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MEDICINES
By WILLIAM LEE HOW ARD, M.D.
IF you wish to have healthy Intestinal organs do not
Injure them by the use of cathartics. By this name
we mean all those drugs too often given by unwise
mothers or friends to children and. Indeed, often used
regularly and unnecessarily by many adults who ought
'to know better. Calomel, salts, sulphur and molasses.
aloes in the form of syrup or pills, castor oil; In fact
oils, pills or powders In any form, cause temporary in
jury and If kept up destroy forever the tone and cheml
eaj life of the Intestines.
All these "home remedies” and drug store concoctions
act u mechanical irritants; some, such as the prepara
tions of mercury, of which calomel is one, act through
their mere metallic weight.
There is a constant twisting and onward movement —
downward— of the Intestines. This is to aid in the
propulsion of the food through the whole tract where It
Why CHRIST Said There Always Would Be POOR People
MOBBS declared there would always be poor
among mankind. Thta declaration, found In the
Bible, Deut xv„ 11—•’For the poor shall never
emoe out of the land," was set down In writing
more than twenty-five centuries ago.
Then Jesus made the same declaration In eqna y
unmistakable terms In Matthew xxvt, 11— "For ye ave
the poor always with you.” Ths same statement
to be found In Mark xiv, 7, and In John xil., 8
Through all these centuries from the time of M
the Prophet and Jesus the Saviour there have be
men who preached of a coming millennium who have
advocated an equal division of wealth and wbo
maintained that all men were born equal.
Despite the claim of the Constitution, all men are
NOT Lr.
preached of the brotherhood of man. he did not claim
either mental or physical equality of man.
Social conditions away back in the time ■
were not so different from those of to-day. Even
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These sizes of Kenyon houses are designed for outdoor sleeping
compartments in hot weather or for persons suffering from ills for
which pure, fresh air is the remedy. This house contains one
room.
IKE THOUSANDS OF OTHERS 1 HAVE
dreamed of the time when 1 could quit the
grind of the city and get out in the coun
try get back to Nature. I have dreamed
of a nice little farm and a nicer little bun
galow with flowers and a garden and a tew
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chickens
But 1 have never been able to make my dream come
true. Bungalows cost money and so do farms and 1 ve
never been able to get enough money to have these things.
Then. too. I must keep on working and 1 have not been
able to figure how I could live on the farm and work in the
city
Now, however. I think I have solved the problem.
A friend of mine drove me out to East Lake the other
dav in an automobile and that s how I came to solve the
problem. For 1 saw the tent .-olein there and I then and
there decided to do a little camping out myself.
Mv first thought was to get out somewhere convenient
to the trolley line, put up a tent and spend the summer
only. After investigating, however. 1 hit upon a better
plan.
lam going to spend the entire y..ar in the country I
believe my dream of getting back to Nature is coming
true. 1 won t have the bungalow I dreamed about and
1 won't have a tent. I will have, something better than a
tent and it> comfortable as a bungalow.
I am going to have a Kenyon take-dour house
Whv I peter got in touch with a Kenyon 1 |>, r.. r ,.
is a mystery to me. I have seen portabl. houses and
knock-down houses and ready-made houses advertised,
but somehow or other they didn't appeal to im 1 hats
TH EA TI .A NTA GEORGIAN AN 1) NEW S. SAIL K PAX. JUNE 15. 1912.
MASSAGE Your Abdomen with a BAG of
meets with Its various digestive fields and those neces
sary to separate the portion needed to nourish the body
and leave the useless to pass on and finally out of the
system.
It is the general Idea that the stomach digests the
food. The stomach has very little to do with digestion.
Its principal function is to prepare the food for diges
tion. It turns, and through its muscular movements
mixes the food, while its glands pour out acids and
other fluids to make the mass fit to pass into the intes
tines where real digestion takes place As it moves on
through twenty-five or more feet of the intestines this
mass of food la attacked at different places by juices,
each of which has a particular duty to perform. For
Irfstance. the bile, which flows from the bile ducts and
which is always being made by the liver.
The bile really acts In normal quantities as a soap
washing out the intestines.
