The man in the South who is diseased in body and mind
may not live up to the demands of the seasons and the pro-
ducts of his clime. If he does not he should make a change
in his methods. Otherwise he is to go to the far North
where the winds blow and foodstuffs grow sparingly ; v/here
the selection of food is poor and necessitates hunger to be
willing to eat of the ''garden weeds" as they slowly sprout
under the sweat of the brow of the caretakers. Amidst
the pines one is to seek berries and sorrels of all kinds, and
with thankfulness masticate slovv^ly the young corncobs.
Five weeks will suffice to bring about the desired change.
To keep warm exercise by chopping, cutting, scaling and
snaking timber from the mountain sides, and instead of the
bathtub rub your body with water of clear-flowing streams.
Over a primitively built campfire roast your corn and bake
your doughgods, and mind not when the charred wood
drops into the water kettle and the frying pan, as even the
ashes of the fire will add to the chemicalization and dextri-
nization of your food, teaching you a grander lesson than
that recorded In encyclopaedias of useful knowledge. Re-
turning South you will revolutionize your household and
thru increased activity and proper selection of food serve
the cause of man — right living and right thinking thru good
thought, good word and good deed.
Where one has not the good fortune to change climate
the spirit of the times brings the two extremes in Nature
and their products to us and places the blessings of heaven
before our very doors. If living In the North, make It a
point to llva on tropical fruits and nuts, or vegetables and
nuts, as the 'case may be, for at least three weeks and there-
after 'confining oneself little by little to products of the local
market. At first such diet appears expensive, but not so
when one realizes that the menu itself Is limited to a rather
small variety and then that no special preparation of these
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foods is necessary, but that the patient can attend to
himself. And again, as all of this is temporary only, like
the taking of medicine, and, after all, cheaper than the latter
and better, because it is delicious food one partakes of, the
expense is very nominal, while pleasure and delight increase.
Some day bottles, paper bags and powder chatules, etuis,
capsules and boxes will disappear from the apothecary
shops and the products of the tropics and semi-tropics take
their place, where man may go and have his prescription
filled by doctors of truly scientific renown ; where instead of
being doped in an ancestral way on concoctions that draw
th^ nerves into a bundle of misery and unhappy grimaces,
the invalid can sit down and with pleasure in his heart de-
light in a meal assuring ease of mind and relief to the body.
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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
The man in the South who is diseased in body and mind may not live up to the demands of the seasons and the products of his clime. If he does not he should make a change in his methods. Otherwise he is to go to the far North where the winds blow and foodstuffs grow sparingly ; v/here the selection of food is poor and necessitates hunger to be willing to eat of the ''garden weeds" as they slowly sprout under the sweat of the brow of the caretakers. Amidst the pines one is to seek berries and sorrels of all kinds, and with thankfulness masticate slowly the young corncobs. Five weeks will suffice to bring about the desired change. To keep warm exercise by chopping, cutting, scaling and snaking timber from the mountain sides, and instead of the bathtub rub your body with water of clear-flowing streams. Over a primitively built campfire roast your corn and bake your doughnuts, and mind not when the charred wood drops into the water kettle and the frying pan, as even the ashes of the fire will add to the chemicalization and dextrinization of your food, teaching you a grander lesson than that recorded In encyclopaedias of useful knowledge. Returning South you will revolutionize your household and thru increased activity and proper selection of food serve the cause of man — right living and right thinking thru good thought, good word and good deed.
Where one has not the good fortune to change climate the spirit of the times brings the two extremes in Nature and their products to us and places the blessings of heaven before our very doors. If living In the North, make It a point to live on tropical fruits and nuts, or vegetables and nuts, as the 'case may be, for at least three weeks and thereafter 'confining oneself little by little to products of the local market. At first such diet appears expensive, but not so when one realizes that the menu itself Is limited to a rather small variety and then that no special preparation of these
foods is necessary, but that the patient can attend to himself. And again, as all of this is temporary only, like the taking of medicine, and, after all, cheaper than the latter and better, because it is delicious food one partakes of, the expense is very nominal, while pleasure and delight increase. Some day bottles, paper bags and powder chatules, etuis, capsules and boxes will disappear from the apothecary shops and the products of the tropics and semi-tropics take their place, where man may go and have his prescription filled by doctors of truly scientific renown ; where instead of being doped in an ancestral way on concoctions that draw the nerves into a bundle of misery and unhappy grimaces, the invalid can sit down and with pleasure in his heart delight in a meal assuring ease of mind and relief to the body.