MANY PEOPLE LIVE TO EAT and there are some who eat to live. Several principles are involved in the matter of eating. Dieting is the employing of that restricted line of foods that are necessary in order to cease irritating the body so that Nature may get a chance to repair the injury that has been done by improper foods. While many maladies are set in motion in the last stage of beginning by attacks from bacteria, it is well known that no bacteria will be able to secure a hold in the system until improper foods have prepared the soil for them to feed upon. No infectious or contagious diseases can get a start until improper foods have preceded them. Even inherited taint and maladies will be held dormant and will never appear until the blood has been poisoned by improper foods.

This then brings us to the consideration of what are and what are not proper foods.

Our reason for discussing this subject here is that magnetism cannot be generated to any appreciable degree in any body that is subjected to the irritation set up by congestion of any organ or membrane. Nothing so quickly saps the vitality as irritation. It is a form of torment; and the soil that invites bacterial diseases is the one great cause of irritation. Being derived from the use of improper foods, our present study must deal with them.

The husband whose digestive system has been subjected to the torments of badly cooked or wrongly selected food, and whose nerves are wild with the suppressed agony of blind indigestion cannot exhibit for his wife that fondness and affection that is expected of him when in normal condition. Nor could he exercise the power of magnetism over anyone. We were told by a man of unusual magnetic power that when he called on his sweetheart to propose to her, an undigested dinner was crying for relief, and his stomach was filled with a thousand little devills all shrieking with pain, due to his indiscretion in eating, and his efforts to win the approval of his lady love were a dismal failure. The conversation was as follows, as reported by the lady and confirmed by the man:

He (taking her hand).—I have something to say to you this evening that I have been wanting to say for a long time. Can you guess what it is?

She (demure).—I am sure I do not know what you mean.

He (placing one hand over his heart; but the hand slips down to his stomach).—I have a feeling for you here.

She (watching his hand).—Where?

He.—Here. Where else should it be?

She.—Are you ill?

He.—No. What is the matter with you. Are you nervous ? I am trying to tell you how much I love you.

She.—But you are so restless that you annoy me. I have never seen you this way before.

He.—I am in pain. I thought it was a heart pain, but it must be that darned dinner I ate. My stomach is full of dancing devils.

She.—I do not like your language. You would have sworn if I had not been here. Now is it not true that if I were out of hearing you would swear with your indigestion? Tell me the truth.

He.—You bet I would.

She.—And if we were married would you not swear before me under the same circumstances? Do not conceal the truth.

He.—A man who is being tortured as I am would not be half a man if he were not capable of swearing. I am a whole man when it comes to indigestion. Will you marry me?

She.—Why should I? You are not attractive when you do not swear, and you would be less than attractive when you compelled me to listen to your profanity. If we are not married to eachother, I can dismiss you when I wish, which I could not do after marriage.

He.—You then refuse me? Do you dismiss me?

She.—I think it best that you go at once and see a doctor.

Inthis case all semblance of personal magnetism had been lost in the pain of indigestion.

The cause was improper food.,

The rule of proper food is this:; Eat only the elements of Nature that are required to build the body and all its life, both nervous and mental. Any food that contains element? not required by the body and its life, isforeign to it; hence is a poison, and sets up intestinal poisoning.

The rule of the proper preparation of food is this:

It should be eaten in a state that retains its elements in their actual value; and no process of cooking should change such condition or value.

DIGESTION takes place as follows:

Forty percent of all digestion occurs at the stomach; and sixty percent of all digestion occurs below the stomach including the intestinal canal.

Active indigestion takes place in the stomach. Acute indigestion is a dangerous form and may cause the heart to stop beating. More than one hundred thousand people die every year from acute indigestion; but the lesser form known as active indigestion is almost always curable, although very exhausting and weakening. Blind indigestion occurs after the food has left the stomach, and lasts much longer than the active form. It, is not painful but sets up a state of restlessness, nervousness and irritability; but because it is not painful, the condition is misunderstood by people "who, when not feeling distress at the stomach, come to believe that they can eat anything with impunity. "Nothing I eat ever hurts me," says the man or woman who is highly nervous and irritable.

