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Show BEAUTY DEPENDS UPON DIET K iff DON'T RELY ON THE DOCTOR K Restaurants a Source of Much Illness Consult a PhysiciaD Mm in Time to Avoid Illness, Rather Than To Cure It iff day when the customs of civilized life render tho ingestion of aught but tho simplest food hurtful. About 5 o'clock tho samo women will often bo found drinking tea or taking somo light refreshment, re-freshment, thereby still furtho? Interfering Inter-fering with their digestion. Those of my readers who havo a knowledge, oven slight, of chemistry, will readily understand what a gross and possibly irreparable Injury Is being done to tho colls of tho organism. Chemical operations oper-ations must bo conducted with tho greatest nicety as to quanUty and quality of agent and reagent. In tho chemical laboratory normal chemical action and roactlon would simply bo impossible under such conditions as aro dally Invited, and catastrophes would Immediately occur. In the living liv-ing being, by reason of tbo vital principle, prin-ciple, there la greater flexibility and j adaptabjllty. Still, by reason of these WgUi Imperfect chemical changes, a point filfte la reached where naturo can no longer I JjlB) adapt horself, and tho result may bo IjiKt measured up by the ills which arc suf- Sifs forod. Let this go a point too far and Blbc conditions aro Invited which may af- ffKI feet, according to tho individual ten- JjJl dency, kidneys, as In Brighfs disease, fMfo liver, heart, lungs, blood-vessels, nerves or brain. 'K As a rule, ignorance qt right living iWtL is at tho bottom of these transgres- JBu? slons. Tho physician's function should fl not bo regarded as a curative one-on I J tho contrary, his function should bo ! T (0 servo as a guido ami teacher to 1 gJ right living and clean thinking. HM 1 ; SlJ services ohoLd bo retained for tho jj purpose of intelligently, carofully and ,fj wisely directing tho lives of thoao un- dor lfls care. - ' 1 V I i |