As I have explained in another chapter you must take the mineral in the system through the vegetable route. You will get iron, that will be assimilated, when you eat beefsteak. Beefsteak has blood, the blood has iron. You will also get iron when you eat spinach. Every element necessary for your body is found in some vegetable or animal food; therefore, you should refrain from confining yourself to a very few articles of food. Don't pay any attention to the faddist who gives you a rigorous diet or unpalatable food. You simply make yourself miserable and you generate more worry and unhappiness by your discipline than the good you get from these freak fads. We all eat too much, especially too much meat. That a strict vegetarian diet is the necessary thing for good health I deny. The sheep, the cow, and horse are vegetarians and they are short lived. The eagle, the lion and man, eat animal food and they are long lived. I may be prejudiced, but it does seem to me that the strict vegetarians are skinny, sallow looking lot of humans, speaking generally. I do find that the healthier specimens of vegetarians are those who eat plenty of eggs and drink plenty of milk, both of which are animal food, and both of which have nearly all the elements necessary to sustain life. I don't like the fads in the matter of eating. The amount a person should eat is in exact accord with the law of compensation. The human body is a machine from a food standpoint. It is an engine that has work to do and accordingly the amount of fuel necessary for the engine should be in proportion to the amount of work that engine is called on to perform. The hotels, restaurants and food purveyors invent palate tickling food to tease the human to eat, and hotels and restaurants are mostly patronized by people who do not have much physical work to do; the consequence is they eat too much. You do not often find dyspepsia or indigestion among men or women who work hard physically. You who work indoors with little physical exercise will find wonderful benefits if you will cut down the fuel. You will get sick if you pile in more fuel than is necessary for the engine. If your engine needs twenty pounds of steam how foolish it is to keep up a hundred pounds pressure. If you had five-horsepower work to perform how foolish it would be to install a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound engine. Much of the physical trouble comes from filling up the boiler too much. Cut down the food and you will feel better. DAUGHTERS A Message From a Daddy's Heart Dear little Mary Elizabeth and Nancy Lou and dear little girls everywhere who read these lines: here is a message and a wish from daddy's heart. I want you to be golden girls, girls who love home and children; girls who love simple things, natural things; I want you to be sweet rather than pretty, lovable rather than popular. May the mirror never reflect paint, rouge or make-up on your face. A little talcum powder is all right.