HERE we are in the direct line of advance in the thick of battle. We now come to the heart of magnetic culture—the work of actual acquisi­tion of the cherished power. A glance backward to the first chapter—a look downward over some of the steps we have taken—will show you the easy introduc­tion to what seems a difficult undertaking for some persons. The First Step or Sources of Magnetism gave you many familiar ideas. It showed clearly where, within the human make-up, we can expect to find the birth and growth of the power we seek. Then came the Second Step Enemies of Magnetism, with its fascinating presentation of those acts, habits and errors of brain and body which waste and leak away the normal generation of magnetism. Just as the pre­liminaries for developing a vast reservoir of water power is to stop leaks, and arrange for accumulation, so in Magnetism, the first requirements are a knowledge of how to avoid wastes, and arrange for accumulations.

The Third Step, Acquired Magnetic Culture brought us closer to the work to be done, by showing the different kinds of electricity that interweave with magnetism; it presented laws and fact in abundance to afford more help and light. It showed what your possibilities of magnetic culture are; how to study to get results. And now you plunge into the very heart of personal magnetism, through the actual exercises that CREATE and STORE the power within brain and body. Now comes the test that shows how much will-power you have—how much sincere desire to come into the posses­sion of the crowning accomplishments of personal magnetism.

Thereis but one normal, natural way, in which energy and power can besupplied to your body; that is through whole­some food properly digested. There is but one way in which the power of magnetism can be increased within your make­up and that is by means of actual exercises of the muscles and brain matter. It is the present Step which determines your success or failure in the cultivation of Personal Mag­netism.

The plan of the different steps has been adopted with the purpose in view of producing the most speedy results in each member of the Magnetic Club. In the preceding editions of this work we have never attempted to systematize the methods of study nor to direct the reader into exact lines of procedure; but we think that both the subject-matter and the ambitious pupil are entitled to every possible consideration, and a care­fully arranged plan is now set forth in the present work. No better reward can be conferred upon us than to have evi­dence of great progress on the part of each pupil.

The Habits Period brings us to the place where some­thing is to be done, although the preceding stage afforded ample opportunity for putting two great laws into practice. The requirements now shift into the actual adoption of cer­tain ways of living and certain lines of conduct toward your­self, in order that the power of magnetism may be developed the more rapidly.

These take no time. They are not exercises, but habits. Everything you do is done in some way; if it is not one way it is another. To do a thing right is no harder than to do it wrong, taking the average of everything. Nor does one way require more time than another. Thus if you find yourself giving way to feelings of irritability or becoming restless when affairs embarrass you, it takes no longer to sit, talk, walk and act calmly than it does to do the same things nerv­ously; the wrong way produces the most disastrous results, while the right is exceedingly helpful. This is merely an illustration of what may be meant by the formation of habits that take no time either to acquire or to maintain.

THIRTY-SECOND GRAND PRINCIPLE The body is insulated.

This principle still carries the idea of the electrical ma-chine and battery. To generate electricity and make it valu­able, it should either be controlled in its escape or else stored in batteries for use at will. Anything that is insulated is cap-able of holding whatever of the fluid it may contain; but let it be defectively insulated and the force will ooze out and be lost, perhaps gradually.

The human body is naturally protected from the escape of its vitality when left to a state of nature. The head is the onlyexposed part of the general body, and nature has covered that with a coating of hair, which is the most perfect of all insulators; and when the hair is not less than two inches long, thevitality of the brain is protected and increased.

Then the feet, which are constantly in contact with the ground in state of nature are given a horny coating caused bycallousing of the surface; and this is a perfect non-con­ductor. The wearing of shoes is rather different, inasmuch as friction is not a factor in the development of an insulated surface. The hoofs of animals are the outgrowth of constant contact with the ground; and human feet have been known to accumulate a half inch in thickness of the horny substance, while some persons claim that even more has been developed by hard usage over rocky ground.

In a state of nature the tendency is to stimulate hair by exposing parts of the body; and some races are called hairy.