Now, anything which harms or disturbs the muscula
action of the intestines, or causes an increase or de
crease of the juices which come from glands located in
the inner lining of the intestines, will, of course, injure
your digestve powers; and this means your general
health. Cathartics or purging medicines will do this.
Many drugs advertised to take oft fat are really nothing
but powerful cathartics. At first they reduce your
weight through their purging action, and then you keep
thin because your digestive trait—the intestines—has
been injured to such an extent that normal digestive
processes cannot go on
Don't confound natural laxatives with cathartics or
or high position, while the man of lesser mental abili
ties became a laborer in the field or the vineyard, i'he
parable of the talents is an example of this, each n i
doing with the talents intrusted to him the best ne
knew how.
It was recognized then that the man who did not ha-e
the judgment to make the most of his talents did not
deserve to reap the same benefits as he wbo had a
higher degree of mentality, a better brain. In reality.
All the efforts of philosophers and philanthropists to
help tbe vagabonds, to do away with the poor class by
bettering their conditions or dividing the wealth, have
failed. As Moses said so many hundred years before
Christ, the poor will always be in the land.
No matter how savage or primitive a people may be
there are always beggars and so-called worthless vag
abends and parasites to be found. Even the Hottentots
have a Class lower in the social scale than themselves,
more abjectly poverty-stricken; they call them the
“Sonquas;” the wild Kaffirs have beggars of their own
race they call Fingoes. In Finland the poorer classes
and the rogues are called Lappe’ 1
read the advertisements of the Kenyon take-down bouses
and while I thought I might write some day and find out
about them, I wasn't really interested until I SAW one.
Then I determined to own one. It happened this way.
I was wandering around in the J. M. High company store,
womanlike, looking for bargains. 1 wasn't thinking
about bungalows or homes in the country.
The first thing 1 knew I ran into the coziest little conn
try home imaginable. There it was all set up ready to use
and instantly my thoughts reverted to the plans I had
made after my visit to East Lake. It was the first to be
received and was to show just what a shipment to be re
ceived Monday or Tuesday would look like. But I became
so enthused over it that 1 got it.
When 1 decided to -use a tent and camp out for the
summer only, 1 shuddered to think ot what back to Nature
in a tent would mean in the winter. And 1 dreaded tc.
think what a tent would be with the hot rays of the sum
mer sun making the inside of the tent an oven. But after
1 saw just how these objections were overcome in a Ken
yon house, I became enthusiastic and began planning to
spend my entire time in the near-country, the suburbs.
For these Kenyon houses can be as comfortably heated
as a bungalow. I'n fact, 1 found that they were being used
all the year in parts of the country where the mercury
registered fifteen and twenty or more degrees below zero.
So I couldn't see any reason why I should not live in a
Kenyon house in Georgia.
I found I could get any size from a child's playhouse
to a five-room house and if anything larger is needed, one.
of the smaller sizes may be added until the room necessary
is secured.
I wish all t hose who love the open air aud w ho t hink as
much about breathing plenty of pure, fresh air as I do,
could see these Kenyon houses. The canvas fabric which
covers the frame is very heavy and specially made. It is
of a rich, brownish hue and is treated by a process which
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This is a Kenyon five-room house. The sleeping rooms are very
comfortable and the house is recommended for small families. The
partitions between the smaller rooms may be removed if larger rooms
are desired.
purging drugs Nature furnishes
the right kind of laxative for every
animal and man The dog in tbe
Spring will seek out a certain leaf
or grass and eat of it before he
will take a meal. The deer goes to
the salt lick or spring, the horse in
his natural elements hunts for the
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"The Stomach Does Not Digest Food.
It Merely Prepares it for the Intes
tines to Diqes* ”
The picturesque gypsies are best known amongst the
wandering tribes They do not work as society recog
nizes work, they are credited with a greater desire to
beg than work; to steal than earn anything honestly.
Scientists claim all these wandering races are marked
by peculiarly shaped hands, restless eyes, twitching
hands, eagerness for excitement and desire for gam
bling.
