now, and always shall be well—perfectly well every minute of every day. Yes. I have gone back to the flesh-pots of Egypt, but I am not an extremist. When I want meat I eat it. Nature makes out my bill of fare and when she calls for meat it is forthcoming; sometimes once a day, for two or three days in succession; sometimes only three or four times a month. Therein I know I am not a slave to appetite.
It is not so much what you eat as how you eat, not how much nor how little you eat. Out of my thirty-seven years' experience it took me twenty years to learn this little, simple, yet fundamental principle; to learn, also, that physical training, per se, is but half the battle; that health, strength and longevity depend equally, as much upon right living; that every man should be a law, unto himself, but he must understand the law. I have no patience with the extremists or the faddists only insomuch as they get people out of a rut and cause them to think for themselves.
I trust that this little message may be the means of arousing to action some casual reader of H. C. (the regular readers "need no spur to prick the sides of their intent"). Then, in conclusion, I say—Begin now!
"How wise we are when the chance has gone
And a backward glance we cast;
We know just the thing we should have done
When the time to do is past."
Vigorously yours,
Edward B. Warman.