In a few instances absolute baldness has been overcome and a full growth of hair secured by exposing the head to all conditions of outdoor life, in rain, snow, sun and wind; but the results are not always certain. The Ralston Club made theeffort to find out if such exposure would in a majority of cases start hair to grow when the head was completely bald; andgot satisfactory results in a minority of the experiments.

Few persons are willing to take the chances of colds and neuralgia; and a sufficient time is rarely given to the tests.

The skin itself in normal conditions is a non-conductor. In countries where the vigor of the climate affects it, there is a tendency to a hairy growth. Air is a stimulant to the development of the horny surface of silicon that is so valuable a protector, although it is constantly sloughing off as new skin forms. The wearing of clothing is not always conducive to this condition; but everything depends upon the character of the texture and the circumstances attending its use.

THIRTY-THIRD GRAND PRINCIPLE The hair is a protector of vitality.

We refer to the hair of the head; but the same law applies to all parts of the body. By vitality we mean life, health, electricity and nervous vigor. It is a serious mistake for a man to have his hair cut close. It should be at least two inches long, and we recommend twice that length or even more, if convenient.

The oft made claim that long hair is conducive to mag­netic development has sometimes been stretched to mean that it will actually generate the power; but this is not so. Long hair protects the body at the extremity of the head; it does not generate any electricity, but holds in what the body itself generates, provided there is no leakage elsewhere. Thin shoes, damp feet, insufficient clothing, nervous leakage, all may defeat the good that comes from a liberal supply of hair on the head; therefore do not assume that when you have secured the one advantage the victory is won.

Our advice has been for men to wear the hair from two to six inches long; never longer, never shorter, and for women to wear it as long as they can get it to grow, unless the health forbid. But this is not enough. The hair of both sexes should be kept in its best condition. It must be aired daily. In nearly all lives it is possible to have the windows open during part of every day in winter and summer. The custom of women to go bareheaded, and to arrange the hair so as to serve the purpose and appearance of a hat, has prevailed to ^someextent in Europe and America; and it is a most excel" lent habit.

We do not see why ladies and girls could not dress the hair and adorn it with ornamental combs, pins or other things that give the effect of headgear, without actually wearing hats. The custom would be acceptable to the public as it would beautify woman. It would be better for her nervous system, better for her brain and better for her general vitality. In severe weather she must suitably protect herself, so as to avoid colds and neuralgia. In no event wear bands or tightfitting things about the hair. The reason will be given in the next paragraph.

Men get bald, weaken the vitality of the hair, cause disease of the scalp and do injury to their brain vigor by wearing hats that press against the scalp. No man or woman should ever do this. The circulation of the blood through every portion of the scalp is needed to supply nutrition to the roots ofthe hair. It is more easily interfered with than any other part of the body. If the blood cannot move freely, if it is hindered in the least degree, the roots of the hair will starve.

The wearing of a hat band, or any band around the scalp or at any part of it, is one of the most pernicious habits affecting the maintenance of a good head of hair. The least pressure means loss of life to the roots, and a consequent tendency to baldness.

Men should go bareheaded as much as possible; they should not wear hats indoors, especially in their places of business; the outdoor air should be introduced into a building sothat the scalp may be invigorated; and all pressure should be removed from the head. If it is necessary to be out o£ doors much of the time let the hat be loose, so as to avoid the tightness that cuts off the circulation of the blood.

Another matter requires attention at this place. The habit of using a comb or brush that has not been cleaned since a previous using, is the cause of nearly all forms of scalp disease. Hold the comb up to the light; do you see the collection of matter between the teeth, even though it may be slight? Take that out and place it under a microscope; it is full of disease germs; millions of them carouse in the tiniest mass. You intended to use that comb, to pass it through the hair, to allow the points to scrape into the scalp where the flesh is tender, and to irritate the cuticle, thus allowing a fertile soil for the introduction of a dangerous foe. Pim­ples, sores, scabs, blotches and what-not will surely follow. The dandruff will assume a condition of disease. But the cause of it all will go unsuspected. A comb should be cleaned if you care for a good head of hair. Not only will the pres­sure of a hat-band or a ribbon cut off the supply of nutrition and lead to loss, but the devouring germs of disease will eat out root and all, and the hairs will topple and fail like trees torn from the ground. A pin or a thread will clean the comb; after which it should be dipped in hot carbolic soapsuds, or in strong salt water, or in listerine, borax or any good anti­septic, and then rinsed.

