I believe I hear more birds, I believe I get more pleasure out of life and living than the man who gets angry and loves revenge. Anyway I think so, and "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." SALT It's a Drug; Too Much Is Bad for You Don't eat too much salt. Salt is a drug; it carries with it lime and magnesia and they tend to clog up things. Too much salt will likely cause gall stones or gravel. Some persons sprinkle salt over potatoes, beef and everything they eat; it's a bad practice. You get enough salt in your bacon, and in the meat you eat. The food as it comes from the kitchen has plenty of salt in it. Those who eat too much salt must suffer. People have told me that the craving for salt was a natural thing; it isn't so, it's a cultivated taste. You didn't like salty olives the first time you tasted them. Because deer and cattle greedily lick salt is no proof salt is natural and good, and needed in quantities. Cattle and horses will eat loco weed and when they get the habit they will eat and eat until they get crazy. Man will crave tobacco; it isn't a natural taste, it's merely a cultivated taste. The desire for excess salt on everything you eat is a habit and a bad habit. It tends to make calcareous deposits in your system, and it will affect the blood and the muscles and the bones. Nature puts practically enough salt in the food and cooks certainly add enough salt in their seasoning to furnish all the system needs. Excess salt eating dulls the finer sensibilities of taste just as excess pepper or Worcester sauce or mustard does. It kills the fine natural flavor. There's enough salt in butter to season the eggs you eat. Try your eggs next time without putting pepper and salt on them. Learn to get the natural flavors and you will enjoy your food more. Remember again excess craving for salt is simply evidence that you have a drug habit, not as dangerous as other drug habits, but bad for you just the same. Check yourself every time you reach for a salt cellar. Watch the children; don't let them eat too much salt. INSOMNIA It's Caused By High Mental Tension Sleeping, like breathing and digesting, is controlled by the subconscious brain centers. Natural sleep requires no positive mental impulse; it's just relaxing and nature takes care of the process. That is natural sleep, but when you start your dry cell battery, the brain, and commence to worry and fear, you are going to stay awake; then the conscious mind dominates the subconscious mind and you banish the very comforter you seek to woo. Business men who keep up high tension all day on business matters, and high tension all evening in threshing all over again the business of the day, are almost sure to suffer from insomnia.