Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — Two Styles. [ARTICLE]

Two Styles.

That the fashions for millinery are divided into two distinct classes is Indicated by the following from Illustrated Bits: Mrs. Spenders—l wonder what will be the popular styles in hats this season? Mr. Spenders—My dear, women’s hats will be divided into two styles this season, ns usual; th 6 style you don’t like, and the style I can’t afford.

NOTE. —The * following article has been widely published and is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the value of careful marshalling and analysis of facts in presenting a subject to the public. LEVELERS. The Mission of Whiskey. Tobacco and Coffee. ■~The“Creatdt tnade all things, r we believe. If so, He must have made these. _ We know what He made foot} and water for, and air and sunshine, but why Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee? They are here sure enough and each performing its work. There must be some great plan behind it all; the thoughtful man seeks to understand something of that plan and thereby to judge these articles for their true worth. Let us not say “bad” or “good” without taking testimony. There are times and conditions when it certainly seems to the casual observer that these stimulant narcotics a?ereal blessings. Right there is the ambush that conceals a “killing” enemy. One can slip into the habit of either whiskey, tobacco or coffee easy enough, but to “untangle” is often a fearful struggle. It seems plain that there are circumstances when the narcotic effect of these poisons is for the moment beneficial but the fearful argument against them is that seldom ever does one find a steady user of either whiskey, coffee or tobacco free from disease of some kind.

Certainly powerful elements in their effect on the human race. It is a matter of daily history testified to by literally millions of* people, that Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee are smiling, promising, beguiling friends on the start, but always false as hell itself in the end. Once they get firm hold enough to show their strength, they Insist upon governing and drive the victim steadily towards ill health in some form; if permitted to continue to rule, they will not let up until physical and mental ruin sets in. A man under that spell (and “under the spell” is correct), of any one of these drugs, frequently assures himself and his friends, “Why I can leave off any time I want to. I did quit for a week just to show I could.” It is a sure mark of the slave when one gets to that stage. He wiggled through a week fighting every day to break the spell, was finally whipped, and began his slavery all over again.

The slave (Coffee slave as well as Tobacco and Whiskey) dally reviews his condition, sees perfectly plain the steady encroachments of diseasp, how the nerves get weaker day by day and demand the drug that seems to smile and offer relief for a few minutes and then leaves the diseased condition plainer to view than ever and growing worse. Many times the Coffee slave realizes that he is between two fires. He feels bnd if he leaves off and a little worse if he drinks and allows the effect to wear off. So it goes on from day to day. Every night the struggling victim promises himself that he will break the habit and next day when he feels a little bad (as he is quite sure to) breaks, not the habit, but his own resolution. It is nearly always a tough fight, with disaster ahead sure if the habit wins. There have been hundreds of thousands of people driven to their graves through disease brought on by coffee drinking alone, and it is quite certain that more human misery is caused by coffee and tobacco than by whiskey, for the two first are more widely used, and more hidden and insidious in the effect on nerves, heart and other vital organs, and are thus unsuspected until much of the dangerous work is done.

Now, Reader, what is your opinion as to the real use the Creator has for those things? Take a look at the question from this point of view. There is a law of Nature and of Nature’s God that things slowly evolve from lower planes to higher, a sturdy, steady and dignified advance toward more perfect things in both the Physical and Spiritual world. The ponderous tread of evolutionary development is fixed by the Infinite and will not be quickened out of natural law by any of man’s methods. Therefore we see many Illustrations showing how nature checks too rapid I advance. Illinois raises phenomenal | crops of corn for two or three years, i If she continued to do so every year i her farmers would advance in wealth I far beyond those of other sections or countries. So Nature interposes a bar every three or four years and brings | on a “bad year.” Here we see the leveling Influence at work. A man is prosperous in his business for a number of years and grows rich. Then Nature sets the “leveling influence” at work on him. Some of his investments lose, be becomes luxurious and lazy. Perhaps it is whiskey, tobacco, coffee, women, gambling, or ’ some other form. The Intent and purpose is to level blm. Keep him from evolving too far ahead of the masses. A nation becomes prosperous nnd great like ancient Rome. If no leveling influence set in she would dominate the world perhaps for all time. But . Dame Nature sets her army of “level--1 era" at work. Luxury, overeating and drinking, licentiousness, waste and extravagance, Indulgences of all kinds, then comes the wreck. Sure, Sure, Sure. the law of the unit is the law of the mass. Man goes through the same i process. Weakness (in childhood), gradual growth of strength, energy,

.thrift, probity, prosper! ty, wealth, comfort, ease, relaxation, self-indul-gence, luxury, idleness, waste, debauchery, disease, and th< s wreck follows. The “levelers” are i«a the bushes along the pathway of ever y successful man and woman and they bag the majority. Only now and then can 1 1 man stand out against these “leveler: nd hold his fortune, fame and health to the end. | So the Creator has use for Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee to lev, el down the successful ones and those who show signs of being successful, and keep them back in the race, e 0 that the great “field” (the masses) 1 nay not be left too far behind. And yet we must admit that same all wise Creator has place d it in the power of a man to staihd upright, clothed in the armor of a clean cut, steady mind and say unto himself, “I decline to exchange my bli ’thright for a mess of potage.” | “I will not deaden my seihses, weaken my grip on affairs and tyeep myself cheap, common and behind; In fortune and fame by drugging with whiskey, tobacco or coffee; life Is top short. It is hard enough to win the good things, without any sort of handicap, so a man is certain a “fool trader” when he trades strength, health, money, and the good things that come with power, for the half-asleep condition of the “drugger” with the certainty of sickness and disease ahead. 1It is a matter each individual must decide for himself. He can be a leader and. semi-god if he will, or he can go along through life a'drugged clown, a cheap “hewer of wood or! carrier of water.”

Certain it is that while, the Great Father of us all does not seem to “mind” if some of Ills children are foolish and stupid, He seeqis to select others (perhaps those He i ptends for some special work) and allows them to be threshed and castigated/'most fearfully by these “levelers.” If a man tries flirting with these levelers awhile, and gets a few slaps as a hint, he had better take the hint or a good solid blow will follow. When a man tides to live upright, clean, thrifty, sober, and undrjftgged, manifesting as near as he knows what the Creator intends he should, happiness, health and peace seem to come to him. Does it pay? This article was written to set people thinking, to rouse the “God within” for every highly organized man and woman has times when they feel a something calling from within for them to press to the front and “be about the Father's business,” don’t mistake it; the spark of the Infinite is there and it pays in every way, health, happiness, peace, and even worldly prosperity, to break off the habits and strip clean for the work cut out for us.

It has been the business of the writer to provide a practical and easy way for people to break away from the coffee habit and be assured of a return to health and all of the good things that brings, provided the abuse has not gone too far, and even then the cases where the body has been rebuilt on a basis of strength and health run into the thousands. v It is an easy and comfortable step to stop coffee instantly by having wellmade Postum Food Coffee served rich and hot -with good cream, for the color and flavor is there, but none of the caffeine or other nerve destroying elements of ordinary coffee. On the contrary, the most powerful rebuilding elements furnished by Na-1 ture are in Postum and they quickly, set about repairing the damage. Seldom is it more than 2 days after the change is made before the old stomach 1 or bowel troubles -or complaints oi kidneys, heart, head ot nerves shon unmistakable evidence of getting bei ter and ten days’ time changes thingji wonderfully. Literally millions of brain-worßlnp Americans today use Postum, having found the value and common sense ii the change. 0. W. POST.