believed that your life ambition has been thwarted. But your ambition,
+let me tell you, has not been thwarted. Perhaps you have not done just
+what you wanted to do. But it's quite possible that you had no business
+trying to do that special thing anyway. Most of us, I find, can be
+greatly mistaken about what we think we want to do. At any rate, we can
+never be happy unless we gain entire control of ourselves.
+
+This is something the person afflicted with "nerves" most certainly can
+do, and he can use this terrible "thing" as I myself and thousands of
+others have used it as a ladder to climb to the sunlit peaks where worry
+and clouds and storms cannot trouble. And, after all, no matter who we
+are, no matter how poor or how rich we are, and no matter where we live,
+life holds about the same general possibilities for all of us. I mean by
+this that life affords to all the same opportunities for real happiness.
+
+I know very well that there are those who will be quite unwilling to
+grant this, but it is as true as the life we live. Many people in this
+old world still hold the notion that those who roll in wealth are the
+happy ones. But I say to you this notion is all wrong, and from
+knowledge gained through experience I know that in their hearts many of
+these wealthy people are dissatisfied and not one whit happier than you
+are. The most restless people, the most unhappy people, and the most
+thoroughly dissatisfied people that I have ever met have been people who
+had everything that riches could give them.
+
+Andrew Carnegie said he had noticed that after a man had accumulated a
+million dollars smiles were seldom seen on his face. I cannot understand
+why people insist on going through life making themselves and all those
+they really love miserable just because they do not happen to have
+riches.
+
+And a great many high-strung sensitive men are utterly cast down because
+they have failed to acquire wealth by the time they are forty-five or
+fifty years of age.
+
+I wish I could make all such poor, afflicted people see what goes to
+make up happiness and learn the only way to be happy. In order to get
+well the thing we have to do is to follow nature's simple rules--rules
+our Creator gave to us. We must get control not only of our appetites
+but of all such passions as anger, hate, and envy, which poison our
+bodies. And let us also cast suspicion out of our minds. This is a good
+rule to observe: Never suspect folks. It is useless, anyway, for by and
+by what they are or what they do is always bound to come to the surface.
+
+By gaining perfect control over yourself--and most certainly to do so is
+worth every effort you may make--you will also gain patience, and that
+is, I think, one of the crowning virtues. Sometimes I think it the
+greatest of all virtues. Certainly it stands very high in the perfecting
+of character.
+
+To the sufferer with "nerves" I would say: Have the courage to believe
+that you are going to get well. Then you can do it. No matter how
+depressing or discouraging your surroundings, do the very best you can
+every day. Then, no matter what your ideas of success may have been,
+you are really succeeding wonderfully! See that you keep right on doing
+it! If you are a mother and have children, live for them. Or if you are
+a father and have children, and have met with disappointments, live for
+those children! Do everything in your power to make them happy, high of
+heart, and gallant of soul. Do not live for yourself, live for your
+children. If you have no children of your own, look about and get
+interested in some other person's children. You will find a lot of
+children all around you--blessed little beings--that you can help to
+make happy. Get your mind off yourself and your troubles and on the
+children of this world, and keep it there.
+
+When you were a child no doubt you had many happy days. Some of us had a
+very happy childhood, while others may have been denied what their
+hearts desired. But if we did not have a happy childhood that is all the
+more reason why we should be glad to help some other little ones have a
+happy one. More and more each year I live I come to believe that it
+depends entirely upon grown people whether in this world children are
+happy or not happy.
+
+If you had a happy childhood--and most people had--do you not recall the
+glorious times you had? I know you do, for we all do. And I know, too,
+how much people affected with nerves dwell on those memories, and how
+much they wish they might go back to those blessed days when the sun was
+always shining and the birds were always singing and the streams always
+beckoning them to play along their sands.
+
+Do you realize that you can live in those days again? I do, and I go
+back and dwell in them more and more the older I get. I do not mean that
+I am not looking forward, for I am, tremendously.
+
+How stupid we poor miserable creatures of this world become after we
+leave our childhood days behind us! We really should never lose sight of
+them. I have said that the person afflicted with "nerves" should not
+run. I did not quite mean all that implies. After such a man has
+recovered, if he has a good heart, he should run a little. I run; I
+can't help it. I feel so good I have to run a little now and then to
+work off steam. But you know very well when most people see a man
+running they at once think a house is afire somewhere.