This Is quite true as any observer may note. But
even the drudging poor class have marks peculiar to
themselves—poorly shaped heads, unintelligent so-e
--heads, narrowness between the eyes and other indica
tions of an Inferior brain
And all this merely emphasizes the wonderful wis
dom of Moses and Jesus in declaring there would al
ways be poor in the world, for all these marks are
but proof that man is NO! born equal, and so long
as he is not born equal be cannot expect an equal
share of the world's riches and honors pleasures and
leisure Differences in the abilities of men will always
mean differences in their wealth.
in Any BocLr.
BUCKSHOT, and Eat Some Kind of Fruit Every Day
grass whlcA contains a natural salt Moreover, all ani
mals drink plenty of water, and if deprived of this fluid
even for a day become peevish and feverish.
Water Is the real and normal laxative, but civilization
has deprived man of the instincts of the original man
as well as of much of the exercise that kept the abdomi
nal muscles active and strong, so rthe working of theae
muscles upon tbe intestines acts as a laxative because
they squeeze fluid into them from the surrounding parts
So let us see what we can do at first without the use of
the ordinary laxatives In keeping up a healthy condition
of the bowels
To the person who is troubled by foul breath, bilious
ness and a headache which accompanies this too fre
quent condition, I emphatically say: Stop all pills, pow
ders and other stuff at once. Get an empty shot bag.
Put into this bag about four pounds of buckshot. Sew
up the end of the bag. When you go to bed place this
bag upon your abdomen —the belly—and by a movement
of your abdominal muscles let the shot roll over and
around for ten or fifteen minutes. This is really a mas
saging of the liver and intestines. Drink all the water
you can possibly hold before breakfast. If you will go
through the same massaging in the morning you will
sooner get back the lost tone of your intestines and you
will not feel the need of pills or potions.
But even with all these natural methods one some
times needs a mild laxative. In a former article I spoke »
of a saline laxative. Whatl had reference to was some
of the natural mineral waters which contain salts tn
solution. There are many of them which are too pow-
not only renders it absolutely weatherproof but also ver
min proof.
As a matter of fact, flies, mosquitoes, frogs, snakes or
other objectionable creeping things are unknown in these
houses. The doors and windows are screened with fine
screen which will not rust and through which the most en
terprising mosquito can not enter. The windows are made
of fibreloid, a flexible, transparent material, and they con
sist of eight lights each. These are operated by cords from
Ihe inside. Each house has a finished floor.
If 1 had not been shown. I might have thought that a
heavy downpour or windstorm would play havoc with my
Kenyon country home. But after seeing just how they were
built and put together, I knew 1 would feel safer in my
take-down house than in many others I have been in which
were not of the take-down variety.
The framework is arranged so that it can be erected
with ease. Little as 1 know about building a house, 1
found that with the aid of a step-ladder it would be no
trouble for me to take a house, follow instructions and
put it up. The frame may be put up ready for the walls
and roof in fifteen minutes.’All joints are so made that
nails or screws are unknown quantities.
1 said 1 was going to spend the entire year in the coun
try. 1 know that there are many lovers of fresh air who
will not want to do this and do it in a Kenyon take-down
house. But they can spend their summers that way and
they need not even go to the country. If they prefer to be
at home, I know of hundreds of homes which have plenty
of room outside for a Kenyon take-down house. A friend
of mine intends putting one on the lawn this summer to
use as an outdoor sleeping room. Another friend is plan
ning to put one out at East Lake.
Several of my friends have signified their intention of
getting these comfortable houses for use at camp meetings
this summer.
I know dozens of people who own building lots in the
suburbs of Atlanta convenient to the trolley lines who
Why BLONDES Have WEAK Eyes
BLONDES are more apt to contract eye
disease than brunettes.
But t’-is is not .the time for the
brunettes to rejoice because recent statis
tics show that more brunettes are afflicted
with eye trouble than blondes.
And negroes are seldom troubled with
eye disease.
This all sounds somewhat paradoxical
somewhat confusing—but there is an ex
planation, just aa there is an explanation
for everything.