The hair should be exercised daily. This is best done at the time of combing, or in the morning, noon or evening. It should be well combed in four directions and repeatedly; then pulled lightly. The latter exercise is very valuable for our purpose. Pulling the hair exercises the roots; blood is called to the scalp; it comes in much larger flow than usual, and that is what is most wanted; the nutrition supplies the power of growth; old roots and deserted cavities are often invigorated into starting into life again; and many desirable results follow. This applies to both sexes.

THIRTY-FOURTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

The skin is a protector of vitality.

A weak and flabby skin is a conductor of magnetism from the body, and a serious cause of its loss. The wearing of clothing, accompanied by lack of exercise, has had much to do with the breaking down of the skin. This defective con­dition appears in the loss of the firm cuticle which, like the hardened foot, serves as a perfect insulator.

Not only for purposes of health but for the equally good purposes of magnetic development, should the skin be ex­ercised daily. The best way is to rub it with the hands. The next best method is to give it any invigorating exercise that you know of or can invent.

Scientists are to-day learning that the skin is fed by the nitrogen in the atmosphere, and that it may be nourished by food rubbed upon its surface; strange as this may seem. The healthier the skin the better insulator it is for the magnetic vitality of the body. The art of feeding the cuticle is some­what extensive at the present time. The simplest method is to give it air by the removal of the clothing; but this is not so important as to supply food for it. Massageurs who have developed good forms and ample fullness from shrunken flesh and skinny conditions, have held the secret as a part of their trade. It is to feed the cuticle with lard oil; one of the most nourishing of foods. They apply it freely and rub it in well.

As magnetism produces a glow of health and exuberance in the face, you will find its warmth following the practice of bathing in corn meal water. The nutrition, acting in con­junction with the nitrogen of the atmosphere, quickly builds a surface as fine and delicate as the lightest gossamer silk, behind which the magnetic vitality is retained and insulated. Try it. The results will surprise you. It requires no extra time, for you should bathe as often as we have stated if you wish health. Here you get the best possible health of the skin, the most exquisitely beautiful complexion, and the pleasurable glow of magnetism. Try it faithfully.

THIRTY-FIFTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Dampness is a destroyer of electrical vitality.

Wet feet, wet clothing, wet hair even, all draw electricity from the body and reduce its magnetism. In fact a few min­utes of exposure to the dampness will quickly lower the vital­ity, and carry off the body's heat. That which is a good conductor of one may be a good conductor of the other. If you stand with clothing on in a room the temperature of which is 85 degrees, you suffer from the heat. Remove the clothing, with the body kept dry, and you do not suffer from the cold. But wet the skin and stand without clothing, and you will note howquick the heat and vitality even are conducted from the body. Raise the temperature to 90 degrees and the same results will follow. Wipe the body dry and the warmth will return.

This shows that the flesh is generating its vitality, and also shows that the latter may be drawn off faster than it is generated, leading to a severe cold and perhaps to fatal disease. When a person sits upon a brick or stone step or wall, or upon any damp place, as long as the clothing remains dry there is little danger of drawing off the vitality of the body; but let him remain a moment too long and it will be difficult to fight off the consequences. Many a death has been caught in this way. That which holds dampness or coldness is dangerous; for it acts upon the perspiration of the body, reduces it to moisture, wets the clothing and estab­lishes a perfect conductor of vitality and electricity.