+
+It is almost unbelievable that we should actually surround ourselves
+with so many utterly senseless customs that tend to nothing but misery
+and unhappiness. We should dress for comfort, and we should have the
+courage to live in a youthful world where all may be happy. "If the
+blind lead the blind," so the Bible tells us, "both shall fall into the
+ditch." We need so to live and act that we shall not fail to be happy.
+Happiness really is what everybody is chasing, but how very far away
+from it most people are getting! Go back to the memories of your
+childhood. Be with children and play with them all you possibly can. If
+you are a mother, begin this very day to exercise more patience with
+your children, recalling over and over again that when you were a child
+you were just as they are. And remember, for it is only too true, that
+the day is fast coming when your little boy will no longer be a little
+boy, he will be a man, and will have gone away from you. Then many times
+you will wish him back, and you will look back on those days when you
+thought your nerves were being ruined, and feel a great swelling in your
+breast, and breathing a sigh, whisper to yourself, "Dear God, I hope I
+did all I ought to have done for him while he was little."
+
+I know that any one can live with children and find happiness in being
+one with them, and I know of no better thing to do. After we have hold
+of ourselves with a firm grip we should endeavor to do this.
+
+I have had people suffering with "nerves" tell me they had lost a little
+boy or a little girl, and that it seems impossible to get over this
+loss. I cannot tell you how much I long to help such people. But I
+always urge them to go right on playing with other children and to
+remember, for to me it is certain truth, that they will meet that little
+child again. There should be nothing to grieve about in such a loss. To
+find compensation, the one who has had such a grief has only to keep on
+playing the part of a true man or true woman. Childhood with all its
+pains and pleasures is everywhere about us. And childhood is only the
+beginning of immortality.
+
+Late one night, a number of years ago, I was sitting in a little
+restaurant in a western town, and was feeling very lonely and miserable.
+Sorrow weighed heavily upon me that night and the world never seemed
+blacker, yet I think my belief in the immortality of the soul had never
+been more certain. I looked up and high on the smoke-stained wall hung a
+painted picture of an old-time ship with many sails set. This painting
+pictured the ship sailing through the darkness of night. But through the
+dark, seemingly restless clouds the moon gleamed brightly on the white
+canvas of the sails.
+
+I had never before been so powerfully impressed by any picture. It
+seemed fairly to speak to me. I took an envelope from my pocket and set
+down the verses given here. These verses were afterwards published in
+one or two metropolitan papers. Mr. James Bryce, then English Ambassador
+at Washington, saw them and wrote me a beautiful letter about them, in
+which he said, "Your little poem 'The Last Journey' attracts me very
+much." You see he was beginning to grow old, and I knew that was the
+reason these lines of mine had made an appeal to him.
+
+Not very long after this I also had a letter about the verses from Dr.
+Osler, then Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. In it he said, "I
+have read your little poem 'The Last Journey' with unusual interest."
+And again I knew why. You see, it does not matter very much what our
+rank or our station here, no matter whether a human being is a king or
+what his station in life may be, he still is a human being. We are all
+reaching out after the same great thing. The fine thing about the
+sentiment of these little verses is that although you wish to and may
+not believe it, it is coming true anyway.
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+           THE LAST JOURNEY
+
+  One night when in a youthful dream,
+  I saw a moonlit sea,
+  And sailing o'er its dark expanse,
+  A ship of mystery.
+
+  The lonely traveler seemed to be
+  On some great mission bound,
+  As o'er the darkened waters
+  It sailed without a sound.
+
+  Long years have passed; old age has come:
+  The fire of life is low.
+  Again I think of that strange dream
+  Of youth so long ago.
+
+  And in the ship that swiftly sailed
+  That silent moonlit sea,
+  I seem to see a storm-tossed soul
+  Bound for eternity.
+
+  Now to my mind this sweet dream comes,
+  A peaceful memory,
+  For soon I'll be A YOUTH again,
+  With Immortality!
+
+
+
+
+
+
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