If you want to try an experiment and you have a tame, good dispositioned dog, just feed him on raw meat exclusively. It won't hurt the dog, that's a natural food for dogs; but before long the dog will become cross and snappy and bite some one. So you better not try that experiment after all.

I'll tell you a better one. Perhaps you know some person in your family who is cross and snappy, and possibly you are just a bit cross and snappy yourself; well, in a case like this, where you have so much better chance to make a good experiment, spare the dog.

If the women only knew how much dirty work they could save themselves by teaching their family to live on innocent food, it would be a great point in their favor, and the average housewife has enough work to do without adding unnecessary burdens.

The very best diet is the cheapest and the easiest to prepare.

In fact, no preparation at all is needed.

Fruit and nuts are best eaten in their raw state, and with milk you have a perfect diet. It sounds so simple that it staggers your credulity. You are used to coming to a table with steaming viands, slabs of greasy meat, gravies, pickles, and a variety of conglomerations, clear down to "hash"; in fact, it is all "hash" after it is thrown into the stomach in the usual manner.

Fruit, nuts, and milk may be a part of this layout, but these things are considered only as "accessories" of small consequence. You think you have to have something that will "stick to your ribs," as you express it. The fact is that a good many of these things stick to your liver, stick to your kidneys, stick to your colon, and the harder they stick, the worse off it is for you.

But, "Goodness, gracious!" you exclaim; you don't expect one to live on just fruit and nuts and milk? No, I really don't expect some of you to change your habits of eating one iota. You have become so thoroughly saturated with the psychology of your age and accustomed to the habits you have formed or that have been formed for you, that you are bound by them as with chains of steel. It is just here and there that one finds a human being that really wants to be human, and is willing to live human in order to grow into the full stature of normal manhood and womanhood as originally designed by the Great Architect.

For all that, if you will try this experiment of right living just one month, faithfully, conscientiously, and intelligently, you will willingly join the small group of mortals who are earnestly striving to live in accordance with the physical laws of their being, that they may by so living have more abundant life. You will find you have not suffered in any way, unless merely through a craving of your abnormal appetite for abnormal things, - just the same way a toper will suffer when his dram is taken away from him. But your physical body will be in better trim than it was at the beginning of the experiment.

As a matter of fact, I am not asking you to give up anything that is really good for you, not even the gratification of your appetite, for you will find that the right kind of food for you is best relished, once you get your system straightened out and used to it. You will find - but what's the use telling you, when you can make the experiment and find out these things for yourself?

Listen! If people will live in accordance with the laws of their physical being, they will always be well, for health is the normal condition, and disease always comes from disobedience to law, usually through ignorance, but that does not save you from the consequences.

Listen again! If you will really apply some of these things I am telling you to your own life, you will soon forget the doctor's telephone number.

Maybe you don't think these things worth while, as compared with the extreme pleasure of eating pig, - and paying doctors' bills. Well, you may side in with the pig, to get the pig "inside" of you, but as for myself, I prefer health and strength, and to stop the sacrifice of the pig; and if you will leave it to the pig, you will find that even a pig can see the force of my argument, and will vote for the speedy coming of the day when no man will so debase himself as to seek to draw his life energy from a poor pig, or a fat one either.

Joking aside - why not try it out, not the pig, but the one month experiment living on two meals of "innocent food," fruits, nuts, and milk.

You need not confine yourself strictly to the above; honey, cheese, and vegetables may be added, celery, carrots, turnips, cabbage, etc., - all eaten in their natural stage, and thoroughly masticated. You can add graham crackers also for the honey, and a fresh raw egg whipped in your milk. Oh, don't worry, you are not going to starve; you are just going to give your system a chance to straighten out and get normal.

Be very careful not to overeat, by thoroughly masticating everything; if you do this, you will never overeat. And don't forget this, that overeating good food is just as bad as eating poor food. To stop eating pig, and then make a pig of yourself, - that won't do at all. There are pigs enough already without your adding yourself to the list.

It will probably take some time to shrink your "tummy" down to normal proportions so that a reasonable amount of food will seem to "fill" it. It is really disgraceful how some people have stuffed and stuffed and stuffed their poor "tummies" till they have spread out all over the front of them, and they look like balloons with legs on 'em. We even find people who are actually proud of these abnormally stretched abdomens. If you have one, don't boast about it any more; it is simply the evidence of gluttony, if you will permit the plain statement, and also the evidence of disease. Some fat may be permissible as stored food, but any amount of it that distorts the human form is not only undesirable but dangerous. The normal human figure is neither fat nor skinny, but well rounded and graceful, athletic, and mobile. Such a figure is best built and sustained on natural food, such as old Mother Nature herself provides ready, agreeable, nourishing, and procurable without cruelty or the shedding of blood.