Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1910 — WORRY AND DIGESTION. [ARTICLE]

WORRY AND DIGESTION.

Dr. Fletcher Says Don’t Eat When Worried or An(ry. “In five years from now it will not be considered respectable to be sick.” Many more such cheerful promises as this ohe was made by Dr. Horace Fletcher, the famous exponent of rational eating, who has made the term “Fletcherlsm” familiar on both sides of the Atlantic, just before he sailed from New York with his wife and companion on the steamship Saxonia for a cruise to Gibraltar, Genoa and Naples. ‘•The greatest source of unhappiness in the world at present,” said Dr. Fletcher, “is the mouth. You should eat when you feel like It. eat what you may crave for at the time, and above all you should chew your food. You may feel like ridiculing the idea that it Is wbR to chew your soup. I will, however, ask you to try it. It will Improve the soup and help you. “Never eat when worried, nervoXis or angry. It Is making and absorbing poison to do It. You should chew your food thirty times with every mouthful. If you do this you will live to a great age.” Dr. Fletcher while in Europe will stop off at Naples and there have a chance to have some Italian He was Informed , that in eating spaghetti It is necessary to hold the head back and let the food slip down. "Well—er —ah —” -fimlled and hesitated Dr. Fletcher. “I will chew It just the same.’*'