Some materials are not naturally cold, like wood, cloth and paper; while others are naturally cold like stone, brick, cement, iron, and the like. Let the latter class be ever so dry when you sit or stand upon them, their coldness will collect the moisture of the body and condense it into dampness, even if the air and locality are free from much moisture. The same thing is seen in summer when a cold surface is soon wet; the outside of an ice-pitcher for instance. Stand­ing on brick, stone or cold earth is very bad. The leather of the shoes is a good protector of the body as long as it is dry; but coldness soon destroys the insulating quality in the man­ner we have stated; and dampness adds greater danger. Nearly all cases of colds, throat troubles, lung diseases, pneu­monia, consumption, pleurisy, and the like, are due to this line of indiscretions; and the hope of magnetic power can have no place in the life of one who is careless.

As long as the skin is kept dry there is no chance of a of vitality unless the head, feet or hands cause the escape. The wearing of rubber or oiled clothing is a protection. When the habit of living in dampness has been established, the heat centers disconnect themselves from the surface of the body in certain individuals; but it is a very risky thing to at­tempt when one is not used to it. Bathing in hot water is weakening for other reasons; in warm water it is not very weakening unless long continued, for the heat is not thrown off; in cold water it is in some cases very beneficial when brief and productive of a shock to the system followed by reac­tion. But bathers are not magnetic. Swimmers are not magnetic. We know scores of men who boast of their ice-cold baths daily; and we know them well. From a magnetic standpoint they are uninteresting to the last degree, and en­tirely without influence.

THIRTY-SIXTH GRAND PRINCIPLE The feet should be well protected.

We realize that most persons prefer to wear thin shoes with very light soles on them, on the ground that they are easier to the feet. They argue that as nature intends a per­son to go barefooted, a very thin shoe is all the better. This is not true. If a person were to go barefooted, the contact of the feet with ground and air would harden the skin and develop a thick hoof; but the kind of life one leads has much to do with the ability to endure such a method of going about. If not used to it the practice of walking barefooted would have many disadvantages, and death might follow a sudden change from the usual way.

It is not true that the nearer the feet are to being unshod, the nearer they are to nature. A thin shoe is sufficient todeny the skin its contact with the rough world, and it generally invites a tenderer care of the feet than if the heavier shoes were worn. The main tiling is to do one thing or the other; either go barefooted and give full natural life to the feet, or else wear hoes that will serve as insulators to hold in the vitality and electricity. Slippers will not do this. Low shoes will not do it ; the ankles must be covered. Thin soles are all right in warm rooms; but are all wrong on damp floors, dirt, brick, stone, or cement walks. The thicker the soles the better; but they should not be clumsy.

Even assuming that the soles are thick, it does not follow that they should be allowed to get wet, for damp leather is a conductor of vitality, of heat and of magnetism. When one goes the others go too, as a rule.

Different heights of shoes should not be worn. The best is that which covers the ankles well. The same height should be adopted at all times; even if you wear several pairs of shoes in a day. If you prefer slippers, they should be worn to the exclusion of other kinds; but slipper-wearers never have much vitality. If you wear shoes that cover the ankle, it is not safe to wear slippers at all; for the high uppers pro­tect the skin, shut it out from contact with the air, weaken its vigor and leave it tenderer than if it had been exposed. Then, when slippers are put on, the unprotected part is exposed and colds follow. That people are unconscious of the cause of such malady was proved by a number of experiments in which we advised that slippers be discarded altogether, resulting in freedom from colds where every effort had previously been made to avert them but without success.

THIRTY-SEVENTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

The clothing should insulate the body.

It has already been seen that damp feet and damp clothes will quickly act as conductors of heat, vitality and magnetism, and lead to dangerous if not fatal results. For many centu­ries this phenomenon went unexplained. No one seemed to understand how the presence of moisture could carry away the life of the body. When the study of electricity disclosed the fact that water was one of its best conductors, and damp­ness almost as good, the reason why the vitality of the flesh wasdrawn off became apparent. Nature with its marvelous wisdom always sets up reactions in the effort to save life; so when the clothing has been wet the skin becomes feverish, dry and acts as an instantaneous insulator.

