KNOWLEDGE OF THE VALUE or non-value of the things that enter the human system has come from the experience of the past, from sickness and death that have followed, and from analysis of their contents. No thinking person can get away from the conclusion that, when it is known that the body requires about fourteen to sixteen elements in about seventeen chemical combinations, the daily use of double that number in about eighty chemical combinations is the actual cause of the sickness in the world, and of the suffering and premature deaths that fall to the lot of misguided human beings. Here are the latest facts:

1. Inherited disease and blood taint remain dormant in the body until improper foods excite them into action.

2. All organic maladies are impossible until improper foods poison the blood.

3. All bacterial diseases are impossible until improper foods furnish the soil in which they live and on which they thrive.

4. Improper foods cannot be digested, and therefore their poisons generate the intestinal foulness that is a prolific cause of neuritis, neuralgia, rheumatism, headaches, bad breath, heart disease, kidney disease, blood pressure, all catarrhs, body odors, and deranged mental and moral natures.

Experiments made by governments and various hospitals and other institutions for the purpose of discovering the causes of crime, insanity and moral taint, have traced one line of cause directly from intestinal poisoning arising from improper foods and drinks. In fact some cases of insanity have been cured by changing the diet; and there are other cases where the criminal nature has been overcome by diet alone.

Irritability is the most potent foe of magnetism; and there is no form of irritability so acute as that which arises from intestinal poisoning.

This poisoning sets up a malady that doctors say now prevails among 990 persons in every 1000; that of congestion of the stomach and of the membranes. This results in irritability and loss of magnetism. The brain is surrounded by three membranes in layers which control all the thinking processes, all the moral standards and activities, and all the criminal instincts. These membranes become quickly congested following the use of improper foods, for the blood that supplies the brain with the fluids required in all thinking activities, is loaded with intestinal poisons, and we cannot expect accurate thinking, good judgment, high moral standards and obedience to law from a flow of blood that is charged to the limit with the foulness of the intestines. Here we find the explanation for the lack of common sense that incites men and women, and today even girls and boys, to become carousers, drinkers, law-breakers, libertines and abject fools by the millions, indecent in talk and conduct, flippantly boastful of their disrespect for all that is right and noble, defiant of correction or disapproval, sneering at home, love and life, scoffing at parents and religion, and dancing attendance on every devil-pleasure as the only influence in life worth following. Their blood, brain and moral nature are fed by poisons. When you see a person who is willingly and boastfully breaking the law of the land; who is indulging in night frivolities at the expense of health and decency; who is ready to slap in the face the mother that gave her best years in caring for her family; who thinks, talks and dreams in terms of lasciviousness born of nasty methods of dancing, who guzzles liquor until the eyes are bloodshot and the head reeling, you are witnessing the natural and logical effects of a perverted nature that comes from blood saturated with intestinal poisons.

The proper foods, properly prepared and cooked, perform their mission in the body, and develop no foulness whatever in the intestines. While more than half of the nutrition that sustains life must come from intestinal digestion, it is all cleanly and pure under the foregoing circumstances. This is due to the fact that the body requires only fourteen or fifteen elements, and when these are supplied, the demands of life are met; but if you send down into the system a mass of things that the body cannot use in its maintenance they cannot be assimilated, and must be made war upon, fought out and eliminated; all of which takes vitality away from the other functions of the body.

In other words if you omit the improper foods you will have pure blood and will become immune against disease, suffering, irritability and the losses to magnetic power that attend these afflictions; and you will add other advantages that are of still higher value than any of these blessings.

THE NON-MAGNETIC FOODS ARE presented here in alphabetical order; and it must be remembered that some are totally foreign to the needs of the body; others are partly so; and others directly poisonous in a form that slowly and insidiously undermines the health, bringing on those hidden diseases that do not give warning until it is too late. There are also included some proper foods that are ruined or partly so by bad methods of cooking. In the following list will be found a few things that readily change into poisons in the body, that otherwise would be nutritious.

1. Bacon.—This is recommended by doctors because of its carbon; but it does a vast amount of injury in spite of that fact.

2. Baked Beans.—For a laborer with iron-clad digestive powers this may furnish a standby for hours after being eaten; but for the purposes of this study, it is a wrong food.

3. Beans, dried.

4. Bread, new.

5. Biscuit, new or hot; and hot or new rolls.

6. Cabbage that is old and fibrous. New, young and tender cabbage is the opposite of the old and tough kind.

7. Cakes that are rich, or that contain spices, citron or dried currants.

8. Candies not home made. The store candies are almost, always hurtful, being made partly of bad grease, cornstalk juice, mitation sugar, coal tar dyes for coloring, and in many instances of impure chocolate. There are no doubt a few store candies that are wholesome, but there are so many kinds that are bad that we strongly advise that every person make home candies.

9. Cheese; except home made cream cheese.

10. Chips, whether potatoes or other kinds.

11. Catsup.

12. Chocolate, unless bought in cooking form at grocery stores, and then only the standard kinds.

13. Clams.

14. Coffee.—The kind that is now sold is much more poisonous than the kind formerly obtainable. In any event it is not afood, nor does it contain any of the elements needed in the body. Use almond coffee instead.

15. Corn Flakes.

16. Corn Crisps. Or any crisps. They are not food, and even if they were made of corn grain, they are not properly prepared as food.

17. Coconut.—This is a food in the lands where it grows, with its milk and fresh meat; but in our clime it is indigestible.