They will not tell the truth.

Not one person in a thousand, except doctors, knows that sixty percent of the nutritive value of food is extracted from it by the process of intestinal digestion. Yet it is a matter of common knowledge that, when a person's stomach will not receive food, the nutrition is given in the form of injections at the lower end of the intestinal canal. Life has been supported in thousands of cases by this method of feeding. Any food or liquid having an odor that is so injected, soon comes to the breath; as when onion juice or peppermint water, or some other thing is forced into the colon; showing that the contents of the intestines enter the circulation and are carried to all the organs, as well as to the brain, and even to the skin.

The blood is no better than the contents of the intestines.

There are two classes of foods:

1. THE PROPER FOODS. These give magnetic health.

2. THE IMPROPER FOODS. These destroy magnetic health.

If only the proper foods are eaten, the development of vitality and electrically charged energy is a very rapid process

When the improper foods are eaten they produce in the blood and in the tissue of the body, including flesh, nerves and brain. the soil that makes disease possible, and without which soil no disease could ever enter the body.

Improper foods also cause intestinal poisoning, and this foulness attacks every part of the body. It is one of the causes of rheumatism, of neuralgia, and of neuritis. It is the sole cause of the catarrhs that infest the membranes, especially the catarrh of the nose and throat which repels many a friend and defeats many an effort to win the respect of others. No person wishes to fall in love with a catarrhal individual; for the mucus and phlegm are not only infectious but have an offensive odor. If there were no intestinal poisoning, there would be no catarrh; and if there were no improper foods eaten, there would be no intestinal poisoning.

A familiar affliction that is due solely to intestinal poisoning is the collection of dandruff in the scalp, and also scalp disease. There has never yet been discovered a remedy for these troubles until the source was discovered, and it was found to be the contents of the intestines flowing in the blood. Skin maladies also have their origin here. All these defects stand in the way of success through magnetism; as falling dandruff, sore scalp, and blotched faces all repel friends and followers.

Another affliction that repels friends and associates is that known as BODY ODOR. Both sexes suffer from it. We have met daily for weeks and months women and girls who were employed as clerks, who were troubled with arm-pit odor. Wo have known society women of the highest refinement who have applied to us for a remedy for the latter offense. They had tried all the advertised cures, but with no success whatever. Painting the skin under the arm-pits with a semi-varnish stopped the pores and nearly caused cancerous growth, but was stopped by advice of physicians.

There exists but one remedy.

It is to prevent the poisons from the foul contents of the intestines entering the circulation of the blood, and thereby coming to the arm-pits.

In hundreds of cases this remedy succeeded, and has never failed in any instance. By choosing proper foods the blood is cleaned, and the circulation is sweet and free from all odor.

The skin becomes fair, pure and of fine texture. This shows in the face, and quickly relieves women and girls from the necessity of heavy painting. Very recently a man who believed more in natural than in artificial beauty and coloring, and who knew that what is called love is not so permanent a quality as respect, abiding admiration and deep appreciation, resolved to choose a wife from among more than two-score lady friends, and devoted himself to the study of the face and its natural health and coloring, discarding those faces that were submerged beneath coats of paint through which he could not see the texture of the skin. He succeeded and is now happily married. Natural coloring that indicates fine health is attractive.

The teachings of this and similar lessons refer to those aids to magnetism that serve to attract instead of repelling people. It cannot be denied that, in spite of these personal disadvantages which we are discussing, there are men and women who are magnetic because of the possession of accumulated nerve-fire driving forth ideas from a fertile brain, and stirring into action many thousands of followers by this direct power. But close association with persons whose bodily conditions are offensive, serves to ostracize in time the people who would otherwise have been greatly admired and respected.

Nor does mere health bring the power of controlling others. To be useful in this way it must bo actually charged with those inherent forces that we are teaching in thin system. Like all attractive qualities it is a splendid help to magnetic supremacy.