It has been learned that if wet clothing be removed at once very little injury results; or if it be worn until the fever of the body has dried the clothing a perfect insulation is ob­tained; but if it be removed before it is dried and not at once after being wet, a severe cold follows, and even death has been the fate. It is important to know these facts.

In the making and saving of mechanical electricity silk has been found to be an important factor, owing to its insulat­ing qualities. In human life the same thing is true. Any animal fibre is a protector of the body, like wool, which is the covering of sheep; hair, which has already been amply discussed; and silk which is the fibre from the silk-worm. Next in value is linen, and least of all is cotton; both from the vegetable kingdom. Leather is from the animal kingdom and is therefore valuable.

The underclothing may be all wool, if thin and not too irritating; or it may be cotton or linen, with a very thin silk garment worn next to the skin; the thinner the better, if Cotton is used for the second garment. In other words cot-Ion should be kept from contact with the skin if possible. Silk is the best; but it may be very thin; as thickness has but little to do with its quality as a protector of the body's heat and electricity. It has been proved that thin silk underwear is more warming than three times its thickness in cotton. The ribbed silk is better for many reasons. We, therefore, suggest the following:

1. Get light weight silk underwear and stockings if you can afford the cost; without doubling the underwear.

2. If you wish to save expense get very thin silk under­wear, and double it; that is, wear other underwear of cotton or merino, with the silk next to the skin.

3. Get medium weight wool stockings with No. 2, or wool and cotton mixed, in case you cannot afford silk.

4. If the silk is beyond your reach get such weight of all-wool underwear as you can afford.

THIRTY-EIGHTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Outward cold invites the generation of vital-elec­tricity.

When the heat of the body is being generated within it must find escape in normal measure without. This is be­cause its accumulation will check further generation, and life will become sluggish. Where there is the greatest contrast between the outward and the inward temperatures of the body, there is the greatest vitality, up to a certain point. Life is necessarily the most active for its essential process is most vigorous. We advise the decrease of the heat of a ' room, and the increase of the clothing, in the manner stated in an earlier period of this volume. But it must not be for­gotten that the temperature of the body itself must be main­tained.

Thin clothing in a warm room is not so beneficial as heavier clothing in a cool room. In the former case the heat is produced from without, thus lowering the action of the body's own functions; in the other case the heat is produced within where the best vigor requires it to be generated. Warming the body from without decreases its electricity; warming it from within increases it. Hot weather and hot climates are detrimental to the development of this power. Summer enervates the system; and if it were prolonged and were not followed by a severe winter, few persons would be able to carry on the work of advancing civilization. We would be weak and effeminate.

THIRTY-NINTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Excessive cold retards the development of electricity.

We have just seen that cold is a valuable aid to the gen­eration of this power provided it remains on the outside of the body. When it enters the flesh, the results are the opposite. A chill is always destructive of vitality, and sometimes is the harbinger of death from such loss. To be chilly is also injurious.

Laying aside the consideration of the inward coldness, we come to the fact that when life is a hard battle to keep warm there can be no magnetism. The Esquimaux are able to keep from freezing, they even maintain a living tempera­ture in the body, but they are utterly devoid of magnetism for all the vitality is spent in the one effort to keep warm. There is no surplus for the mind and nerves.

It is unwise to go to parts of the country in winter that present a temperature too much in contrast with that which the body has been accustomed to from youth. It is unwise to go out driving on a very cold day and allow the animal heat to escape to such an extent that the blood or the flesh becomes cold. A week of care will not undo the mischief from a standpoint of magnetic study. Brief drives on cold days may not chill the body. Let them come to an end in time to prevent that result. Intelligent management will do all things about right. A brisk, quick walk in a crisp atmos­phere is better than all else.

FORTIETH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Sunlight up to the point of resistance is vitalizing.

The fact that the earth comes from the sun and that all its energies are fed by this daily supply should lead us into a closer relationship with this orb. We can no more live without the sun than the fish can exist without water. We are as dependent upon it as the babe just born is dependent upon other's care.