18. Cranberries.—Here we have a much advertised article that has no food value, and that does great injury to the blood.

19. Crisp surfaces of meat or anything else.

20. Cucumbers. 21. Crabs. 22. Crullers. 23. Currants, dried.

24. Doughnuts.

25. Dressings, if rich or not simply made.

26. Eggs, fried.

27. Egg Plant.

28. Fried food of any kind.

29. Fish, fried.

30. Fruit Cake.

31. Fruit Puddings.

32. Fish, smoked.

33. Fish, salted or pickled, dried or cured in any way.

34. Goose.

35. Gravies.

36. Ham.

37. Lard, including all substitutes.

38. Maemalades.

39. Meats smoked, pickled, dried, salted or cured in any way,

40. Mincemeat.

41. Nuts of the oily kinds. Almonds and chestnuts are the best.

42. Onions fried or raw.

43. Oysters fried.

44. Pastry, patties and the like.

45. Peas, old.

46. Peanuts.

47. Peanut butter, peanut lard, etc

48. Pickles.

49. Pigs' Feet.

50. Peppers.

51. Pork.

52. Potatoes fried, crisp, or Saratoga chips.

53. Radishes.

54. Rhubarb, or pie plant.

55. Rinds of oranges, lemons, etc.

56. Sausage, and all ground meat mixtures.

57. Sauces.

58. Shrimps.

59. Spices.

60. Strawberries, gooseberries, currants and crab apples.

61. Sweetbreads.

62. Sweet Potatoes.,

63. Tea.

64. Terrapin, or any sea scavengers, including lobsters.

65. Turnips when, old and fibrous.

66. Vegetables when old and tough.

67. Vinegar, and all things mixed or dressed with vinegar.

68. Yams.

69. Viscera or entrails, sweetbreads, kidneys, brains, hearts and hoofs including hoof-made gelatin, and gelatin made from glue elements. These things, also tendons and muscles, appear in sausage form, and in meat breads and meat cheeses, as well as other mixtures, and should be avoided as the worst of enemies as they contain the dead within the dead.

The foregoing list is formidable and will not meet the approval of people who like the things which we discard, and who do not like to be told what they should eat. But there is behind thislist more than forty years of experience and test. There is a difference between a chemical test and a living test. One tells what a food might be, the other tells what it is from its effect on human life. For instance, chemistry tells us that soap fatsand axle grease are rich in calories and vitamins; experience says they are suited to the inhabitants of the Arctic Zone, but would kill people in our part of the world.

We are closing this part of our studies which have thus far dealt only with the formation of HABITS.

The book might be ended at this place, and the pupil would have advanced far into the development of the power which is being taught. It requires but little impulse to set in motion (he agencies that bring to men and women a vastly increased magnetism with all the advantages that accrue with it. But we are going on to great achievements.

The next step will be to develop Magnetic Energy. When this is accomplished, the final process is to acquire the permanent use of it. While all these processes are going on the pupil is growing healthier, heartier, more manly and more womanly in a physical sense; the nerves and brains are reaching a state of vigor that can be attained in no other way; and existence at once assumes a loftier bearing suggestive of the old-time belief that humanity has kinship with the angels.

Thus this study becomes the most important in life.

The work thus far is not difficult, nor will it consume time or attention to the detriment of other duties. The progress to be achieved will keep pace with the regular work and thought of the day, and not intrude upon them. A man may take a smile to his office or his toil, and it will accompany him in his round of duties; not displace them. The common query is, how much time must be devoted to the practice of the lessons in personal magnetism, and the answer is in the form of another question, how much time will be required to do the same thing correctly that you are now doing wrong, as for instance to walk or stand with the weight on the vital part of (he foot instead of carrying it on the heel. The substitution of one way for another does not take time; it calls for attention at the start

We therefore conclude that no extra time is to be demanded by the lessons thus far given.

Having finished this part of our study, we are now ready to enter into the affirmative accumulation of the fund of power from which personal magnetism is developed. With the enemies out of the way or reduced, the work of forging ahead into new fields of discovery and accomplishment will be surprisingly fast. The gradual unfolding of the latent energies of the body and mind will be as marked and pleasing, as is the life that is founded upon power attained by inheritance or gift.

The wonderful sea or ocean of communication that surrounds all human beings, is worth the cost of time and effort required to thoroughly investigate it. Its waves beat now upon your unconscious brain: let us learn to recognize them, to interpret them and to set our influence at sail upon their unbeaten tracks. In so doing we shall learn what mind and soul are, what God is, and what place each one of us occupies in the plan of earthly existence.

With power of magnetism, there comes a clear light that breaks into the windowless haunts of others' minds, that shows defects and flaws in the plans and purposes of our fellow beings, and gives the power and the right to uplift and ennoble the lives that drift in weakness through a storm-tossed gulf.

While mystery and fascination both play upon the imagination, the new world of fact will resolve every grade of influence into fixed currents of energy that obey a system of laws ordained for the benefit of humanity.

We are now ready to enter the fields described.

Before doing so we must repeat what has been insisted on many times in this study, that all exercises may be omitted and the student of these pages will make rapid and permanent advances into the realms of this power; so marked in fact that those who know and see the reader of these lessons in daily life will note the changes for the better in every respect.

In our former systems the greater part of the training consisted of exercises; these are now retained; but each and every one of them may be omitted and yet great progress will result. But the exercises serve to bring a higher degree of power very quickly; after which they merge into habits. Both methods combined make a very fascinating study.