The reason why negroes seldom have eye
disease is because they lack certain tissues
in the eye balls, and it is in these tissues
that the eye diseases get their start For
this same reason blondes are more apt to
have eye diseases than brunettes because
of the presence of more tissues in the eye
balls than in the eyes of their dark-haired
and darker-skinned brothers and sisters.
The reason why brunettes, although less
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Here is the two-room Kenyon take-down house. This is used ex
tensively in the North for both winter and summer. It contains one
door and six windows, curtained and screened. The large room is
9 hv 10 feet.
erful-act as a purgative. These you should not aka
A glass before breakfast once a week of the mi de
natural laxative waters will not harm you while getting
back to a natural condition
But the best of all laxatives is fruit. Pears, orangea,
figs, apples, berries and the much maligned prune. In
fact, the latter fruit is the best natural laxative you caa
use, for it costs but little and can be obtained through
out the year.
Nature demands that man should help the intestines
in their work. All foods prepared from the unbo e
meal of the cereal grains are laxatives Graham r a
or brown bread prepared from unbolted wheat meal
is the best for continued use. It Is the best complexion
maker next to fresh a:r you can obtain Cracked
wheat tor breakfast will almost always bring about a
healthy state of the intestines. Os course, it must o*
eaten regularly.
If you do not care about a good complexion, a sweet
breath, good spirits, which always go with perfect
health, then r drinking water in the morning an
take tea. paralyze your intestines by the use of calomel
or any drug store cathartics, eat doughnuts for lunch
eon instead of vegetables, bolt your dinner and tighten
your stays, go to bed with soda water mixed with chemi
cal extracts flowing in your stomach, and restlessly toss
in a ro. a from which you have excluded the fresh air
Hut if you want brightness, the bloom of health, the
ability to work with pleasure, a smooth skin and strong
xuscles —then DON'T do these things.
apt to have eye disease than blondes, are
thus afflicted In tar greater numbers than
the blondes is also simple when understood.
Eye diseases apparently started In the
Orient, where nearly everyone is a brunette
and where dark eyes are the great rule.
Conditions in China. Japan, Egypt, Persia
and such places are such that eye diseases
flourish to a greater extent than in this
country or England or Germany or in any
such countries where it is colder and where
the blue and gray-eyed people are in the
majority.
It is said there were no cases of trachoma,
that dread eye disease, known in Europe
until Napoleon's soldiers returned from
Egypt where the disease is quite common.
Immigrants with eye trouble are now de
ported and this is already beginning to les
sen the percentage of people afflicted with
eye diseases.
could improve their health, save money and have tin- best
kind of a time by utilizing their lots in putting up Kenyon
take-down houses. And they haven't the money to build
the bungalows they have probably dreamed about like I
dreamed.
It wouidn t surprise me to see a back-to-Nattire move
ment in Atlanta and Kenyon take-down houses scattered
all over Atlanta's suburbs as a result of the Kenyon in
vasion. A little figuring will show what may be saved in
the way of rent by investing in a Kenyon take-down house.
There are all kinds of nice building lots around Atlanta
and convenient to the car lines which may be secured by
any salaried man or woman. I know because I have one.
and 1 pinched it out of my pay envelope. And it is on this
lot that my Kenyon take-down house is going up.
And when it is all up and ready for me, I am going to
furnish it with some of the furniture I saw at High's and
I can then say that 1 will have a home of my own.
The J. M. High ( ompany has the exclusive agenev for
these Kenyon take-down houses and they can not be se
cured elsewhere. They have some very interesting book
lets telling all about these eool, delightful, sanitary and
bug-proof houses. They told me in the furniture depart
ment that they will gladly send these upon request.
So I think I have solved the back-to-Nature problem.
I believe, too, that I have solved the high cost of living or
the cost of high living, as some prefer to call it.
I can know what it is to enjoy cool breezes in the sum
mer and a warm home in the winter with plenty of fresh
air all the time. The unique Kenyon system of ventila
tion told about in the booklet at High's provides for this.
And while I am enjoying the coo) breezes this summer. I
won t have to tight flies ami mosquitoes. 1 will be pro
tected from the storms. I will he as weatherproof as in
an apartment house.
I will be camping out, but 1 will have all the comforts
of home.