Like food, like air, like warmth, the sun is a necessity; except that it supplies not only itself to us but all other necessities besides. All things owe all things to the sun. No plant cangrow without it; not a spear of grass can lift its leaf from thesoil. No bird can fly, no animal move, no man breathe, except with the power that comes from the sun. Not a mus­cle is capable of the slightest action without the direct aid of this father of all influence. The heart owes to the same source its power to beat.

A room in which the sun has not shone is unfit to live in or to sleep in. It should not be occupied for either purpose. Those who are compelled to use such a room should get as much outdoor air and sunlight as possible. To be all day in a room wherein the sun shines constantly, is the best safe­guard against ill health, nervous prostration and mental ex­haustion. Insanity is the natural end of sunless lives. Men and women who have occupied the darker rooms of houses have fallen victims to this taint; and, on the other hand, those who formed a close partnership with the sun have rare if ever suffered from this line of maladies.

As the plant is solely dependent upon sunlight for its growth in vitality, so human life is as much a creature of abso­lute helpnessness. The fruits of sunshine are:

1. The brightness of the eye.

2. The clearness of the complexion.

3. The firmness of the heart-beat.

4. The power of the mind.

5. The energy of all organic operations.

Cloudy days depress us; but rain is magnetizing, for each drop is a globe of sun-energy. Bright days are pleasing if we get some of the light into our systems.

What do we advise ?

Get a house where the sunshine enters the living rooms between September and April; or live in the sunny rooms dur­ing the darker and colder part of the year. Be sure that the sleeping rooms are sun-lit on all clear days in those months. The rest of the year, avoid damp and shaded rooms; although the need of sunshine is less. It is better to have some sun even on hot days in summer.

Get out of doors, or sit at windows where the sun shines and let some of it strike the face in cold days, avoiding the extreme referred to under the next principle.

FORTY-FIRST GRAND PRINCIPLE Sunlight beyond the point of resistance is injurious.

Extremes are always hazardous. Pleat is needed to sup­port life, but too much is injurious. Cold has its value, and is necessary if certain degrees of vitality are to be reached; yet it may drive life out of the body if too severe. Darkness has no value. Heat and cold are opposites, yet are instru­ments in the attainment of health; one is life, the other is a stimulus to life. But darkness has no stimulating effect, for its opposite is not born within the body and is not called forth by absence.

The heat of summer almost invariably passes beyond the point of resistance and does some injury. It is now a problem how far the excess may be tempered. Some sug­gest that brick or stone houses be built in place of wooden structures, for they are cooler; but they may be too expen­sive. The lower rooms of a three or four-story building are rarely too warm in the summer time, unless all the doors and windows are thrown open. It is possible to secure sufficient air and not let in the torrid heat. Upper stories are always too warm in the extreme weather of summer; they are not best for living or sleeping purposes.

The vitality of an intense sun is sufficiently felt in the shade. Where there is light there is energy of light in this time of the year. Where there is brightness there is refracted sunshine. While the winter sun may be directly absorbed, that of summer should be received indirectly. In other words, get in the sun in cold weather, and get out of it in warm weather. The point of resistance is that degree of temperature where the body refuses to absorb the vitality, and the nerves are pained by its excess.

We have been experimenting with electricity as a means of supplying a substitute for the sun's beams. The author writes at night, often all night, in a room where there are eleven incandescent electric lamps, each of thirty-two candle power, or a total of 352 candles, burning just above his head

A stranger coming into the room exclaims, "Oh, what an in­tensely bright place! The light hurts my eyes." It might hurt the eyes if it were allowed to fall into them; but we do not look at them, nor do we glance into the face of the sun. The light is not so great as that of the day, in the very same room, after the southern sun has passed by. All the com­bined lights of earth, all the fires, all the electricity united in millions time millions of lamps could not equal the sunshine, for the greater includes the less.

In a number of other instances we have obtained confir­mation of our theory here, that the brain, the nerves and the general vitality are stimulated by electric lights. It is not a case of the substitution of the artificial for the real, for all light is part of the great sun itself. Nor is it a case of fur­nishing actual electricity to the body; the most that can be said of it is that it is a part of the day. Its heat is less than that of gas or oil, and it does not burn the oxygen of the air as gas and oil do, thus depriving the lungs of needed nutri­tion. We are coming to believe in electric light baths, but will say frankly that the most important of the experiments are yet to be made and will be reported to our members.

FORTY-SECOND GRAND PRINCIPLE The chemical action of the body generates electricity.

In perfect health there is a perfect balance between the alkali and the acid of the body. Some authorities on the subject make the claim that this counter-influence of directly opposing conditions is kept up for no other purpose than to rate electricity. When the balance is disturbed sickness or indisposition follows; the mouth, the stomach, the fluids generally are either too acid or too alkaline. If too acid, then medicines are given to counteract the condition; and they are alkaline medicines. If, on the other hand, there is a tendency to the alkaline, then acids are given to restore the balance. It is for this reason chiefly that the doctor looks at the tongue.

The saliva of the mouth is ordinarily called alkaline.

The gastric juices of the stomach are acid. Neither should be excessive. Some physiologists refer to the saliva as acid, because it runs so closely to the line at times that it can only be said to be evenly balanced. When the stomach is too arid, lime, magnesia, or some other alkali is given. When milk turns to acid in the stomach, this is corrected by adding lime to it. When the mouth is too alkaline a resort to acid is made. In the best of health these two sources of chemical vitality are evenly balanced. On the other hand, it must be understood that while the saliva of the mouth has a distinct tendency to keep in poise, it produces a clearly alkaline result upon food; and the juices of the stomach, which must not show an excess either way, are given the function to produce chemical acids during digestion. The more these two proc­esses come together the better will be the health, the easier the digestion and the greater the vitality of the whole body and all its parts.

We have little or no control over the juices of the stom­ach. They flow in of themselves and the food is acted upon by involuntary movements. Hence the stomach is generally too acid, the digestion is imperfect, eructations, gases, fer­mentations and loss of food value follow. Then the doctor prescribes chemical alkalis, the tender membranous lining of the stomach is injured, and dangers are created. The very alkali that the stomach needs in a natural shape is given it in an unnatural condition in the form of medicines, and the only means of getting it is denied, for the saliva is not mixed with the food that is swallowed.

Of all the facts that bear upon the question of health, none is more important than this: the saliva yields that per­fect alkaline condition that the stomach requires. Yet all persons swallow their food unsalivated. The priceless boon of perfect digestion is ignored, and because the food passes on without producing distress, the conclusion is drawn that it has been thoroughly digested. Years are required to con­vince people of this error. They do not know the meaning of the blotched face. They are willing to accept the fact as a fact, for they know it to be such, but they go on bolting their meals, washing down their solids unmasticated, and taking poisonous medicines to correct the evil.

Life renewal begins with mouth digestion.

Out of more than one hundred thousand experiments made under all conditions, it has been found sufficient to merely chew the food enough to thoroughly mix it with the saliva. If this mixing can be done in a second of time, so that every particle of the food is touched by the saliva, that is long enough. Some persons are able to give the food one turn in the mouth and thereby bring it into contact with the saliva, and so eat rapidly; but it is never wise to swallow any food without first allowing the saliva to touch it.

Our position is acknowledged as the only correct one in this matter. It is this: take time in eating all foods, espe­cially solids, and more especially starches and grains. By continued mastication with the teeth the saliva almost com­pletely digests them; so that when they enter the stomach they are ready to receive the acid influences of the gastric juices there and pass into the great fund of bodily nutrition. Without this care, they will yield but little real value to the system. Starchy foods unmixed with saliva are never di­gested in the stomach.

Best of all, when nature's plain requirements are met, the opposing chemical conditions by their union and their balance produce a constant flow of electricity which vitalizes every part of the body.